Articolo pubblicato il 5 Dicembre 2024 da Gabriele Maccauro

Sono state rese note le candidature per gli Independent Spirit Awards 2023, i premi cinematografici statunitensi che vengono assegnati al cinema indipendente. May December di Todd Haynes e Past Lives di Celine Song sono i film più nominati e con le maggiori possibilità di vittoria. I vincitori verranno svelati il 24 febbraio 2024. A seguire, tutte le candidature per i 39esimi Independent Spirit Awards.

Tutte le candidature agli Independent Spirit Awards 2023

BEST FEATURE

• All of Us Strangers – Andrew Haigh. Producers: Graham Broadbent, Pete Czernin, Sarah Harvey
• American Fiction – Cord Jefferson. Producers: Cord Jefferson, Jermaine Johnson, Nikos Karamigios, Ben LeClair
• May December – Todd Haynes. Producers: Jessica Elbaum, Will Ferrell, Grant S. Johnson, Pamela Koffler, Tyler W. Konney, Sophie Mas, Natalie Portman, Christine Vachon
• Passages – Ira Sachs. Producers: Michel Merkt, Saïd Ben Saïd
• Past Lives – Celine Song. Producers: David Hinojosa, Pamela Koffler, Christine Vachon
• We Grown Now – Minhal Baig. Producers: Minhal Baig, Joe Pirro

BEST FIRST FEATURE

• All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt – Raven Jackson. Producers: Maria Altamirano, Mark Ceryak, Barry Jenkins, Adele Romanski
• Chronicles of a Wandering Saint – Tomás Gómez Bustillo. Producers: Gewan Brown, Amanda Freedman
• Earth Mama – Savanah Leaf. Producers: Savanah Leaf, Sam Bisbee, Shirley O’Connor, Medb Riordan, Cody Ryder
• A Thousand and One – A.V. Rockwell. Producers: Julia Lebedev, Rishi Rajani, Eddie Vaisman, Lena Waithe, Brad Weston
• Upon Entry – Alejandro Rojas, Juan Sebastián Vásquez. Producers: Sergio Adrià, Carlos Juárez, Alba Sotorra, Carles Torras, Xosé Zapata

 JOHN CASSAVETES AWARD – Given to the best feature made for under $1,000,000 (Award given to the writer, director and producer)

• The Artifice Girl – Franklin Ritch. Producers: Aaron B. Koontz, Ashleigh Snead
• Cadejo Blanco – Justin Lerner. Producers: Justin Lerner, Mauricio Escobar, Ryan Friedkin, Jack Patrick Hurley
• Fremont – Babak Jalali. Producers: Rachael Fung, Chris Martin, Marjaneh Moghimi, George Rush, Sudnya Shroff, Laura Wagner
• Rotting in the Sun – Sebastián Silva. Producer: Jacob Wasserman
• The Unknown Country – Morrisa Maltz. Producers: Morrisa Maltz, Lainey Bearkiller Shangreaux, Vanara Taing, Katherine Harper, Laura Heberton, Tommy Heitkamp

BEST DIRECTOR

• Andrew Haigh – All of Us Strangers
• Todd Haynes – May December
• William Oldroyd – Eileen
• Ira Sachs – Passages
• Celine Song – Past Lives

BEST SCREENPLAY

• David Hemingson – The Holdovers
• Cord Jefferson – American Fiction
• Laura Moss, Brendan J. O’Brien – Birth/Rebirth
• Emma Seligman, Rachel Sennott – Bottoms
• Celine Song – Past Lives

BEST FIRST SCREENPLAY

• Samy Burch – May December
• Noah Galvin, Molly Gordon, Nick Lieberman, Ben Platt – Theater Camp
• Tomás Gómez Bustillo – Chronicles of a Wandering Saint
• Laurel Parmet – The Starling Girl
• Alejandro Rojas, Juan Sebastián Vásquez – Upon Entry

BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE

• Jessica Chastain – Memory
• Greta Lee – Past Lives
• Trace Lysette – Monica
• Natalie Portman – May December
• Judy Reyes – Birth/Rebirth
• Franz Rogowski – Passages
• Andrew Scott – All of Us Strangers
• Teyana Taylor – A Thousand and One
• Jeffrey Wright – American Fiction
• Teo Yoo – Past Lives

BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE

• Erika Alexander – American Fiction
• Sterling K. Brown – American Fiction
• Noah Galvin – Theater Camp
• Anne Hathaway – Eileen
• Glenn Howerton – BlackBerry
• Marin Ireland – Eileen
• Charles Melton – May December
• Da’Vine Joy Randolph – The Holdovers
• Catalina Saavedra – Rotting in the Sun
• Ben Whishaw – Passages

BEST BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE

• Marshawn Lynch – Bottoms
• Atibon Nazaire – Mountains
• Tia Nomore – Earth Mama
• Dominic Sessa – The Holdovers
• Anaita Wali Zada – Fremont

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

• Katelin Arizmend – Monica
• Eigil Bryld – The Holdovers
• Jomo Fray -All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt
• Pablo Lozano – Chronicles of a Wandering Saint
• Pat Scola – We Grown Now

BEST EDITING

• Santiago Cendejas, Gabriel Díaz, Sofía Subercaseaux – Rotting in the Sun
• Stephanie Filo – We Grown Now
• Daniel Garber – How to Blow Up a Pipeline
• Jon Philpot – Theater Camp
• Emanuele Tiziani – Upon Entry

ROBERT ALTMAN AWARD – Given to one film’s director, casting director and ensemble cast

• Showing Up

Director: Kelly Reichardt. Casting Director: Gayle Keller. Ensemble Cast: André Benjamin, Hong Chau, Judd Hirsch, Heather Lawless, James Le Gros, John Magaro, Matt Malloy, Amanda Plummer, Maryann Plunkett, Denzel Rodriguez, Michelle Williams

 BEST DOCUMENTARY (Award given to the director and producer)

• Bye Bye Tiberias – Lina Soualem. Producer: Jean-Marie Nizan
• Four Daughters – Kaouther Ben Hania. Producer: Nadim Cheikhrouha
• Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project – Joe Brewster, Michèle Stephenson. Producers: Joe Brewster, Michèle Stephenson, Tommy Oliver
• Kokomo City – D. Smith. Producers: Bill Butler, Harris Doran
• The Mother of All Lies – Asmae El Moudir. Producer: Asmae El Moudir

BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM (Awards given to the director)

• Anatomy of a Fall – Justine Triet (France)
• Godland – Hlynur Pálmason (Denmark/Iceland)
• Mami Wata – C.J. Fiery Obasi (Nigeria)
• Totem – Lila Avilés (Mexico)
• The Zone of Interest – Jonathan Glazer (UK, Poland, USA)

PRODUCERS AWARD presented by Bulleit Frontier Whiskey – The Producers Award, now in its 27th year, honors emerging producers who, despite highly limited resources, demonstrate the creativity, tenacity and vision required to produce quality independent films.

• Rachael Fung
• Graham Swon
• Monique Walton

SOMEONE TO WATCH AWARD  – The Someone to Watch Award, now in its 30th year, recognizes a talented filmmaker of singular vision who has not yet received appropriate recognition.

• Joanna Arnow – The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed
• Laura Moss – Birth/Rebirth
• Monica Sorelle – Mountains

TRUER THAN FICTION AWARD – The Truer Than Fiction Award, now in its 29th year, is presented to an emerging director of non-fiction features who has not yet received significant recognition.

• Set Hernandez -Unseen
• Jesse Short Bull, Laura Tomaselli – Lakota Nation vs. United States
• Sierra Urich – Joonam

BEST NEW NON-SCRIPTED OR DOCUMENTARY SERIES (Award given to the Creator, Executive Producer, Co-Executive Producer)

• Deadlocked: How America Shaped the Supreme Court. Executive Producers: Vinnie Malhotra, Aaron Saidman, Eli Holzman, Dawn Porter
• Dear Mama. Executive Producers: Lasse Järvi, Quincy ‘QD3’ Jones III, Staci Robinson, Nelson George, Charles D. King, Peter Nelson, Adel ‘Future’ Nur, Jamal Joseph, Ted Skillman, Allen Hughes, Steve Berman, Marc Cimino, Jody Gerson, John Janick, Nicholas Ferrall, Nigel Sinclair
• Murder in Big Horn. Executive Producers: Matthew Galkin, Vinnie Malhotra. Co-Executive Producers: Lisa Kalikow, Joshua Levine
• Stolen Youth: Inside the Cult at Sarah Lawrence. Executive Producers: Mindy Goldberg, Dan Cogan, Liz Garbus, Jon Bardin, Zach Heinzerling, Krista Parris, Daniel Barban Levin, Felicia Rosario
• Co-Executive Producer: Julie Gaither
• Wrestlers. Executive Producers: Greg Whiteley, Ryan O’Dowd. Co-Executive Producers: Alejandro Melendez, Adam Leibowitz

BEST NEW SCRIPTED SERIES (Award given to the Creator, Executive Producer, Co-Executive Producer)

• Beef. Creator/Executive Producer: Lee Sung Jin. Executive Producers: Steven Yeun, Ali Wong, Jake Schreier, Ravi Nandan, Alli Reich. Co-Executive Producers: Alice Ju, Carrie Kemper
• Dreaming Whilst Black. Creator/Executive Producer: Adjani Salmon. Creators: Maximilian Evans, Natasha Jatania, Laura Seixas. Executive Producers: Tanya Qureshi, Dhanny Joshi, Bal Samra, Thomas Stogdon
• I’m a Virgo. Creator/Executive Producer: Boots Riley. Executive Producers: Tze Chun, Michael Ellenberg, Lindsey Springer, Jharrel Jerome, Rebecca Rivo. Co-Executive Producers: Marcus Gardley, Carver Karaszewski
• Jury Duty. Creators/Executive Producers: Lee Eisenberg, Gene Stupnitsky. Executive Producers: David Bernad, Ruben Fleischer, Nicholas Hatton, Cody Heller, Todd Schulman, Jake Szymanski, Andrew Weinberg
• Slip. Creator/Executive Producer: Zoe Lister-Jones. Executive Producers: Ro Donnelly, Dakota Johnson, Katie O’Connell Marsh, David Fortier, Ivan Schneeberg

BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE IN A NEW SCRIPTED SERIES

• Emma Corrin – A Murder at the End of the World
• Dominique Fishback – Swarm
• Betty Gilpin – Mrs. Davis
• Jharrel Jerome – I’m a Virgo
• Zoe Lister-Jones – Slip
• Bel Powley – A Small Light
• Bella Ramsey – The Last of Us
• Ramón Rodríguez – Will Trent
• Ali Wong – Beef
• Steven Yeun – Beef

BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE IN A NEW SCRIPTED SERIES

• Murray Bartlett – The Last of Us
• Billie Eilish – Swarm
• Jack Farthing – Rain Dogs
• Nick Offerman – The Last of Us
• Adina Porter – The Changeling
• Lewis Pullman – Lessons in Chemistry
• Benny Safdie – The Curse
• Luke Tennie – Shrinking
• Olivia Washington – I’m a Virgo
• Jessica Williams – Shrinking

BEST BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE IN A NEW SCRIPTED SERIES

• Clark Backo – The Changeling
• Aria Mia Loberti – All the Light We Cannot See
• Adjani Salmon – Dreaming Whilst Black
• Keivonn Montreal Woodard – The Last of Us
• Kara Young – I’m a Virgo

BEST ENSEMBLE CAST IN A NEW SCRIPTED SERIES

• Jury Duty

Ensemble Cast: Alan Barinholtz, Susan Berger, Cassandra Blair, David Brown, Kirk Fox, Ross Kimball, Pramode Kumar, Trisha LaFache, Mekki Leeper, James Marsden, Edy Modica, Kerry O’Neill, Rashida Olayiwola, Whitney Rice, Maria Russell, Ishmel Sahid, Ben Seaward, Ron Song, Evan Williams