Everything Everywhere All at Once Sweeps top prizes at the Indie Spirit Awards

Everything Everywhere All at Once Sweeps top prizes at the Indie Spirit Awards

The Bear The Rehersal also take home top honors
TAGGED AS: Awards, Film Independent, Independent Film, Indie Film, Oscars
The 38th Film Independent Spirit Awards were held yesterday afternoon in Santa Monica – just as it did at the SAG Awards last weekend, Everything Everywhere All at Once swept every category it was nominated in. The presumptive Oscar frontrunner won seven awards in all, including Best Feature, Best Director, Best Lead Performance (Michelle Yeoh), Best Supporting Performance (Ke Huy Quan), and Breakthrough Performance (Stephanie Hsu, who gave one of the evening’s most moving speeches).
Hasan Minhaj was the host for...

The Bear The Rehersal also take home top honors
TAGGED AS: Awards, Film Independent, Independent Film, Indie Film, Oscars
The 38th Film Independent Spirit Awards were held yesterday afternoon in Santa Monica – just as it did at the SAG Awards last weekend, Everything Everywhere All at Once swept every category it was nominated in. The presumptive Oscar frontrunner won seven awards in all, including Best Feature, Best Director, Best Lead Performance (Michelle Yeoh), Best Supporting Performance (Ke Huy Quan), and Breakthrough Performance (Stephanie Hsu, who gave one of the evening’s most moving speeches).
Hasan Minhaj was the host for this year’s awards, which honored the best independent films made for under $30 million, and other winners included Emily the Criminal (Best First Screenplay), Tár (Best Cinematography), All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (Best Documentary), Joyland (Best International Film), and Women Talking, which was given the prestigious Robert Altman Award for Best Ensemble.
A notable change at this year’s Spirit Awards were the gender-neutral acting races, which nominated ten performers in each of the four acting categories. Three of those four categories ended up being won by women (Ke Huy Quan was the exception), and all four were won by people of color, with Quinta Brunson (Abbott Elementary) and Ayo Edebiri (The Bear) winning the two television acting awards. The Bear also won the top television award, for Best New Scripted Series.
Read below for a full list of winners. Check back tomorrow for coverage of tonight’s Writers Guild of America Awards, which will be the final major test for Everything Everywhere All at Once before the Oscars next weekend. Best Feature Best Director Best Screenplay Best First Feature Best First Screenplay Best Lead Performance Best Supporting Performance Best Breakthrough Performance
Frankie Corio – Aftersun Gracija Filipovic – Murina Stephanie Hsu – Everything Everywhere All at Once – WINNER Lily McInerny – Palm Tress and Power Lines Daniel Zolghadri – Funny Pages Best International Film Best Documentary Best Cinematography Best Editing John Cassavetes Award (Best Feature under $500,000) Robert Altman Award (Best Ensemble) Emerging Filmmaker: Truer Than Fiction Award Emerging Filmmaker: Someone to Watch Award Emerging Filmmaker: Producers Award
Liz Cardenas – 7 Days Tory Lenosky – Resurrection – WINNER David Grove Churchill Viste – How to Blow Up a Pipeline Best New Scripted Series Best New Non-Scripted or Documentary Series Best Lead Performance in a New Scripted Series
Aml Ameen, The Porter Mohammed Amer, Mo Quinta Brunson, Abbott Elementary – WINNER  Bridget Everett, Somebody Somewhere KaMillion, Rap Sh!t Melanie Lynskey, Yellowjackets Himesh Patel, Station Eleven Sue Ann Pien, As We See It Adam Scott, Severance Ben Whishaw, This is Going to Hurt Best Supporting Performance in a New Scripted Series
Danielle Deadwyler, Station Eleven Ayo Edibiri, The Bear – WINNER Jeff Hiller, Somebody Somewhere Gbemisola Ikumelo, A League of Their Own Janelle James, Abbott Elementary Ebon Moss-Bachrach, The Bear Frankie Quiñones, This Fool Sheryl Lee Ralph, Abbott Elementary Molly Shannon, I Love That For You Tramell Tillman, Severance Best Ensemble Cast in a New Scripted Series