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Independent Spirit Award

Best Feature

Winner
Past Lives
7.8 (137K)
David Hinojosa(producer)
Pamela Koffler(producer)
Christine Vachon(producer)
All of Us Strangers
7.6 (62K)
Graham Broadbent(producer)
Peter Czernin(producer)
Sarah Harvey(producer)
American Fiction
7.5 (102K)
Cord Jefferson(producer)
Jermaine Johnson(producer)
Nikos Karamigios(producer)
Ben LeClair(producer)
May December
6.8 (64K)
Jessica Elbaum(producer)
Will Ferrell(producer)
Grant S. Johnson(producer)
Pamela Koffler(producer)
Tyler W. Konney(producer)
Sophie Mas(producer)
Natalie Portman(producer)
Christine Vachon(producer)
Passages
6.6 (13K)
Michel Merkt(producer)
Saïd Ben Saïd(producer)
We Grown Now
6.8 (957)
Minhal Baig(producer)
Joe Pirro(producer)

Best First Feature

Winner
A Thousand and One
7.0 (7.6K)
A.V. Rockwell(director)
Julia Lebedev(producer)
Rishi Rajani(producer)
Eddie Vaisman(producer)
Lena Waithe(producer)
Brad Weston(producer)
All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt
5.8 (1.2K)
Raven Jackson(director)
Maria Altamirano(producer)
Mark Ceryak(producer)
Barry Jenkins(producer)
Adele Romanski(producer)
Chronicles of a Wandering Saint
7.3 (129)
Tomás Gómez Bustillo(director)
Gewan Brown(producer)
Amanda Freedman(producer)
Earth Mama
6.6 (1.1K)
Savanah Leaf(director/producer)
Sam Bisbee(producer)
Shirley O'Connor(producer)
Medb Riordan(producer)
Cody Ryder(producer)
Upon Entry
7.0 (3.4K)
Sergio Adrià(producer)
Carlos Juárez(producer)
Alba Sotorra(producer)
Carles Torras(producer)
Alejandro Rojas(director)
Juan Sebastián Vasquez(director)
Xosé Zapata(producer)

Best Director

Best Screenplay

Winner
American Fiction
7.5 (102K)
Cord Jefferson
The Holdovers
7.9 (172K)
David Hemingson
Birth/Rebirth
6.2 (7.4K)
Laura Moss
Brendan J. O'Brien
Bottoms
6.7 (49K)
Emma Seligman
Rachel Sennott
Past Lives
7.8 (137K)
Celine Song

Best First Screenplay

Winner
May December
6.8 (64K)
Samy Burch
Alex Mechanik
Theater Camp
6.9 (18K)
Noah Galvin
Molly Gordon
Nick Lieberman
Ben Platt
Chronicles of a Wandering Saint
7.3 (129)
Tomás Gómez Bustillo
The Starling Girl
6.7 (2.7K)
Laurel Parmet
Upon Entry
7.0 (3.4K)
Alejandro Rojas
Juan Sebastián Vasquez

Best Cinematography

Best International Film

Winner
Anatomy of a Fall
7.7 (157K)
Justine Triet
France
Godland
7.1 (7.9K)
Hlynur Pálmason
Denmark/Iceland
Mami Wata
6.5 (494)
C.J. 'Fiery' Obasi
Nigeria
Totem
7.0 (3.4K)
Lila Avilés
Mexico
The Zone of Interest
7.4 (118K)
Jonathan Glazer
United Kingdom/Poland/USA

Best Documentary

Winner
Four Daughters
7.4 (3.6K)
Kaouther Ben Hania(director)
Nadim Cheikhrouha(producer)
Bye Bye Tiberias
7.4 (556)
Lina Soualem(director)
Jean-Marie Nizan(producer)
Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project
6.6 (662)
Joe Brewster(director/producer)
Michèle Stephenson(director/producer)
Tommy Oliver(producer)
Kokomo City
7.1 (1.3K)
D. Smith(director)
Bill Butler(producer)
Harris Doran(producer)
The Mother of All Lies
6.7 (472)
Asmae El Moudir(director/producer)

Best Editing

Winner
How to Blow Up a Pipeline
6.9 (11K)
Daniel Garber
Rotting in the Sun
6.9 (3.9K)
Santiago Cendejas
Sofía Subercaseaux
Gabriel Díaz
We Grown Now
6.8 (957)
Stephanie Filo
Theater Camp
6.9 (18K)
Jon Philpot
Upon Entry
7.0 (3.4K)
Emanuele Tiziani

Best Breakthrough Performance

Winner
The Holdovers
7.9 (172K)
Dominic Sessa
Bottoms
6.7 (49K)
Marshawn Lynch
Mountains
7.4 (114)
Atibon Nazaire
Earth Mama
6.6 (1.1K)
Tia Nomore
Fremont
6.9 (3.3K)
Anaita Wali Zada

Best Breakthrough Performance in a New Scripted Series

Winner
The Last of Us
8.7 (581K)
Keivonn Woodard
The Changeling
5.8 (6.1K)
Clark Backo
All the Light We Cannot See
7.5 (49K)
Aria Mia Loberti
Dreaming Whilst Black
7.3 (701)
Adjani Salmon
I'm a Virgo
7.1 (4.2K)
Kara Young

Best New Non-Scripted or Documentary Series

Winner
Dear Mama
8.6 (1.7K)
Lasse Järvi(executive producer)
Quincy Jones III(executive producer)
Staci Robinson(executive producer)
Nelson George(executive producer)
Charles D. King(executive producer)
Peter Nelson(executive producer)
Adel Nur(executive producer)
Jamal Joseph(executive producer)
Ted Skillman(executive producer)
Allen Hughes(executive producer)
Steve Berman(executive producer)
Marc Cimino(executive producer)
John Janick(executive producer)
Nicholas Ferrall(executive producer)
Nigel Sinclair(executive producer)
Jody Gerson(executive producer)
Deadlocked: How America Shaped the Supreme Court
6.1 (108)
Vinnie Malhotra(executive producer)
Aaron Saidman(executive producer)
Eli Holzman(executive producer)
Dawn Porter(executive producer)
Murder in Big Horn
6.6 (367)
Matthew Galkin(executive producer)
Vinnie Malhotra(executive producer)
Lisa Kalikow(co-executive producer)
Joshua Levine(co-executive producer)
Stolen Youth: Inside the Cult at Sarah Lawrence
7.2 (2.7K)
Mindy Goldberg(executive producer)
Dan Cogan(executive producer)
Liz Garbus(executive producer)
Jon Bardin(executive producer)
Zach Heinzerling(executive producer)
Krista Parris(executive producer)
Daniel Barban Levin(executive producer)
Felicia Rosario(executive producer)
Julie Gaither(co-executive producer)
Wrestlers
8.1 (2K)
Greg Whiteley(executive producer)
Ryan O'Dowd(executive producer)
Alejandro Melendez(co-executive producer)
Adam Leibowitz(co-executive producer)

Best New Scripted Series

Winner
Beef
8.0 (145K)
Lee Sung Jin(creator/executive producer)
Steven Yeun(executive producer)
Ali Wong(executive producer)
Jake Schreier(executive producer)
Ravi Nandan(executive producer)
Alli Reich(executive producer)
Alice Ju(co-executive producer)
Carrie Kemper(co-executive producer)
Dreaming Whilst Black
7.3 (701)
Adjani Salmon(creator/executive producer)
Maximilian Evans(creator)
Natasha Jatania(creator)
Laura Seixas(creator)
Tanya Qureshi(executive producer)
Dhanny Joshi(executive producer)
Thomas Stogdon(executive producer)
Bal Samra(executive producer)
I'm a Virgo
7.1 (4.2K)
Boots Riley(creator/executive producer)
Tze Chun(executive producer)
Michael Ellenberg(executive producer)
Lindsey Springer(executive producer)
Jharrel Jerome(executive producer)
Rebecca Rivo(executive producer)
Marcus Gardley(co-executive producer)
Carver Karaszewski(co-executive producer)
Jury Duty
8.2 (49K)
Lee Eisenberg(creator/executive producer)
Gene Stupnitsky(creator/executive producer)
David Bernad(executive producer)
Ruben Fleischer(executive producer)
Nicholas Hatton(executive producer)
Cody Heller(executive producer)
Todd Schulman(executive producer)
Jake Szymanski(executive producer)
Andrew Weinberg(executive producer)
Slip
6.5 (1.2K)
Zoe Lister-Jones(creator/executive producer)
Ro Donnelly(executive producer)
Dakota Johnson(executive producer)
Katie O'Connell(executive producer)
David Fortier(executive producer)
Ivan Schneeberg(executive producer)

John Cassavetes Award

Winner
Fremont
6.9 (3.3K)
Babak Jalali(director/writer)
Carolina Cavalli(writer)
Rachael Fung(producer)
Chris Martin(producer)
Marjaneh Moghimi(producer)
George Rush(producer)
Sudnya Shroff(producer)
Laura Wagner(producer)
The Artifice Girl
6.6 (11K)
Franklin Ritch(director/writer)
Aaron B. Koontz(producer)
Ashleigh Snead(producer)
Cadejo Blanco
6.6 (200)
Justin Lerner(director/writer/producer)
Mauricio Escobar(producer)
Ryan Friedkin(producer)
Jack Patrick Hurley(producer)
Rotting in the Sun
6.9 (3.9K)
Sebastián Silva(director/writer)
Pedro Peirano(writer)
Jacob Wasserman(producer)
The Unknown Country
6.3 (833)
Morrisa Maltz(director/writer/producer)
Lily Gladstone(writer)
Lainey Shangreaux(writer/producer)
Vanara Taing(writer/producer)
Katherine Harper(producer)
Laura Heberton(producer)
Tommy Heitkamp(producer)

Robert Altman Award

Winner
Showing Up
6.3 (6.2K)
Kelly Reichardt(director)
Gayle Keller(casting director)
André 3000
Hong Chau
Judd Hirsch
Heather Lawless
James Le Gros
John Magaro
Matt Malloy
Amanda Plummer
Maryann Plunkett
Denzel Rodriguez
Michelle Williams

Truer Than Fiction Award

Producers Award

Someone to Watch Award

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Film Independent's Spirit Awards
FINDIE Awards ("Friends of Independents")
Independent Spirit Awards

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