The 10th Independent Spirit Awards, honoring the best in

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for

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, were announced on March 25, 1995. Hosted by

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, it was the second ceremony to be held under a tent in a parking lot on the beach in Santa Monica.

Winners and nominees

Chazz Palminteri at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival

Films that received multiple nominations

Films that won multiple awards

Special awards

Special Distinction Award

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Hoop Dreams ''Hoop Dreams'' is a 1994 American documentary film directed by Steve James, and produced by Frederick Marx, James, and Peter Gilbert, with Kartemquin Films. It follows the story of two African-American high school students, William Gates an ...

Someone to Watch Award

Lodge Kerrigan Lodge Hunt Kerrigan (born March 23, 1964) is an American motion picture screenwriter and director. His 2010 film '' Rebecca H. (Return to the Dogs)'' entered into the Un Certain Regard section of the 2010 Cannes Film Festival. Along with Amy S ...

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Clean, Shaven ''Clean, Shaven'' is a 1993 drama film written, produced and directed by Lodge Kerrigan, in which Peter Winter (played by Peter Greene) is a man with schizophrenia desperately trying to get his daughter back from her adoptive mother. The film atte ...

Friends of Independence Award

Samuel Goldwyn Jr. Samuel John Goldwyn Jr. (September 7, 1926 – January 9, 2015) was an American film producer. Early life Samuel Goldwyn Jr. was born on September 7, 1926, in Los Angeles, California, the son of actress Frances Howard (born Frances Howard McL ...

References

External links

1994 Spirit Awards at IMDbFull show on Film Independent's official YouTube channel
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Independent Spirit Awards