30e Independent Spirit Awards

• Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
  • Boyhood
  • Love Is Strange
  • Selma
  • Whiplash

• Nightcrawler
  • A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
  • Dear White People
  • Obvious Child
  • She's Lost Control

• Richard Linklater - Boyhood
  • Damien Chazelle - Whiplash
  • Ava DuVernay - Selma
  • Alejandro G. Iñárritu - Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
  • David Zellner - Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter

• Nightcrawler - Dan Gilroy
  • Big Eyes - Scott Alexander en Larry Karaszewski
  • Love Is Strange - Ira Sachs en Mauricio Zacharias
  • A Most Violent Year - J.C. Chandor
  • Only Lovers Left Alive - Jim Jarmusch

• Dear White People - Justin Simien
  • Appropriate Behavior - Desiree Akhavan
  • Little Accidents - Sara Colangelo
  • The One I Love - Justin Lader
  • She's Lost Control - Anja Marquardt

• Michael Keaton - Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
  • André Benjamin - Jimi: All Is By My Side
  • Jake Gyllenhaal - Nightcrawler
  • John Lithgow - Love Is Strange
  • David Oyelowo - Selma

• Julianne Moore - Still Alice
  • Marion Cotillard - The Immigrant
  • Rinko Kikuchi - Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter
  • Jenny Slate - Obvious Child
  • Tilda Swinton - Only Lovers Left Alive

• J.K. Simmons - Whiplash
  • Riz Ahmed - Nightcrawler
  • Ethan Hawke - Boyhood
  • Alfred Molina - Love Is Strange
  • Edward Norton - Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

• Patricia Arquette - Boyhood
  • Jessica Chastain - A Most Violent Year
  • Carmen Ejogo - Selma
  • Andrea Suarez Paz - Stand Clear of the Closing Doors
  • Emma Stone - Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

• Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) - Emmanuel Lubezki
  • A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night - Lyle Vincent
  • The Immigrant - Darius Khondji
  • It Felt Like Love - Sean Porter
  • Selma - Bradford Young

• Whiplash - Tom Cross
  • Boyhood - Sandra Adair
  • The Guest - Adam Wingard
  • A Most Violent Year - Ron Patane
  • Nightcrawler - John Gilroy

• Ida, Polen - Pawel Pawlikowski
  • Force Majeure, Zweden - Ruben Östlund
  • Leviathan, Rusland - Andrey Zvyagintsev
  • Mommy, Canada - Xavier Dolan
  • Norte, the End of History, Filipijnen - Lav Diaz
  • Under the Skin, Verenigd Koninkrijk - Jonathan Glazer

• Citizenfour
  • 20,000 Days on Earth
  • Stray Dog
  • The Salt of the Earth
  • Virunga

Deze prijs is voor de beste film gemaakt voor minder dan $500.000.

• Land Ho!
  • Blue Ruin
  • It Felt Like Love
  • Man from Reno
  • Test Writer

Deze prijs voor beste ensemble wordt gegeven aan de regisseur, de casting director en de cast.

• Inherent Vice
  • Regisseur: Paul Thomas Anderson
  • Casting director: Cassandra Kulukundis
  • Cast: Josh Brolin, Hong Chau, Martin Donovan, Jena Malone, Joanna Newsom, Joaquin Phoenix, Sasha Pieterse, Eric Roberts, Maya Rudolph, Martin Short, Serena Scott Thomas, Benicio del Toro, Katherine Waterston, Michael Kenneth Williams, Owen Wilson en Reese Witherspoon