In the first year of TV nominations, the Spirit Awards embraced ‘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. Lulu Wang’s “The Farewell” received the award for 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 garnered 7 total nominations. “Minari” also formed strongly with 6 nominations, while “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” and “Nomadland” each achieved 5 nominations. Netflix was the most nominated studio with 16 nominations, followed by Focus Features with 10 and A24 with 9.
As always, the budget for films eligible for the Spirit Awards is $ 22.5 million. For this reason, several popular Netflix Oscar nominees such as “The Trial of the Chicago 7”, “Da 5 Bloods” and “Mank” are not eligible for the 2021 ceremony.
The 36th Independent Spirit Awards will take place on Thursday, April 22nd. The ceremony will be broadcast live on IFC at 22:00 ET. In addition to the linear broadcast, the Spirit Awards will also stream simultaneously on AMC +. Following the broadcast, the full awards event will be available on demand on AMC + and IFC platforms from Friday 23 April.
Best feature
“First cow”
“Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom”
“Minari”
“Never seldom 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 Actress
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, ‘A 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”
Dear female woman
Alexis Chikaeze, “Miss Juneteenth”
Yeri Han, “Minari”
Valerie Mahaffey, French Copy ”
Talia Ryder, “Never Rarely Sometimes Always”
Yuh-jung Youn, “Minari”
Best male to 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 seldom 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 seldom sometimes always”
Joshua James Richards, “Nomadland”
Best Editing
“I carry you with me”
“The invisible man”
“Residu”
“Never seldom sometimes always”
“Nomadland”
Robert Altman Award
“A Night in Miami”
Best Documentary
“Collective”
Crip Camp
“Dick Johnson is dead”
“Time”
“The molagent”
Best International Film
Bacurau
“The pupil”
“Night of the Kings”
“Preparations to be together for an unknown period”
“Quo Vadis, Aida?”
Piaget Producer Award
Kara Durrett
Lucas Joaquin
Gerry Kim
Someone to 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, “Lost”
John Cassavetes Awards
“The Killing of Two Lovers”
“La Leyenda Negra”
“Lingua Franca”
“Residu”
“Saint Frances”
Best New Unwritten or Documentary Series
“Atlanta’s Missing and Murdered: The Lost Children”
“City so real”
“Immigration Nation”
“Love cheat”
“Was here”
Best text series
“I may destroy you”
“Little America”
“Small ax”
“A teacher”
“Unorthodox”
Best female performance in a text series
Elle Fanning, “The Great”
Shira Haas, “Unorthodox”
Abby McEnany, “Work in progress
Maitreyi Ramakrishnan, “I Never Have Ever”
Jordan Kristine Seamón, “We Are Who We Are”
Best Male Performance in a Text Series
Confidance, “Little America”
Adam Ali, “Little America”
Nicco Annan, “P-Valley”
Amit Rahav, “unorthodox”
Harold Torres, “Zero, Zero, Zero”
Best cast in a new series with text
“I may destroy you”
Ensemble: Michaela Coel, Paapa Essiedu, Wruche Opia,
Stephen Wight
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