Movie Unbiased handed out its 2025 Spirit Awards on Saturday afternoon (February 22), in a Santa Monica ceremony that noticed Anora declare three prizes for greatest characteristic, director Sean Baker, and lead actor Mikey Madison within the gender-neutral class.
Sean Wang’s Didi took two prizes for greatest first characteristic and first screenplay, whereas Gints Zilbalodis’s Latvian animation Movement gained worldwide movie and No Different Land was named greatest documentary. A Actual Ache additionally nabbed two awards for screenplay and supporting actor Kieran Culkin.
Baker gave an impassioned speech calling for larger upfront charges for unbiased administrators who he mentioned tackle common three years to make a characteristic. His phrases echoed current statements by The Brutalist writer-director Brady Corbet.
“Indie movie is struggling proper now greater than ever,” mentioned Baker. “Gone are the times of DVD gross sales that allowed for a larger threat to be taken on difficult movies.”
Baker continued, ”We create jobs and income for your complete trade. We shouldn’t be barely getting by. Creatives which are concerned with tasks that span years have to start getting a lot larger upfront charges […] as a result of again finish merely can’t be relied upon any longer.” He concluded: “The system has to alter as a result of that is merely unsustainable.”
Whereas it’s too late for the Spirit Awards to have any bearing on the Oscars subsequent weekend (March 2) after the Academy’s last voting window closed on February 18, it does underscore a powerful late season surge by Anora, which took prime prizes on the PGA, DGA and Critics Alternative Awards two weekends in the past.
Final yr’s Cannes Palme d’Or final yr is distributed by Neon within the US and went into the ceremony on a field-leading six nominations alongside Jane Schoenbrun’s I Noticed The TV Glow at A24.
FX’s Shogun began the afternoon with 5 nods within the tv classes and transformed one for greatest new scripted sequence. Netflix’s Child Reindeer transformed three of its 4 nods: greatest lead in a brand new scripted sequence for Richard Gadd, Nava Mau for greatest supporting, and Jessica Gunning for breakthrough.
The Robert Altman award given to a movie with an ensemble forged went ton Azazel Jacobs’ His Three Daughters starring Natasha Lyonne, Elisabeth Olsen and Carrie Coon.
Winners seem under in daring.
FILM
Greatest characteristic
- Anora
- I Noticed The TV Glow
- Nickel Boys
- Sing Sing
- The Substance
Greatest first characteristic
- Didi
- In The Summers
- Janet Planet
- The Piano Lesson
- Problemista
John Cassavetes Award (greatest characteristic made for underneath $500,000)
- Huge Boys
- Women Will Be Women
- Ghostlight
- Jazzy
- The Folks’s Joker
Greatest director
- Ali Abbasi, The Apprentice
- Sean Baker, Anora
- Brady Corbet, The Brutalist
- Alonso Ruizpalacios, La Cocina
- Jane Schoenbrun, I Noticed The TV Glow
Greatest screenplay
- A Completely different Man
- Heretic
- I Noticed The TV Glow
- My Outdated Ass
- A Actual Ache
Greatest first screenplay
- Didi
- The Felling
- Good One
- Janet Planet
- Problemista
Greatest cinematography
- La Cocina
- The Hearth Inside
- Nickel Boys
- Janet Planet
- Inside The Yellow Cocoon Shell
Greatest enhancing
- The Apprentice
- Didi
- September 5
- Nightbitch
- Jazzy
Greatest 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
Greatest supporting efficiency
- Yura Borisov, Anora
- Joan Chen, Didi
- Kieran Culkin, A Actual Ache
- Danielle Deadwyler, The Piano Lesson
- Carol Kane, Between The Temples
- Karren Karagulian, Anora
- Kani Kusruti, Women Will Be Women
- Brigette Lundy-Paine, I Noticed The TV Glow
- Clarence “Divine Eye” Maclin, Sing Sing
- Adam Pearson, A Completely different Man
Greatest breakthrough efficiency
- Isaac Krasner, Huge Boys
- Katy O’Brian, Love Lies Bleeding
- Mason Alexander Park, Nationwide Anthem
- René Pérez Joglar, In The Summers
- Maisy Stella, My Outdated Ass
Robert Altman Award
Greatest documentary
- Gaucho Gaucho
- Hummingbirds
- No Different Land
- Patrice: The Film
- Soundtrack To A Coup D’Etat
Greatest worldwide movie
- All We Think about As Mild
- Black Canine
- Movement
- Inexperienced Border
- Onerous Truths
Producers award
- Alex Coco
- Sarah Winshall
- Zoe Price
Somebody to look at award
- Nicholas Colia, Griffin In Summer season
- Sarah Friedland, Acquainted Contact
- Pham Thien An, Inside The Yellow Cocoon Shell
More true Than Fiction Award