





It’s beginning to look a lot like awards season. The 37th annual Film Independent Spirit Awards nominations were announced this morning by Beanie Feldstein, Regina Hall and Naomi Watts. Netflix received nine nominations, including The Lost Daughter, for Best Feature and Best Screenplay; Prayers for the Stolen, for Best International Film; Procession, for Best Documentary; and Passing, for Best Cinematography.

Nominations for The Lost Daughter, based on the Elena Ferrante novel, also include Maggie Gyllenhaal, for Best Director, and Jessie Buckley, for Best Supporting Female. Other talent nods are Ruth Negga, for Best Supporting Female in Passing, and Lee Jung-jae, for Best Male Performance in a New Scripted Series in Squid Game — and for living all our dreams of getting slapped by Gong Yoo.

To qualify, eligible projects must meet a cutoff budget of $22.5 million. After going virtual in 2021 due to COVID-19 restrictions, the Spirit Awards will return to Santa Monica Beach in-person on March 6.
Here is the full list of this year’s Spirit nominees:
Best Feature A Chiara C’mon C’mon The Lost Daughter The Novice Zola
Best Director Janicza Bravo, Zola Maggie Gyllenhaal, The Lost Daughter Lauren Hadaway, The Novice Mike Mills, C’mon, C’mon Ninja Thyberg, Pleasure
Best First Feature 7 Days Holler Queen of Glory Test Pattern Wild Indian
Best Female Lead Isabelle Fuhrman, The Novice Brittany S. Hall, Test Pattern Patti Harrison, Together Together Taylour Paige, Zola Kali Reis, Catch the Fair One
Best Male Lead Clifton Collins, Jr., Jockey Frankie Faison, The Killing of Kenneth Chamberlain Michael Greyeyes, Wild Indian Udo Kier, Swan Song Simon Rex, Red Rocket
Best Supporting Female Jessie Buckley, The Lost Daughter Amy Forsyth, The Novice Ruth Negga, Passing Revika Anne Reustle, Pleasure Suzanna Son, Red Rocket
Best Supporting Male Colman Domingo, Zola Meeko Gattuso, Queen of Glory Troy Kotsur, CODA Will Patton, Sweet Thing Chaske Spencer, Wild Indian
Best Screenplay C’mon, C’mon The Lost Daughter Swan Song Together Together Zola
Best First Screenplay Cicada Mass Pig Test Pattern Wild Indian
Best Cinematography A Chiara Blue Bayou The Humans Passing Zola
Best Editing A Chiara The Killing of Kenneth Chamberlain The Novice The Nowhere Inn Zola
Robert Altman Award The Director, Cast, and Casting Director of Mass
Best Documentary Ascension Flee In the Same Breath Procession Summer of Soul
Best International Film Compartment No. 6 Drive My Car Parallel Mothers Pebbles Petite Maman Prayers for the Stolen
Someone to Watch Award Alex Camilleri, Luzzu Gillian Wallace Horvat, I Blame Society Michael Sarnoski, Pig
Truer Than Fiction Award North by Current Faya Dayi Try Harder!
John Cassavetes Award Cryptozoo Jockey Shiva Baby Sweet Thing This Is Not a War Story
Producers Award Brad Becker-Parton Pin-Chun Liu Lizzie Shapiro
Best New Non-Scripted or Documentary Series Black and Missing The Choe Show The Lady and the Dale Nuclear Family Philly D.A.
Best New Scripted Series Blindspotting It’s a Sin Reservation Dogs The Underground Railroad We Are Lady Parts
Best Female Performance in a Scripted Series Thuso Mbedu, The Underground Railroad Anjana Vasan, We Are Lady Parts Jana Schmieding, Rutherford Falls Jasmine Cephas Jones, Blindspotting Deborah Ayorinde, THEM: Covenant
Best Male Performance in a Scripted Series Ollie Alexander, It’s a Sin Murray Bartlett, The White Lotus Michael Greyeyes, Rutherford Falls Ashley Thomas, THEM: Covenant Lee Jung-jae, Squid Game
Best Ensemble Cast in a New Scripted Series Reservation Dogs






































