“Let’s dream big. It’s our time to do it.”
Co-director Daniel Kwan accepted the Best Picture award at Saturday’s Film Independent Spirit Awards, urging an audience of filmmakers and industry professionals to take advantage of the uncertainty of the moment in the entertainment industry and make the most of it. to make. It.
Written and directed by Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, “Everything Everywhere” won the awards with a record seven awards, winning every category in which it was nominated. The only award it didn’t win was for Jamie Lee Curtis, who lost to its opening act. Artist of her co-star Ke Huy Quan.
Previously, three films, Moonlight, Sideways and Pulp Fiction, each won six Spirit Awards.
In the prize tent on the beach at Santa Monica Pier, tension fluctuated all afternoon between the earnestness and sincere emotion of the winners and a sense of desperation and cynicism on the part of presenter and host Hasan Minhaj.
“No one asked you to do the movies you made,” the comedian joked in his opening statement, “and frankly, no one was watching.”
Minhaj opened the show with a murderous monologue that takes an uncompromising approach to the world of independent cinema, including those who make it, the audiences who see it and even the journalists who cover it.
Minhaj specially noted that this year’s show was streamed on YouTube but had no TV channel as it lost its old home IFC.
“Let me reiterate how bad it is,” Minhaj said. “The Independent Film Channel didn’t want the Independent Film Awards.”
Minhaj also noted that Will Ferrell’s ill-conceived 2008 basketball comedy Semi-Pro aired on IFC.
Minhaj then indulged in a long series of wild jokes on the industry website Deadline, declaring it to be a “journalism piece of s-” and saying it was “half gossip, half Ezra Miller crime tracker”, and he gasped loudly during the hearing.
At the first award ceremony, former host Aubrey Plaza, who was nominated for her starring role in Emily the Criminal, joked about the show’s lack of a broadcast partnership, saying she “became so indie towards the end that no one was watching.” can”.
Plaza then said she believes future shows should be done without cameras and the prize itself should be a cup full of broken glass. Plaza had the audience sing along with actress and ‘Women Talking’ producer Frances McDormand: ‘Drink glass! have a drink!”
Jamie Lee Curtis presented her Everything Everywhere filmmakers with the Best Screenplay Award, urging audiences to see films in theaters “the way they were meant to be seen”.
This was the Spirit Awards’ first year to present non-gender acting awards, expanding the number of nominees to 10 in a single category.
Picking up an award for starring in a new screenplay series for Abbott Elementary, Quinta Brunson said, “I kind of like the gender neutral thing, it’s kind of tight.”
The awards ceremony was preceded by a cocktail reception, where filmmakers, journalists, executives, some of the not-so-famous nominees and several people who made the independent film world hung out in a converted parking lot sipping Bulleit bourbon cocktails as the sun played Cuckoo behind a cloudy sky. heaven.
Sundance Film Festival executives mingled with representatives from smaller regional festivals. Publicists compared their fat loafers, while audience topics of conversation ranged from whether everything feels normal for kids in college, to health and wellness, to politics, to a sense of confusion and concern about the future of film and television.
Filmmaker Nikyatu Jusu, who won the 2022 Grand Jury Prize at Sundance for her film “Nanny” and was on the verge of winning Saturday’s One to Watch Award, walked the red carpet in the reception area and explained what it means to to be honored with the Spirit Awards.
“I feel like it’s a family reunion of people who have been cut off from some of the bigger platforms,” Jusu said, citing filmmakers like Ellie Foumbi for Our Father, the Devil and Charlotte Wells for Aftersun. “This is really my tribe.”
“The Spirit Awards are special because they’re a celebration of a lot of sheer willpower that needs to be done,” said Andrew Ahn, director of the rom-com Fire Island, whose screenwriter Joel Kim Booster was nominated for the first screenplay. . .
Ahn’s debut film Spa Night won the John Cassavetes Award at The Spirits in 2017. “It was the first place that really recognized ‘Spa Night’ and put me in a headspace where I thought, ‘I think I can do it as a filmmaker.'”
Prior to the screening, Film Independent president Josh Welsh, who hosted the show, spoke about the overlap (or lack thereof) between Spirit Awards and Oscar winners.
“There are certain movies when it comes to where you’re going, ‘This is a movie that speaks to today’s culture and is recognized by every award show and is really driven right now,'” Welsh said.
“What I like about the Spirit Awards is the breadth of our nominations, from movies like ‘Everything Oral’ and ‘Tár’ that are widely acclaimed, and we also have those movies that are lesser known or less visible,” added Welsh please. “And if some of them appear at the Oscars, they’ll have more power.”
Read the full list of winners below:
Best feature
“Boats and all”
“Everything everywhere at once” | WINNER
“Our Father the Devil”
“Tar”
“women speak”
Best lead performance
Cate Blanchett, “Tar”
Dale Dickey, “A Love Song”
Mia Goth, “Pearl”
Regina Hall, “Dead to Jesus. save your soul”
Paul Mescal, “After the sun”
Aubrey Plaza, “Emily the Criminal”
Jeremy Pope, “The Inspection”
Andrea Riseborough, “To Leslie”
Taylor Russell, “Bone and All”
Michelle Yeoh, “Everything Everywhere at Once” | WINNER
Best Supporting Performance
Jamie Lee Curtis, “Everything Everywhere at Once”
Brian Tyree Henry, “Cause Way”
Nina Hoss, “Tar”
Brian d’Arcy James, “The Cathedral”
Ke Huy Quan, “Everything and everywhere at once” | WINNER
Trevante Rhodes, “Bruiser”
Theo Rossi, “Emily the Criminal”
Mark Rylance, “Bone and All”
Jonathan Tucker, “Palm Trees and Power Lines”
Gabrielle Union, “The Inspection”
Dear Director
Todd Field, “Tar”
Kogonada, “Na Yang”
Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, “Everything Everywhere at Once” | WINNER
Sarah Polley, “Women Talk”
Halina Reijn, “Body Body Body”
Best screenplay
Lena Dunham, “Catherine Called Birdy”
Todd Field, “Tar”
Kogonada, “Na Yang”
Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, “Everything Everywhere at Once” | WINNER
Sarah Polley, “Women Talk”
Best Documentary
“Everything That Breathes”
“All the Beauty and the Bloodshed” | WINNER
“A house of splinters”
“midwives”
“Riotsville, USA”
Best International Film
“Corsage” (Austria/Belgium/England/France/Italy/Luxembourg)
“Joyland” (Pakistan/USA) | WINNER
“Leonor will never die” (Philippines)
“Return to Seoul” (Belgium/France/Romania/South Korea)
“Saint Omer” (France)
Best Cinematography
Florian Hoffmeister, “Tar” | WINNER
Helene Louvart, “Murina”
Gregory Oke “After Sun”
Eliot Rockett, “Pearl”
Anisia Uzeyman, “Neptune Frost”
Best editing
Dean Fleischer Camp and Nick Paley, “Marcel the Shell With Shoes On”
Ricky D’Ambrose, “The Cathedral”
Blair McClendon, “After Sun”
Paul Rogers, “Everything everywhere at once” | WINNER
Monika Willi, “Tar”
Best First Feature Film
“Nazon” | WINNER
“Emily the Criminal”
“The Inspection”
“Muri”
“Palm Trees and Power Lines”
Best Breakthrough Performance
Frankie Corio, “After Sun”
Gracija Filipovic, “Murina”
Stephanie Hsu, “Everything Everywhere at Once” | WINNER
Lily McInerny, “Palm Trees and Power Lines”
Daniel Zolghadri, “Funny Pages”
Best First Screenplay
Joel Kim Booster, “Island of Fire”
Jamie Dack and Audrey Findlay, Jamie Dack story, “Palm Trees and Power Lines”
KD Dávila, “Emergency”
Sarah DeLappe, Kristen Roupenian story, “Bodies Bodies Bodies”
John Patton Ford, “Emily the Criminal” | WINNER
Best New Series Written
“The Bear” (FX on Hulu) | WINNER
“Pachinko” (Apple TV+)
“The Doorman” (BET+ / CBC Television)
“Severance Pay” (Apple TV+)
“Station Eleven” (HBO Max)
Best New Series Without Script or Documentary
“Children of the Subway” (FX)
“Thought About Murder” (HBO)
“Pepsi, where’s my jet?” (netflix)
“The Monster” (HBO) | WINNER
“We Need to Talk About Cosby” (Showtime)
Best Leading Role in a New Scripted Series
Aml Ameen, “The Porter” (BET+ / CBC Television)
Mohammed Amer, “Mo” (Netflix)
Quinta Brunson, “Abbott Elementary School” (ABC) | WINNER
Bridget Everett, “Somewhere” (HBO Max)
KaMillion, “Rap S-” (HBO Max)
Melanie Lynskey, “Yellowjackets” (Showtime)
Himesh Patel, “Station Eleven” (HBO Max)
Sue Ann Pien, “As We See It” (Prime Video)
Adam Scott, “Severance Pay” (Apple TV+)
Ben Whishaw, “It’s Gonna Hurt” (AMC+ / BBC One)
Best Side Performance in a New Series
Danielle Deadwyler, “Station Eleven” (HBO Max)
Ayo Edebiri, “The Bear” (FX on Hulu) | WINNER
Jeff Hiller, “Somewhere” (HBO Max)
Gbemisola Ikumelo, “A Class Apart” (Prime Video)
Janelle James, “Abbott Elementary School” (ABC)
Ebon Moss-Bachrach, “The Bear” (FX on Hulu)
Frankie Quiñones, “That Fool” (Hulu)
Sheryl Lee Ralph, “Abbott Elementary School” (ABC)
Molly Shannon, “I Love That For You” (Showtime)
Tramell Tillman, “Severance Payment” (Apple TV+)
Best Ensemble Cast in a New Series of Screenplays
“Pachinko” – Soji Arai, Jin Ha, Inji Jeong, Minha Kim, Kaho Minami, Lee Minho, Steve Sanghyun Noh, Anna Sawai, Jimmi Simpson and Yuh-jung Youn | WINNER
Robert Altman Prize
“Women Talking” – Sarah Polley (Director), John Buchan (Defining Director), Jason Knight (Defining Director), Shayla Brown, Jessie Buckley, Claire Foy, Kira Guloien, Kate Hallett, Judith Ivey, Rooney Mara, Sheila McCarthy, Frances McDormand, Michelle McLeod, Liv McNeil, Ben Whishaw and August Winter | WINNER
John Cassavetes Prize
“The African Desperation”
“The Cathedral” | WINNER
“Saint Amy”
“A Love Song”
“Something in the Mud”
True as Fiction Awards
Isabel Castro, “Miya”
Reid Davenport, “I Didn’t See You There” | WINNER
Rebecca Huntt, “Beba”
Someone at the price of reputation
Adamma Ebo, “Before Jesus. Save your soul.”
Nikyatu Jusu, “nanny” | WINNER
Araceli Lemos, “Holy Amy”
producer price
Liz Cardenas
Tory Lensky| WINNER
David Grove Churchill Fishing
Source: LA Times