Independent Spirit Award Winners 2023: See the Full List Here

Held on the beach in Santa Monica and honoring the kinds of small-scale films that often launch careers, the Independent Spirit Awards are often a welcome alternative to the pomp and circumstance of Oscar season. But this year there will likely be several films taking home honors at both. At this year’s awards, hosted by Hasan Minhaj*,* best-picture Oscar nominees Everything Everywhere All at Once, Tár, and Women Talking will face off against two films with no Oscar nominations, Bones and All and Our Father, the Devil. 

And in the acting categories—divided not by gender but by lead and supporting roles—there will be fascinating face-offs. Oscar best-actress front-runners Michelle Yeoh and Cate Blanchett are competing not just with each other but with best-actor Oscar nominee Paul Mescal and horror breakout Mia Goth. In supporting, Everything Everywhere costars Jamie Lee Curtis and Ke Huy Quan are competing against each other, as well as recent supporting-actor Oscar winner Mark Rylance for his role in Bones and All. There are television awards too, but only for new series, which puts people like Severance star Adam Scott and Abbott Elementary creator and star Quinta Brunson in the same category. 

We’ll be keeping an eye on the winners, and Rebecca Ford will be reporting from on the scene. Below, find a complete list of nominees, with the winners indicated in bold. 

MOVIES

Best Feature
Bones and All
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Our Father, the Devil
Tár
Women Talking

Best Director
Todd Field, Tár
Kogonada, After Yang
Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, Everything Everywhere All at Once
Sarah Polley, Women Talking
Halina Reijn, Bodies Bodies Bodies

Best First Feature
Aftersun
Emily the Criminal
The Inspection
Murina
Palm Trees and Power Lines

Best Lead Performance
Cate Blanchett, Tár
Dale Dickey, A Love Song
Mia Goth, Pearl
Regina Hall, Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul.
Paul Mescal, Aftersun
Aubrey Plaza, Emily the Criminal
Jeremy Pope, The Inspection
Taylor Russell, Bones and All
Andrea Riseborough, To Leslie
Michelle Yeoh, Everything Everywhere All at Once

Best Supporting Performance
WINNER: Ke Huy Quan, Everything Everywhere All at Once
Jamie Lee Curtis, Everything Everywhere All at Once
Brian Tyree Henry, Causeway
Nina Hoss, Tár
Brian d’Arcy James, The Cathedral
Trevante Rhodes, Bruiser
Theo Rossi, Emily the Criminal
Mark Rylance, Bones and All
Jonathan Tucker, Palm Trees and Power Lines
Gabrielle Union, The Inspection

Best Breakthrough Performance
WINNER: Stephanie Hsu, Everything Everywhere All at Once

Frankie Corio, Aftersun
Gracija Filipović, Murina
Lily McInerny, Palm Trees and Power Lines
Daniel Zolghadri, Funny Pages

Best Screenplay
WINNER: Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, Everything Everywhere All at Once

Kogonada, After Yang
Lena Dunham, Catherine Called Birdy
Todd Field, Tár
Sarah Polley, Women Talking

Best First Screenplay
WINNER: John Patton Ford, Emily the Criminal 

Sarah Delappe and Kristen Roupenian, Bodies Bodies Bodies
K.D. Dávila, Emergency
Joel Kim Booster, Fire Island
Jamie Dack and Audrey Findlay, Palm Trees and Power Lines

Best Cinematography
WINNER: Florian Hoffmeister, Tár

Gregory Oke, Aftersun
Hélène Louvart, Murina
Anisia Uzeyman, Neptune Frost
Eliot Rockett, Pearl

Best Editing
WINNER: Paul Rogers, Everything Everywhere All at Once

Blair McClendon, Aftersun
Ricky D’Ambrose, The Cathedral
Dean Fleischer Camp and Nick Paley, Marcel the Shell With Shoes On
Monika Willi, Tár

Robert Altman Award
WINNER: *Women Talking—*director Sarah Polley; casting directors John Buchan and Jason Knight; ensemble cast

Best Documentary
WINNER***: All the Beauty and the Bloodshed***

A House Made of Splinters
All That Breathes
Midwives
Riotsville, U.S.A

Best International Film
WINNER: Joyland (Pakistan, USA)

Corsage (Austria, Luxembourg, France, Belgium, Italy, England)
Leonor Will Never Die (Philippines)
Return to Seoul (Cambodia)
Saint Omer (France)

Someone to Watch Award
WINNER: Nikyatu Jusu, Nanny

Adamma Ebo, Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul.
Araceli Lemos, Holy Emy

Truer Than Fiction Award
WINNER: Reid Davenport, I Didn’t See You There

Isabel Castro, Mija
Rebeca Huntt, Beba

John Cassavetes Award
The African Desperate
A Love Song
The Cathedral
Holy Emy
Something in the Dirt

Producers Award
Liz Cardenas
Tory Lenosky
David Grove Churchill Viste

TV

Best New Scripted Series
WINNER:** The Bear**
Pachinko
The Porter
Severance
Station Eleven