2025 Indie Spirit Awards: See the Complete List of Winners

The 40th Independent Spirit Awards are officially a wrap.

Former Saturday Night Live cast member Aidy Bryant hosted the ceremony for the second year in a row out of Santa Monica, Calif., honoring some of the best of 2024 in film and television.

Many awards-season favorite movies like Anora, Sing Sing and A Real Pain saw multiple nominations, plus other popular picks like The Brutalist, The Apprentice and The Substance. In TV, Emmy darlings Baby Reindeer and Shōgun made waves in the scripted categories.

Bryant’s fellow SNL alum Molly Shannon served as honorary chair for the evening, while presenters included actors Carrie Coon, Danielle Deadwyler, Walton Goggins, Kathryn Hahn, Alana Haim, Patti LuPone and Natasha Lyonne.

Read on for the complete list of winners.

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FILM

Best Feature

WINNER: Anora
I Saw the TV Glow
Nickel Boys
Sing Sing
The Substance

Best First Feature

WINNER: Dìdi
In the Summers
Janet Planet
The Piano Lesson
Problemista

John Cassavetes Award (for best feature made for under $1 million)

Big Boys
Ghostlight
WINNER: Girls Will Be Girls
Jazzy
The People’s Joker

Best Director

Ali Abbasi, The Apprentice
WINNER: Sean Baker, Anora
Brady Corbet, The Brutalist
Alonso Ruizpalacios, La Cocina
Jane Schoenbrun, I Saw the TV Glow

Best Screenplay

Scott Beck and Bryan Woods, Heretic
WINNER: Jesse Eisenberg, A Real Pain
Megan Park, My Old Ass
Aaron Schimberg, A Different Man
Jane Schoenbrun, I Saw the TV Glow

Best First Screenplay

Joanna Arnow, The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed
Annie Baker, Janet Planet
India Donaldson, Good One
Julio Torres, Problemista
WINNER: Sean Wang, Dìdi

Best Lead Performance

Amy Adams, Nightbitch
Ryan Destiny, The Fire Inside
Colman Domingo, Sing Sing
Keith Kupferer, Ghostlight
WINNER: Mikey Madison, Anora
Demi Moore, The Substance
Hunter Schafer, Cuckoo
Justice Smith, I Saw the TV Glow
June Squibb, Thelma
Sebastian Stan, The Apprentice

Best Supporting Performance

Yura Borisov, Anora
Joan Chen, Dìdi
WINNER: Kieran Culkin, A Real Pain
Danielle Deadwyler, The Piano Lesson
Carol Kane, Between the Temples
Karren Karagulian, Anora
Kani Kusruti, Girls Will Be Girls
Brigette Lundy-Paine, I Saw the TV Glow
Clarence “Divine Eye” Maclin, Sing Sing
Adam Pearson, A Different Man

Best Breakthrough Performance

Isaac Krasner, Big Boys
Katy O’Brian, Love Lies Bleeding
Mason Alexander Park, National Anthem
René Pérez Joglar, In the Summers
WINNER: Maisy Stella, My Old Ass

Best Documentary

Gaucho Gaucho
Hummingbirds
WINNER: No Other Land
Patrice: The Movie
Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat

Best International Film

All We Imagine as Light
Black Dog
WINNER: Flow
Green Border
Hard Truths

Best Editing

Anne McCabe, Nightbitch
Olivier Bugge Coutté and Olivia Neergaard-Holm, The Apprentice
Laura Colwell and Vanara Taing, Jazzy
WINNER: Hansjörg Weissbrich, September 5
Arielle Zakowsk, Dìdi

Best Cinematography

Dinh Duy Hung, Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell
WINNER: Jomo Fray, Nickel Boys
Maria Von Hausswolff, Janet Planet
Juan Pablo Ramírez, La Cocina
Rina Yang, The Fire Inside

Robert Altman Award

WINNER: His Three Daughters

Producers Award

Alex Coco
WINNER: Sarah Winshall
Zoë Worth

Someone to Watch Award

Nicholas Colia
WINNER: Sarah Friedland
Pham Thien An

Truer Than Fiction Award

Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie
Carla Gutierrez
WINNER: Rachel Elizabeth Seed

TELEVISION

Best New Non-Scripted or Documentary Series

Erased: WW2’s Heroes of Color
WINNER: Hollywood Black
Photographer
Ren Faire
Social Studies

Best New Scripted Series

Baby Reindeer
Diarra from Detroit
English Teacher
Fantasmas
WINNER: Shōgun

Best Lead Performance in a New Scripted Series

Brian Jordan Alvarez, English Teacher
WINNER: Richard Gadd, Baby Reindeer
Lily Gladstone, Under the Bridge
Kathryn Hahn, Agatha All Along
Cristin Milioti, The Penguin
Julianne Moore, Mary & George
Hiroyuki Sanada, Shōgun
Anna Sawai, Shōgun
Andrew Scott, Ripley
Julio Torres, Fantasmas

Best Supporting Performance in a New Scripted Series

Tadanobu Asano, Shōgun
Enrico Colantoni, English Teacher
Betty Gilpin, Three Women
Chloe Guidry, Under the Bridge
Moeka Hoshi, Shōgun
Stephanie Koenig, English Teacher
Patti LuPone, Agatha All Along
WINNER: Nava Mau, Baby Reindeer
Ruth Negga, Presumed Innocent
Brian Tee, Expats

Best Breakthrough Performance in a New Scripted Series

WINNER: Jessica Gunning, Baby Reindeer
Diarra Kilpatrick, Diarra From Detroit
Joe Locke, Agatha All Along
Megan Stott, Penelope
Hoa Xuande, The Sympathizer

Best Ensemble Cast in a New Scripted Series

WINNER: How to Die Alone