The 37th Independent Spirit Awards celebrated the best of the year’s Indie film and TV on Sunday, with The Lost Daughter sweeping several of the major categories. For a rundown of the night’s highlights, click here.
Best Feature
The Lost Daughter (winner)
A Chiara
C’mon C’mon
The Novice
Zola
Best Female Lead
Taylour Paige, Zola (winner)
Isabelle Fuhrman, The Novice
Brittany S.Hall, Test Pattern
Patti Harrison, Together Together
Kali Reis, Catch the Fair One
Best Male Lead
Simon Rex, Red Rocket (winner)
Clifton Collins Jr., Jockey
Frankie Faison, The Killing of Kenneth Chamberlain
Michael Greyeyes, Wild Indian
Udo Kier, Swan Song
Best Supporting Female
Ruth Negga, Passing (winner)
Jessie Buckley, The Lost Daughter
Amy Forsyth, The Novice
Revika Reustle, Pleasure
Suzanna Son, Red Rocket
Best Supporting Male
Troy Kotsur, CODA (winner)
Colman Domingo, Zola
Meeko Gattuso, Queen of Glory
Will Patton, Sweet Thing
Chaske Spencer, Wild Indian
Best Director
Maggie Gyllenhaal, The Lost Daughter (winner)
Janicza Bravo, Zola
Lauren Hadaway, The Novice
Mike Mills, C’mon C’mon
Ninja Thyberg, Pleasure
Best Screenplay
Maggie Gyllenhaal, The Lost Daughter (winner)
Nikole Beckwith, Together Together
Janicza Bravo and Jeremy O. Harris, Zola
Mike Mills, C’mon C’mon
Todd Stephens, Swan Song
Best First Feature
7 Days (winner)
Holler
Queen of Glory
Test Pattern
Wild Indian
Best First Screenplay
Michael Sarnoski; story by Vanessa Block, Michael Sarnoski, Pig (winner)
Lyle Mitchell Corbine Jr., Wild Indian
Matt Fifer; story by Sheldon D. Brown, Cicada
Shatara Michelle Ford, Test Pattern
Fran Kranz, Mass
John Cassavetes Award
Shiva Baby (winner)
Cryptozoo
Jockey
Sweet Thing
This Is Not a War Story
Best Cinematography
Edu Grau, Passing (winner)
Ante Cheng, Matthew Chuang, Blue Bayou
Lol Crawley, The Humans
Tim Curtin, A Chiara
Ari Wegner, Zola
Best Editing
Joi McMillon, Zola (winner)
Affonso Gonçalves, A Chiara
Ali Greer, The Nowhere Inn
Lauren Hadaway, Nathan Nugent, The Novice
Enrico Natale, The Killing of Kenneth Chamberlain
Best Documentary
Summer of Soul (…Or, When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised) (winner)
Ascension
Flee
In the Same Breath
Procession
Best International Film
Drive My Car (winner)
Compartment No. 6
Parallel Mothers
Pebbles
Petite Maman
Prayers for the Stolen
Robert Altman Award
Mass
Producers Award
Lizzie Shapiro (winner)
Brad Becker-Parton
Pin-Chun Liu
Someone to Watch Award
Alex Camilleri, Luzzu (winner)
Michael Sarnoski, Pig
Gillian Wallace Horvat, I Blame Society
Truer Than Fiction Award
Jessica Beshir, Faya Dayi (winner)
Angelo Madsen Minax, North By Current
Debbie Lum, Try Harder!
Best Ensemble Cast in a New Scripted Series
Reservation Dogs
Best New Scripted Series
Reservation Dogs (winner)
Blindspotting
Mann
It’s a Sin
The Underground Railroad
We Are Lady Parts
Best Female Performance in a New Scripted Series
Thuso Mbedu, The Underground Railroad (winner)
Anjana Vasan, We Are Lady Parts
Jana Schmieding, Rutherford Falls
Jasmine Cephas Jones, Blindspotting
Deborah Ayorinde, THEM: Covenant
Best Male Performance in a New Scripted Series
Lee Jung-jae, Squid Game (winner)
Olly Alexander, It’s a Sin
Michael Greyeyes, Rutherford Falls
Murray Bartlett, The White Lotus
Ashley Thomas, THEM: Covenant
Best New Nonscripted Or Documentary Series
Black and Missing (winner)
The Choe Show
The Lady and the Dale
Nuclear Family
Philly D.A.
Words by Megan Geall
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