Sean Baker’s Anora and Jane Schoenbrun’s I Noticed The TV Glow lead the 2025 Unbiased Spirit Award nominations with six every.
Each movies have been nominated in finest characteristic, finest director, finest lead efficiency, finest supporting efficiency and the producers award with I Noticed The TV Glow additionally selecting up finest screenplay.
Whereas Anora has been thought of a robust awards contender throughout the branches since selecting up the Palme d’Or at Cannes Movie Pageant earlier this yr, I Noticed The TV Glow has had extra success within the unbiased sphere. The movie premiered at Sundance and has since performed Berlinale Panorama, San Sebastian, and SXSW. The horror movie follows two youngsters who develop into enthralled by a mysterious late-night TV present and counts Emma Stone amongst its producers.
The 2 movies might be competing in finest characteristic towards Nickel Boys, Sing Sing and The Substance. In the meantime, Sean Wang’s Didi landed 4 nominations together with finest first characteristic and finest first screenplay.
Regardless of the election shadow and distribution struggles within the US, The Apprentice, which was launched by Briarcliff Leisure is up for 3 awards – finest directing, finest modifying and finest lead efficiency for Sebastian Stan.
For distributors, A24 landed probably the most nominations as soon as once more with 19 to its identify whereas Netflix scored 9.
The Robert Altman award, given to a movie with an ensemble forged, might be bestowed upon Azazel Jacobs’ His Three Daughters which counts Natasha Lyonne, Elisabeth Olsen and Carrie Coon amongst its forged.
On the TV facet, Shogun leads the nominations with 5, adopted by Child Reindeer and English Instructor with 4 apiece.
The winners might be introduced at a ceremony in Santa Monica on February 22, 2025.
Earlier this week the Gothams and the New York Movie Critics Circle ceremonies came about, with double wins for Nickel Boys director RaMell Ross; No Different Land in documentary and All We Think about As Gentle in finest worldwide characteristic.
Movie Classes
Finest characteristic
- Anora
- I Noticed The TV Glow
- Nickel Boys
- Sing Sing
- The Substance
Finest first characteristic
- Didi
- In The Summers
- Janet Planet
- The Piano Lesson
- Problemista
John Cassavetes Award (finest characteristic made for beneath $500,000)
- Huge Boys
- Ladies Will Be Ladies
- Ghostlight
- Jazzy
- The Individuals’s Joker
Finest director
- Ali Abbasi, The Apprentice
- Sean Baker, Anora
- Brady Corbet, The Brutalist
- Alonso Ruizpalacios, La Cocina
- Jane Schoenbrun, I Noticed the TV Glow
Finest screenplay
- A Totally different Man
- Heretic
- I Noticed The TV Glow
- My Previous Ass
- A Actual Ache
Finest first screenplay
- Didi
- The Felling
- Good One
- Janet Planet
- Problemista
Finest cinematography
- La Cocina
- The Hearth Inside
- Nickel Boys
- Janet Planet
- Inside The Yellow Cocoon Shell
Finest modifying
- The Apprentice
- Didi
- September 5
- Nightbitch
- Jazzy
Finest lead efficiency
- Amy Adams, Nightbitch
- Ryan Future, The Hearth Inside
- Colman Domingo, Sing Sing
- Keith Kupferer, Ghostlight
- Mikey Madison, Anora
- Demi Moore, The Substance
- Hunter Schafer, Cuckoo
- Justice Smith, I Noticed the TV Glow
- June Squibb, Thelma
- Sebastian Stan, The Apprentice
Finest supporting efficiency
- Yura Borisov, Anora
- Joan Chen, DiDi
- Kiera Culkin, A Actual ache
- Danielle Deadwyler, The Piano Lesson
- Carol Kane, Between The Temples
- Karren Karagulian, Anora
- Kani Kusruti, Ladies Will Be Ladies
- Brigette Lundy-Paine, I Noticed The TV Glow
- Clarence “Divine Eye” Maclin, Sing Sing
- Adam Pearson, A Totally different Man
Finest breakthrough efficiency
- Isaac Krasner, Huge Boys
- Katy O’Brian, Love Lies Bleeding
- Mason Alexander Park, Nationwide Anthem
- René Pérez Joglar, Within the Summers
- Maisy Stella, My Previous Ass
Robert Altman Award
Finest documentary
- Gaucho Gaucho
- Hummingbirds
- No Different Land
- Patrice: The Film
- Soundtrack To A Coup D’Etat
Finest worldwide movie
- All We Think about As Gentle
- Black Canine
- Movement
- Inexperienced Border
- Laborious Truths
Producers award
- Alex Coco
- Sarah Winshall
- Zoe Value
Somebody to observe award
- Nicholas Colia, Griffin In Summer time
- Sarah Friedland, Acquainted Contact
- Pham Thien An, Inside The Yellow Cocoon Shell
More true Than Fiction Award
