Everything Everywhere All At Once is the big winner of the 2023 Indie Spirit Awards

Saturday saw awards season at the Independent Spirit Awards, which honor, as the title might give you an idea, independent films. And it was another beautiful day for All everywhere at oncewhich added seven awards, including Best Feature Film, to its already impressive roster.

The awards, which took place the day before the Oscars but changed in 2021, introduced gender-neutral acting categories, leading to Cate Blanchett and Michelle Yeoh competing with Paul Mescal and Jeremy Pope. Yeoh won for EEAAAOwhile the film also won Best Director for Daniels, Best Supporting Performance for Key Huy Quan (the latest in his apparent conquest of the category), Best Screenplay, Best Editing for Paul Rogers and a breakthrough performance for Stephanie Hsu .

Somewhere else, Criminal EmiliaJohn Patton Ford by John Patton Ford won best first screenplay while after the sun director Charlotte Wells won best first film. Sarah Chickens talking women It won the Robert Altman Award, given to a director, a second director and a cast.

The John Cassavetes Award (awarded to the best film made for less than $1,000,000) went to CathedralWhile TARwhich he had chewed EEAAAOhot on his heels in terms of nominations, settling for best cinematography. The best documentary was All the beauty and bloodshedWhile land of joy won the award for best international film.

BabysitterNikyatu Jusu won in the Someone to Watch category and Reid Davenport scored in the True Than Fiction category for I didn’t see you there.

In recent years, the Indie Spirit Awards have also given awards to television, and this year’s Best New Scripted Series was won by the bear, which also saw Ayo Edebiri take home Best Supporting Performance in a New Scripted Series. She was won for Outstanding Lead Performance in a New Scripted Series Abbott Elementary School creator/star Quinta Brunson while The test won Best New Documentary or Unscripted Series.