Awards for 1995

Independent Spirit Award

Best Supporting Male

WINNER

Bullets Over Broadway: Chazz Palminteri
NOMINEES

Fresh: Giancarlo Esposito

Vanya on 42nd Street: Larry Pine

Pulp Fiction: Eric Stoltz

Federal Hill: Nicholas Turturro

Best Supporting Female

WINNER

Bullets Over Broadway: Dianne Wiest
NOMINEES

Go Fish: V.S. Brodie

Spanking the Monkey: Carla Gallo

The Beans of Egypt, Maine: Kelly Lynch

Vanya on 42nd Street: Brooke Smith

Best Director

WINNER

Pulp Fiction: Quentin Tarantino
NOMINEES

Red Rock West: John Dahl

Eat Drink Man Woman: Ang Lee

Death and the Maiden: Roman Polanski

Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle: Alan Rudolph

Best Screenplay

WINNER

Pulp Fiction: Quentin Tarantino, Roger Avary
NOMINEES

Bullets Over Broadway: Woody Allen, Douglas McGrath

Eat Drink Man Woman: Hui-Ling Wang, James Schamus, Ang Lee

Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle: Randy Sue Coburn, Alan Rudolph

Red Rock West: John Dahl, Rick Dahl

Best First Screenplay

WINNER

Spanking the Monkey: David O. Russell
NOMINEES

Blessing: Paul Zehrer

Clerks.: Kevin Smith

Fun: James Bosley

What Happened Was...: Tom Noonan

Best Cinematography

WINNER

Barcelona: John Thomas
NOMINEES

Suture: Greg Gardiner

I Like It Like That: Alexander Gruszynski

The Beans of Egypt, Maine: Stevan Larner

Eat Drink Man Woman: Lin Jong

Best Foreign Film

WINNER

Three Colors: Red: Krzysztof Kieslowski
France/Switzerland/Poland.
NOMINEES

The Blue Kite: Zhuangzhuang Tian
China/Hong Kong.

The Boys of St. Vincent: John N. Smith
Canada.

Ladybird Ladybird: Ken Loach
UK.

Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould: François Girard
Canada.

Best Female Lead

WINNER

The Last Seduction: Linda Fiorentino
NOMINEES

Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle: Jennifer Jason Leigh

What Happened Was...: Karen Sillas

I Like It Like That: Lauren Vélez

Eat Drink Man Woman: Chien-lien Wu

Best First Feature

WINNER

Spanking the Monkey: David O. Russell (director), Dean Silvers (producer)
NOMINEES

Clean, Shaven: Lodge Kerrigan (director/producer)

Clerks.: Kevin Smith (director/producer), Scott Mosier (producer)

I Like It Like That: Darnell Martin (director/producer), Lane Janger (producer)

Suture: David Siegel (director/producer), Scott McGehee (director/producer), Michèle Pétin (producer)

Best Debut Performance

WINNER

Fresh: Sean Nelson
NOMINEES

Clerks.: Jeff Anderson

Spanking the Monkey: Jeremy Davies

Fun: Alicia Witt

Love and a .45: Renée Zellweger

Best Feature

WINNER

Pulp Fiction: Lawrence Bender
NOMINEES

Bullets Over Broadway: Robert Greenhut

Eat Drink Man Woman: Ted Hope, Li-Kong Hsu, James Schamus

Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle: Robert Altman

New Nightmare: Marianne Maddalena

Best Male Lead

WINNER

Pulp Fiction: Samuel L. Jackson
NOMINEES

Eat Drink Man Woman: Sihung Lung

Oleanna: William H. Macy

Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle: Campbell Scott

I Like It Like That: Jon Seda