13th Independent Spirit Awards

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.^[1][2][3]

13th Independent Spirit Awards
Date	March 21, 1998
Site	Santa Monica, California, U.S.
Hosted by	John Turturro
Highlights
Best Film	The Apostle
Most awards	The Apostle (3)
Most nominations	The Apostle (7)
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Nominees and winners

Robert Duvall, Best Male Lead and Best Director winner

Julie Christie, Best Female Lead winner

Jason Lee, Best Supporting Male winner

Kevin Smith, Best Screenplay winner

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 Smith The 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 LaBute The 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 In the Company of Men 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 Quinn The Bible and Gun Club – Alex Vendler Habit – Frank G. DeMarco Hard Eight – Robert Elswit Sunday – Michael F. Barrow and John Foster	The Sweet Hereafter • Canada Happy Together • Hong Kong Mouth to Mouth • Spain Nenette and Boni • France Underground • Yugoslavia/France/Germany

Films that received multiple nominations

Nominations	Film
7	The Apostle
6	Star Maps
5	Hard Eight
	Ulee's Gold
4	In the Company of Men
	Loved
3	The Bible and Gun Club
	Chasing Amy
	Habit
	Waiting for Guffman
2	Eve's Bayou
	Sunday
	Touch

Films that won multiple awards

Awards	Film
3	The Apostle
2	Chasing Amy
	Eve's Bayou
	In the Company of Men

Special awards

Truer Than Fiction Award

Fast, 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 Spoke'
• Susan A. Stover – High Art & River of Grass

Someone to Watch Award

Scott Saunders – The Headhunter's Sister

• Erin Dignam – Loved
• Tim Blake Nelson – Eye of God

External links

• 1997 Spirit Awards at IMDb