2019 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Director Winner and Nominees

If Beale Street Could Talk

Barry Jenkins

A young woman embraces her pregnancy while she and her family set out to prove her childhood friend and lover innocent of a crime he didn’t commit.

First Reformed

Paul Schrader

Leave No Trace

Debra Granik

Private Life

Tamara Jenkins

You Were Never Really Here

Lynne Ramsay