In its first year of TV nominations, the Spirit Awards included “Little America”, “Unorthodox” and “I May Destroy You”.
The 36th Film Independent Spirit Awards are just under three months away, and this morning the nominations for the 2021 ceremony have arrived. Last year’s Spirit Awards were dominated by “Uncut Gems”, which won the awards for Best Actor (Adam Sandler), Best Director (Josh and Benny Safdie) and Best Editing. “The Farewell” by Lulu Wang took home the homage to Best Film. The lead actress award was given to “Judy” star Renee Zellweger, who won the Oscar for Best Actress.
This year’s most nominated film is “Never Rarely Sometimes, Always”, which received 7 nominations in total. “Minari” also had a strong performance with 6 nominations, while “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” and “Nomadland” received 5 nominations each. Netflix was the most nominated studio with 16 nominations, followed by Focus Features with 10 and A24 with 9.
As always, the budget cut for films eligible for the Spirit Awards is $ 22.5 million. For this reason, several high-profile Netflix Oscar candidates such as “The Chicago Trial 7”, “Da 5 Bloods” and “Mank” are not eligible for the 2021 ceremony.
The 36th Independent Spirit Awards will take place on Thursday, April 22. The ceremony will be broadcast live by IFC at 10:00 pm Eastern Time. In addition to linear transmission, the Spirit Awards will also be broadcast simultaneously on AMC +. After the broadcast, the full award ceremony will be available on demand on the AMC + and IFC platforms from Friday, April 23.
Best feature
“First Cow”
“Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom”
“Minari”
“Never, rarely, sometimes, always”
“Nomadland”
Best director
Lee Isaac Chung, “Minari”
Emerald Fennell, “Promising young woman”
Eliza Hittman, “Never Rarely Sometimes Always”
Kelly Reichardt, “First Cow”
Chloe Zhao, “Nomadland”
Best First Feature
“I carry you with me”
“The 40 year old version”
“The Sound of Metal”
“Miss Juneteenth”
“Nine days”
Best female protagonist
Nicole Beharie, “Miss Juneteenth”
Viola Davis, “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom”
Sidney Flanigan, “Never Rarely Sometimes Always”
Julia Garner, “The Assistant”
Frances McDormand, “Nomadland”
Carey Mulligan, “Promising young woman”
Best Male Lead
Riz Ahmed, “The Sound of Metal”
Chadwick Boseman, “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom”
Rob Morgan, “Bull”
Steven Yeun, “Minari”
Adarsh Gourav, “The White Tiger”
Best Female Supporter
Alexis Chikaeze, “Miss Juneteenth”
Yeri Han, “Minari”
Valerie Mahaffey, French outlet ”
Talia Ryder, “Never Rarely Sometimes Always”
Yuh-jung Youn, “Minari”
Best Male Support
Colman Domingo, “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom”
Orion Lee, “First Cow”
Paul Raci, “Sound of Metal”
Glynn Turmann, “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom”
Benedict Wong, “Nine Days”
Best Screenplay
“Bad Education”
“Minari”
“Half of it”
“Never, rarely, sometimes, always”
“Promising young woman”
Best First Screenplay
Kitty Green, “The Assistant”
Noah Hutton, “Lapsis”
Channing Godfrey Peoples, “Miss Juneteenth”
Andy Siara, “Palm Springs”
James Sweeney, “Straight Up”
Best Cinematography
Jay Keitel, “She Dies Tomorrow”
Shabier Kirchner, “Bull”
Michael Latham, “The Assistant”
Hélène Louvart, “Never Rarely Sometimes Always”
Joshua James Richards, “Nomadland”
Best Editing
“I carry you with me”
“The invisible man”
“Residue”
“Never, rarely, sometimes, always”
“Nomadland”
Robert Altman Award
“One Night in Miami”
Best Documentary
“Collective”
“Crip Camp”
“Dick Johnson Is Dead”
“Time”
“The Mole Agent”
Best International Film
“Bacurau”
“The Disciple”
“Night of the Kings”
“Preparations to be together for an unknown period of time”
“Quo Vadis, Aida?”
Piaget Producers Award
Kara Durrett
Lucas joaquin
Gerry Kim
Someone to Watch Award
David Midell, “The Killing of Kenneth Chamberlain”
Ekwa Msangi, “Farewell Amor”
Annie Silverstein, “Bull”
Truer Than Fiction Award
Cecilia Aldarondo, “Landfall”
Elegance Bratton, “Pier Kids”
Elizabeth Lo, “Stray”
John Cassavetes Award
“The Kill of Two Lovers”
“La Leyenda Negra”
“Lingua franca”
“Residue”
“San Francisco”
Best new documentary series or without script
“Atlanta’s Missing and Murdered: The Lost Children”
“So real city”
“Immigration Nation”
“Love Fraud”
“Was here”
Best Scripted Series
“I can destroy you”
“Little America”
“Machado Pequeno”
“A teacher”
“Unorthodox”
Best female performance in a scripted series
Elle Fanning, “The Great”
Shira Haas, “unorthodox”
Abby McEnany, “Work in Progress
Maitreyi Ramakrishnan, “Never Have I Ever”
Jordan Kristine Seamón, “We Are Who We Are”
Best male performance in a scripted series
Conphidance, “Little America”
Adam Ali, “Little America”
Nicco Annan, “P-Valley”
Amit Rahav, “unorthodox”
Harold Torres, “Zero, Zero, Zero”
Best ensemble cast in a new scripted series
“I can destroy you”
Ensemble cast: Michaela Coel, Paapa Essiedu, Wruche Opia,
Stephen Wight
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