1996 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Director Winner and Nominees

Leaving Las Vegas

Mike Figgis

Ben Sanderson, a Hollywood screenwriter who lost everything because of his alcoholism, arrives in Las Vegas to drink himself to death. There, he meets and forms an uneasy friendship and non-interference pact with prostitute Sera..

Georgia

Ulu Grosbard

Nadja

Michael Almereyda

Safe

Todd Haynes

The Secret of Roan Inish

John Sayles