The 2024 Film Independent Spirit Awards have kicked off Sunday on the beach in Santa Monica, celebrating the year’s best in indie film and TV as the movie awards season hits its peak. Check out Deadline’s live winners list below and keep checking back as more trophies are handed out. Aidy Bryant is hosting this year, presiding over
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The 2023 Film Independent Spirit Awards kick off Saturday at 5 p.m. ET/2 p.m. PT on the beach at the Santa Monica Pier. The ceremony, hosted by Hasan Minhaj, will be livestreamed on Film Independent’s YouTube channel and Twitter feed as well as on IMDb’s YouTube channel. You can also watch it on Deadline here.
“We’re doing this totally independent, we don’t even have a distributor,” Independent Spirit Awards host Hasan Minhaj said from the broadcast-less Santa Monica Beach tent Saturday afternoon. “The Independent Film Channel didn’t want the independent film awards!” Minhaj continued. “Take that in. IFC did not renew their contract. Let me reiterate how bad this is.
The Film Independent Spirit Awards selected A24’s Everything Everywhere All at Once as its Best Feature on Saturday to culminate its 38th edition, one of seven wins for the metaverse-set pic that solidifies its frontrunner status in one of the last major awards stops ahead of March 12’s Academy Awards. Everything, which had a leading eight nominations
Women dominated in gender-neutral acting categories in the first year of their institution at the Independent Spirit Awards, claiming four statuettes at Saturday’s ceremony. Everything Everywhere All at Once‘s Michelle Yeoh nabbed Best Lead Performance, with her co-star Stephanie Hsu landing the new award of Best Breakthrough Performance. Abbott Elementary‘s Quinta Brunson landed Best Lead
Film Independent Spirit Awards honors the best of independent storytelling and this year’s ceremony was hosted by comedian Hasah Minhaj. The 38th annual gala was marked by a first and going gender-neutral in their acting categories. It was also the first year that organizers introduced the Best Breakthrough Performance category. RELATED: The Independent Spirit Awards
Searchlight’s Nomadland won the marquee Best Feature category on Thursday to cap the 36th annual Film Independent Spirit Awards, the final big awards show ahead of Sunday’s Oscars. The Chloé Zhao film, a frontrunner all movie-awards season, won a leading four trophies tonight in the virtual ceremony, including Director and Editing for Zhao and Cinematography