Ira Sachs’ “Peter Hujar’s Day,” which recreates an interview with the Seventies photographer, led the Film Independent Spirit Awards nominations with 5 nods, together with greatest characteristic, director, in addition to lead and supporting performances for Ben Whishaw and Rebecca Hall. The group introduced nominees for the forty first version of the present Wednesday.
Several movies adopted with 4 nominations, together with greatest characteristic and greatest director, like Clint Bentley’s lyrical Denis Johnson adaptation “Train Dreams,” and Eva Victor’s “Sorry, Baby,” about life after an assault. First options receiving 4 nods have been “Blue Sun Palace,” “One of Them Days” and “Lurker.”
James Sweeney’s darkish comedy “Twinless” and “The Plague,” which like “Train Dreams” additionally stars Joel Edgerton, have been additionally nominated for greatest characteristic.
Edgerton was among the many 10 greatest performing nominees, for “Train Dreams,” alongside the likes of Rose Byrne (“If I Had Legs I’d Kick You”), Dylan O’Brien (“Twinless”), Keke Palmer (“One of Them Days”), Tessa Thompson (“Hedda”) and Whishaw, who was additionally nominated for the Netflix collection “Black Doves.” The group switched to gender impartial performing classes in 2022.
Supporting efficiency nominees embody: Naomi Ackie (“Sorry, Baby”), Zoey Deutch ( “Nouvelle Vague” ), Kirsten Dunst (“Roofman”), Nina Hoss (“Hedda”), Jane Levy (“A Little Prayer”), Archie Madekwe (“Lurker”), Kali Reis (“Rebuilding”), Jacob Tremblay (“Sovereign”) and Haipeng Xu (“Blue Sun Palace”).
The Robert Altman Award, for one movie’s directing, ensemble and casting, went to the Stephen King adaptation “The Long Walk,” with Mark Hamill, Cooper Hoffman and David Jonsson.
Among the worldwide movie nominees have been “Sirāt,”“The Secret Agent” and “On Becoming a Guinea Fowl.” Documentaries acknowledged embody “Come See Me in the Good Light,” “My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow,” “The Perfect Neighbor,” “The Tale of Silyan” and “Endless Cookie.”
The Spirit Awards additionally honor tv reveals, the place “Adolescence,” “Forever” and “Mr Loverman” led with 4 nominations every. The group mentioned its nominees hailed from 18 totally different international locations, with 41% figuring out as girls.
Sometimes the Spirit Awards overlap considerably with main Oscar contenders and winners, because it did with “Anora,” and the “Everything Everywhere All At Once” yr, and typically not. The awards restrict eligibility to productions with budgets lower than $30 million, which means costlier productions like “One Battle After Another” weren’t within the working.
The forty first version of the Spirit Awards shall be leaving its longtime house close to the Santa Monica Pier for the Hollywood Palladium. The present, which serves as a fundraiser for Film Independent’s year-round applications, shall be held on Feb. 15, practically a month earlier than the Oscars.
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