The 13th Independent Spirit Awards, honoring the best in independent filmmaking for 1997, were announced on March 21, 1998. It was hosted by John Turturro.
Nominees and winners
{| class="wikitable" !Best Feature !Best Director |- |The Apostle
Chasing Amy Loved Ulee's Gold Waiting for Guffman |Robert Duvall – The Apostle
Larry Fessenden – Habit Victor Nuñez – Ulee's Gold Paul Schrader – Touch Wim Wenders – The End of Violence |- !Best Male Lead !Best Female Lead |- |Robert Duvall – The Apostle
Peter Fonda – Ulee's Gold Christopher Guest – Waiting for Guffman Philip Baker Hall – Hard Eight John Turturro – Box of Moonlight |Julie Christie – Afterglow
Stacy Edwards – In the Company of Men Alison Folland – All Over Me Lisa Harrow – Sunday Robin Wright Penn – Loved |- !Best Supporting Male !Best Supporting Female |- |Jason Lee – Chasing Amy
Efrain Figueroa – Star Maps Samuel L. Jackson – Hard Eight Ajay Naidu – SubUrbia Roy Scheider – The Myth of Fingerprints |Debbi Morgan – Eve's Bayou
Farrah Fawcett – The Apostle Amy Madigan – Loved Miranda Richardson – The Apostle Patricia Richardson – Ulee's Gold |- !Best Screenplay !Best First Screenplay |- |Chasing Amy – Kevin SmithThe Apostle – Robert Duvall Touch – Paul Schrader Ulee's Gold – Victor Nuñez Waiting for Guffman – Christopher Guest and Eugene Levy |In the Company of Men – Neil LaButeThe Bible and Gun Club – Daniel J. Harris Critical Care – Steven Schwartz Hard Eight – Paul Thomas Anderson Star Maps – Miguel Arteta |- !Best First Feature !Best Debut Performance |- |Eve's Bayou
The Bible and Gun Club Hard Eight - Pault Thomas Anderson In the Company of Men - Neil LaBute Star Maps |Aaron Eckhart – In the Company of Men
Tyrone Burton, Eddie Cutanda and Phuong Duong – Squeeze Lysa Flores – Star Maps Darling Narita – Bang Douglas Spain – Star Maps |- !Best Cinematography !Best International Film |- |Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love – Declan QuinnThe Bible and Gun Club – Alex Vendler Habit – Frank G. DeMarco Hard Eight – Robert Elswit Sunday – Michael F. Barrow and John Foster |The Sweet Hereafter • CanadaHappy Together • Hong Kong Mouth to Mouth • Spain Nenette and Boni • France Underground • Yugoslavia/France/Germany
Films that received multiple nominations NominationsFilm7The Apostle6Star Maps5Hard EightUlee's Gold4In the Company of MenLoved3The Bible and Gun ClubChasing AmyHabitWaiting for Guffman2Eve's BayouSundayTouch
Films that won multiple awards AwardsFilm3The Apostle2Chasing AmyEve's BayouIn the Company of Men
Special awards
Truer Than Fiction AwardFast, Cheap & Out of Control Colors Straight Up Family Name Sick: The Life & Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist Soul in the Hole
Producers Award Scott Macauley and Robin O'Hara – Habit Margot Bridger – Arresting Gena & The Delta Lisa Onodera – Picture Bride & Forbidden City U.S.A. Richard Raddon – Shooting Lilly & The Making of '...And God SpokeSusan A. Stover – High Art & River of Grass
Someone to Watch AwardScott Saunders – The Headhunter's Sister'''Erin Dignam – LovedTim Blake Nelson – Eye of God''
External links 1997 Spirit Awards at IMDb
References