Are you feeling the spirit? Today was indie film’s special day, the 2024 FILM INDEPENDENT SPIRIT AWARDS, hosted by Aidy Bryant. SAGindie joined the festivities at the Santa Monica Pier, alongside our table mates, actors Gavin Casalegno (The Summer I Turned Pretty), Emmett Hughes (Advent), Havana Rose Liu (Bottoms), Ashley Madekew (The Strays), Aisha Tyler (Archer), and Taylor Zakhar Perez (Red, White & Royal Blue).
See the full list of nominees and winners below. Congrats to all of the films, series, actors, and filmmakers nominated this year!
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2024 Spirit Awards Winners & Nominees
Feature Awards
Best Feature
Best First Feature
- All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt
- Chronicles of a Wandering Saint
- Earth Mama
- A Thousand and One – WINNER
- Upon Entry
John Cassavetes Award (for best film made for under $1 million)
Best Director
- Andrew Haigh (All of Us Strangers)
- Todd Haynes (May December)
- William Oldroyd (Eileen)
- Ira Sachs (Passages)
- Celine Song (Past Lives) – WINNER
Best Lead Performance
- Jessica Chastain (Memory)
- Greta Lee (Past Lives)
- Trace Lysette (Monica)
- Natalie Portman (May December)
- Judy Reyes (Birth/Rebirth)
- Franz Rogowski (Passages)
- Andrew Scott (All of Us Strangers)
- Teyana Taylor (A Thousand and One)
- Jeffrey Wright (American Fiction) – WINNER
- Teo Yoo (Past Lives)
Best Supporting Performance
- Erika Alexander (American Fiction)
- Noah Galvin (Theater Camp)
- Glenn Howerton (BlackBerry)
- Charles Melton (May December)
- Catalina Saavedra (Rotting in the Sun)
- Sterling K. Brown (American Fiction)
- Anne Hathaway (Eileen)
- Marin Ireland (Eileen)
- Da’Vine Joy Randolph (The Holdovers) – WINNER
- Ben Whishaw (Passages)
Best Breakthrough Performance
- Marshawn Lynch (Bottoms)
- Atibon Nazaire (Mountains)
- Tia Nomore (Earth Mama)
- Dominic Sessa (The Holdovers) – WINNER
- Anaita Wali Zada (Fremont)
Best Screenplay
- Laura Moss & Brendan J. O’Brien (Birth/Rebirth)
- David Hemingson (The Holdovers)
- Cord Jefferson (American Fiction) – WINNER
- Emma Seligman & Rachel Sennott (Bottoms)
- Celine Song (Past Lives)
Best First Screenplay
- Samy Burch & Alex Mechanik (May December) – WINNER
- 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 (Upon Entry)
Best Cinematography
- Katelin Arizmendi (Monica)
- Eigil Bryld (The Holdovers) – WINNER
- Jomo Fray (All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt)
- Pablo Lozano (Chronicles of a Wandering Saint)
- Pat Scola (We Grown Now)
Best Editing
- Stephanie Filo (We Grown Now)
- Santiago Cendejas, Gabriel Díaz, & Sofía Subercaseaux (Rotting in the Sun)
- Daniel Garber (How to Blow Up a Pipeline) – WINNER
- Jon Philpot (Theater Camp)
- Emanuele Tiziani (Upon Entry)
Best International Feature
- Anatomy of a Fall (France) – WINNER
- Godland (Denmark/Iceland)
- Mami Wata (Nigeria)
- Totem (Mexico)
- The Zone of Interest (United Kingdom/Poland/USA)
Best Documentary
- Bye Bye Tiberias
- Four Daughters – WINNER
- Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project
- Kokomo City
- The Mother of All Lies
Robert Altman Award (for best ensemble casting)
- Showing Up – WINNER
Emerging Filmmaker Awards
Someone to Watch Award
- Joanna Arnow (The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed)
- Laura Moss (Birth/Rebirth)
- Monica Sorelle (Mountains) – WINNER
Producers Award
Truer Than Fiction Award
- Jesse Short Bull & Laura Tomaselli (Lakota Nation vs. United States)
- Set Hernandez (Unseen) – WINNER
- Sierra Urich (Joonam)
TV Awards
Best New Scripted Series
Best New Non-Scripted/Documentary Series
- Deadlocked: How America Shaped the Supreme Court
- Dear Mama – WINNER
- Murder in Big Horn
- Stolen Youth: Inside the Cult at Sarah Lawrence
- Wrestlers
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’m a Virgo)
- Zoe Lister-Jones (Slip)
- Bel Powley (A Small Light)
- Bella Ramsey (The Last of Us)
- Ramón Rodríguez (Will Trent)
- Ali Wong (Beef) – WINNER
- Steven Yeun (Beef)
Best Supporting Performance in a New Scripted Series
- Murray Bartlett (The Last of Us)
- Billie Eilish (Swarm)
- Jack Farthing (Rain Dogs)
- Nick Offerman (The Last of Us) – WINNER
- Adina Porter (The Changeling)
- Lewis Pullman (Lessons in Chemistry)
- Benny Safdie (The Curse)
- Luke Tennie (Shrinking)
- Olivia Washington (I’m a Virgo)
- Jessica Williams (Shrinking)
Best Breakthrough Performance in a New Scripted Series
- Clark Backo (The Changeling)
- Aria Mia Loberti (All the Light We Cannot See)
- Adjani Salmon (Dreaming Whilst Black)
- Keivonn Montreal Woodard (The Last of Us) – WINNER
- Kara Young (I’m a Virgo)
Best Ensemble in a Scripted Series
- Jury Duty – WINNER
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