Spirit Awards 2024: The full list of winners
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The 2024 Independent Spirit Awards honoured excellence in independent film and television at the Santa Monica Pier, featuring Aidy Bryant as the host.
The Holdovers and Beef emerged as the major winners of the evening, with The Holdovers securing three awards and both Past Lives and Beef claiming two each. The introduction of gender-neutral acting categories last year intensified the competition across all six performance categories, with three dedicated to film and three to television.
Last year’s standout, Everything Everywhere All at Once, repeated its success at the Spirit Awards, with Michelle Yeoh and Key Huh Quan securing wins, along with accolades for Best Feature, Best Director, and Best Screenplay.
Aside from the night’s forerunners, Jury Duty took home the accolade for Best Ensemble Cast In A New Scripted Series, while Anatomy Of A Fall won Best International Film. Set Hernandez, Director of unseen, clinched the Truer Than Fiction award, while Monica Sorelle was named as this year’s ‘Someone To Watch’.
Additionally, Jeffrey Wright won ‘Best Lead Performance’ for his role in American Fiction. In his celebratory speech, the actor revealed: “The reason that our film was independent at the start was because nobody wanted to finance it—except for Ram Bergman and Rian Johnson.”
Wright signed off by stating, “If that doesn’t tell you what independent filmmaking is, nothing will.”
See the full list of winners below.
Spirit Awards 2024: The full list of winners:
‘Best Feature’
- All of Us Strangers
- American Fiction
- May December
- Passages
- Past Lives – WINNER
- We Grown Now
‘Best Director’
- Andrew Haigh, All of Us Strangers
- Todd Haynes, May December
- William Oldroyd, Eileen
- Ira Sachs, Passages
- Celine Song, Past Lives – WINNER
‘Best First Feature’
- All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt
- Chronicles of a Wandering Saint
- Earth Mama
- A Thousand and One – WINNER
- Upon Entry
‘Best Lead Performance’
- Jessica Chastain, Memory
- Greta Lee, Past Lives
- Trace Lysette, Monica
- Natalie Portman, May December
- Judy Reyes, Birth/Rebirth
- Franz Rogowski, Passages
- Andrew Scott, All of Us Strangers
- Teyana Taylor, A Thousand and One
- Jeffrey Wright, American Fiction – WINNER
- Teo Yoo, Past Lives
‘Best Supporting Performance’
- Erika Alexander, American Fiction
- Sterling K. Brown, American Fiction
- Noah Galvin, Theater Camp
- Anne Hathaway, Eileen
- Glenn Howerton, BlackBerry
- Marin Ireland, Eileen
- Charles Melton, May December
- Da’Vine Joy Randolph, The Holdovers – WINNER
- Catalina Saavedra, Rotting in the Sun
- Ben Whishaw, Passages
‘Best Breakthrough Performance’
- Marshawn Lynch, Bottoms
- Atibon Nazaire, Mountains
- Tia Nomore, Earth Mama
- Dominic Sessa, The Holdovers – WINNER
- Anaita Wali Zada, Fremont
‘Best Screenplay’
- David Hemingson, The Holdovers
- Cord Jefferson, American Fiction – WINNER
- Laura Moss, Brendan J. O’Brien, Birth/Rebirth
- Emma Seligman, Rachel Sennott, Bottoms
- Celine Song, Past Lives
‘Best First Screenplay’
- Samy Burch; Story by Samy Burch, Alex Mechanik, May December – WINNER
- Noah Galvin, Molly Gordon, Nick Lieberman, Ben Platt, Theater Camp
- Tomás Gómez Bustillo, Chronicles of a Wandering Saint
- Laurel Parmet, The Starling Girl
- Alejandro Rojas, Juan Sebastián Vásquez, Upon Entry
‘Best Cinematography’
- Katelin Arizmendi, Monica
- Eigil Bryld, The Holdovers – WINNER
- Jomo Fray, All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt
- Pablo Lozano, Chronicles of a Wandering Saint
- Pat Scola, We Grown Now
‘Best Editing’
- Santiago Cendejas, Gabriel Díaz, Sofía Subercaseaux, Rotting in the Sun
- Stephanie Filo, We Grown Now
- Daniel Garber, How to Blow Up a Pipeline – WINNER
- Jon Philpot, Theater Camp
- Emanuele Tiziani, Upon Entry
‘Best Documentary’
- Bye Bye Tiberia
- Four Daughters – WINNER
- Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project
- Kokomo City
- The Mother of All Lies
‘Best International Film’
- Anatomy of a Fall – WINNER
- Godland
- Mami Wata
- Tótem
- The Zone of Interest
‘Robert Altman Award’
- Showing Up – WINNER
- Director: Kelly Reichardt
- Casting Director: Gayle Keller
- Ensemble Cast: André Benjamin, Hong Chau, Judd Hirsch, Heather Lawless, James Le Gros, John Magaro, Matt Malloy, Amanda Plummer, Maryann Plunkett, Denzel Rodriguez, Michelle Williams
‘Someone to Watch Award’
- Joanna Arnow, Director of The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed
- Laura Moss, Director of Birth/Rebirth
- Monica Sorelle, Director of Mountains – WINNER
‘Truer Than Fiction Award’
- Set Hernandez, Director of unseen – WINNER
- Jesse Short Bull, Laura Tomaselli, Director of Lakota Nation vs. United States
- Sierra Urich, Director of Joonam
‘John Cassavetes Award’
- The Artifice Girl
- Cadejo Blanco
- Fremont – WINNER
- Rotting in the Sun
- The Unknown Country
‘Producers Award’
- Rachael Fung
- Graham Swon
- Monique Walton – WINNER
‘Best New Scripted Series’
- Beef – WINNER
- Dreaming Whilst Black
- I’m a Virgo
- Jury Duty
- Slip
‘Best New Non-Scripted or Documentary Series’
- Deadlocked: How America Shaped the Supreme Court
- Dear Mama – WINNER
- Murder in Big Horn
- Stolen Youth: Inside the Cult at Sarah Lawrence
- Wrestlers
‘Best Lead Performance in a New Scripted Series’
- Emma Corrin, A Murder at the End of the World
- Dominique Fishback, Swarm
- Betty Gilpin, Mrs. Davis
- Jharrel Jerome, I’m a Virgo
- Zoe Lister-Jones, Slip
- Bel Powley, A Small Light
- Bella Ramsey, The Last of Us
- Ramón Rodríguez, Will Trent
- Ali Wong, Beef – WINNER
- Steven Yeun, Beef
‘Best Supporting Performance in a New Scripted Series’
- Murray Bartlett, The Last of Us
- Billie Eilish, Swarm
- Jack Farthing, Rain Dogs
- Nick Offerman, The Last of Us – WINNER
- Adina Porter, The Changeling
- Lewis Pullman, Lessons in Chemistry
- Benny Safdie, The Curse
- Luke Tennie, Shrinking
- Olivia Washington, I’m a Virgo
- Jessica Williams, Shrinking
‘Best Breakthrough Performance in a New Scripted Series’
- Clark Backo, The Changeling
- Aria Mia Loberti, All the Light We Cannot See
- Adjani Salmon, Dreaming Whilst Black
- Keivonn Montreal Woodard, The Last of Us – WINNER
- Kara Young, I’m a Virgo
‘Best Ensemble Cast in a New Scripted Series’
Jury Duty – WINNER
Ensemble Cast: Alan Barinholtz, Susan Berger, Cassandra Blair, David Brown, Kirk Fox, Ross Kimball, Pramode Kumar, Trisha LaFache, Mekki Leeper, James Marsden, Edy Modica, Kerry O’Neill, Rashida Olayiwola, Whitney Rice, Maria Russell, Ishmel Sahid, Ben Seaward, Ron Song, Evan Williams
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