The 40th Annual Film Independent Spirit Awards are taking place on Saturday afternoon in Los Angeles. TheWrap will update the list of winners as they are announced.
The most nominated films are “Anora” and “I Saw the TV Glow,” with six each, while “Shōgun” led TV nominees with its five nods, followed by “Baby Reindeer” with four.
In the first 39 years of the Indie Spirit Awards, its Best Film winner has gone on to win the Oscar for Best Picture only eight times. But except for “Platoon” in 1986, all of the matches have come in the last 13 years.
Last year, “The Holdovers” actress Da’Vine Joy Randolph and “American Fiction” screenwriter Cord Jefferson were the only Spirit winners to also take home Oscars.
To be eligible for the Spirit Awards, a film must have a total budget of less than $30 million and must have been exhibited commercially or shown at one of seven film festivals. Documentaries and international films can only qualify in those specific categories.
The show is being hosted by Aidy Bryant for the second year in a row and is taking place in a tent on the beach in Santa Monica.
Here is the complete list of nominees. Winners are indicated by *WINNER.
Best Feature
“Anora”
“I Saw the TV Glow”
“Nickel Boys”
“Sing Sing”
“The Substance”
Best First Feature
“Dìdi”
“In the Summers”
“Janet Planet”
“The Piano Lesson”
“Problemista”
John Cassavetes Award
(Best feature made for under $1,000,000)
“Big Boys”
“Ghostlight”
“Girls Will Be Girls”
“Jazzy”
“The People’s Joker”
Best Director
Ali Abbasi, “The Apprentice”
Sean Baker, “Anora”
Brady Corbet, “The Brutalist”
Alonso Ruizpalacios, “La Cocina”
Jane Schoenbrun, “I Saw the TV Glow”
Best Screenplay
Scott Beck, Bryan Woods, “Heretic”
Jesse Eisenberg, “A Real Pain”
Megan Park, “My Old Ass”
Aaron Schimberg, “A Different Man”
Jane Schoenbrun, “I Saw the TV Glow”
Best First Screenplay
Joanna Arnow, “The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed”
Annie Baker, “Janet Planet”
India Donaldson, “Good One”
Julio Torres, “Problemista”
Sean Wang, “Dìdi”
Best Lead Performance
Amy Adams, “Nightbitch”
Ryan Destiny, “The Fire Inside”
Colman Domingo, “Sing Sing”
Keith Kupferer, “Ghostlight”
Mikey Madison, “Anora”
Demi Moore, “The Substance”
Hunter Schafer, “Cuckoo”
Justice Smith, “I Saw the TV Glow”
June Squibb, “Thelma”
Sebastian Stan, “The Apprentice”
Best Supporting Performance
Yura Borisov, “Anora”
Joan Chen, “Dìdi”
Kieran Culkin, “A Real Pain”
Danielle Deadwyler, “The Piano Lesson”
Carol Kane, “Between the Temples”
Karren Karagulian, “Anora”
Kani Kusruti, “Girls Will Be Girls”
Brigette Lundy-Paine, “I Saw the TV Glow”
Clarence “Divine Eye” Maclin, “Sing Sing”
Adam Pearson, “A Different Man”
Best Breakthrough Performance
Isaac Krasner, “Big Boys”
Katy O’Brian, “Love Lies Bleeding”
Mason Alexander Park, “National Anthem”
René Pérez Joglar, “In the Summers”
Maisy Stella, “My Old Ass”
Best Cinematography
Dinh Duy Hung, “Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell”
Jomo Fray, “Nickel Boys”
Maria von Hausswolff, “Janet Planet”
Juan Pablo Ramírez, “La Cocina”
Rina Yang, “The Fire Inside”
Best Editing
Laura Colwell, Vanara Taing, “Jazzy”
Olivier Bugge Coutté, Olivia Neergaard-Holm, “The Apprentice”
Anne McCabe, “Nightbitch”
Hansjörg Weissbrich, “September 5”
Arielle Zakowski, “Dìdi”
Robert Altman Award
(Given to one film’s director, casting director and ensemble cast)
“His Three Daughters”
Director: Azazel Jacobs
Casting Director: Nicole Arbusto
Ensemble Cast: Jovan Adepo, Jasmine Bracey, Carrie Coon, Jose Febus, Rudy Galvan, Natasha Lyonne, Elizabeth Olsen, Randy Ramos Jr., Jay O. Sanders
Best Documentary
“Gaucho Gaucho”
“Hummingbirds”
“No Other Land”
“Patrice: The Movie”
“Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat”
Best International Feature Film
“All We Imagine as Light”
“Black Dog”
“Flow”
“Green Border”
“Hard Truths”
Producers Award
Alex Coco
Sarah Winshall *WINNER
Zoë Worth
Someone to Watch Award
Nicholas Colia, Director of “Griffin in Summer”
Sarah Friedland, Director of “Familiar Touch” *WINNER
Pham Thien An, Director of “Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell”
Truer Than Fiction Award
Julian Brave NoiseCat, Emily Kassie, Directors of “Sugarcane”
Carla Gutiérrez, Director of “Frida”
Rachel Elizabeth Seed, Director of “A Photographic Memory” * WINNER
Best New Non-Scripted or Documentary Series
“Erased: WW2’s Heroes of Color”
“Hollywood Black”
“Photographer”
“Ren Faire”
“Social Studies”
Best New Scripted Series
“Baby Reindeer”
“Diarra From Detroit”
“English Teacher”
“Fantasmas”
“Shōgun”
Best Lead Performance in a New Scripted Series
Brian Jordan Alvarez, “English Teacher”
Richard Gadd, “Baby Reindeer”
Lily Gladstone, “Under the Bridge”
Kathryn Hahn, “Agatha All Along”
Cristin Milioti, “The Penguin”
Julianne Moore, “Mary & George”
Hiroyuki Sanada, “Shōgun”
Anna Sawai, “Shōgun”
Andrew Scott, “Ripley”
Julio Torres, “Fantasmas”
Best Supporting Performance in a New Scripted Series
Tadanobu Asano, “Shōgun”
Enrico Colantoni, “English Teacher”
Betty Gilpin, “Three Women”
Chloe Guidry, “Under the Bridge”
Moeka Hoshi, “Shōgun”
Stephanie Koenig, “English Teacher”
Patti LuPone, “Agatha All Along”
Nava Mau, “Baby Reindeer”
Ruth Negga, “Presumed Innocent”
Brian Tee, “Expats”
Best Breakthrough Performance in a New Scripted Series
Jessica Gunning, “Baby Reindeer”
Diarra Kilpatrick, “Diarra From Detroit”
Joe Locke, “Agatha All Along”
Megan Stott, “Penelope”
Hoa Xuande, “The Sympathizer”
Best Ensemble Cast in a New Scripted Series
“How to Die Alone”
Ensemble Cast: Melissa DuPrey, Jaylee Hamidi, KeiLyn Durrel Jones, Arkie Kandola, Elle Lorraine, Michelle McLeod, Chris “CP” Powell, Conrad Ricamora, Natasha Rothwell, Jocko Sims
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