Refresh for up to date… It’s the Indies’ Greatest Day. The fortieth anniversary Film Independent Spirit Awards are being handed out this afternoon on the Santa Monica Pier, celebrating the 12 months’s greatest in indie movie and TV because the film awards season close to its peak. Deadline is posting the winners reside as they’re introduced. Take a look at the record beneath and watch the livestream right here:
Jesse Eisenberg received Greatest Screenplay for Searchlight’s A Actual Ache, and Sean Wang took Greatest First Screenplay for Didi, which earlier had received Greatest First Characteristic.
Oscar nominee No Different Land — in regards to the destruction of a village within the occupied West Financial institution — received Greatest Documentary.
Jomo Fray for Greatest Cinematography for Nickel Boys, and Hansjörg Weissbrich took Greatest Modifying for September 5.
Women Will Be Women received the John Cassavetes Award for greatest function made for below $1 million.
The primary award of the day went to Maisy Stella, who received Greatest Breakthrough Efficiency for My Previous Ass.
Shōgun, which got here onto the ceremony co-leading TV nominations with 5, received Greatest New Scripted Collection. Child Reindeer already has received twice: Jessica Gunning took Breakthrough Efficiency in a New Scripted Collection, proper after Nava Mau later received for Supporting Efficiency.
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Neon’s Anora and A24’s I Noticed the TV Glow come into the ceremony hosted by SNL alum Aidy Bryant with a leading six nominations apiece together with the marquee Greatest Characteristic, the place they’ll vie towards Amazon MGM Studios’ Nickel Boys, A24’s Sing Sing and Mubi’s The Substance.
Previous Lives received Greatest Characteristic and Greatest Director for Celine Music at last year’s Spirit Awards however misplaced the Greatest Image Oscar to Oppenheimer. Right now’s Spirit winners received’t affect the Academy Award race as a result of Oscar voting ended on February 18.
A film’s threshold for qualification on the Spirits is that its manufacturing price can’t exceed $30M. Therefore, such main awards-season titles as Netflix’s Emilia Perez, Searchlight’s A Full Unknown and Focus Options’ Conclave aren’t eligible.
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Since 2022, the Spirit Awards have offered gender-neutral appearing prizes, and the Greatest Lead Efficiency movie nominees embrace Oscar hopefuls Demi Moore (The Substance), Adrien Brody (The Brutalist), Mikey Madison (Anora), Colman Domingo (Sing Sing) and Sebastian Stan (The Apprentice),
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Listed here are the winners thus far on the 2025 Spirit Awards — two of which had been introduced in December — adopted by the remaining nominees:
Winners
BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE
Kieran Culkin
A Actual Ache
BEST EDITING
Hansjörg Weissbrich
September 5
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Jomo Fray
Nickel Boys
BEST FIRST SCREENPLAY
Sean Wang
Dìdi
BEST NEW NON-SCRIPTED OR DOCUMENTARY SERIES (Award given to the creator, government producer and co-executive producer)
Hollywood Black
Government Producers: Shayla Harris, Dave Sirulnick, Stacey Reiss, Jon Kamen, Justin Simien, Kyle Laursen, Forest Whitaker, Nina Yang Bongiovi, Jeffrey Schwarz, Amy Goodman Kass, Michael Wright, Jill Burkhart
Co-Government Producers: David C. Brown, Laurens Grant
BEST NEW SCRIPTED SERIES (Award given to the creator, government producer and co-executive producer)
Shōgun
Creators/Government Producers: Rachel Kondo, Justin Marks
Government Producers: Edward L. McDonnell, Michael De Luca, Michaela Clavell
Co-Government Producers: Shannon Goss, Andrew Macdonald, Allon Reich
BEST SCREENPLAY
Jesse Eisenberg
A Actual Ache
JOHN CASSAVETES AWARD (Greatest function made for below $1 million; award given to the author, director and producer)
Women Will Be Women
Author/Director/Producer: Shuchi Talati
Producers: Richa Chadha, Claire Chassagne
BEST FIRST FEATURE (Award given to director and producer)
Dìdi
Director/Producer: Sean Wang
Producers: Valerie Bush, Carlos López Estrada, Josh Peters
BEST BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE IN A NEW SCRIPTED SERIES
Jessica Gunning
Child Reindeer
BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE IN A NEW SCRIPTED SERIES
Nava Mau
Child Reindeer
BEST DOCUMENTARY
No Different Land
Administrators/Producers: Yuval Abraham, Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Rachel Szor
Producers: Fabien Greenberg, Bård Kjøge Rønning
BEST BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE
Maisy Stella
My Previous Ass
BEST ENSEMBLE CAST IN A NEW SCRIPTED SERIES (Beforehand introduced)
The best way to Die Alone
Ensemble Solid: Melissa DuPrey, Jaylee Hamidi, KeiLyn Durrel Jones, Arkie Kandola, Elle Lorraine, Michelle McLeod, Chris “CP” Powell, Conrad Ricamora, Natasha Rothwell, Jocko Sims
ROBERT ALTMAN AWARD (Given to 1 movie’s director, casting director, and ensemble forged; beforehand introduced)
His Three Daughters
Director: Azazel Jacobs
Casting Director: Nicole Arbusto
Ensemble Solid: Jovan Adepo, Jasmine Bracey, Carrie Coon, Jose Febus, Rudy Galvan, Natasha Lyonne, Elizabeth Olsen, Randy Ramos Jr., Jay O. Sanders
SOMEONE TO WATCH AWARD (Acknowledges a proficient filmmaker of singular imaginative and prescient who has not but acquired acceptable recognition; beforehand introduced)
Sarah Friedland
Director of Acquainted Contact
Nominees
TRUER THAN FICTION AWARD (Offered to an rising director of non-fiction options who has not but acquired vital recognition)
Julian Courageous NoiseCat, Emily Kassie
Administrators of Sugarcane
Carla Gutiérrez
Director of Frida
Rachel Elizabeth Seed
Director of A Photographic Reminiscence
BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM (Award given to the director)
All We Think about as Mild
France, India, Netherlands, Luxembourg
Director: Payal Kapadia
Black Canine
China
Director: Guan Hu
Movement
Latvia, France, Belgium
Director: Gints Zilbalodis
Inexperienced Border
Poland, France, Czech Republic, Belgium
Director: Agnieszka Holland
Exhausting Truths
United Kingdom
Director: Mike Leigh
PRODUCERS AWARD (Honors rising producers who, regardless of extremely restricted sources, display the creativity, tenacity and imaginative and prescient required to supply high quality unbiased movies)
Alex Coco
Sarah Winshall
Zoë Price
BEST DIRECTOR
Ali Abbasi
The Apprentice
Sean Baker
Anora
Brady Corbet
The Brutalist
Alonso Ruizpalacios
La Cocina
Jane Schoenbrun
I Noticed the TV Glow
BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE IN A NEW SCRIPTED SERIES
Brian Jordan Alvarez
English Trainer
Richard Gadd
Child Reindeer
Lily Gladstone
Underneath the Bridge
Kathryn Hahn
Agatha All Alongside
Cristin Milioti
The Penguin
Julianne Moore
Mary & George
Hiroyuki Sanada
Shōgun
Anna Sawai
Shōgun
Andrew Scott
Ripley
Julio Torres
Fantasmas
BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE
Amy Adams
Nightbitch
Ryan Future
The Fireplace Inside
Colman Domingo
Sing Sing
Keith Kupferer
Ghostlight
Mikey Madison
Anora
Demi Moore
The Substance
Hunter Schafer
Cuckoo
Justice Smith
I Noticed the TV Glow
June Squibb
Thelma
Sebastian Stan
The Apprentice
BEST FEATURE (Award given to the producer)
Anora
Producers: Sean Baker, Alex Coco, Samantha Quan
I Noticed the TV Glow
Producers: Ali Herting, Sam Intili, Dave McCary, Emma Stone, Sarah Winshall
Nickel Boys
Producers: Joslyn Barnes, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, David Levine
Sing Sing
Producers: Clint Bentley, Greg Kwedar, Monique Walton
The Substance
Producers: Tim Bevan, Coralie Fargeat, Eric Fellner
