2023 Independent Spirit Awards Winners List (Live Update) – Miscellaneous

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Everything Everywhere at Once leads the race this year with eight Spirit Award nominations

The 2023 Independent Spirit Award is dominated by Daniels’ “Everything and Everywhere at the Same Time,” which leads all films this year with eight nominations. Behind is Todd Field’s “Tár” with seven labels and Charlotte Wells’ “Aftersun” with five. All three films received Oscar nominations this year, and “Everything Everywhere” leads the Oscars collection with a total of 11 nominations.

While last year’s winner of the Spirit Award for Best Picture, Maggie Gyllenhaal’s “The Lost Daughter,” didn’t earn an Oscar nomination in the same category, the 2021 winner, Chloe Zhao’s “Nomadland,” has been repeating at the Oscars and taking home an award. Best picture.

This year’s Spirit Award nominees are highlighted by gender-neutral categories, which means Cate Blanchett and Michelle Yeoh take on Paul Mescal in the leading performance race. “Women Talking” won this year’s Robert Altman Award, which is given to the director of a film, the casting director and the cast.

Check out the full list of nominees for the 2023 Independent Spirit Awards below. Winners will be displayed in bold when each category is announced.

movie categories

The best feature
Bones and All (MGM/United Artists Releasing)
“Everything everywhere at once” (A24)
“Our Father, the Devil” (media solution)
“Tár” (emphasis features)
“Women Speak” (MGM/United Artists Releasing)

Best exit
Todd Field – “Tár” (Focus Features)
Kogonada – “After Young” (A24)
Daniel Cowan, Daniel Scheinert – “Everything Everywhere at Once” (A24)
Sarah Polley – Women Talking (MGM / United Artists Releasing)
Halina Raine – “Bodies Bodies” (A24)

Better lead performance

Cate Blanchett – “Tár” (Focus Features)
Dale Dickey – “Love Song” (Bleeker Street)
Mia Goth – “Pearl” (A24)
Regina Hall – “Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul.” (focus features)
Paul Mescal – “Aftersun” (A24)
Aubrey Plaza – “Emily the Criminal” (Roadside Attractions)
Jeremy Pope – “Inspection” (A24)
Taylor Russell – “Bones and All” (MGM / United Artists Releasing)
Andrea Riseborough – “To Leslie” (Momentum Pictures)
Michelle Yeoh – “Everything Everywhere at Once” (A24)

Best supporting performance

Jamie Lee Curtis – “Everything Everywhere All at Once” (A24)
Brian Tyree Henry – “Causeway” (A24 / Apple Original Films)
Nina Hoss – “Tár” (Focus Features)
Brian Darcy James – “The Cathedral” (Moby)
Ke Huy Quan – “Everything Everywhere at Once” (A24) WINNER
Trevante Rhodes – “Bruiser” (Onyx Collective)
Theo Rossi – “Emily the Criminal” (Roadside Attractions)
Mark Rylance – “Bones and All” (MGM / United Artists Releasing)
Jonathan Tucker – “Palm Trees and Power Lines” (Momentum Pictures)
Gabrielle Union – “Inspection” (A24)

Best penetration performance
Frankie Corio – “Aftersun” (A24)
Garcia Filipovic – “Morena” (Kino Lorber)
Stephanie Hsu – “Everything Everywhere at Once” (A24) WINNER
Lily McNearney – “Palm Trees and Powerlines” (Momentum Pictures)
Daniel Zolghadri – Funny Pages (A24)

best case scenario
“After Yang” (A24) – Kogunada
“Catherine Cold Birdie” (Amazon Studios) – Lena Dunham
“Everything is everywhere at once” (c24) – Daniel Cowan, Daniel Scheinert WINNER
“Tár” (Focus Features) – Todd Field
“Women Talk” (MGM/United Artists Releasing) – Sarah Polley

best case scenario
Bodies of Bodies (A24) – Sarah Delap, Christine Rubinian
“Emergency” (Amazon Studios) – KD Dávila
“Emily the Criminal” (Roadside Attractions) – John Button Ford WINNER
“Island of Fire” (Spotlight Pictures) – Joel Kim Poster
“Palm Trees and Powerlines” (Momentum Pictures) – Jimmy Duck, Audrey Findlay

Best feature first
“Aftersun” (A24) – Charlotte Wells (Director), Mark Cyriac, Amy Jackson, Barry Jenkins, Adele Romansky (Producers)
“Emily the Criminal” (Roadside Attractions) – John Patton Ford (Director), Tyler Davidson, Aubrey Plaza, Drew Sykes (Producers)
“Inspection” (A24) – Elegance Bratton (Director), Evie T Brown, Chester Algernale Gordon (Producers)
“Morena” (Kino Lorber) – Antonita Alamat Kocijanovic (Director), Daniel Beck, Rodrigo Teixeira (Producers)
“Palm Trees and Power Lines” (Momentum Pictures) – Jimmy Duck (Director), Leah Chen Baker (Producer)

John Cassavetes Award (awarded to the best feature produced for less than $1,000,000)
“The Desperate African” (Moby) – Martin Sims (writer, director, producer), Rocket Calicho (writer and producer), Vic Brooks (producer)
“Love Song” (Bleecker Street) – Max Walker Silverman (writer, director and producer), Jesse Hope and Dan Janvi (Producers)
“The Cathedral” (Moby) – Ricky D’Ambrose (writer and director) and Graham Soon (producer)
“Holy Emy” (Utopie Films) – Araceli Lemos (Writer-Director), Julia Caruso (Writer-Producer), Matthew Bombpoint, K-Jin Kim, and Konstantinos Vasilaros (Producers)
“Something in the Dirt” (XYZ Films) – Justin Benson (writer, director and producer), Aaron Morehead (director and producer), David Lawson Jr. (producer)

Best Cinematography
“Afterson” (A24) – Gregory Oak
“Morena” (Kino Lorber) – Helen Lowart
“Neptune Frost” (Kino Lorber) – Anisia Ozeman
“Pearl” (A24) – Elliot Rocket
“Tár” (Focus Features) – Florian Hoffmeister winner

Best Documentary
“House Made of Fragments” (Madman Entertainment)
“It All Breathes” (HBO)
“All Beauty and Bloodshed” (Neon) Winner
“The Midwives” (pov)
Riotsville, USA (IFC Films)

Best montage
“Afterson” (A24) – Blair McClendon
“The Cathedral” (Moby) – Ricky D’Ambrose
“Everything Everywhere at Once” (A24) – Winner Paul Rogers
“Marcel the Seashell with a Shoe on It” (A24) – Dean Fleischer Camp, Nick Paley
“Tár” (Focus Features) – Monica Willy

Robert Altman Award (awarded to the director, director and cast of a single film)

“Women Talking” (MGM/United Artists Releasing) – Sarah Polley (Director), John Buchan, Jason Knight (Directors), Shayla Brown, Jesse Buckley, Claire Foy, Keira Joloin, Kate Hallett, Judith Ivey, Rooney Mara, Sheila McCarthy Frances McDormand, Michelle MacLeod, Liv McNeil, Ben Whishaw, August Winter (Cast)

Best International Film
Corsage (Austria/Luxembourg/France/Belgium/Italy/England)
“Joyland” (Pakistan/USA) WINNER
“Leonor Will Never Die” (Philippines)
Return to Seoul (South Korea/France/Belgium/Romania)
“Saint Omer” (France)

Producers Award
Liz Cardenas
Torey Lenowski
David Grove Churchill Vest

Award someone to watch
Adama Ibo – “Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul”
Nikiato Josu – Winner of “The Nanny”
Araceli Lemos – “Holy Emy”

True Than Fiction Award
Isabel Castro – “Mija”
Reed Davenport – WINNER “I Didn’t See You There”
Rebecca Hunt – “Beba”

TV categories

Best New Written Series
Award Winner “Bear” (FX)
“Pachinko” (Apple TV+)
“The Porter” (CBC)
“Severance” (Apple TV+)
“Station Eleven” (HBO Max)

Best Lead Performance in a New Written Series
Amal Amin, “The Carrier”
Mohamed Aamer, “Mo”
Quinta Bronson, “Abbott Elementary”
Bridget Everett, “Someone Somewhere”
KaMillion, “Rap Sh!t”
Melanie Lynskey, “Yellowjackets”
Himesh Patel, “Station Eleven”
Su Ann Bin, “As We See It”
Adam Scott, “Severance”
Ben Wushu, “This Will Hurt”

Best Supporting Performance in a New Scripted Series
Daniel Didwiller, “Station Eleven”
Ayo Edebiri, winner of the “Bear” award
Jeff Heller, “Someone Somewhere”
Gbemisola Ikumelo, “A League of Their Own”
Janelle James, “Abbott Elementary”
Ebon Mus Patrach, “The Bear”
Frankie Quiñones, “This Fool”
Sherrill Lee Ralph, “Abbott Elementary”
Molly Shannon, “I Like It for You”
Trammell Tillman, “Severance”

Best New Documentary Series
“Children Underground”
“mind over killing”
“Pepsi, where’s my plane?”
Winner of “Rehearsal”
“We need to talk about Cosby”