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The official Film Independent Spirit Awards Nominations List
With less than a week until The Film Independent Spirit Awards Ceremony, let’s take a look at the nomination list.
Update:
Spring is always an exciting time for film fans because of the abundance of award shows. Coming up this week is the Film Independent Spirit Awards Ceremony, which celebrates the independent and lower-budget filmmakers of the year.
The official ceremony will take place on March 4, 2023, at 5:00 p.m. EST, and will be held at the Santa Monica Pier in Santa Monica, California.
Also, for the first time in Spirit Awards history, the acting categories are gender-neutral. The former best lead and supporting actor and actress categories are being replaced by the 10 nominees categories for Best Lead and Best Supporting awards.
Best Feature
- Bones and All
- Everything Everywhere All At Once
- Our Father, The Devil
- Tár
- Women Talking
Best Director
- Todd Field, Tár
- Kogonada, After Yang
- Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert, Everything Everywhere All at Once
- Sarah Polley, Women Talking
- Halina Reijn, Bodies Bodies Bodies
Best First Feature
- Aftersun
- Emily the Criminal
- The Inspection
- Murina
- Palm Trees and Power Lines
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
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
- 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
- Gracija Filipović, Murina
- Stephanie Hsu, Everything Everywhere All at Once
- Lily McInerny, Palm Trees and Power Lines
- Daniel Zolghadri, Funny Pages
Best Screenplay
- Kogonada, After Yang
- Lena Dunham, Catherine Called Birdy
- Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, Everything Everywhere All at Once
- Todd Field, Tár
- Sarah Polley, Women Talking
Best First Screenplay
- Sarah Delappe, Bodies Bodies Bodies
- K.D. Dávila, Emergency
- John Patton Ford, Emily the Criminal
- Joel Kim Booster, Fire Island
- Jamie Back and Audrey Findlay, Palm Trees and Power Lines
Best Cinematography
- Gregory Oke, Aftersun
- Hélène Louvart, Murina
- Anisa Uzeyman, Neptune Frost
- Eliot Rockett, Pearl
- Florian Hoffmeister, Tár
Best Editing
- Blair McClendon, Aftersun
- Ricky D’Ambrose, The Cathedral
- Paul Rogers, Everything Everywhere All at Once
- Dean Fleischer Camp, Nick Paley, Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
- Monika Willi, Tár
Robert Altman Award
- Women Talking, director Sarah Polley;
- Casting directors John Buchan and Jason Knight
- Ensemble cast: Shayla Brown, Jessie Buckley, Claire Foy, Kara Guloien, Kate Hallett, Judith Ivey, Rooney Mara, Sheila McCarthy, Frances McDormand, Michelle McLeod, Liv McNeil, Ben Whisaw, August Winter
Best Documentary
- A House Made of Splinters
- All That Breathes
- All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
- Midwives
- Riotsville, U.S.A
Best International Film
- Corsage (Austria, Luxembourg, France, Italy, England)
- Joyland (Pakistan, USA)
- Leonor Will Never Die (Philippines)
- Return to Seoul (South Korea, France, Belgium, Romania)
- Saint Omer (France)
Someone to Watch Award
- Adamma Ebo, Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul.
- Nikyatu Jusu, Nanny
- Araceli Lemos, Holy Emy
Truer Than Fiction Award
- Isabel Castro, Mija
- Reid Davenport, I Didn’t See You There
- Rebeca Huntt, Beba
John Cassavetes Award
- The African Desperate
- A Love Song
- The Cathedral
- Holy Emy
- Something in the Dirt
Producers Award
- Liz Cardenas
- Tory Lenosky
- David Grove Churchill Viste
Best New Scripted Series (TV)
- The Bear
- Pachinko
- The Porter
- Severance
- Station Eleven
Best New Non-Scripted or Documentary Series
- Children of the Underground
- Mind Over Murder
- Pepsi, Where’s My Jet?
- The Rehearsal
- We Need to Talk About Cosby
Best Lead Performance in a New Scripted Series
- Aml Ameen, The Porter
- Mohammed Amer, Mo
- Quinta Brunson, Abbott Elementary
- Bridget Everett, Somebody Somewhere
- KaMillion, Rap Sh!t
- Melanie Lynskey, Yellowjackets
- Himesh Patel, Station Eleven
- Sue Ann Pien, As We See It
- Adam Scott, Severance
- Ben Whishaw, This Is Going to Hurt
- Best Supporting Performance in a New Scripted Series
- Danielle Deadwyler, Station Eleven
- Ayo Edibiri, The Bear
- Jeff Hiller, Somebody Somewhere
- Gbemisola Ikumelo, A League of Their Own
- Janelle James, Abbott Elementary
- Ebon Moss-Bachrach, The Bear
- Frankie Quiñones, This Fool
- Sheryl Lee Ralph, Abbott Elementary
- Molly Shannon, I Love That For You
- Tramell Tillman, Severance
Best Ensemble Cast in a New Scripted Series
- Pachinko