The 2023 Film Independent Spirit Awards nominations in the film categories were revealed Tuesday morning.
Taylor Paige and Raul Castillo announced this year’s film nominees in a live stream on Film Independent’s YouTube channel.
This year marks the first year that gender-specific distinctions have been removed for the Film Independent Spirit Awards’ acting honors, replacing Best Actor/Actress and Supporting Actor/Actress with gender-neutral categories with the same combined number of nominations. The new categories are Best Lead Performance and Best Supporting Performance. Each of them will feature 10 nominees, while the new gender-neutral category of Outstanding Breakthrough Performance will feature only five nominees.
Earlier this year, the Spirit Awards raised the budget cap for eligible films to $30 million or less, or $1 million or less for the John Cassavetes Award.
The 38th Annual Film Independent Spirit Awards will be held on March 4, 2023 at Santa Monica Pier Beach. Nominations for the Spirit Awards TV categories, which include gender-neutral acting honors, will be revealed on December 13.
A full list of this year’s Spirit Awards film nominees follows.
Best feature (Producer awarded)
Bones and all
Producers: Timothée Chalamet, Francesco Melzi d’Eril, Luca Guadagnino, David Kazganich, Lorenzo Mieli, Marco Morabito, Gabriel Moratti, Theresa Park, Peter Spears
Everything Everywhere All Ohms
Producers: Daniel Kwan, Mike Larocca, Anthony Russo, Joe Russo, Daniel Scheinert, Jonathan Wong
Our father, the devil
Producers: Ellie Foumby, Joseph Mastantuno
Tar
Producers: Todd Field, Scott Lambert, Alexandra Milchan
Women are talking
Producers: Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Frances McDormand
Excellent first feature(Awarded to Director and Producer)
Later sun
Director: Charlotte Wells
Producers: Mark Seriak, Amy Jackson, Barry Jenkins, Adele Romanski
Emily the Criminal
Director: John Patton Ford
Producers: Tyler Davidson, Aubrey Plaza, Drew Sykes
inspection
Director: Sobagu Bratton
Producer: Effie T. Brown, Chester Aljournal Gordon
Murina
Director: Antoneta Alamat Kucijanovic
Producers: Danizel Peck, Rodrigo Teixeira
Palm trees and power lines
Director/Producer: Jamie Dock
Producer: Leah Chen Baker
John Cassavetes Award – Awarded for Best Feature Made Under $1,000,000 (Awarded to Writer, Director and Producer)
African Desperate
Writer/Director/Producer: Martin Sims
Writer/Producer: Rocket Kaleshu
Producer: Vic Brooks
A love song
Writer/Director/Producer: Max Walker-Silverman
Producers: Jesse Hope, Don Janway
Cathedral
Writer/Director: Ricky D’Ambrose
Producer: Graham Swann
Holy Amy
Writer/Director: Araceli Lemos
Writer/Producer: Giulia Caruso
Producers: Matthew Bompoint, Ki Jin Kim, Konstantinos Vassilaros
Something in the dirt
Writer/Director/Producer: Justin Benson
Director/Producer: Aaron Moorhead
Producer: David Lawson Jr.
Best director
Todd Field
Tar
snort
After Yang
Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert
Everything Everywhere All Ohms
Sarah Polley
Women are talking
Halina Region
Bodies are bodies are bodies
Excellent screenplay
Lena Dunham
Called Catherine Birdie
Todd Field
Tar
snort
After Yang
Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert
Everything Everywhere All Ohms
Sarah Polley
Women are talking
Best First Screenplay
Joel Kim Booster
Agni Island
A story by Jamie Dock, Audrey Findlay, Jamie Dock
Palm trees and power lines
KD Davila
emergency situation
Story by Sarah DeLappe, Kristen Roupenian
Bodies are bodies are bodies
John Patton Ford
Emily is a criminal
Best lead performance
Cate Blanchett
Tar
Dale Dickey
A love song
Mia Goth
the kiss
Regina Hall
Horn to Jesus. Save your soul.
Paul Meskal
Later sun
Aubrey Plaza
Emily is a criminal
Jeremy Pope
inspection
Andrea Riseborough
to Leslie
Taylor Russell
Bones and all
Michelle Yeoh
Everything Everywhere All Ohms
Best Supporting Performance
Jamie Lee Curtis
Everything Everywhere All Ohms
Brian Tyree Henry
Causeway
Nina Haas
Tar
Brian D’Arcy James
Cathedral
Ke Hui Quan
Everything Everywhere All Ohms
Trevante Rhodes
Bruiser
Theo Rossi
Emily is a criminal
Mark Rylance
Bones and all
Jonathan Tucker
Palm trees and power lines
Gabrielle Union
inspection
Excellent breakthrough performance (New Award)
Frankie Corio
Later sun
Gracija filipoviC
Murina
Stephanie Hsu
Everything Everywhere All Ohms
Lily McNerney
Palm trees and power lines
Daniel Zolgadri
Funny pages
Excellent cinematography
Florian Hofmeister
Tar
Helen Louvert
Murina
GREGORY Okay
Later sun
Elliott Rocket
the kiss
Anisia Uziman
Neptune Frost
Excellent editing
Ricky D’Ambrose
Cathedral
Dean Fleischer Camp, Nick Paley
Marcel the shell with shoes on
Blair McClendon
Later sun
Paul Rogers
Everything Everywhere All Ohms
Monica Willey
Tar
Robert Altman Award– Awarded to the director, casting director and ensemble cast of a film
Women are talking
Director: Sarah Polley
Casting Directors: John Buchan, Jason Knight
Ensemble Cast: Shayla Brown, Jessie Buckley, Claire Foy, Kira Guloin, Kate Hallett, Judith Ivey, Rooney Mara, Sheila McCarthy, Frances McDormand, Michelle McLeod, Liv McNeil, Ben Winter, August Winter
Best Documentary(Awarded to Director and Producer)
All breathing
Director/Producer: Shaunak Sen
Producers: Teddy Leifer, Aman Mann
All beauty and bloodshed
Director/Producer: Laura Poitras
Producers: Howard Gertler, Nan Goldin, Yoni Golizov, John Lyons
A house made of splinters
Director: Simon Lereng Wilmont
Producer: Monica Hellstrom
Nurses
Director/Producer: Snow Hnin I Hlaing
Producers: Mila Ang-Thwin, Ulla Lehman, Bob Moore
Wrightsville, USA
Director: Sierra Pettengill
Producers: Sarah Archambault, Jamila Vignot
Best International Film(Awarded to Director)
Corsage
Austria/Luxembourg/France/Belgium/Italy/England
Director: Mary Kreutzer
Joyland
Pakistan/USA
Director: Saim Sadiq
Leonor never dies
Philippines
Director: Martica Ramirez Escobar
Back to Seoul
South Korea/France/Belgium/Romania
Director: Davey Chow
Saint Omer
France
Director: Alice Diop
The Producers Award is presented by Bullet Frontier Whiskey– The Producers Award, now in its 26th year, honors emerging producers who, despite increasingly limited resources, demonstrate the creativity, tenacity and vision necessary to produce quality independent films.
Liz Cardenas
Tori Lenosky
David Grove Churchill Viste
Anyone to watch the award – The Someone to Watch Award, now in its 29th year, recognizes talented filmmakers with a singular vision who have yet to receive due recognition.
Adama Ebo
Horn to Jesus. Save your soul.
Nikyatu Jusu
nanny
Araceli Lemos
Holy Amy
A truth rather than fiction award– The Truer Than Fiction Award, now in its 28th year, is given to emerging directors of nonfiction features that have yet to receive significant recognition.
Isabel Castro
Miza
Reed Davenport
I didn’t see you there
Rebecca Hunt
no need