The 39th Film Independent Spirit Awards celebrated the best in, you guessed it, independent film (and television) at the Santa Monica Pier tonight, swapping out Hasan Minhaj for Aidy Bryant as this year’s host. Last year introduced gender-neutral acting categories, so the competition was stiff among the six performance categories (three for film, three for TV).
The ceremony streamed live on Sunday, Feb. 25, on Film Independent’s YouTube channel and X (formerly Twitter) feed. Past Lives, The Holdovers, and Beef were the big winners of the night, with The Holdovers taking home 3 awards, while both Past Lives and Beef taking home 2 each.
While Oscar frontrunner Paul Giamatti wasn’t nominated for his performance in The Holdovers, his costars Da’Vine Joy Randolph won Best Supporting Performance and Dominic Sessa won Best Breakthrough Performance. The film itself was also left out of the Best Feature race, which ultimately went to Past Lives, along with Best Director for Celine Song. Meanwhile Beef, the Netflix limited series, won for both Best New Scripted Series and star Ali Wong picked up an award for Best Lead Performance in New Scripted Series
The big winner at last year’s Film Independent Spirit Awards, Everything Everywhere All at Once, went on to replicate its wins for Michelle Yeoh, Key Huh Quan, Best Feature, Best Director, and Best Screenplay at the Academy Awards.
Here are all the winners.
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MOVIES
Best Feature
All of Us Strangers
American Fiction
May December
Passages
WINNER: Past Lives
We Grown Now
Best Director
Andrew Haigh, All of Us Strangers
Todd Haynes, May December
William Oldroyd, Eileen
Ira Sachs, Passages
WINNER: Celine Song, Past Lives
Best First Feature
All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt
Chronicles of a Wandering Saint
Earth Mama
WINNER: A Thousand and One
Upon Entry
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
WINNER: Jeffrey Wright, American Fiction
Teo Yoo, Past Lives
Best Supporting Performance
Erika 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
WINNER: Da’Vine Joy Randolph, The Holdovers
Catalina Saavedra, Rotting in the Sun
Ben Whishaw, Passages
Best Breakthrough Performoance
Marshawn Lynch, Bottoms
Atibon Nazaire, Mountains
Tia Nomore, Earth Mama
WINNER: Dominic Sessa, The Holdovers
Anaita Wali Zada, Fremont
Best Screenplay
David Hemingson, The Holdovers
WINNER: Cord Jefferson, American Fiction
Laura Moss, Brendan J. O’Brien, Birth/Rebirth
Emma Seligman, Rachel Sennott, Bottoms
Celine Song, Past Lives
Best First Screenplay
WINNER: Samy Burch; Story by Samy Burch, Alex Mechanik, May December
Noah Galvin, Molly Gordon, Nick Lieberman, Ben Platt, Theater Camp
Tomás Gómez Bustillo, Chronicles of a Wandering Saint
Laurel Parmet, The Starling Girl
Alejandro Rojas, Juan Sebastián Vásquez, Upon Entry
Best Cinematography
Katelin Arizmendi, Monica
WINNER: Eigil Bryld, The Holdovers
Jomo Fray, All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt
Pablo Lozano, Chronicles of a Wandering Saint
Pat Scola, We Grown Now
Best Editing
Santiago Cendejas, Gabriel Díaz, Sofía Subercaseaux, Rotting in the Sun
Stephanie Filo, We Grown Now
WINNER: Daniel Garber, How to Blow Up a Pipeline
Jon Philpot, Theater Camp
Emanuele Tiziani, Upon Entry
Best Documentary
Bye Bye Tiberias
WINNER: Four DaughtersGoing to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project
Kokomo City
The Mother of All Lies
Best International Film
WINNER: Anatomy of a Fall
Godland
Mami Wata
Tótem
The Zone of Interest
Robert Altman Award
WINNER: 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
Someone to Watch Award
Joanna Arnow, Director of The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed
Laura Moss, Director of Birth/Rebirth
WINNER: Monica Sorelle, Director of Mountains
Truer Than Fiction Award
WINNER: Set Hernandez, Director of unseen
Jesse Short Bull, Laura Tomaselli, Director of Lakota Nation vs. United States
Sierra Urich, Director of Joonam
John Cassavetes Award
The Artifice Girl
Cadejo Blanco
WINNER: Fremont
Rotting in the Sun
The Unknown Country
Producers Award
Rachael Fung
Graham Swon
WINNER: Monique Walton
TELEVISION
Best New Scripted Series
WINNER: Beef
Dreaming Whilst Black
I’m a Virgo
Jury Duty
Slip
Best New Non-Scripted or Documentary Series
Deadlocked: How America Shaped the Supreme Court
WINNER: Dear Mama
Murder in Big Horn
Stolen Youth: Inside the Cult at Sarah Lawrence
Wrestlers
Best Lead Performance in a New Scripted Series
Emma Corrin, A Murder at the End of the World
Dominique Fishback, Swarm
Betty Gilpin, Mrs. Davis
Jharrel Jerome, I’m a Virgo
Zoe Lister-Jones, Slip
Bel Powley, A Small Light
Bella Ramsey, The Last of Us
Ramón Rodríguez, Will Trent
WINNER: Ali Wong, Beef
Steven Yeun, Beef
Best Supporting Performance in a New Scripted Series
Murray Bartlett, The Last of Us
Billie Eilish, Swarm
Jack Farthing, Rain Dogs
WINNER: Nick Offerman, The Last of Us
Adina Porter, The Changeling
Lewis Pullman, Lessons in Chemistry
Benny Safdie, The Curse
Luke Tennie, Shrinking
Olivia Washington, I’m a Virgo
Jessica Williams, Shrinking
Best Breakthrough Performance in a New Scripted Series
Clark Backo, The Changeling
Aria Mia Loberti, All the Light We Cannot See
Adjani Salmon, Dreaming Whilst Black
WINNER: Keivonn Montreal Woodard, The Last of Us
Kara Young, I’m a Virgo
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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