Everything Everywhere All at Once Sweeps top prizes at the Indie Spirit Awards
The Bear & The Rehearsal also take home top honors
The 38th Film Independent Spirit Awards were held yesterday afternoon in Santa Monica – just as it did at the SAG Awards last weekend, Everything Everywhere All at Once swept every category it was nominated in. The presumptive Oscar frontrunner won seven awards in all, including Best Feature, Best Director, Best Lead Performance (Michelle Yeoh), Best Supporting Performance (Ke Huy Quan), and Breakthrough Performance (Stephanie Hsu, who gave one of the evening’s most moving speeches).
Hasan Minhaj was the host for this year’s awards, which honored the best independent films made for under $30 million, and other winners included Emily the Criminal (Best First Screenplay), Tár (Best Cinematography), All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (Best Documentary), Joyland (Best International Film), and Women Talking, which was given the prestigious Robert Altman Award for Best Ensemble.
A notable change at this year’s Spirit Awards were the gender-neutral acting races, which nominated ten performers in each of the four acting categories. Three of those four categories ended up being won by women (Ke Huy Quan was the exception), and all four were won by people of color, with Quinta Brunson (Abbott Elementary) and Ayo Edebiri (The Bear) winning the two television acting awards. The Bear also won the top television award, for Best New Scripted Series.
Read below for a full list of winners. Check back tomorrow for coverage of tonight’s Writers Guild of America Awards, which will be the final major test for Everything Everywhere All at Once before the Oscars next weekend.
FILM
Best Feature
82%
93%
97%
91%
90%
Best Director
91%
89%
93%
90%
86%
Best Screenplay
89%
89%
93%
91%
90%
Best First Feature
96%
93%
88%
91%
90%
Best First Screenplay
86%
91%
93%
94%
90%
Best Lead Performance
Best Supporting Performance
Best Breakthrough Performance
Frankie Corio – Aftersun
Stephanie Hsu – Everything Everywhere All at Once – WINNER
Lily McInerny – Palm Tress and Power Lines
Daniel Zolghadri – Funny Pages
Best International Film
85%
98%
91%
97%
95%
Best Documentary
99%
95%
97%
100%
91%
Best Cinematography
96%
91%
96%
93%
91%
Best Editing
96%
96%
93%
98%
91%
John Cassavetes Award (Best Feature under $500,000)
85%
95%
96%
- -
89%
Robert Altman Award (Best Ensemble)
90%
Emerging Filmmaker: Truer Than Fiction Award
88%
97%
83%
Emerging Filmmaker: Someone to Watch Award
72%
91%
- -
Emerging Filmmaker: Producers Award
Liz Cardenas – 7 Days
Tory Lenosky – Resurrection – WINNER
David Grove Churchill Viste – How to Blow Up a Pipeline
TELEVISION
Best New Scripted Series
93%
97%
100%
95%
98%
Best New Non-Scripted or Documentary Series
88%
100%
83%
96%
99%
Best Lead Performance in a New Scripted Series
Aml Ameen, The Porter
Mohammed Amer, Mo
Quinta Brunson, Abbott Elementary – WINNER
Bridget Everett, Somebody Somewhere
KaMillion, Rap Sh!t
Melanie Lynskey, Yellowjackets
Himesh Patel, Station Eleven
Sue Ann Pien, As We See It
Adam Scott, Severance
Ben Whishaw, This is Going to Hurt
Best Supporting Performance in a New Scripted Series
Danielle Deadwyler, Station Eleven
Ayo Edibiri, The Bear – WINNER
Jeff Hiller, Somebody Somewhere
Gbemisola Ikumelo, A League of Their Own
Janelle James, Abbott Elementary
Ebon Moss-Bachrach, The Bear
Frankie Quiñones, This Fool
Sheryl Lee Ralph, Abbott Elementary
Molly Shannon, I Love That For You
Tramell Tillman, Severance
Best Ensemble Cast in a New Scripted Series
97%
