2023 Independent Spirit Awards: List of winners

The blue carpet has been rolled out and now we know the winners of the 2023 Independent Spirit Awards. The list of nominees is best for films made under $30 million in 2023 — an increase from the previous budget cap in recognition of ever-increasing production costs.

“Everything Everywhere All at Once” had a pretty clean slate, winning all seven categories in which it was nominated, including Best Picture, and seven of the eight nominees won overall — with Ke Huy Quan and Jamie Lee Curtis competing. another in one of the categories, Supporting Performance, the former won.

Yes, the 38th edition of the awards presented by Film Independent reversed the changes previously accepted by the Gotham Awards: they created gender-neutral performance categories. This means that Cate Blanchett was up against not only Michelle Yeoh (who eventually won), but also Paul Mescal from Aftersun (although, along with Jeremy Pope in The Inspection, she is one of the two people category. ).

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In addition to Best Actor, Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress, “Everything Everywhere” also won Best Director (Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert), Best Breakthrough Performance (Stephanie Hsu), Best Screenplay and Best Editing.

Only films that didn’t compete with “Everything Everywhere” won awards: “TÁR” for best cinematography, “Aftersun” for best first film, “Emily the Criminal” for best first screenplay, “Everything Everywhere” beauty and Bloodshed” for best documentary, “Nanny” (or really Nikyatu Jusu) for the Someone to Watch award, “Women Talking” for the previously announced Robert Altman award, “Joyland” for best international film, “I Didn’t ‘t See You” There” for the Truer Than Fiction Award and “The Cathedral” for the John Cassavetes Award.

Quinta Brunson and Ayo Edebiri won TV lead actor and supporting performance awards, respectively. “The Rehearsal” won Best New Non-Scripted or Documentary Series and “The Bear” won Best New Scripted Series.

Another big change concerns the way the Spirit Awards will be watched: the ceremony will be broadcast on YouTube instead of IFC.

The full list of winners is below.

Its best feature

“Bones and All”
“Everything everywhere at once” (WINNER)
“Our Father, the Devil”
“TAR”
“Women Speak”

Best director

Todd Field, “LIBRARY”
Kogonada, “After Yang”
Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, Everything Everywhere All at Once (WINNER)
Sarah Polley, “Women Speak”
Halina Reijn, “Bodies Bodies Bodies”

Best first feature

“Aftersun” (WINNER)
“Emily the Criminal”
“The Check”
“Murina”
“Palm trees and power lines”

Best driving performance

Cate Blanchett, “LIBRARY”
Dale Dickey, “A Love Song”
Mia Goth, “Pearl”
Regina Hall, “Shoot for Jesus, Save Your Soul”
Paul Mescal, “Aftersun”
Aubrey Plaza: Emily the Criminal
Jeremy Pope, “The Control”
Taylor Russell, “Bones and All”
Andrea Riseborough, “To Leslie”
Michelle Yeoh, Everything Everywhere All At Once (WINNER)

Best supporting performance

Jamie Lee Curtis: “Everything Everywhere All at Once”
Brian Tyree Henry, “Causeway”
Nina Hoss, “LIBRARY”
Brian d’Arcy James: The Cathedral
Ke Huy Quan, “Everything Everywhere All at once” (WINNER)
Trevante Rhodes, “Bruiser”
Theo Rossi, Emily, the criminal
Mark Rylance, “Bones and All”
Jonathan Tucker, “Palm Trees and Power Lines”
Gabrielle Union, “The Inspection”

Breakthrough performance

Frankie Corio, “Aftersun”
Gracija Filipović, “Murina”
Stephanie Hsu, Everything Everywhere All at Once (WINNER)
Lily McInerny, “Palm Trees and Power Lines”
Daniel Zolghadri: Funny pages

Best case scenario

“After Yang”
“Catherine Called Birdy”
“Everything everywhere at once” (WINNER)
“TAR”
“Women Speak”

Best first screenplay

“Bodies Bodies”
“Emergency”
“Emily the Criminal” (WINNER)
“Island of Fire”
“Palm trees and power lines”

Best cinematographer

“Aftersun”
“Murina”
“Neptune Frost”
“Pearl”
“LIBRARY” (WINNER)

Best edit

“Aftersun”
“The Cathedral”
“Everything everywhere at once” (WINNER)
“Marcel the Shell with shoes”
“TAR”

Robert Altman Award

“Women Speak”

Best Documentary

“A House of Shards”
“Everything That Breathes”
“All Beauty and Bloodshed” (WINNER)
“Midwives”
“Riotsville USA”

Best International Film

“Women’s waistcoat”
“Joyland” (WINNER)
“Leonor Never Dies”
“Back to Seoul”
“Saint Omer”

Someone to watch Award

Adamma Ebo, “Shout for Jesus, save your soul”
Nikyatu Jusu, “Nanny” (WINNER)
Araceli Lemos, “Saint Emy”

True as a fiction award

Isabel Castro, “Mija”
Reid Davenport: “I Didn’t See You There” (WINNER)
Rebeca Huntt, “Beba (Bayba)”

John Cassavetes Award

“The African Desperate”
“A Love Song”
“The Cathedral” (WINNER)
“Saint Amy”
“Something in the dirt”

Producers Award

Liz Cardenas
Tory Lenosky (WINNER)
David Grove Churchill Viste

Best New Scripted Series

“The Bear” (WINNER)
“Pachinko”
“The Porter”
“Breach”
“Eleventh Station”

Best New Non-Scripted or Documentary Series

“Children of the Underground”
“Mind Over Murder”
“Pepsi, where’s the Jet?”
“The Test” (WINNER)
‘We need to talk about Cosby’

Best Actor in a New Scripted Series

Aml Ameen, “The Doorman”
Mohammed Amer, “Mo”
Quinta Brunson, “Abbott Elementary” (WINNER)
Bridget Everett: Somewhere somewhere
KaMillion, “Rap Sh!t”
Melanie Lynskey, “Yellowjackets”
Himesh Patel, Station Eleven
Sue Ann Pien, “As We See It”
Adam Scott, “End Break”
Ben Whishaw: “This is going to hurt”

Best Supporting Performance in a New Scripted Series

Danielle Deadwyler, Station Eleven
Ayo Edebiri, “The Bear” (WINNER)
Jeff Hiller: “Someone Somewhere”
Gbemisola Ikumelo, “League of His Own” (I think?)
Janelle James, “Abbott Elementary”
Ebon Moss-Bachrach, “The Bear”
Frank Quiñones: The Fool
Sheryl Lee Ralph, “Abbott Elementary”
Molly Shannon: “I Love This For You”
Tramell Tillman, “End Break”

Best Ensemble Cast in a New Scripted Series

“Pachinko” (WINNER)
Cast: Soji Arai, Jin Ha, Inji Jeong, Minha Kim, Kaho Minami, Lee Minho, Steve Sanghyun Noh, Anna Sawai, Jimmi Simpson, Yuh-jung Youn

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