The 16th Independent Spirit Awards, honoring the best in independent filmmaking for 2000, were announced on March 24, 2001. It was hosted by John Waters.
Winners and nominees
Best FeatureBest DirectorCrouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Before Night Falls George Washington Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai Requiem for a Dream Ang Lee – Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Darren Aronofsky – Requiem for a Dream Miguel Arteta – Chuck & Buck Christopher Guest – Best in Show Julian Schnabel – Before Night FallsBest Male LeadBest Female LeadJavier Bardem – Before Night Falls
Adrien Brody – Restaurant Billy Crudup – Jesus’ Son Hill Harper – The Visit Mark Ruffalo – You Can Count on MeEllen Burstyn – Requiem for a Dream Joan Allen – The Contender Sanaa Lathan – Love & Basketball Laura Linney – You Can Count on Me Kelly Macdonald – Two Family HouseBest Supporting MaleBest Supporting FemaleWillem Dafoe – Shadow of the Vampire
Cole Hauser – Tigerland Gary Oldman – The Contender Giovanni Ribisi – The Gift Billy Dee Williams – The VisitZhang Ziyi – Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Pat Caroll – Songcatcher Jennifer Connelly – Requiem for a Dream Marcia Gay Harden – Pollock Lupe Ontiveros – Chuck & BuckBest ScreenplayBest First ScreenplayYou Can Count on Me – Kenneth LonerganChuck & Buck – Mike White Love & Sex – Valerie Breiman Two Family House – Raymond De Felitta Waking the Dead – Robert Dillon |Love & Basketball – Gina Prince-BythewoodBoiler Room – Ben Younger George Washington – David Gordon Green Tigerland – Ross Klavan and Michael McGruther The Visit – Jordan Walker-Pearlman |- !Best First Feature !Best Debut Performance |- |You Can Count on Me
Boiler Room Girlfight Love & Basketball The VisitMichelle Rodriguez – Girlfight Curtis Cotton III, Candace Evanofski, Rachael Handy, Donald Holden and Damian Jewan Lee – George Washington Rory Culkin – You Can Count on Me Emmy Rossum – Songcatcher Mike White – Chuck & Buck Best CinematographyBest DocumentaryRequiem for a Dream – Matthew LibatiqueBefore Night Falls – Xavier Pérez Grobet and Guillermo Rosas George Washington – Tim Orr Hamlet – John de Borman Shadow of the Vampire – Lou Bogue |Dark DaysThe Eyes of Tammy Faye Long Night's Journey into Day Paragraph 175 Sound and Fury |- ! colspan="2" | Best International Film |- | colspan="2" valign="top" |Dancer in the Dark • Denmark
In the Mood for Love • Hong Kong/France Malli • India A Time for Drunken Horses • Iran The War Zone • UK
Special awards John Cassavetes Award
Chuck & Buck
Bunny Everything Put Together Groove Our Song
Truer Than Fiction Award
Keep the River on Your Right: A Modern Cannibal Tale Benjamin Smoke Just, Melvin: Just Evil Pie in the Sky: The Brigid Berlin Story
Producers Award
Paul Mezey – The Ballad of Ramblin’ Jack and Spring Forward Jim McKay – American Movie and Our Song Tim Perell – Louis & Frank and The Myth of Fingerprints Diana E. Williams – The Love Machine and Our Song
Someone to Watch Award
Marc Forster – Everything Put Together Dan McCormack – Other Voices Mia Trachinger – Bunny Films with multiple nominations and awards
+ Films that received multiple nominationsNominationsFilm 5Chuck & BuckRequiem for a DreamYou Can Count on Me 4Before Night FallsGeorge Washington 3Crouching Tiger, Hidden DragonLove & Basketball 2GirlfightSongcatcher
+ Films that won multiple awardsAwardsFilm3Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 2Requiem for a DreamYou Can Count on Me
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