10th Independent Spirit Awards

Best Feature

Pulp Fiction

• Bullets Over Broadway
• Eat Drink Man Woman
• Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
• Wes Craven's New Nightmare

Best First Feature

Spanking the Monkey

• Clean, Shaven
• Clerks
• I Like It Like That
• Suture

Best Director

Quentin Tarantino – Pulp Fiction

• John Dahl – Red Rock West
• Ang Lee – Eat Drink Man Woman
• Roman Polanski – Death and the Maiden
• Alan Rudolph – Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle

Best Male Lead

Samuel L. Jackson – Pulp Fiction

• Sihung Lung – Eat Drink Man Woman
• William H. Macy – Oleanna
• Campbell Scott – Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
• Jon Seda – I Like It Like That

Best Female Lead

Linda Fiorentino – The Last Seduction

• Jennifer Jason Leigh – Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
• Karen Sillas – What Happened Was...
• Lauren Vélez – I Like It Like That
• Chien-lien Wu – Eat Drink Man Woman

Best Supporting Male

Chazz Palminteri – Bullets Over Broadway

• Giancarlo Esposito – Fresh
• Larry Pine – Vanya on 42nd Street
• Eric Stoltz – Pulp Fiction
• Nicholas Turturro – Federal Hill

Best Supporting Female

Dianne Wiest – Bullets Over Broadway

• V.S. Brodie – Go Fish
• Carla Gallo – Spanking the Monkey
• Kelly Lynch – The Beans of Egypt, Maine
• Brooke Smith – Vanya on 42nd Street

Best Screenplay

Pulp Fiction – Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary

• Bullets Over Broadway – Woody Allen and Douglas McGrath
• Eat Drink Man Woman – Hui-Ling Wang, James Schamus and Ang Lee
• Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle – Alan Rudolph and Randy Sue Coburn
• Red Rock West – John Dahl and Rick Dahl

Best First Screenplay

Spanking the Monkey – David O. Russell

• Blessing – Paul Zehrer
• Clerks – Kevin Smith
• Fun – James Bosley
• What Happened Was... – Tom Noonan

Best Cinematography

Barcelona – John Thomas

• The Beans of Egypt, Maine – Stevan Larner
• Eat Drink Man Woman – Jong Lin
• I Like It Like That – Alexander Gruzynski
• Suture – Greg Gardiner

Best Foreign Film

Red • France/Poland

• The Blue Kite • China/Hong Kong
• The Boys of St. Vincent • Canada
• Ladybird Ladybird • UK
• Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould • Canada

Best Debut Performance

Sean Nelson – Fresh

• Jeff Anderson – Clerks
• Jeremy Davies – Spanking the Monkey
• Alicia Witt – Fun
• Renée Zellweger – Love and a .45

Special Distinction Award

• Hoop Dreams

Someone to Watch Award

• Lodge Kerrigan – Clean, Shaven