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 BEST FEATURE

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Peter Hujar’s Day 

The Plague

Sorry, Baby

Train Dreams

Twinless 

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 BEST FIRST FEATURE

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Blue Sun Palace 

Dust Bunny

East of Wall

Lurker

One of Them Days 

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 BEST DIRECTOR

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Mary Bronstein (If I Had Legs I’d Kick You) 

Lloyd Lee Choi (Lucky Lu) 

Ira Sachs (Peter Hujar’s Day) 

Eva Victor (Sorry, Baby) 

Clint Bentley (Train Dreams) 

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 BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE

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Everett Blunck (The Plague) 

Rose Byrne (If I Had Legs I’d Kick You)

Kathleen Chalfant (Familiar Touch) 

Chang Chen (Lucky Lu) 

Joel Edgerton (Train Dreams) 

Dylan O’Brien (Twinless) 

Keke Palmer (One of Them Days)

Théodore Pellerin (Lurker) 

Tessa Thompson (Hedda) 

Ben Whishaw (Peter Hujar’s Day) 

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 BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE

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Naomi Ackie (Sorry, Baby)

Zoey Deutch (Nouvelle Vague)

Kirsten Dunst (Roofman) 

Rebecca Hall (Peter Hujar’s Day)

Nina Hoss (Hedda) 

Jane Levy (A Little Prayer)

Archie Madekwe (Lurker)

Kali Reis (Rebuilding) 

Jacob Tremblay (Sovereign) 

Haipeng Xu (Blue Sun Palace) 

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 BEST BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE

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Liz Larsen (The Baltimorons)

Misha Osherovich  (She’s the He)

Kayo Martin (The Plague)

SZA (One of Them Days)

Tabatha Zimiga (East of Wall) 

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 BEST SCREENPLAY

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A Little Prayer (Angus MacLachlan) 

Sorry, Baby (Eva Victor)

Sovereign (Christian Swegal) 

Splitsville (Michael Angelo Covino & Kyle Marvin)

Twinless (James Sweeney) 

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 BEST FIRST SCREENPLAY

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Blue Sun Palace (Constance Tsang) 

Friendship (Andrew DeYoung)

Lurker (Alex Russell) 

One of Them Days (Syreeta Singleton)

Outerlands (Elena Oxman) 

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 BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

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Blue Sun Palace (Norm Li)

Dust Bunny (Nicole Hirsch Whitaker)

Peter Hujar’s Day (Alex Ashe) 

Train Dreams (Adolpho Veloso) 

Warfare (David J. Thompson) 

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 BEST EDITING

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Eephus (Carson Lund)

Good Boy (Ben Leonberg)

Splitsville (Sara Shaw) 

The Testament of Ann Lee (Sofía Subercaseaux)

Warfare (Fin Oates) 

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 BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM

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All That’s Left of You (Palestine/Jordan/Germany/Cyprus)

On Becoming a Guinea Fowl (Zambia/UK/Ireland)

A Poet (Colombia) 

The Secret Agent (Brazil) 

Sirāt (Spain)  

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 BEST DOCUMENTARY

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Come See Me in the Good Light (Ryan White)

Endless Cookie (Peter Scriver & Seth Scriver) 

My Undesirable Friends: Part I – Last Air in Moscow  (Julia Loktev)

The Perfect Neighbor (Geeta Gandbhir)

The Tale of Silyan (Tamara Kotevska)

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  TRUER THAN FICTION

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André is an Idiot (Tony Benna)

Seeds (Brittany Shyne)

Your Touch Makes Others Invisible (Rajee Samarasinghe)

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 JOHN CASSAVETES AWARD

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The Baltimorons 

Boys Go to Jupiter 

Eephus 

Esta Isla (This Island)

Familiar Touch

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 ROBERT ALTMAN AWARD

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The Long Walk

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PRODUCERS AWARD

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Emma Hannaway

Luca Intili 

Tony Yang

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 SOMEONE TO WATCH AWARD 

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Tatti Ribeiro (Valentina) 

Neo Sora (Happyend) 

Annapurna Sriram (Fucktoys)

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The 41st Independent Spirit Awards will take place at the Hollywood Palladium on February 15, 2026. The Indies will stream on Film Independent YouTube channels and IMDb.com.

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