Cinemaspirit Awards 2025: Check out the full list of the 40th edition of the year is the big winner of the awards and took three awards, including better film, direction and main performance by writing

THE 40th Edition of Independent Spirit Awards It happened this Saturday (22) in Santa Monica, Californiacelebrating the cinema and independent television productions. The ceremony had AIDY BRYANT as a presenter for the second year in a row.

The highlight of the night was “Anora”who won Best Moviebesides guaranteeing the awards of Best direction to Sean Baker and Best main performance to Mikey Madison.

In the television category, the series “Baby Reinder” was the most awarded, winning the awards of Best main performance to Richard Gadd, Best Supporting Performance to Nava bad and BEST ACTION REVELATION to Jessica Gunning. Already “Shōgun” took the prize Best New Rotary Series.

In the cinema, “Dìdi”directed by Sean Wangwon in two debut categories, taking Best First Movie and Best First Screenplay.

Check out the full list of nominees and winners of Spirit Awards 2025:

Cinema

Best Movie
🏆 “Anora” (winner)

• “I Saw The TV Glow”
• “Nickel Boys”
• “Sing Sing”
• “The Substance”

Best First Movie
🏆 “Dìdi” (winner)

• “In The Summers”
• “Janet Planet”
• “The Piano Lesson”
• “Problemist”

John Cassavetes Award(for movies with budget below $ 1 million)
🏆 “Girls Will Be Girls” (winner)

• “Big Boys”
• “Ghostlight”
• “Jazzy”
• “The People’s Joker”

Best direction
🏆 Sean Baker – “Anora” (winner)

• Ali Abbasi – “The Apprentice”
• Brady Corbet – “The Brutalist”
• Alonso RuizPalacios – “La Cocina”
• Jane Schoenbrun – “I Saw the TV Glow”

Best script
🏆 Jesse Eisenberg – “The Real Pain” (winner)

• Scott Beck, Bryan Woods – “Heretic”
• Megan Park – “My Old Ass”
• Aaron Schimberg – “A Different Man”
• Jane Schoenbrun – “I Saw the TV Glow”

Best First Screenplay
🏆 Sean Wang – “Dìdi” (winner)

• JOANNA ARNOW – “THE FAELING THAT THE TIME FOR DOING SOMETHING HAS PASSD”
• Annie Baker – “Janet Planet”
• India Donaldson – “Good One”
• Julio Torres – “Problemist”

Best Main Performance in Movie
🏆 Mikey Madison – “Anora” (winner)

• Amy Adams – “Nightbitch”
• Ryan Destiny – “The Fire Inside”
• Colman Sunday – “Sing Sing”
• Keith KupFerr – “Ghostlight”
• Demi Moore – “The Substance”
• Hunter Schafer – “Cuckoo”
• Justice Smith – “I Saw The TV Glow”
• June Squibb – “Thelma”
• SEBASTIAN STAN – “THE APPREANTICE”

Best Supporting Performance in Movie
🏆 Kieran Culkin – “A Real Pain” (winner)

• Yura Borisov – “Anora”
• Joan Chen – “Dìdi”
• Danielle Deadwyler – “The Piano Lesson”
• Carol Kane – “Between The Temples”
• Karren Karagulian – “Anora”
• Kani Kusruti – “Girls Will Be Girls”
• Jack Haven – “I Saw The TV Glow”
• Clarence “Divine Eye” Maclin – “Sing Sing”
• Adam Pearson – “The Different Man”

BEST PERFORMANCE REVELATION IN FILM
🏆 Maisy Stella – “My Old Ass” (winner)

• Isaac Krasner – “Big Boys”
• Katy O’Brian – “Love Lies Bleeding”
• Mason Alexander Park – “National Anthem”
• René Pérez Joglar – “In the Summers”

Best Photography
🏆 Jomo Fray – “Nickel Boys” (winner)

• Dinh Duy Hung – “Inside The Yellow Cocoon Shell”
• Maria von Hausswolff – “Janet Planet”
• Juan Pablo Ramírez – “La Cocina”
• Rina Yan – “The Fire Inside”

Best edition
🏆 Hansjörg Weissbrich – “Septamber 5” (winner)

• Laura Colwell, Vanara Taing – “Jazzy”
• Olivier Bugge Coutté, Olivia Neergaard-Holm-“The Apprentice”
• Anne McCabe – “Nightbitch”
• Arielle Zakowski – “Dìdi”

Best Documentary
🏆 “No other land” (winner)

• “Gaucho Gaucho”
• “Hummingbirds”
• “Patrice: The Movie”
• “Soundtrack to a coup d’a etat”

Best International Film
🏆 “Flow” (winner)

• “All We Imagine the Light”
• “Black Dog”
• “Green Border”
• “Hard Truths”

TELEVISION

Best New Rotary Series
🏆 “Shōgun” (winner)

• “Baby Reinder”
• “Diarra from Detroit”
• “English Teacher”
• “Ghosts”

Best main performance in new script series
🏆 Richard Gadd – “Baby Reinder” (winner)

• Brian Jordan Alvarez – “English Teacher”
• 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 – “Ghosts”

Best Supporting Performance in New Screenplay
🏆 Nava Mau – “Baby Reinder” (winner)

• Tadanobu Asano – “Shōgun”
• Enrico Colantoni – “English Teacher”
• Betty Gilpin – “Three Women”
• Chloe Guidry – “Under the Bridge”
• Moka Hoshi – “Shōgun”
• Stephanie Koenig – “English Teacher”
• Patti Lupus – “Agatha All Along”
• Ruth Negga – “Presumed Innocent”
• Brian Tee – “Expats”

Best performance revelation in new script series
🏆 Jessica Gunning – “Baby Reinder” (winner)

• Diarra Kilpatrick – “Diarra from Detroit”
• Joe Locke – “Agatha All Along”
• Megan Stott – “Penelope”
• Hoa Xuande – “The Sympathizer”