Film Independent Spirit Awards 2024: full list of winners

The 39th Film Independent Spirit Awards celebrated the best of, you guessed it, independent film (and television) on the Santa Monica Pier tonight, swapping Hasan Minhaj for Aidy Bryant as this year’s host. Gender-neutral acting categories were introduced last year, so competition was tough between the six acting categories (three for film and three for television).

The ceremony was broadcast live on Sunday, February 25 on Film Independent YouTube Channel and Feed X (formerly Twitter). Past Lives, The remainsand Beef were the big winners of the night, with The remains taking home 3 awards, while Past Lives and Beef took home 2 each.

While Oscar favorite Paul Giamatti was not nominated for his performance in The remnants, her Da’Vine co-stars Joy Randolph won Best Supporting Performance and Dominic Sessa won Best Breakthrough Performance. The film itself was also left out of the Best Picture race, which ultimately went to Past Lives, along with Best Director for Celine Song. Meanwhile BeefThe Netflix limited series won for Best New Scripted Series and star Ali Wong earned an award for Best Lead Performance in a New Scripted Series.

The big winner of last year’s Film Independent Spirit Awards, Everything everywhere and at the same timereplicated its wins for Michelle Yeoh, Key Huh Quan, Best Picture, Best Director and Best Screenplay at the Academy Awards.

Here are all the winners.

FILMS

Best feature

All of us strangers
American fiction
May December
Tickets
WINNER: Past Lives
We have grown up now

best director

Andrés Haigh, All of us strangers
Todd Haynes May December
William Oldroyd, eileen
Ira Sachs, Tickets
WINNER: Celine Song, Past Lives

Best debut film

All dirt roads taste like salt
Chronicles of a wandering saint
Mother Earth
WINNER: Thousand and one
At the entrance

Best main performance

Jessica Chastain Memory
Greta Lee, Past Lives
Trace Lysette, Monica
Natalia Portman, May December
Judy Reyes, Birth/Rebirth
Franz Rogowski, Tickets
Andres Scott, All of us strangers
Teyana Taylor, thousand and one
WINNER: Jeffrey Wright, American fiction
Teo Yoo, Past Lives

Best Supporting Performance

Erika Alejandro, American fiction
Sterling K. Brown, American fiction
Noah Galvin, theater camp
Anne Hathaway, eileen
Glenn Howerton Blackberry
Marin Ireland, eileen
Carlos Melton, May December
WINNER: Da’Vine Joy Randolph, The remains
Catalina Saavedra, rotting in the sun
Ben Whishaw, Tickets

Best Innovative Performance

Marshawn Lynch, Money
Atibón Nazario, Mountains
Just Aunt, Mother Earth
WINNER: Dominic Sessa, The remains
Anaita Wali Zada, Fremont

Best screenplay

David Hemingson The remains
WINNER: Cord Jefferson American fiction
Laura Moss, Brendan J. O’Brien, Birth/Rebirth
Emma Seligman, Rachel Sennott, Money
celine song, Past Lives

Best first script

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, At the entrance

Best photography

Katelin Arizmendi, Monica
WINNER: Eigil Bryld, The remains
Jomo Fray, All dirt roads taste like salt
Pablo Lozano, Chronicles of a wandering saint
Pat Scola, We have grown up now

best edition

Santiago Cendejas, Gabriel Díaz, Sofía Subercaseaux, rotting in the sun
Stephanie Filo, We have grown up now
WINNER: Daniel Garber, How to blow a pipe
Jon Philpot, theater camp
Emanuele Tiziani, At the entrance

Best Documentary

Goodbye 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
God’s Land
mommy wata
Totem
The area of ​​interest

Robert Altman Award

WINNER: Appearing
Director: Kelly Reichardt
Casting Director: Gayle Keller
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 to do something has passed
Laura Moss, director of Birth/Rebirth
WINNER: Mónica Sorelle, Director of Mountains

Truer Than Fiction Award

WINNER: Set Hernández, Director of invisible
Jesse Short Bull, Laura Tomaselli, director of Lakota Nation vs. United States
Sierra Urich, director of Joonam

Juan Cassavetes Award

The artifice girl
White Cadejo
WINNER: Fremont
rotting in the sun
The unknown country

Producers Award

Raquel Fung
Graham Swon
WINNER: Monique Walton

TELEVISION

Best New Scripted Series

WINNER: Beef
Dreaming about being black
I am a virgo
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Slide

Best New Unscripted Series or Documentary

Deadlocked: How America Shaped the Supreme Court
WINNER: Dear Mama
Murder at Big Horn
Stolen Youth: Inside the Cult in Sarah Lawrence
fighters

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 am a virgo
Zoe Lister-Jones Slide
Bel Powley, a little light
beautiful ramsey, The last of us
Ramon Rodriguez, 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 challenge
Lewis Pullman chemistry lessons
Benny Safdie The course
Luke Tennie, Contraction
Olivia Washington I am a virgo
Jessica Williams Contraction

Best Breakthrough Performance in a New Scripted Series

Clark Backo, The challenge
Aria Mia Loberti, All the light we can’t see
adjani salmon, Dreaming about being black
WINNER: Keivonn Montreal Woodard, The last of us
young kara, I am a virgo

Best Cast in a New Scripted Series

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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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