Celine Song's 'Past Lives' wins big – Cine3.com

From the beach in Santa Monica, CA., the Film Independent Spirit Awards, which annually recognize the best of independent film and TV. On the afternoon of Sunday, February 25, the edition 39 of the so-called Spirit Awardsbroadcasting live the awards ceremony hosted by Aidy Bryant (SNL).

The acclaimed Past Lives of Celine Song won the award for Best Picture, minutes after Song herself won the Spirit Award for Best Director. Other favorite movies of the season, The Holdoversy American Fictionalso enjoyed multiple wins, including Best Performance for Jeffrey Wright (American Fiction) and Best Screenplay for Cord Jefferson (American Fiction), and Best Supporting Performance for Da’Vine Joy Randolph (The Holdovers), thus confirming that she will be the winner of the Oscar in that category, and Best Breakthrough Performance for Dominic Sessa (The Holdovers).

In the television sector, Beef y The Last of Us They were the most successful with two prizes for each of them.

We remind you that starting with the 2023 edition, the Spirit Awards changed the acting categories to gender neutral, both in film and television categories. Additionally, the film's budget was increased to $30 million dollars to be eligible for awards. Previously, the budget to be eligible did not have to exceed $22.7 million.

Since 2023, the Spirit Awards, which were traditionally presented one day before the Oscars, have been moving away from Hollywood's golden gala. The previous year they did it a week before the Oscar, and this time two weeks before. It should be noted that voting for the Academy Award closes this week.

ALL WINNERS:

BEST FILM

“All of Us Strangers”
“American Fiction”
“May December”
“Passages”
“Past Lives” – WINNER
“We Grown Now”

BEST DIRECTOR

Andrew Haigh – “All of Us Strangers”
Todd Haynes – “May December”
William Oldroyd – “Eileen”
Celine Song – “Past Lives” – WINNER
Ira Sachs – “Passages”

BEST FIRST WORK

“All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt”
“Chronicles of a Wandering Saint”
“Earth Mama”
“A Thousand and One” – WINNER
“Upon Entry”

BEST LEADING 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” – WINNER
Teo Yoo, “Past Lives”

BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE

Erika Alexander, “American Fiction”
Sterling K. Brown, “American Fiction”
Noah Galvin, “Theater Camp”
Anne Hathaway, “Eileen”
Glenn Howerton, “BlackBerry”
Marin Ireland, “Yesterday”
Charles Melton, “May December”
Da’Vine Joy Randolph, “The Holdovers” – WINNER
Catalina Saavedra, “Rotting in the Sun”
Ben Whishaw, “Passages”

BEST BREAKING PERFORMANCE

Marshawn Lynch – “Bottoms”
Atibon Nazaire – “Mountains”
Tia Nomore – “Earth Mama”
Dominic Sessa – “The Holdovers” – WINNER
He calls Wali Zada ​​– “Fremont”

BEST SCREENPLAY

“American Fiction” – WINNER
“Birth/Rebirth”
“Bottoms”
“Past Lives”
“The Holdovers”

BEST FIRST SCRIPT

“Chronicles of a Wandering Saint”
“May December” – WINNER
“The Starling Girl”
“Theater Camp”
“Upon Entry”

BEST PHOTOGRAPHY

“All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt”
“Chronicles of a Wandering Saint”
“The Holdovers” – WINNER
“Monica”
“We Grown Now”

BEST EDITION

“How to Blow Up a Pipeline” – WINNER
“Rotting in the Sun”
“Theater Camp”
“Upon Entry”
“We Grown Now”

ROBERT ALTMAN AWARD

“Showing Up” – PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED WINNER

BEST DOCUMENTARY

“Bye Bye Tiberias”
“Four Daughters” – WINNER
“Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project”
“Kokomo City”
“The Mother of All Lies”

BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM

“Anatomy of a Fall” – WINNER
“Godland”
“Mami Wata”
“Totem”
“The Zone of Interest”

PREMIO SOMEONE TO WATCH

Joanna Arnow
Laura Moss
Monica Sorrelle – PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED WINNER

PREMIO TRUER THAN FICTION

Jesse Short Bull and Laura Tomaselli
Seven Hernandez – PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED WINNER
Sierra Urich

PREVIOUS JOHN CASSAVETES

“The Artifice Girl”
“Cadejo Blanco”
“Fremont” – WINNER
“Rotting in the Sun”
“The Unknown Country”

PRODUCERS AWARD

Racheael Fung
Graham Swon
Monique Walton – PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED WINNER

BEST NEW UNSCRIPTED SERIES OR DOCUMENTARY

“Deadlocked: How America Shaped the Supreme Court”
“Dear Mama” – WINNER
“Murder in Big Horn”
“Stolen Youth: Inside the Cult at Sarah Lawrence”
“Wrestlers”

BEST NEW SCRIPTED SERIES

“Beef” – WINNER
“Dreaming Whilst Black”
“I’m a Virgo”
“Jury Duty”
“Slip”

BEST LEADING 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” – WINNER
Steven Yeun, “Beef”

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” – WINNER
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 BREAKING 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” – WINNER
Kara Young, “I’m a Virgo”