Independent Spirit Awards… 2022


 BEST FEATURE


Bones and All

Everything Everywhere All at Once WINNER

Our Father, the Devil

Tár

Women Talking 


 BEST FIRST FEATURE


Aftersun WINNER

Emily the Criminal

The Inspection

Murina

Palm Trees and Power Lines 


 BEST DIRECTOR


Todd Field (Tár)

Kogonada (After Yang) 

Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert (Everything Everywhere All at Once) WINNER

Sarah Polley (Women Talking) 

Halina Reijn (Bodies Bodies Bodies) 


 BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE


Cate Blanchett (Tár) 

Dale Dickey (A Love Song)

Mia Goth (Pearl) 

Regina Hall (Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul.) 

Paul Mescal (Aftersun)

Aubrey Plaza (Emily the Criminal) 

Jeremy Pope (The Inspection)

Taylor Russell (Bones and All) 

Andrea Riseborough (To Leslie) 

Michelle Yeoh (Everything Everywhere All at Once) WINNER


 BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE


Jamie Lee Curtis (Everything Everywhere All at Once)

Brian Tyree Henry (Causeway)

Nina Hoss (Tár) 

Brian D’Arcy James (The Cathedral)

Ke Huy Quan (Everything Everywhere All at Once) WINNER

Trevante Rhodes (Bruiser)

Theo Rossi (Emily the Criminal)

Mark Rylance (Bones and All) 

Jonathan Tucker (Palm Trees and Power Lines)

Gabrielle Union (The Inspection)


 BEST BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE


Frankie Corio (Aftersun)

Garcija Filipovic (Murina)

Stephanie Hsu (Everything Everywhere All at Once) WINNER

Lily McInerny (Palm Trees and Power Lines)

Daniel Zolghardi (Funny Pages)


 BEST SCREENPLAY


Aftersun (Charlotte Wells) 

Catherine Called Birdy (Lena Dunham)

Everything Everywhere All at Once (Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert) WINNER

Tár (Todd Field)

Women Talking (Sarah Polley) 


 BEST FIRST SCREENPLAY


Bodies Bodies Bodies (Sarah DeLappe & Kristen Roupenian) 

Emergency (K.D. Dávila)

Emily the Criminal (John Patton Ford) WINNER

Fire Island (Joel Kim Booster)

Palm Trees and Power Lines (Jamie Dack & Audrey Findlay) 


 BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY


Aftersun (Gregory Oke)

Murina (Hélène Louvart)

Neptune Frost (Anisia Uzeyman) 

Pearl (Eliot Rockett) 

Tár (Florian Hoffmeister) WINNER


 BEST EDITING


Aftersun (Blair McClendon)

The Cathedral (Ricky D’Ambrose)

Everything Everywhere All at Once (Paul Rogers) WINNER

Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (Dean Fleischer Camp, Nick Paley)

Tár (Monika Willi) 


 BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM


Corsage (Austria/Luxembourg/France/Belgium/Italy/England)

Joyland (Pakistan/USA) WINNER

Leonor Will Never Die (Philippines) 

Return to Seoul (South Korea/France/Belgium/Romania) 

Saint Omer (France)  


 BEST DOCUMENTARY


A House Made of Splinters (Simon Lereng Wilmont)

All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen) 

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (Laura Poitras) WINNER

Midwives (Snow Hnin Ei Hlaing)

Riotsville, U.S.A. (Sierra Pettengill)


  TRUER THAN FICTION


Beba (Rebeca Huntt)

I Didn’t See You There (Reid Davenport) WINNER

Mija (Isabel Castro)


 JOHN CASSAVETES AWARD


The African Desperate 

A Love Song 

The Cathedral WINNER

Holy Emy 

Something in the Dirt


 ROBERT ALTMAN AWARD


Women Talking


 PIAGET PRODUCERS AWARD


Liz Cardenas

Tory Lenosky WINNER

David Grove Churchill Viste


 SOMEONE TO WATCH AWARD 


Adamma Ebo (Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul.) 

Nikyatu Jusu (Nanny) WINNER

Araceli Lemos (Holy Emy)


The 38th Independent Spirit Awards took place on the Santa Monica beach on Saturday, March 4. The Indies were streamed across multiple online and digital platforms.

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