The 5th Independent Spirit Awards, honoring the best in independent filmmaking for 1989, were announced on March 24, 1990 at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel in Los Angeles. It was hosted by Buck Henry.
Winners and nominees
{| class="wikitable" !Best Feature !Best Director |- |Sex, Lies, and Videotapesex, lies and videotape (1989) Awards & Festivals|MUBI
Drugstore Cowboy Heat and Sunlight Mystery Train True Love |Steven Soderbergh – Sex, Lies, and Videotape
Jim Jarmusch – Mystery Train Charles Lane – Sidewalk Stories Nancy Savoca – True Love Gus Van Sant – Drugstore Cowboy |- !Best Actor !Best Actress |- |Matt Dillon – Drugstore CowboyAFI|Catalog - Drugstore Cowboy
Nicolas Cage – Vampire's Kiss Charles Lane – Sidewalk Stories Randy Quaid – Parents James Spader – Sex, Lies, and Videotape |Andie MacDowell – Sex, Lies, and Videotape Youki Kudoh – Mystery Train Kelly Lynch – Drugstore Cowboy Winona Ryder – Heathers Annabella Sciorra – True Love |- !Best Supporting Actor !Best Supporting Actress |- |Max Perlich – Drugstore Cowboy
Steve Buscemi – Mystery Train Scott Coffey – Shag Gary Farmer – Powwow Highway Screamin' Jay Hawkins – Mystery Train |Laura San Giacomo – Sex, Lies, and Videotape
Bridget Fonda – Shag Heather Graham – Drugstore Cowboy Mare Winningham – Miracle Mile Mary Woronov – Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills |- !Best Screenplay !Best First Feature |- |Drugstore Cowboy – Gus Van Sant and Daniel Yost84 Charlie Mopic – Patrick S. Duncan Heathers – Daniel Waters Miracle Mile – Steve De Jarnatt Mystery Train – Jim Jarmusch |Heathers
84 Charlie Mopic Powwow Highway Sidewalk Stories Talking to Strangers |- !Best Cinematography !Best Foreign Film |- |Drugstore Cowboy – Robert YeomanEarth Girls Are Easy – Oliver Stapleton Mystery Train – Robby Müller Powwow Highway – Toyomichi Kurita Talking to Strangers – Robert Tregenza |My Left Foot • Ireland/UKDistant Voices, Still Lives • UK Hanussen • Hungary/West Germany/Austria High Hopes • UK Rouge • Hong Kong
Films with multiple nominations and awards
Films that received multiple nominations NominationsFilm8Drugstore Cowboy7Mystery Train5Sex, Lies, and Videotape3HeathersPowwow HighwaySidewalk StoriesTrue Love284 Charlie MopicMiracle MileTalking to StrangersShag
Films that won multiple awards AwardsFilm4Sex, Lies, and VideotapeDrugstore Cowboy
Special Distinction AwardDo the Right Thing
References
External links 1989 Spirit Awards at IMDb Official show on YouTube