The 2024 Film Independent Spirit Awards on Sunday awarded A24’s Past Lives its Best Feature and Celine Song the Best Director in its ceremony on the seashore in Santa Monica, giving the indie romantic drama a lift because it heads towards the Oscars the place it’s up for Best Picture.
Past Lives topped a marquee Best Feature class that included Netflix’s May December, Amazon MGM Studios’ American Fiction, Searchlight’s All of Us Strangers, Sony Pictures Classics’ We Grown Now and Mubi’s Passages.
Last 12 months’s Spirit winner for Best Feature, Everything Everywhere All at Once, additionally from A24, went on to win the Best Picture Oscar.
Today’s different Oscar nominees fared effectively in the present day with Jeffrey Wright successful Best Lead Performance for American Fiction, which additionally scored a Best Screenplay win for its writer-director Cord Jefferson; May December writers Samy Burch and Alex Mechanik received the Best First Screenplay prize.
Past Lives, American Fiction and May December got here into in the present day tied for essentially the most total nominations with 5. It was Focus Features’ The Holdovers, an Oscar Best Picture nominee however not a Best Feature nominee right here in the present day, that took essentially the most trophies with three: for frontrunner Da’Vine Joy Randolph as Best Supporting Performance, Dominic Sassa for Breakthrough Performance and Eigil Bryld for Cinematography.
Other Oscar nominees scoring wins in the present day included Anatomy of a Fall which received for Best International Film and Four Daughters which received for Best Documentary.
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The TV facet was led by a number of wins for The Last of Us (performing performances from Nick Offerman and Keivonn Montreal Woodard), and Beef, which received for Best New Scripted Series and for Ali Wong, who topped even co-star Steven Yeun within the gender-neutral Best Lead Performance in a New Scripted Series class.
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Today’s streaming-only ceremony, hosted ably by Saturday Night Live alum Aidy Bryant, was occasions interrupted by the sounds of a pro-Palestinian protester outdoors the occasion tent; his chants of “Long live Palenstine” and “Cease fire now” have been audible throughout a number of speeches because of his use of a loudspeaker. Several audio system onstage famous the noise, which lasted a lot of the present.
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Here’s in the present day’s full record of Spirit Awards winners:
BEST FEATURE
(Given to the producer)
Past Lives
Producers: David Hinojosa, Pamela Koffler, Christine Vachon
BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE
Jeffrey Wright
American Fiction
BEST DIRECTOR
Celine Song
Past Lives
BEST FIRST FEATURE
(Award given to director and producer)
A Thousand and One
Director: A.V. Rockwell
Producers: Julia Lebedev, Rishi Rajani, Eddie Vaisman, Lena Waithe, Brad Weston
BEST BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE
Dominic Sessa
The Holdovers
JOHN CASSAVETES AWARD
(Given to finest function made for underneath $1,000,000; award given to author, director and producer)
Fremont
Director/Writer: Babak Jalali
Writer: Carolina Cavalli
Producers: Rachael Fung, Chris Martin, Marjaneh Moghimi, George Rush, Sudnya Shroff, Laura Wagner
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Eigil Bryld
The Holdovers
BEST EDITING
Daniel Garber
How to Blow Up a Pipeline
BEST NEW SCRIPTED SERIES
(Given to the creator, government producer, co-executive producer)
Beef
Creator/Executive Producer: Lee Sung Jin
Executive Producers: Steven Yeun, Ali Wong, Jake Schreier, Ravi Nandan, Alli Reich
Co-Executive Producers: Alice Ju, Carrie Kemper
BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE IN A NEW SCRIPTED SERIES
Ali Wong
Beef
BEST NEW NON-SCRIPTED OR DOCUMENTARY SERIES
(Award given to creator, government producer, co-executive producer)
Dear Mama
Executive Producers: Lasse Järvi, Quincy ‘QD3’ Jones III, Staci Robinson, Nelson George, Charles D. King, Peter Nelson, Adel ‘Future’ Nur, Jamal Joseph, Ted Skillman, Allen Hughes, Steve Berman, Marc Cimino, Jody Gerson, John Janick, Nicholas Ferrall, Nigel Sinclair
BEST SCREENPLAY
Cord Jefferson
American Fiction
BEST FIRST SCREENPLAY
Samy Burch; Story by Samy Burch, Alex Mechanik
May December
BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM
(Given to the director)
Anatomy of a Fall
France
Director: Justine Triet
BEST BREAKTRHOUGH PERFORMANCE IN A NEW SCRIPTED SERIES
Keivonn Montreal Woodard
The Last of Us
BEST DOCUMENTARY
(Given to the director and producer)
Four Daughters
Director: Kaouther Ben Hania
Producer: Nadim Cheikhrouha
BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE IN A NEW SCRIPTED SERIES
Nick Offerman
The Last of Us
BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE
Da’Vine Joy Randolph
The Holdovers
Previously Announced
TRUER THAN FICTION AWARD
(Presented to an rising director of non-fiction options who has not but acquired vital recognition)
Set Hernandez
Director: Unseen
ROBERT ALTMAN AWARD
(Given to 1 movie’s director, casting director and ensemble forged)
Showing Up
Director: Kelly Reichardt
Casting Director: Gayle Keller
Ensemble Cast: André Benjamin, Hong Chau, Judd Hirsch, Heather Lawless, James Le Gros, John Magaro, Matt Malloy, Amanda Plummer, Maryann Plunkett, Denzel Rodriguez, Michelle Williams
PRODUCERS AWARD
(Honors rising producers who, regardless of extremely restricted assets, show the creativity, tenacity and imaginative and prescient required to supply high quality unbiased movies)
Monique Walton
SOMEONE TO WATCH AWARD
(Recognizes a gifted filmmaker of singular imaginative and prescient who has not but acquired applicable recognition)
Monica Sorelle
Director: Mountains
BEST ENSEMBLE CAST IN A NEW SCRIPTED SERIES
Jury Duty
Ensemble Cast: Alan Barinholtz, Susan Berger, Cassandra Blair, David Brown, Kirk Fox, Ross Kimball, Pramode Kumar, Trisha LaFache, Mekki Leeper, James Marsden, Edy Modica, Kerry O’Neill, Rashida Olayiwola, Whitney Rice, Maria Russell, Ishmel Sahid, Ben Seaward, Ron Song, Evan Williams
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