For the third consecutive year, the Spirit Awards will recognize outstanding achievement in uniqueness of vision, innovation and boldness in TV and streaming in addition to feature film. And for the second year, all acting categories (Best Performance, Best Supporting Performance and Best Breakthrough Performance, in both Film and TV) are gender-neutral. Noms were revealed in a livestream earlier today on Film Independent’s YouTube channel (like and subscribe!) by special guest presenters Joel Kim Booster and Natalie Morales:
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BEST FEATURE
All of Us Strangers Producers: Graham Broadbent, Pete Czernin, Sarah Harvey American Fiction Producers: Cord Jefferson, Jermaine Johnson, Nikos Karamigios, Ben LeClair May December Producers: Jessica Elbaum, Will Ferrell, Grant S. Johnson, Pamela Koffler, Tyler W. Konney, Sophie Mas, Natalie Portman, Christine Vachon Passages Producers: Michel Merkt, Saïd Ben Saïd Past Lives Producers: David Hinojosa, Pamela Koffler, Christine Vachon We Grown Now Producers: Minhal Baig, Joe Pirro
BEST FIRST FEATURE
All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt Director: Raven Jackson Producers: Maria Altamirano, Mark Ceryak, Barry Jenkins, Adele Romanski Chronicles of a Wandering Saint Director: Tomás Gómez Bustillo Producers: Gewan Brown, Amanda Freedman Earth Mama Director/Producer: Savanah Leaf Producers: Sam Bisbee, Shirley O’Connor, Medb Riordan, Cody Ryder A Thousand and One Director: A.V. Rockwell Producers: Julia Lebedev, Rajani Rishi, Eddie Vaisman, Lena Waithe, Brad Weston Upon Entry Directors: Alejandro Rojas, Juan Sebastián Vásquez Producers: Sergio Adrià, Carlos Juárez, Alba Sotorra, Carles Torras, Xosé Zapata
JOHN CASSAVETES AWARD
The Artifice Girl Director/Writer: Franklin Ritch Producers: Aaron B. Koontz, Ashleigh Snead Cadejo Blanco Director/Writer/Producer: Justin Lerner Producers: Mauricio Escobar, Jack Patrick Hurley, Ryan Friedkin Fremont Director/Writer: Babak Jalali Writer: Carolina Cavalli Producers: Rachael Fung, Chris Martin, Marjaneh Moghimi, George Rush, Sudnya Shroff, Laura Wagner Rotting in the Sun Director/Writer: Sebastián Silva Writer: Pedro Peirano Producer: Jacob Wasserman The Unknown Country Director/Writer/Producer: Morrisa Maltz Writer: Lily Gladstone Writers/Producers: Lainey Bearkiller Shangreaux, Vanara Taing Producers: Katherine Harper, Laura Heberton, Tommy Heitkamp
BEST DIRECTOR
Andrew Haigh All of Us Strangers Todd Haynes May December William Oldroyd Eileen Celine Song Past Lives Ira Sachs Passages
BEST SCREENPLAY
David Hemingson The Holdovers Cord Jefferson American Fiction Laura Moss, Brendan J. O’Brien Birth/Rebirth Emma Seligman, Rachel Sennott Bottoms Celine Song Past Lives
BEST FIRST SCREENPLAY
Samy Burch; Story by Samy Burch, Alex Mechanik May December Noah Galvin, Molly Gordon, Nick Lieberman, Ben Platt Theater Camp Tomás Gómez Bustillo Chronicles of a Wandering Saint Laurel Parmet The Starling Girl Alejandro Rojas, Juan Sebastián Vásquez Upon Entry
BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE
Jessica Chastain Memory Greta Lee Past Lives Trace Lysette Monica Natalie Portman May December Judy Reyes Birth/Rebirth Franz Rogowski Passages Andrew Scott All of Us Strangers Teyana Taylor A Thousand and One Jeffrey Wright American Fiction Teo Yoo Past Lives
BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE
Erika Alexander American Fiction Sterling K. Brown American Fiction Noah Galvin Theater Camp Anne Hathaway Eileen Glenn Howerton BlackBerry Marin Ireland Eileen Charles Melton May December Da’Vine Joy Randolph The Holdovers Catalina Saavedra Rotting in the Sun Ben Whishaw Passages
BEST BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE
Marshawn Lynch Bottoms Atibon Nazaire Mountains Tia Nomore Earth Mama Dominic Sessa The Holdovers Anaita Walizada Fremont
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Katelin Arizmendi Monica Eigil Bryld The Holdovers Jomo Fray All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt Pablo Lozano Chronicles of a Wandering Saint Pat Scola We Grown Now
BEST EDITING
Santiago Cendejas, Gabriel Díaz, Sofía Subercaseaux Rotting in the Sun Stephanie Filo We Grown Now Daniel Garber How to Blow Up a Pipeline Jon Philpot Theater Camp Emanuele Tiziani Upon Entry
ROBERT ALTMAN AWARD
Showing Up Director: Kelly Reichardt Casting Director: Gayle Keller Ensemble Cast: André Benjamin, Hong Chau, Judd Hirsch, Heather Lawless, James Le Gros, John Magaro, Matt Malloy, Amanda Plummer, Maryann Plunkett, Denzel Rodriguez, Michelle Williams
BEST DOCUMENTARY
Bye Bye Tiberias Director: Lina Soualem Producer: Jean-Marie Nizan Four Daughters Director: Kaouther Ben Hania Producer: Nadim Cheikhrouha Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project Directors/Producers: Joe Brewster, Michèle Stephenson Producer: Tommy Oliver Kokomo City Director: D. Smith Producers: Bill Butler, Harris Doran The Mother of All Lies Director/Producer: Asmae El Moudir
BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM
Anatomy of a Fall France Director: Justin Triet Godland Denmark/Iceland Director: Hlynur Pálmason Mami Wata Nigeria Director: C.J. ‘Fiery’ Obasi Tótem Mexico Director: Lila Avilés The Zone of Interest United Kingdom, Poland, USA Director: Jonathan Glazer
PRODUCERS AWARD
Rachael Fung Graham Swon Monique Walton
SOMEONE TO WATCH AWARD
Laura Moss Director of Birth/Rebirth Joanna Arnow Director of The Feeling That The Time for Doing Something Has Passed Monica Sorelle Director of Mountains
TRUER THAN FICTION AWARD
Set Hernandez Director of unseen Jesse Short Bull, Laura Tomaselli Director of Lakota Nation vs. United States Sierra Urich Director of Joonam
BEST NEW NON-SCRIPTED OR DOCUMENTARY SERIES
Deadlocked: How America Shaped the Supreme Court Executive Producers: Vinnie Malhotra, Aaron Saidman, Eli Holzman, Dawn Porter Dear Mama Executive Producers: Lasse Järvi, Quincy ‘QD3 Jones III, Staci Robinson, Nelson George, Charles D. King, Peter Nelson, Adel ‘Future’ Nur, Jamal Joseph, Ted Skillman, Allen Hughes, Steve Berman, Marc Cimino, Jody Gerson, John Janick, Nicholas Ferrall, Nigel Sinclair Murder in Big Horn Executive Producers: Matthew Galkin, Vinnie Malhotra Co-Executive Producers: Lisa Kalikow, Joshua Levine Stolen Youth: Inside the Cult at Sarah Lawrwence Executive Producers: Mindy Goldberg, Dan Cogan, Liz Garbus, Jon Bardin, Zach Heinzerling, Krista Parris, Daniel Barban Levin, Felicia Rosario Co-Executive Producer: Julie Gaither Wrestlers Executive Producers: Greg Whiteley, Ryan O’Dowd Co-Executive Producers: Alejandro Melendez, Adam Leibowitz
BEST NEW SCRIPTED SERIES
Beef Creator/Executive Producer: Lee Sung Jin Executive Producers: Steven Yeun, Ali Wong, Jake Shreier, Ravi Nandan, Alli Reich Co-Executive Producer: Alice Ju, Carrie Kemper Dreaming Whilst Black Creator/Executive Producer: Adjani Salmon Creators: Maximilian Evans, Natasha Jatania, Laura Seixas Executive Producers: Tanya Qureshi, Dhanny Joshi, Bal Samra, Thomas Stogdon I’m a Virgo Creator/Executive Producer: Boots Riley Executive Producers: Tze Chun, Michael Ellenberg, Lindsey Springer, Jharrel Jerome, Rebecca Rivo Co-Executive Producer: Marcus Gardley, Carver Karaszewski Jury Duty Creator/Executive Producer: Lee Eisenberg, Gene Stupnitsky Executive Producers: David Bernad, Ruben Fleischer, Nicholas Hatton, Cody Heller, Todd Schulman, Jake Szymanski, Andrew Weinberg Slip Creators/Executive Producers: Zoe Lister-Jones Executive Producers: Ro Donnelly, Dakota Johnson, Katie O’Connell Marsh, David Fortier, Ivan Schneeberg
BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE IN A NEW SCRIPTED SERIES
Emma Corrin A Murder at the End of the World Dominique Fishback Swarm Betty Gilpin Mrs. Davis Jharrel Jerome I’m a Virgo Zoe Lister-Jones Slip Bel Powley A Small Light Bella Ramsey The Last of Us Ramón Rodríguez Will Trent Ali Wong Beef Steven Yeun Beef
BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE IN A NEW SCRIPTED SERIES
Murray Bartlett The Last of Us Billie Eilish Swarm Jack Farthing Rain Dogs Nick Offerman The Last of Us Adina Porter The Changeling Lewis Pullman Lessons in Chemistry Benny Safdie The Curse Luke Tennie Shrinking Olivia Washington I’m a Virgo Jessica Williams Shrinking
BEST BREAKTRHOUGH PERFORMANCE IN A NEW SCRIPTED SERIES
Clark Backo The Changeling Aria Mia Loberti All the Light We Cannot See Adjani Salmon Dreaming Whilst Black Keivonn Montreal Woodard The Last of Us Kara Young I’m a Virgo
BEST ENSEMBLE CAST IN A NEW SCRIPTED SERIES
Jury Duty Ensemble Cast: Alan Barinholtz, Susan Berger,Cassandra Blair, David Brown, Kirk Fox, Ross Kimball, Pramode Kumar, Trisha LaFache, Mekki Leeper, James Marsden, Edy Modica, Kerry O’Neill, Rashida Olayiwola, Whitney Rice, Maria Russell, Ishmel Sahid, Ben Seaward, Ron Song, Evan Williams
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