10th Independent Spirit Awards

10th Independent Spirit Awards
10th Independent Spirit Awards
Date	March 25, 1995
Site	Santa Monica, California, U.S.
Hosted by	Kevin Pollak
Highlights
Best Film	Pulp Fiction
Most awards	Pulp Fiction (4)
Most nominations	Eat Drink Man Woman (6)
	← 9th; Independent Spirit Awards; 11th →;

The 10th Independent Spirit Awards, honoring the best in independent filmmaking for 1994, were announced on March 25, 1995.^[1] Hosted by Kevin Pollak, it was the second ceremony to be held under a tent in a parking lot on the beach in Santa Monica.^[2]

Winners and nominees

Quentin Tarantino, Best Director and Best Screenplay co-winner

Samuel L. Jackson, Best Male Lead winner

Chazz Palminteri, Best Supporting Male winner

Dianne Wiest, Best Supporting Female winner

Best Feature	Best Director
Pulp Fiction Bullets Over Broadway Eat Drink Man Woman Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle Wes Craven's New Nightmare	Quentin Tarantino – Pulp Fiction John Dahl – Red Rock West Ang Lee – Eat Drink Man Woman Roman Polanski – Death and the Maiden Alan Rudolph – Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
Best Male Lead	Best Female Lead
Samuel L. Jackson – Pulp Fiction Sihung Lung – Eat Drink Man Woman William H. Macy – Oleanna Campbell Scott – Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle Jon Seda – I Like It Like That	Linda Fiorentino – The Last Seduction Jennifer Jason Leigh – Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle Karen Sillas – What Happened Was... Lauren Vélez – I Like It Like That Chien-lien Wu – Eat Drink Man Woman
Best Supporting Male	Best Supporting Female
Chazz Palminteri – Bullets Over Broadway Giancarlo Esposito – Fresh Larry Pine – Vanya on 42nd Street Eric Stoltz – Pulp Fiction Nicholas Turturro – Federal Hill	Dianne Wiest – Bullets Over Broadway V.S. Brodie – Go Fish Carla Gallo – Spanking the Monkey Kelly Lynch – The Beans of Egypt, Maine Brooke Smith – Vanya on 42nd Street
Best Screenplay	Best First Screenplay
Pulp Fiction – Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary Bullets Over Broadway – Woody Allen and Douglas McGrath Eat Drink Man Woman – Hui-Ling Wang, James Schamus and Ang Lee Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle – Alan Rudolph and Randy Sue Coburn Red Rock West – John Dahl and Rick Dahl	Spanking the Monkey – David O. Russell Blessing – Paul Zehrer Clerks – Kevin Smith Fun – James Bosley What Happened Was... – Tom Noonan
Best First Feature	Best Debut Performance
Spanking the Monkey Clean, Shaven Clerks I Like It Like That Suture	Sean Nelson – Fresh Jeff Anderson – Clerks Jeremy Davies – Spanking the Monkey Alicia Witt – Fun Renée Zellweger – Love and a .45
Best Cinematography	Best Foreign Film
Barcelona – John Thomas The Beans of Egypt, Maine – Stevan Larner Eat Drink Man Woman – Jong Lin I Like It Like That – Alexander Gruzynski Suture – Greg Gardiner	Red • France/Poland The Blue Kite • China/Hong Kong The Boys of St. Vincent • Canada Ladybird Ladybird • UK Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould • Canada

Films that received multiple nominations

Nominations	Film
6	Eat Drink Man Woman
5	Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
5	Pulp Fiction
4	Bullets Over Broadway
	I Like It Like That
	Spanking the Monkey
3	Clerks
2	The Beans of Egypt, Maine
	Fresh
	Fun
	Red Rock West
	Suture
	Vanya on 42nd Street
	What Happened Was...

Films that won multiple awards

Awards	Film
4	Pulp Fiction
2	Bullets Over Broadway
2	Spanking the Monkey

Special awards

References

^ "'Pulp Fiction' Wings It at Independent Spirit Awards". Los Angeles Times. 1995-03-27. Retrieved 2012-08-15.
^ "Independence days". Variety. 2005-02-24. Retrieved 2014-03-13.
^ "Hoop Dreams". Kartemquin Films.

External links

[1] "'Pulp Fiction' Wings It at Independent Spirit Awards". Los Angeles Times. 1995-03-27. Retrieved 2012-08-15.

[2] "Independence days". Variety. 2005-02-24. Retrieved 2014-03-13.

[3] "Hoop Dreams". Kartemquin Films.

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