Refresh for contemporary… It’s the Indies’ Largest Day. The fortieth anniversary Movie Unbiased Spirit Awards are being handed out this afternoon on the Santa Monica Pier, celebrating the yr’s finest in indie movie and TV because the film awards season close to its peak. Deadline is posting the winners reside as they’re introduced. Take a look at the checklist beneath and watch the livestream right here:
Child Reindeer already has received twice: Jessica Gunning took Breakthrough Efficiency in a New Scripted Collection, proper after Nava Mau later received for Supporting Efficiency.
Greatest First Characteristic went to Didi, and Oscar nominee No Different Land — in regards to the destruction of a village within the occupied West Financial institution — received Greatest Documentary.
The primary award of the day went to Maisy Stella, who received Greatest Breakthrough Efficiency for My Previous Ass.
Neon’s Anora and A24’s I Noticed the TV Glow come into the ceremony hosted by SNL alum Aidy Bryant with a number one six nominations apiece together with the marquee Greatest Characteristic, the place they’ll vie towards Amazon MGM Studios’ Nickel Boys, A24’s Sing Sing and Mubi’s The Substance.
Previous Lives received Greatest Characteristic and Greatest Director for Celine Tune at final yr’s Spirit Awards however misplaced the Greatest Image Oscar to Oppenheimer. As we speak’s Spirit winners received’t affect the Academy Award race as a result of Oscar voting ended on February 18.
A film’s threshold for qualification on the Spirits is that its manufacturing value can’t exceed $30M. Therefore, such main awards-season titles as Netflix’s Emilia Perez, Searchlight’s A Full Unknown and Focus Options’ Conclave will not be eligible.
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FX’s Shōgun has 5 Spirit noms to steer the TV discipline, adopted by the cable internet’s English Instructor and Netflix’s Child Reindeer with 4 apiece.
Since 2022, the Spirit Awards have introduced gender-neutral performing prizes, and the Greatest Lead Efficiency movie nominees embrace Oscar hopefuls Demi Moore (The Substance), Adrien Brody (The Brutalist), Mikey Madison (Anora), Colman Domingo (Sing Sing) and Sebastian Stan (The Apprentice),
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Listed below are the winners up to now on the 2025 Spirit Awards — two of which had been introduced in December — adopted by the remaining nominees:
Winners
BEST FIRST FEATURE (Award given to director and producer)
Dìdi
Director/Producer: Sean Wang
Producers: Valerie Bush, Carlos López Estrada, Josh Peters
BEST BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE IN A NEW SCRIPTED SERIES
Jessica Gunning
Child Reindeer
BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE IN A NEW SCRIPTED SERIES
Nava Mau
Child Reindeer
BEST DOCUMENTARY
No Different Land
Administrators/Producers: Yuval Abraham, Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Rachel Szor
Producers: Fabien Greenberg, Bård Kjøge Rønning
BEST BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE
Maisy Stella
My Previous Ass
BEST ENSEMBLE CAST IN A NEW SCRIPTED SERIES (Beforehand introduced)
Find out how to Die Alone
Ensemble Solid: Melissa DuPrey, Jaylee Hamidi, KeiLyn Durrel Jones, Arkie Kandola, Elle Lorraine, Michelle McLeod, Chris “CP” Powell, Conrad Ricamora, Natasha Rothwell, Jocko Sims
ROBERT ALTMAN AWARD (Given to 1 movie’s director, casting director, and ensemble solid; beforehand introduced)
His Three Daughters
Director: Azazel Jacobs
Casting Director: Nicole Arbusto
Ensemble Solid: Jovan Adepo, Jasmine Bracey, Carrie Coon, Jose Febus, Rudy Galvan, Natasha Lyonne, Elizabeth Olsen, Randy Ramos Jr., Jay O. Sanders
Nominees
BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE
Yura Borisov
Anora
Joan Chen
Dìdi
Kieran Culkin
A Actual Ache
Danielle Deadwyler
The Piano Lesson
Carol Kane
Between the Temples
Karren Karagulian
Anora
Kani Kusruti
Ladies Will Be Ladies
Brigette Lundy-Paine
I Noticed the TV Glow
Clarence “Divine Eye” Maclin
Sing Sing
Adam Pearson
A Totally different Man
BEST FIRST SCREENPLAY
Joanna Arnow
The Feeling That the Time for Doing One thing Has Handed
Annie Baker
Janet Planet
India Donaldson
Good One
Julio Torres
Problemista
Sean Wang
Dìdi
BEST SCREENPLAY
Scott Beck, Bryan Woods
Heretic
Jesse Eisenberg
A Actual Ache
Megan Park
My Previous Ass
Aaron Schimberg
A Totally different Man
Jane Schoenbrun
I Noticed the TV Glow
BEST NEW SCRIPTED SERIES (Award given to the creator, govt producer and co-executive producer)
Child Reindeer
Creator/Govt Producer: Richard Gadd
Govt Producers: Wim De Greef, Petra Fried, Matt Jarvis, Ed Macdonald
Diarra From Detroit
Creator/Govt Producer: Diarra Kilpatrick
Govt Producers: Kenya Barris, Miles Orion Feldsott, Darren Goldberg
Co-Govt Producers: Ester Lou, Mark Ganek
English Instructor
Creator/Govt Producer: Brian Jordan Alvarez
Govt Producers: Paul Simms, Jonathan Krisel, Dave King
Co-Govt Producers: Kathryn Dean, Jake Bender, Zach Dunn
Fantasmas
Creator/Govt Producer: Julio Torres
Govt Producers: Emma Stone, Dave McCary, Olivia Gerke, Alex Bach, Daniel Powell
Co-Govt Producer: Ali Herting
Shōgun
Creators/Govt Producers: Rachel Kondo, Justin Marks
Govt Producers: Edward L. McDonnell, Michael De Luca, Michaela Clavell
Co-Govt Producers: Shannon Goss, Andrew Macdonald, Allon Reich
BEST NEW NON-SCRIPTED OR DOCUMENTARY SERIES (Award given to the creator, govt producer and co-executive producer)
Erased: WW2’s Heroes of Coloration
Govt Producers: Idris Elba, Johanna Woolford Gibbon, Jamilla Dumbuya, Jos Cushing, Khaled Gad, Matt Robins, Chris Muckle, Sean David Johnson, Simon Raikes
Co-Govt Producer: Annabel Hobley
Hollywood Black
Govt Producers: Shayla Harris, Dave Sirulnick, Stacey Reiss, Jon Kamen, Justin Simien, Kyle Laursen, Forest Whitaker, Nina Yang Bongiovi, Jeffrey Schwarz, Amy Goodman Kass, Michael Wright, Jill Burkhart
Co-Govt Producers: David C. Brown, Laurens Grant
Photographer
Govt Producers: Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin, Pagan Harleman, Betsy Forhan
Co-Govt Producers: Anna Barnes, Brent Kunkle
Ren Faire
Govt Producers: Ronald Bronstein, Benny Safdie, Josh Safdie, Eli Bush, Dani Bernfeld, Lance Oppenheim, David Gauvey Herbert, Nancy Abraham, Lisa Heller, Sara Rodriguez
Co-Govt Producers: Abigail Rowe, Christian Vasquez, Max Allman
Social Research
Creator/Govt Producer: Lauren Greenfield
Govt Producers: Wallis Annenberg, Regina Okay. Scully, Andrea van Beuren, Frank Evers, Caryn Capotosto
JOHN CASSAVETES AWARD (Greatest function made for beneath $1 million; award given to the author, director and producer)
Massive Boys
Author/Director/Producer: Corey Sherman
Producer: Allison Tate
Ghostlight
Author/Director: Kelly O’Sullivan
Director/Producer: Alex Thompson
Producers: Pierce Cravens, Ian Keiser, Chelsea Krant, Eddie Linker, Alex Wilson
Ladies Will Be Ladies
Author/Director/Producer: Shuchi Talati
Producers: Richa Chadha, Claire Chassagne
Jazzy
Author/Director/Producer: Morrisa Maltz
Author/Producer: Lainey Shangreaux
Writers: Andrew Hajek, Vanara Taing
Producers: Miranda Bailey, Tommy Heitkamp, John Method, Natalie Whalen, Elliott Whitton
The Individuals’s Joker
Author/Director: Vera Drew
Author: Bri LeRose
Producer: Joey Lyons
BEST EDITING
Laura Colwell, Vanara Taing
Jazzy
Olivier Bugge Coutté, Olivia Neergaard-Holm
The Apprentice
Anne McCabe
Nightbitch
Hansjörg Weissbrich
September 5
Arielle Zakowski
Dìdi
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Dinh Duy Hung
Contained in the Yellow Cocoon Shell
Jomo Fray
Nickel Boys
Maria von Hausswolff
Janet Planet
Juan Pablo Ramírez
La Cocina
Rina Yang
The Fireplace Inside
SOMEONE TO WATCH AWARD (Acknowledges a proficient filmmaker of singular imaginative and prescient who has not but obtained acceptable recognition)
Nicholas Colia
Director of Griffin in Summer time
Sarah Friedland
Director of Acquainted Contact
Pham Thien An
Director of Contained in the Yellow Cocoon Shell
TRUER THAN FICTION AWARD (Introduced to an rising director of non-fiction options who has not but obtained important recognition)
Julian Courageous NoiseCat, Emily Kassie
Administrators of Sugarcane
Carla Gutiérrez
Director of Frida
Rachel Elizabeth Seed
Director of A Photographic Reminiscence
BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM (Award given to the director)
All We Think about as Gentle
France, India, Netherlands, Luxembourg
Director: Payal Kapadia
Black Canine
China
Director: Guan Hu
Movement
Latvia, France, Belgium
Director: Gints Zilbalodis
Inexperienced Border
Poland, France, Czech Republic, Belgium
Director: Agnieszka Holland
Onerous Truths
United Kingdom
Director: Mike Leigh
PRODUCERS AWARD (Honors rising producers who, regardless of extremely restricted sources, exhibit the creativity, tenacity and imaginative and prescient required to provide high quality unbiased movies)
Alex Coco
Sarah Winshall
Zoë Price
BEST DIRECTOR
Ali Abbasi
The Apprentice
Sean Baker
Anora
Brady Corbet
The Brutalist
Alonso Ruizpalacios
La Cocina
Jane Schoenbrun
I Noticed the TV Glow
BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE IN A NEW SCRIPTED SERIES
Brian Jordan Alvarez
English Instructor
Richard Gadd
Child Reindeer
Lily Gladstone
Underneath the Bridge
Kathryn Hahn
Agatha All Alongside
Cristin Milioti
The Penguin
Julianne Moore
Mary & George
Hiroyuki Sanada
Shōgun
Anna Sawai
Shōgun
Andrew Scott
Ripley
Julio Torres
Fantasmas
BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE
Amy Adams
Nightbitch
Ryan Future
The Fireplace Inside
Colman Domingo
Sing Sing
Keith Kupferer
Ghostlight
Mikey Madison
Anora
Demi Moore
The Substance
Hunter Schafer
Cuckoo
Justice Smith
I Noticed the TV Glow
June Squibb
Thelma
Sebastian Stan
The Apprentice
BEST FEATURE (Award given to the producer)
Anora
Producers: Sean Baker, Alex Coco, Samantha Quan
I Noticed the TV Glow
Producers: Ali Herting, Sam Intili, Dave McCary, Emma Stone, Sarah Winshall
Nickel Boys
Producers: Joslyn Barnes, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, David Levine
Sing Sing
Producers: Clint Bentley, Greg Kwedar, Monique Walton
The Substance
Producers: Tim Bevan, Coralie Fargeat, Eric Fellner