Independent Spirit Awards… 2024


 BEST FEATURE


Anora WINNER

I Saw the TV Glow

Nickel Boys

Sing Sing

The Substance 


 BEST FIRST FEATURE


Didi WINNER

In the Summers

Janet Planet

The Piano Lesson

Problemista 


 BEST DIRECTOR


Sean Baker (Anora) WINNER

Ali Abbasi (The Apprentice) 

Brady Corbet (The Brutalist) 

Jane Schoenbrun (I Saw the TV Glow) 

Alonso Ruizpalacios (La Cocina) 


 BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE


Amy Adams (Nightbitch) 

Ryan Destiny (The Fire Inside)

Colman Domingo (Sing Sing) 

Keith Kupferer (Ghostlight) 

Mikey Madison (Anora) WINNER

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 (Didi)

Kieran Culkin (A Real Pain) WINNER

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) WINNER


 BEST SCREENPLAY


A Different Man (Aaron Schimberg) 

Heretic (Scott Beck & Bryan Woods)

I Saw the TV Glow (Jane Schoenbrun) 

My Old Ass (Megan Park)

A Real Pain (Jesse Eisenberg) WINNER


 BEST FIRST SCREENPLAY


Didi (Sean Wang) WINNER

The Feeling that the Time for Doing Something Has Passed (Joanna Arnow)

Good One (India Donaldson) 

Janet Planet (Annie Baker)

Problemista (Julio Torres) 


 BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY


The Fire Inside (Rina Yang)

Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell (Dinh Duy Hung)

Janet Planet (Maria von Hausswolff) 

La Cocina (Juan Pablo Ramírez) 

Nickel Boys (Jomo Fray) WINNER


 BEST EDITING


The Apprentice (Olivier Bugge Coutté & Olivia Neergaard-Holm)

Didi (Arielle Zakowski)

Jazzy (Laura Colwell & Vanara Taing) 

Nightbitch (Anne McCabe)

September 5 (Hansjörg Weissbrich) WINNER


 BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM


All We Imagine as Light (France/India/Netherlands/Luxembourg)

Black Dog (China)

Flow (Latvia/France/Belgium) WINNER

Green Border (Poland/France/Czech Republic/Belgium) 

Hard Truths (UK)  


 BEST DOCUMENTARY


Gaucho Gaucho (Michael Dweck & Gregory Kershaw)

Hummingbirds (Silvia Del Carmen Castaños & Estefanía “Beba” Contreras) 

No Other Land (Yuval Abraham, Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal & Rachel Szor) WINNER

Patrice: The Movie (Ted Passon)

Soundtracks to a Coup d’Etat (Johan Grimonprez)


  TRUER THAN FICTION


Frida (Carla Gutiérrez)

A Photographic Memory (Rachel Elizabeth Seed) WINNER

Sugarcane (Julian Brave NoiseCat & Emily Kassie)


 JOHN CASSAVETES AWARD


Big Boys 

Ghostlight 

Girls Will Be Girls WINNER

Jazzy 

The People’s Joker


 ROBERT ALTMAN AWARD


His Three Daughters


PRODUCERS AWARD


Alex Coco

Sarah Winshall WINNER

Zoë Worth


 SOMEONE TO WATCH AWARD 


Nicholas Colia (Griffin in Summer) 

Sarah Friedland (Familiar Touch) WINNER

Pham Thien An (Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell)


The 40th Independent Spirit Awards took place on the Santa Monica beach on February 22. The Indies were streamed on Film Independent YouTube channels and IMDb.com.

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