“Anora,” Sean Baker’s odyssey of a New York stripper, and Jane Schoenbrun’s psychological horror “I Saw the TV Glow” dominated nominations for the Movie Unbiased Spirit Awards with six nods every, together with finest movie and finest director. The nonprofit group introduced nominations Wednesday on a YouTube livestream.
Three actors in “Anora,” which received high honors on the Cannes Movie Pageant, have been additionally singled out for his or her performances together with Mikey Madison’s main flip and Yura Borisov and Karren Karagulian’s supporting turns. Performing classes for the Spirit Awards are gender impartial and embody 10 actors every. “I Saw the TV Glow’s” Justice Smith was nominated in lead and Brigette Lundy-Paine in supporting.
Additionally nominated for finest characteristic movie have been RaMell Ross’s Colson Whitehead adaptation “Nickel Boys,” Greg Kwedar’s incarceration drama “Sing Sing” and Coralie Fargeat’s physique horror “The Substance.”
In the perfect director class, along with Baker and Schoenbrun, nominees included Brady Corbet for “The Brutalist,” its sole nomination regardless of its huge exhibiting with the New York Movie Critics Circle this week, Ali Abbasi for “The Apprentice” and Alonso Ruizpalacios for “La Cocina.” Sebastian Stan was additionally acknowledged for his flip as a younger Donald Trump in “The Apprentice” within the lead performing class, however not for “A Different Man.”
Different lead performers who bought nods embody Amy Adams for “Nightbitch,” Colman Domingo for “Sing Sing,” Demi Moore for “The Substance,”June Squibb for “Thelma,” “Hunter Schafer for “Cuckoo,” Keith Kupferer for “Ghostlight” and Ryan Future for “The Fire Inside.”
The supporting class additionally included each newcomers and veterans: Kieran Culkin (“A Real Pain”), Carol Kane (“Between the Temples”), Clarence Maclin (“Sing Sing”), Adam Pearson (“A Different Man,” which triumphed this week on the Gotham Awards ), Joan Chen (“Dìdi”), Danielle Deadwyler (“The Piano Lesson”) and Kani Kusruti (“Girls Will Be Girls”).
Typically the Spirit Awards overlap considerably with main Oscar contenders and winners, as within the “Everything Everywhere All At Once” yr, and typically not. Final yr’s huge winners included Celine Track’s “Past Lives” and Twine Jefferson’s “American Fiction.” The awards restrict eligibility to productions with budgets of $30 million or much less, which means costlier productions like “Wicked” and “Dune: Part Two” weren’t within the operating.
Worldwide movie nominees have been: Payal Kapadia’s “All We Imagine as Light,” which India didn’t choose to signify the nation on the Oscars, “Black Dog,” from China, the animated journey “Flow,” Agnieszka Holland’s “Green Border,” and Mike Leigh’s “Hard Truths.” Netflix motion pictures “Emilia Pérez” and “Maria” have been eligible just for worldwide characteristic, however neither made the reduce.
The Robert Altman Award, recognizing an ensemble solid, went to “His Three Daughters,” Azazel Jacobs’ shifting portrait of three girls, performed by Carrie Coon, Natasha Lyonne and Elizabeth Olsen, whose father is in hospice.
The Spirit Awards additionally acknowledge new fiction and non-fiction tv sequence, the place nominees embody the Netflix phenomenon “Baby Reindeer,” “Shōgun” and “Ren Fair.”
The group, which switched to gender impartial performing classes in 2022, stated that of all of the nominees, 46% are girls and 30% are individuals of shade. Like final yr, the unbiased movie studio A24 dominated with 19 nominations for releases like “I Saw the TV Glow,” “Sing Sing” and “The Brutalist.”
The Spirit Awards will probably be held on Saturday, Feb. 22 in Santa Monica, California, and streamed dwell on IMDb and Movie Unbiased’s YouTube channels. Comic Aidy Bryant will return to host.
