2023 Film Independent Spirit Award Nominations

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

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