The 40th INDEPENDENT SPIRIT AWARDS Nominations!

Happy to see love for Ghostlight! Still one of my favorites from this seriously lacking year. It was a shock to realize this is Amy Adams first nom since she won 19 years ago for Junebug. And ecstatic to see another nom for Carol Kane, who won the NYFCC yesterday. She's a lead, but category fraud is out of control this year. TV noms are available here. I don't care a single bit about those. 

Best Feature
ANORA (producers: Sean Baker, Alex Coco, Samantha Quan)

I SAW 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)

Best Director
Ali Abbasi - The Apprentice
Sean Baker - Anora
Brady Corbet - The Brutalist
Alonso Ruizpalacios - La Cocina
Jane Schoenbrun - I Saw the TV Glow

Best Lead Performance
Amy Adams - Nightbitch
Ryan Destiny - The Fire Inside
Colman Domingo - Sing Sing
Keith Kupferer - Ghostlight
Mikey Madison - Anora
Demi Moore - The Substance
Hunter Schafer - Cuckoo
Justice Smith - I Saw the TV Glow
June Squibb - Thelma
Sebastian Stan - The Apprentice

Best Supporting Performance
Yura Borisov - Anora
Joan Chen - Dìdi
Kieran Culkin - A Real Pain
Danielle Deadwyler - The Piano Lesson
Carol Kane - Between the Temples
Karren Karagulian - Anora
Kani Kusruti - Girls Will Be Girls
Brigette Lundy-Paine - I Saw the TV Glow
Clarence Maclin - Sing Sing
Adam Pearson - A Different Man

Best Screenplay
Aaron Schimberg - A Different Man
Scott Beck and Bryan Woods - Heretic
Jane Schoenbrun - I Saw the TV Glow
Megan Park - My Old Ass
Jesse Eisenberg - A Real Pain

Best Documentary
Gaucho Gaucho
Hummingbirds 
No Other Land 
Patrice: The Movie
Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat

Best International Film
All We Imagine as Light 
Black Dog
Flow
Green Border
Hard Truths

Best First Feature
Dìdi 
In the Summers 

Janet Planet
The Piano Lesson
Problemista

Best Breakthrough Performance
Isaac Krasner - Big Boys
Katy O’Brian - Love Lies Bleeding
Mason Alexander Park - National Anthem
René Pérez Joglar - In the Summers
Maisy Stella - My Old Ass

Best First Screenplay
Sean Wang - Dìdi
Joanna Arnow - The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed
India Donaldson - Good One
Annie Baker - Janet Planet
Julio Torres - Problemista

Best Cinematography
Rina Yang - The Fire Inside
Dinh Duy Hung - Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell
Maria von Hausswolff - Janet Planet
Juan Pablo Ramírez - La cocina
Jomo Fray - Nickel Boys

Best Editing
Olivier Bugge Coutté and Olivia Neergaard-Holm - The Apprentice
Arielle Zakowski - Dìdi
Laura Colwell and Vanara Taing - Jazzy
Anne McCabe - Nightbitch
Hansjörg Weissbrich - September 5

Altman Award: His Three Daughters
Director: Azazel Jacobs
Casting Director: Nicole Arbusto
Ensemble Cast: Jovan Adepo, Jasmine Bracey, Carrie Coon, Jose Febus, Rudy Galvan, Natasha Lyonne, Elizabeth Olsen, Randy Ramos Jr., Jay O. Sanders

John Cassavetes Award
Big Boys
Ghostlight 
Girls Will Be Girls

Jazzy 
The People’s Joker

Producers Award
Alex Coco
Sarah Winshall
Zoë Worth
 
Someone to Watch Award
Nicholas Colia - Griffin in Summer
Sarah Friedland - Familiar Touch
Pham Thien An - Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell

Truer Than Fiction Award
Julian Brave NoiseCat & Emily Kassie - Sugarcane
Carla Gutiérrez - Frida
Rachel Elizabeth Seed - A Photographic Memory