Here are all the winners from the 2024 Film Independent Spirit Awards

While certain other awards shows during the ever-busy awards season tend to focus on the big-name hits from the big-name studios, with a whole “classy, professionalism” thing, the Film Independent Spirit Awards—celebrating its 39th anniversary this year—always has a more freewheeling indie bent (host Aidy Bryant called it the “bisexual Oscars” in a funny opening monologue). To the extent that an awards show can be cool, this one (which highlights the best in independent film and television) is generally pretty cool. It’s just a nice, friendly vibe.

Early winners included Da’Vine Joy Randolph from The Holdovers (locking up a competitive category, but they’re all pretty competitive without being separated by gender), Nick Offerman for The Last Of Us (who called out the “assholes” who had a homophobic reaction to his big episode of the show), and the documentary Four Daughters (director Kaouther Ben Hania specifically told Natalie Portman she should see it, which was cool).

Past Lives ended up getting some big ones at the end of the evening, with director Celine Song winning Best Director and the film itself winning Best Feature. Best Lead Performance, meanwhile, went to Jeffrey Wright (who quipped that awards season can get pretty boring until you win a trophy) for American Fiction.

Here’s the full list of winners and nominees from the Film Independent Spirit Awards, with winners in bold.

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Best Feature

Past Lives

All Of Us Strangers

American Fiction

May December

Passages

We Grown Now

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 Director

Andrew Haigh, All of Us Strangers

Todd Haynes, May December

William Oldroyd, Eileen

Ira Sachs, Passages

Celine Song, Past Lives

Truer Than Fiction Award

Set Hernandez, Unseen

Best First Feature

A Thousand And One

Upon Entry

Earth Mama

Chronicles Of A Wandering Saint

All Dirt Roads Taste Of Salt

Robert Altman Award

Kelly Reichardt, Showing Up

Producers Award

Monique Walton

Best Breakthrough Performance

Marshawn Lynch, Bottoms

Atibon Nazaire, Mountains

Tia Nomore, Earth Mama

Dominic Sessa, The Holdovers

Anaita Wali Zada, Fremont

Someone To Watch Award

Monica Sorelle

John Cassavetes Award

Fremont

Best Cinematography

The Holdovers

Monica

All Dirt Roads Taste Of Salt

Chronicles Of A Wandering Saint

We Grown Now

Best Editing

How To Blow Up A Pipeline

Rotting In The Sun

We Grown Now

Theater Camp

Upon Entry

Best New Scripted Series

Beef

Dreaming Whilst Black

I’m A Virgo

Jury Duty

Slip

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 New Non-Scripted Or Documentary Series

Dear Mama

Deadlocked

Murder In Big Horn

Stolen Youth: Inside The Cult At Sarah Lawrence

Wrestlers

Best Ensemble Cast

Jury Duty

Best Screenplay

David Hemingson, The Holdovers

Cord Jefferson, American Fiction

Laura Moss and Brendan J. O’Brien, Birth/Rebirth

Emma Seligman and Rachel Sennott, Bottoms

Celine Song, Past Lives

Best First Screenplay

Samy Burch and Alex Mechanik, 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 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 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 Documentary

Four Daughters

Bye Bye Tiberias

Going To Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project

Kokomo City

The Mother Of All Lies

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 International Film

Anatomy Of A Fall

Godland

Mami Wata

Tótem

The Zone Of Interest