Anybody searching for readability relating to this yr’s significantly diffuse and opaque awards season will probably not discover it within the nominations for the fortieth annual Movie Unbiased Spirit Awards, introduced Wednesday morning.
Slightly, the nominating committees selected to acknowledge a broad array of movies, from splashy awards-season favorites to little-known titles from the competition circuit. The nominees, with budgets starting from $112,000 to $28 million, come from 17 completely different nations.
Sean Baker’s “Anora,” a melancholy comedy of self-discovery a couple of stripper in Brighton Seashore, earned six nominations, together with characteristic, director and lead efficiency. Jane Schoenbrun’s “I Saw The TV Glow,” a trippy story of id and fandom as two outcasts bond over their love of a tv present, additionally took in six nominations, together with characteristic, director, lead efficiency and screenplay.
Mikey Madison and Mark Eydelshteyn within the film “Anora.”
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Sean Wang’s coming-of-age story “Didi” earned 4 nominations. “Sing Sing,” “Janet Planet” and “The Apprentice” every introduced in three noms, whereas “Big Boys,” “La Cocina,” “A Different Man,” “The Fire Inside,” “Ghostlight,” “In the Summers,” “Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell.” “Jazzy,” “My Old Ass,” “Nightbitch,” “Nickel Boys,” “The Piano Lesson,” “Problemista,” “A Real Pain,” “The Substance” and “Thelma” all earned two nominations.
Azazel Jacobs’ “His Three Daughters,” starring Carrie Coon, Natasha Lyonne and Elizabeth Olsen, earned the ensemble-targeted Robert Altman Award, given to 1 movie’s director, casting director and solid.
On the TV aspect, “Shōgun” led with 5 nominations, whereas “Baby Reindeer and “English Teacher” each earned 4 noms and “Agatha All Along” introduced in three.
On the thirty ninth Spirit Awards earlier this yr (an occasion disrupted by protesters), Celine Music’s “Past Lives” received for characteristic and director, “American Fiction” received for Wire Jefferson’s screenplay and Jeffrey Wright’s lead efficiency, and Da’Vine Pleasure Randolph received for supporting efficiency for “The Holdovers.”
The Spirit Awards will happen on Feb 22, 2025, with Aidy Bryant returning as host. The entire checklist of nominations follows.
BEST FEATURE (award given to the producer)
“Anora”Producers: Sean Baker, Alex Coco, Samantha Quan
“I Saw 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
BEST FIRST FEATURE (award given to director and producer)
“Dìdi”Director/Producer: Sean WangProducers: Valerie Bush, Carlos López Estrada, Josh Peters
“In the Summers”Director: Alessandra Lacorazza SamudioProducers: Janek Ambros, Lynette Coll, Alexander Dinelaris, Cynthia Fernandez De La Cruz, Cristóbal Güell, Sergio Alberto Lira, Rob Quadrino, Jan Suter, Daniel Tantalean, Nando Vila, Slava Vladimirov, Stephanie Yankwitt
“Janet Planet”Director/Producer: Annie BakerProducers: Andrew Goldman, Dan Janvey, Derrick Tseng
“The Piano Lesson”Director: Malcolm WashingtonProducers: Todd Black, Denzel Washington
“Problemista”Director/Producer: Julio TorresProducers: Ali Herting, Dave McCary, Emma Stone
JOHN CASSAVETES AWARD — Given to the most effective characteristic made for underneath $1,000,000. (Award given to the author, director and producer)
“Big Boys”Author/Director/Producer: Corey ShermanProducer: Allison Tate
“Ghostlight”Author/Director: Kelly O’SullivanDirector/Producer: Alex ThompsonProducers: Pierce Cravens, Ian Keiser, Chelsea Krant, Eddie Linker, Alex Wilson
“Girls Will Be Girls”Author/Director/Producer: Shuchi TalatiProducers: Richa Chadha, Claire Chassagne
“Jazzy”Author/Director/Producer: Morrisa MaltzWriter/Producer: Lainey ShangreauxWriters: Andrew Hajek, Vanara TaingProducers: Miranda Bailey, Tommy Heitkamp, John Means, Natalie Whalen, Elliott Whitton
“The People’s Joker”Author/Director: Vera DrewWriter: Bri LeRoseProducer: Joey Lyons
BEST DIRECTOR
Ali Abbasi“The Apprentice”
Sean Baker“Anora”
Brady Corbet“The Brutalist”
Alonso Ruizpalacios“La Cocina”
Jane Schoenbrun“I Saw the TV Glow”
BEST SCREENPLAY
Scott Beck, Bryan Woods“Heretic”
Jesse Eisenberg“A Real Pain”
Megan Park“My Old Ass”
Aaron Schimberg“A Different Man”
Jane Schoenbrun“I Saw the TV Glow”
BEST FIRST SCREENPLAY
Joanna Arnow“The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed”
Annie Baker“Janet Planet”
India Donaldson“Good One”
Julio Torres“Problemista
Sean Wang“Dìdi”
BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE
Amy Adams“Nightbitch”
Ryan Future“The Fire Inside”
Colman Domingo“Sing Sing”
Keith Kupferer“Ghostlight”
Mikey Madison“Anora”
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“Dìdi”
Kieran Culkin“A Real Pain”
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”
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Dinh Duy Hung“Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell”
Jomo Fray“Nickel Boys”
Maria von Hausswolff“Janet Planet”
Juan Pablo Ramírez“La Cocina”
Rina Yang“The Fire Inside”
BEST EDITING
Laura Colwell, Vanara Taing“Jazzy”
Olivier Bugge Coutté, Olivia Neergaard-Holm“The Apprentice”
Anne McCabe“Nightbitch”
Hansjörg Weissbrich“September 5”
Arielle Zakowski“Dìdi”
ROBERT ALTMAN AWARD (given to 1 movie’s director, casting director and ensemble solid)
“His Three Daughters”Director: Azazel JacobsCasting Director: Nicole ArbustoEnsemble Forged: Jovan Adepo, Jasmine Bracey, Carrie Coon, Jose Febus, Rudy Galvan, Natasha Lyonne, Elizabeth Olsen, Randy Ramos Jr., Jay O. Sanders
BEST DOCUMENTARY (award given to the director and producer)
“Gaucho Gaucho”Administrators/Producers: Michael Dweck, Gregory KershawProducers: Christos Konstantakopoulos, Cameron O’Reilly, Matthew Perniciaro
“Hummingbirds”Administrators: Silvia Del Carmen Castaños, Estefanía “Beba” ContrerasCo-Administrators/Producers: Miguel Drake-McLaughlin, Diane Ng, Ana Rodriguez-Falco, Jillian SchlesingerProducers: Leslie Benavides, Rivkah Beth Medow
“No Other Land”Administrators/Producers: Yuval Abraham, Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Rachel SzorProducers: Fabien Greenberg, Bård Kjøge Rønning
“Patrice: The Movie”Director: Ted PassonProducers: Kyla Harris, Innbo Shim, Emily Spivack
“Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat”Director: Johan GrimonprezProducers: Rémi Grellety, Daan Milius
BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM (award given to the director)
“All We Imagine as Light”France, India, Netherlands, LuxembourgDirector: Payal Kapadia
“Black Dog”ChinaDirector: Guan Hu
“Flow”Latvia, France, BelgiumDirector: Gints Zilbalodis
“Green Border”Poland, France, Czech Republic, BelgiumDirector: Agnieszka Holland
“Hard Truths”United KingdomDirector: Mike Leigh
PRODUCERS AWARD introduced by Bulleit Frontier Whiskey — the Producers Award, now in its twenty eighth yr, honors rising producers who, regardless of extremely restricted assets, show the creativity, tenacity and imaginative and prescient required to provide high quality impartial movies.
Alex Coco
Sarah Winshall
Zoë Value
SOMEONE TO WATCH AWARD — the Somebody to Watch Award, now in its thirty first yr, acknowledges a gifted filmmaker of singular imaginative and prescient who has not but acquired applicable recognition.
Nicholas ColiaDirector of “Griffin in Summer”
Sarah FriedlandDirector of “Familiar Touch”
Pham Thien AnDirector of “Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell”
TRUER THAN FICTION AWARD — the More true Than Fiction Award, now in its thirtieth yr, is introduced to an rising director of nonfiction options who has not but acquired important recognition.
Julian Courageous NoiseCat, Emily KassieDirectors of “Sugarcane”
Carla GutiérrezDirector of “Frida”
Rachel Elizabeth SeedDirector of “A Photographic Memory”
BEST NEW NON-SCRIPTED OR DOCUMENTARY SERIES (award given to the creator, government producer, co-executive producer)
“Erased: WW2’s Heroes of Color”Govt producers: Idris Elba, Johanna Woolford Gibbon, Jamilla Dumbuya, Jos Cushing, Khaled Gad, Matt Robins, Chris Muckle, Sean David Johnson, Simon RaikesCo-executive producer: Annabel Hobley
“Hollywood Black”Govt 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 BurkhartCo-executive producers: David C. Brown, Laurens Grant
“Photographer”Govt producers: Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin, Pagan Harleman, Betsy ForhanCo-executive producers: Anna Barnes, Brent Kunkle
“Ren Faire”Govt producers: Ronald Bronstein, Benny Safdie, Josh Safdie, Eli Bush, Dani Bernfeld, Lance Oppenheim, David Gauvey Herbert, Nancy Abraham, Lisa Heller, Sara RodriguezCo-executive producers: Abigail Rowe, Christian Vasquez, Max Allman
“Social Studies”Creator/government producer: Lauren GreenfieldExecutive producers: Wallis Annenberg, Regina Ok. Scully, Andrea van Beuren, Frank Evers, Caryn Capotosto
BEST NEW SCRIPTED SERIES (award given to the creator, government producer, co-executive producer)
“Baby Reindeer”Creator/government producer: Richard GaddExecutive producers: Wim De Greef, Petra Fried, Matt Jarvis, Ed Macdonald
“Diarra From Detroit”Creator/government producer: Diarra KilpatrickExecutive producers: Kenya Barris, Miles Orion Feldsott, Darren GoldbergCo-executive producers: Ester Lou, Mark Ganek
“English Teacher”Creator/government producer: Brian Jordan AlvarezExecutive producers: Paul Simms, Jonathan Krisel, Dave KingCo-executive producers: Kathryn Dean, Jake Bender, Zach Dunn
“Fantasmas”Creator/government producer: Julio TorresExecutive producers: Emma Stone, Dave McCary, Olivia Gerke, Alex Bach, Daniel PowellCo-executive producer: Ali Herting
“Shōgun”Creators/government producers: Rachel Kondo, Justin MarksExecutive producers: Edward L. McDonnell, Michael De Luca, Michaela ClavellCo-executive producers: Shannon Goss, Andrew Macdonald, Allon Reich
BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE IN A NEW SCRIPTED SERIES
Brian Jordan Alvarez“English Teacher”
Richard Gadd“Baby Reindeer”
Lily Gladstone“Under the Bridge”
Kathryn Hahn“Agatha All Along”
Cristin Milioti“The Penguin”
Julianne Moore“Mary & George”
Hiroyuki Sanada“Shōgun”
Anna Sawai“Shōgun”
Andrew Scott“Ripley”
Julio Torres“Fantasmas”
BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE IN A NEW SCRIPTED SERIES
Tadanobu Asano“Shōgun”
Enrico Colantoni“English Teacher”
Betty Gilpin“Three Women”
Chloe Guidry“Under the Bridge”
Moeka Hoshi“Shōgun”
Stephanie Koenig“English Teacher”
Patti LuPone“Agatha All Along”
Nava Mau“Baby Reindeer”
Ruth Negga“Presumed Innocent”
Brian Tee“Expats”
BEST BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE IN A NEW SCRIPTED SERIES
Jessica Gunning“Baby Reindeer”
Diarra Kilpatrick“Diarra From Detroit”
Joe Locke“Agatha All Along”
Megan Stott“Penelope”
Hoa Xuande“The Sympathizer”
BEST ENSEMBLE CAST IN A NEW SCRIPTED SERIES
“How 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