Independent Spirit Awards 2023
The Independent Spirit Awards have kicked off the 2023 awards season with their nominations. A24 led the way with 24 noms. As for individual movies, Everything Everywhere All At Once (one of my favorites this year) led with eight nominations. Check out the nominees and make sure to tune in to the awards ceremony on March 4th.
Best Feature
Bones and All
Everything Everywhere All At Once, WINNER
Our Father, the Devil
Tár
Women Talking
Best Director
Todd Field, Tár
Kogonada, After Yang
Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert, Everything Everywhere All At Once, WINNER
Sarah Polley, Women Talking
Halina Reijn, Bodies Bodies Bodies
Best Lead Performance
Cate Blanchett, Tár
Dale Dickey, A Love Song
Mia Goth, Pearl
Regina Hall, Honk For Jesus. Save Your Soul.
Paul Mescal, Aftersun
Aubrey Plaza, Emily the Criminal
Jeremy Pope, The Inspection
Taylor Russell, Bones and All
Andrea Riseborough, To Leslie
Michelle Yeoh, Everything Everywhere All At Once, WINNER
Best Supporting Performance
Jamie Lee Curtis, Everything Everywhere All At Once
Brian Tyree Henry, Causeway
Nina Hoss, Tár
Brian D’Arcy James, The Cathedral
Ke Huy Quan, Everything Everywhere All At Once, WINNER
Trevante Rhodes, Bruiser
Theo Rossi, Emily the Criminal
Mark Rylance, Bones and All
Jonathan Tucker, Palm Trees and Power Lines
Gabrielle Union, The Inspection
Best Breakthrough Performance
Frankie Corio, Aftersun
Garcija Filipovic, Murina
Stephanie Hsu, Everything Everywhere All At Once, WINNER
Lily McInerny, Palm Trees and Power Lines
Daniel Zolghardi, Funny Pages
Best First Screenplay
Sarah DeLappe & Kristen Roupenian, Bodies Bodies Bodies
K.D. Davila, Emergency
John Patton Ford, Emily the Criminal, WINNER
Joel Kim Booster, Fire Island
Jamie Dack & Audrey Findlay, Palm Trees and Power Lines
Best Screenplay
Kogonada, After Yang
Lena Dunham, Catherine Called Birdy
Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert, Everything Everywhere All At Once, WINNER
Todd Field, Tar
Sarah Polley, Women Talking
Best First Feature
Aftersun, WINNER
Emily the Criminal
The Inspection
Murina
Palm Trees and Power Lines
Best Cinematography
Gregory Oke, Aftersun
Helene Louvart, Murina
Anisia Uzeyman, Neptune Frost
Eliot Rockett, Pearl
Florian Hoffmeister, Tár, WINNER
Best Documentary
A House Made of Splinters
All That Breathes
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, WINNER
Midwives
Riotsville, U.S.A.
Best Editing
Blair McClendon, Aftersun
Ricky D’Ambrose, The Cathedral
Paul Rogers, Everything Everywhere All At Once, WINNER
Dean Fleischer Camp & Nick Paley, Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
Monika Willi, Tár
Best International Film
Corsage
Joyland, WINNER
Leonor Will Never Die
Return to Seoul
Saint Omer
Producers Award
Liz Cardenas
Tory Lenosky, WINNER
David Grove Churchill Viste
Someone to Watch Award
Adamma Ebo, Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul
Nikyatu Jusu, Nanny, WINNER
Araceli Lemos, Holy Emy
The Truer Than Fiction Award
Isabel Castro, Mija
Reid Davenport, I Didn’t See You There, WINNER
Rebeca Huntt, Beba
Robert Altman Award
Women Talking
John Cassavetes Award
The African Desperate
A Love Song
The Cathedral, WINNER
Holy Emy
Something in the Dirt
