Post by Liberian Girl on Mar 4, 2018 18:52:38 GMT
Get Out scoops Independent Spirit Awards β is it set for Oscars victory?
www.telegraph.co.uk/films/2018/03/04/get-scoops-independent-spirit-awards-set-oscars-victory/
Get Out has won best feature at the Film Independent Spirit Awards β an honour that has been followed by best picture success at the Oscars for the previous four winners.
The racism-tackling satire, starring Londoner Daniel Kaluuya, also earned Jordan Peele the best director award at the ceremony held in a tent on the Santa Monica beach on Saturday, a day ahead of the Academy Awards.
Oscars favourite The Shape Of Water failed to get a look in at the Spirits, however, despite its budget falling within the ceremony's cap of around 20 million dollars (Β£14 million), which ruled out some of the other front-runners.
Backstage, Peele did not indicate any heightened expectations of Oscar success, saying: "We didn't expect it, but this means so much. This is Saturday and tomorrow's tomorrow."
Previously, 12 Years A Slave, Birdman, Spotlight and Moonlight won at the celebration of independent cinema before triumphing the following day at the Oscars.
Frances McDormand won the best female Spirit Award for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, while 22-year-old Timothee Chalamet won best male for Call Me By Your Name.
Best supporting female and male went to I, Tonya's Alison Janney and Sam Rockwell for Three Billboards, while best screenplay went to Greta Gerwig for Ladybird.
Accepting the top honour on stage, Peele said the film industry was undergoing a "renaissance... where stories from the outsider, stories from the people in this room, the same stories that independent film-makers have been telling for years, are being honoured and recognised and celebrated".