The 15th Independent Spirit Awards, honoring the best in independent filmmaking for 1999, were announced on March 25, 2000. It was hosted by Jennifer Tilly.
Nominees and winners
{| class="wikitable" !Best Feature !Best Director |- |Election
Cookie's Fortune The Limey The Straight Story Sugar Town |Alexander Payne – Election
Harmony Korine – Julien Donkey-Boy Doug Liman – Go David Lynch – The Straight Story Steven Soderbergh – The Limey |- !Best Male Lead !Best Female Lead |- |Richard Farnsworth – The Straight Story
John Cusack – Being John Malkovich Terence Stamp – The Limey David Strathairn – Limbo Noble Willingham – The Corndog Man |Hilary Swank – Boys Don't Cry
Diane Lane – A Walk on the Moon Janet McTeer – Tumbleweeds Susan Traylor – Valerie Flake Reese Witherspoon – Election |- !Best Supporting Male !Best Supporting Female |- |Steve Zahn – Happy, Texas
Charles S. Dutton – Cookie's Fortune Clark Gregg – The Adventures of Sebastian Cole Luis Guzmán – The Limey Terrence Howard – The Best Man |Chloë Sevigny – Boys Don't Cry
Barbara Barrie – Judy Berlin Vanessa Martinez – Limbo Sarah Polley – Go Jean Smart – Guinevere |- !Best Screenplay !Best First Screenplay |- |Election – Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor Dogma – Kevin Smith Guinevere – Audrey Wells The Limey – Lem Dobbs SLC Punk! – James Merendino |Being John Malkovich – Charlie Kaufman The Adventures of Sebastian Cole – Kip Williams Boys Don't Cry – Kimberly Peirce and Andy Bienen Cookie's Fortune – Anne Rapp The Straight Story – John Roach and Mary Sweeney |- !Best Cinematography !Best Debut Performance |- |Three Seasons – Lisa Rinzler The City – Harlan Bosmajian Judy Berlin – Jeffrey Seckendorf Julien Donkey-Boy – Anthony Dod Mantle Twin Falls Idaho – M. David Mullen |Kimberly J. Brown – Tumbleweeds
Jessica Campbell – Election Jade Gordon – Sugar Town Toby Smith – Drylongso Chris Stafford – Edge of Seventeen |- !Best First Feature (Over $500,000) !Best First Feature (Under $500,000) |- |Being John Malkovich
Boys Don't Cry Three Seasons Twin Falls Idaho Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Girl |The Blair Witch Project
The City Compensation Judy Berlin Treasure Island |- ! colspan="2" | Best Foreign Film |- | colspan="2" | Run Lola Run • Germany All About My Mother • Spain My Son the Fanatic • UK Rosetta • Belgium/France Topsy-Turvy • UK
Special awards
Truer Than Fiction AwardNight Waltz: The Music of Paul Bowles American Hollow On the Ropes Well-Founded Fear
Producers Award Pamela Koffler – I'm Losing You Eva Kolodner – Boys Don't Cry Paul Mezey – The City Christine K. Walker – Backroads and Homo Heights
Someone to Watch Award Cauleen Smith – Drylongso Dan Clark – The Item Julian Goldberger – Trans Lisanne Skyler – Getting to Know You
Films with multiple nominations and awards
Films that received multiple nominations NominationsFilm 5Boys Don't CryThe Limey 4ElectionThe Straight Story rowspan="3" 3 | 3 |Being John Malkovich|- |Cookie's Fortune|- |Judy Berlin''
Films that won multiple awards AwardsFilm3Election rowspan="2" 2 | 2 |Being John Malkovich|- |Boys Don't Cry''
References
External links 1999 Spirit Awards at IMDb Full show on Film Independent's official YouTube channel