This story of building America took three top prizes, including Best Film. Cost? Negligible. Artistic dividends? Huge.

Youth has its day at the Film Independent Spirit Awards as Kayo boxes his way to a newcomer victory as the hissable bully in “The Plague.”

An independent spirit fires through her Spirit-winning performance of as a mother in crisis in “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You.”

A visibly proud Leonardo DiCaprio presents Paul Thomas Anderson with the top prize for directing “One Battler After Another.”

Nominated for directing “Sinners,” Coogler received a DGA medallion from his film’s star Michael B. Jordan while citing the union’s flawed history.

Despite a smear campaign against him, DGA directing nominee Josh Safdie has the support of his “Marty Supreme” star Timothée Chalamet.