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    Why the Spirit Awards feel even more essential in a year Oscars mostly overlooked indie film

    by Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times Feb 22, 2019 6 minutes

    LOS ANGELES - The Spirit Awards are known for their casual, irreverent attitude - they take place in an oversize tent on a beach in Santa Monica - and offering an "alternative" to the Oscars the day before Hollywood's biggest night. But recently, rather than standing apart, the Spirits have seemed more like an Oscars preamble.

    Last year's Spirit Award for best feature went to "Get Out," which was also Oscar-nominated for best picture. Other recent winners of the Spirits' top prize, "Moonlight," "Spotlight," "Birdman" and "12 Years a Slave," all went on to win the Academy Award for best picture one day later.

    Not so this year. For the first time since 2008, none of the five films nominated for feature at the Spirits is nominated for the Oscar for best picture. No matter which film emerges victorious in the battle between "Eighth Grade," "First Reformed," "If Beale Street Could Talk," "Leave No Trace" and "You Were Never Really Here," Saturday's event will be the

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