
One of my favorite award shows that I look forward to every year right before the Oscars is the Film Independent Spirit Awards. With a focus on smaller and independent films, there are usually a lot of new films I discover thanks to this awards show. Celebrating those with smaller budgets but still incredible filmmaking, you cannot miss this show! Here are this year’s nominees:
Best Screenplay
-American Fiction
-Birth/Rebirth
-Bottoms
-Past Lives
-The Holdovers
Best Documentary
-Bye Bye Tiberias
-Four Daughters
-Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovani Project
-Kokomo City
-The Mother of All Lies
Best First Feature
-All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt
-Chronicles of a Wandering Saint
-Earth Mama
-A Thousand and One
-Upon Entry
Best Supporting Performance
-Erica Alexander (American Fiction)
-Sterling K. Brown (American Fiction)
-Noah Galvin (Theater Camp)
-Anne Hathaway (Eileen)
-Glenn Howerton (BlackBerry)
-Marin Ireland (Eileen)
-Charles Melton (May December)
-Da’Vine Joy Randolph (The Holdovers)
-Catalina Saavedra (Rotting in the Sun)
-Ben Whishaw (Passages)
Best Lead Performance
-Jessica Chastain (Memory)
-Greta Lee (Past Lives)
-Trace Lysette (Monica)
-Natalie Portman (May December)
-Judy Reyes (Birth/Rebirth)
-Franz Rogowski (Passages)
-Andrew Scott (All of Us Strangers)
-Teyana Taylor (A Thousand and One)
-Jeffrey Wright (American Fiction)
-Teo Yoo (Past Lives)
Best Breakthrough Performance
-Marshawn Lynch (Bottoms)
-Atibon Nazaire (Mountains)
-Tia Nomore (Earth Mama)
-Dominic Sessa (The Holdovers)
-Anaita Wali Zada (Fremont)
Best First Screenplay
-Chronicles of a Wandering Saint
-May December
-The Starling Girl
-Theater Camp
-Upon Entry
Best Cinematography
-All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt
-Chronicles of a Wandering Saint
-The Holdovers
-Monica
-We Grown Now
Best Editing
-How to Blow Up a Pipeline
-Rotting in the Sun
-Theater Camp
-Upon Entry
-We Grown Now
Best International Film
-Anatomy of a Fall (France)
-Godland (Denmark/Iceland)
-Mami Wata (Nigeria)
-Totem (Mexico)
-The Zone of Interest (United Kingdom/Poland/USA)
Best Director
-Andrew Haigh (All of Us Strangers)
-Todd Haynes (May December)
-William Oldroyd (Eileen)
-Celine Song (Past Lives)
-Ira Sachs (Passages)
Best Feature
-All of Us Strangers
-American Fiction
-May December
-Passages
-Past Lives
-We Grown Now