The film, “The Lost Daughter” took home best director, screenplay and best feature honors from 37th Film Independent Spirit Awards which is held on the Saturday afternoon before the Oscars — returned to an in-person event held in Santa Monica after being virtual in 2021.
Here is the list of winners:
BEST FEATURE (Award given to the producer. Executive Producers are not awarded.
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The Lost Daughter (WINNER) : Producers: Charles Dorfman, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Osnat Handelsman Keren, Talia Kleinhendler
A Chiara : Producers: Jonas Carpignano, Paolo Carpignano, Jon Coplon, Ryan Zacarias
C’mon C’mon : Producers: Chelsea Barnard, Andrea Longacre-White, Lila Yacoub
The Novice : Producers: Ryan Hawkins, Kari Hollend, Steven Sims, Zack Zucker
Zola : Producers: Kara Baker, Dave Franco, Elizabeth Haggard, David Hinojosa, Vince Jolivette, Christine Vachon, Gia Walsh
BEST FEMALE LEAD
Taylour Paige, Zola (WINNER)
Isabelle Fuhrman, The Novice
Brittany S. Hall, Test Pattern
Patti Harrison, Together Together
Kali Reis, Catch the Fair One
BEST MALE LEAD
Simon Rex, Red Rocket (WINNER)
Clifton Collins Jr., Jockey
Frankie Faison, The Killing of Kenneth Chamberlain
Michael Greyeyes, Wild Indian
Udo Kier, Swan Song
BEST SUPPORTING FEMALE
Ruth Negga, Passing (WINNER)
Jessie Buckley, The Lost Daughter
Amy Forsyth, The Novice
Revika Reustle, Pleasure
Suzanna Son, Red Rocket
BEST SUPPORTING MALE
Troy Kotsur, CODA (WINNER)
Colman Domingo, Zola
Meeko Gattuso, Queen of Glory
Will Patton, Sweet Thing
Chaske Spencer, Wild Indian
BEST DIRECTOR
Maggie Gyllenhaal, The Lost Daughter (WINNER)
Janicza Bravo, Zola
Lauren Hadaway, The Novice
Mike Mills, C’mon C’mon
Ninja Thyberg, Pleasure
BEST SCREENPLAY
Maggie Gyllenhaal, The Lost Daughter (WINNER)
Nikole Beckwith, Together Together
Janicza Bravo and Jeremy O. Harris, Zola
Mike Mills, C’mon C’mon
Todd Stephens, Swan Song
BEST FIRST FEATURE (Award given to director and producer)
7 Days (WINNER) : Director: Roshan Sethi, Producers: Liz Cardenas, Mel Eslyn
Holler : Director: Nicole Riegel, Producers: Adam Cobb, Rachel Gould, Katie Mcneill, Jamie Patricof, Christy Spitzer Thornton
Queen of Glory : Director: Nana Mensah, Producers: Baff Akoto, Anya Migdal, Kelley Robins Hicks, Jamund Washington
Test Pattern : Director/Producer: Shatara Michelle Ford, Producers: Pin-Chun Liu, Yu-Hao Su
Wild Indian : Director/Producer: Lyle Mitchell Corbine, Jr., Producers: Thomas Mahoney, Eric Tavitian
BEST FIRST SCREENPLAY
Michael Sarnoski; story by Vanessa Block, Michael Sarnoski, Pig (WINNER)
Lyle Mitchell Corbine Jr., Wild Indian
Matt Fifer; story by Sheldon D. Brown, Cicada
Shatara Michelle Ford, Test Pattern
Fran Kranz, Mass
JOHN CASSAVETES AWARD
Shiva Baby (WINNER) : Writer/Director/Producer: Emma Seligman
, Producers: Kieran Altmann, Katie Schiller, Lizzie Shapiro
Cryptozoo : Writer/Director: Dash Shaw, Producers: Tyler Davidson, Kyle Martin, Jane Samborski, Bill Way
Jockey : Writer/Director/Producer: Clint Bentley, Writer/Producer: Greg Kwedar, Producer: Nancy Schafer
Sweet Thing : Writer/Director: Alexandre Rockwell, Producers: Louis Anania, Haley Anderson, Kenan Baysal
This Is Not a War Story : Writer/Director/Producer: Talia Lugacy, Producers: Noah Lang, Julian West
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Edu Grau, Passing (WINNER)
Ante Cheng, Matthew Chuang, Blue Bayou
Lol Crawley, The Humans
Tim Curtin, A Chiara
Ari Wegner, Zola
BEST EDITING
Joi McMillon, Zola (WINNER)
Affonso Gonçalves, A Chiara
Ali Greer, The Nowhere Inn
Lauren Hadaway, Nathan Nugent, The Novice
Enrico Natale, The Killing of Kenneth Chamberlain
BEST DOCUMENTARY
Summer of Soul (…Or, When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised) (WINNER) : Director: Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson, Producers: David Dinerstein, Robert Fyvolent, Joseph Patel
Ascension : Director/Producer: Jessica Kingdon, Producers: Kira Simon-Kennedy, Nathan Truesdell
Flee : Director: Jonas Poher Rasmussen, Producers: Monica Hellström, Signe Byrge Sørensen
In the Same Breath : Director/Producer: Nanfu Wang, Producers: Christopher Clements, Julie Goldman, Carolyn Hepburn, Jialing Zhang
Procession : Director: Robert Greene, Producers: Susan Bedusa, Bennett Elliott, Douglas Tirola
BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM
Drive My Car (Japan) (WINNER) : Director: Ryusuke Hamaguchi
Compartment No. 6 (Finland/Russia) :Director: Juho Kuosmanen
Parallel Mothers (Spain) : Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Pebbles (India) :Director: P S Vinothraj
Petite Maman (France) : Director: Céline Sciamma
Prayers for the Stolen (Mexico) :Director: Tatiana Huezo
ROBERT ALTMAN AWARD
Mass : Director: Fran Kranz
Casting Directors: Henry Russell Bergstein, Allison Estrin
Ensemble Cast: Kagen Albright, Reed Birney, Michelle N. Carter, Ann Dowd, Jason Isaacs, Martha Plimpton, Breeda Wool
PRODUCERS AWARD
Lizzie Shapiro (WINNER) : Brad Becker-Parton, Pin-Chun Liu
SOMEONE TO WATCH AWARD
Alex Camilleri, Luzzu (WINNER)
Michael Sarnoski, Pig
Gillian Wallace Horvat, I Blame Society
TRUER THAN FICTION AWARD
Jessica Beshir, Faya Dayi (WINNER)
Angelo Madsen Minax, North By Current
Debbie Lum, Try Harder!
TELEVISION CATEGORIES
BEST ENSEMBLE CAST IN A NEW SCRIPTED SERIES
Reservation Dogs : Ensemble Cast: Devery Jacobs, D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai, Lane Factor, Paulina Alexis, Sarah Podemski, Zahn McClarnon, Lil Mike, FunnyBone
BEST NEW SCRIPTED SERIES
Reservation Dogs (WINNER)
Creators/Executive Producers: Sterlin Harjo, Taika Waititi
Executive Producer: Garrett Basch
Blindspotting : Creators/Executive Producers: Rafael Casal, Daveed Diggs , Executive Producers: Jess Wu Calder, Keith Calder, Ken Lee, Tim Palen, Emily Gerson Saines, Seith Mann
It’s a Sin : Executive Producers: Russell T Davies, Peter Hoar, Nicola Shindler
The Underground Railroad : ACreator/Executive Producer: Barry Jenkins, Executive Producers: Adele Romanski, Mark Ceryak, Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Colson Whitehead, Richard Heus, Jacqueline Hoyt
We Are Lady Parts : Creator: Nida Manzoor, Executive Producers: Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Surian Fletcher-Jones, Mark Freeland
BEST FEMALE PERFORMANCE IN A NEW SCRIPTED SERIES
Thuso Mbedu, The Underground Railroad (WINNER)
Anjana Vasan, We Are Lady Parts
Jana Schmieding, Rutherford Falls
Jasmine Cephas Jones, Blindspotting
Deborah Ayorinde, THEM: Covenant
BEST MALE PERFORMANCE IN A NEW SCRIPTED SERIES
Lee Jung-jae, Squid Game (WINNER)
Olly Alexander, It’s a Sin
Michael Greyeyes, Rutherford Falls
Murray Bartlett, The White Lotus
Ashley Thomas, THEM: Covenant
BEST NEW NONSCRIPTED OR DOCUMENTARY SERIES
Black and Missing (WINNER) : Series By/Executive Producers: Soledad O’Brien, Geeta Gandbhir, Executive Producers: Jo Honig, Patrick Conway, Nancy Abraham, Lisa Heller, Sara Rodriguez
The Choe Show : Creator/Exec Producer: David Choy, Executive Producers: Matt Revelli, Christopher C. Chen, Hiro Murai, Nate Matteson
The Lady and the Dale : Executive Producers: Mark Duplass, Jay Duplass, Mel Eslyn, Allen Bain, Andre Gaines, Nick Cammilleri, Alana Carithers, Zackary Drucker, Nancy Abraham, Lisa Heller
Nuclear Family : Series By: Ry Russo-Young, Executive Producers: Liz Garbus, Julie Gaither, Jon Bardin, Leah Holzer, Peter Saraf, Alex Turtletaub, Jenny Raskin, Geralyn White Dreyfous, Lauren Haber, Maria Zuckerman, Christine Connor, Ryan Heller, Barbara Dobkin, Eric Dobkin, Andrea Van Beuren, Joe Landauer
Philly D.A. : Creators: Ted Passon, Yoni Brook, Nicole Salazar, Executive Producers: Dawn Porter, Sally Jo Fifer, Lois Vossen, Ryan Chanatry, Gena Konstantinakos, Jeff Seelbach, Patty Quillin, Co-Executive Producers: Nion McEvoy, Leslie Berriman