The 2025 Film Independent Spirit Awards, hosted by Aidy Bryant, will take place on Saturday, February 22 at 2:00 pm PT/5:00 pm ET and can be streamed live on YouTube.
The winners’ list below is being updated in real time throughout the Film Independent Spirit Awards ceremony.
Best Breakthrough Performance
- Isaac Krasner, Big Boys
- Katy O’Brian. Love Lies Bleeding
- Mason Alexander Park, National Anthem
- René Pérez Joglar, In the Summers
- Maisy Stella, My Old Ass (WINNER)
Best Documentary
- Gaucho Gaucho
- Hummingbirds
- No Other Land (WINNER)
- Patrice: The Movie
- Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat
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
- Nava Mau, Baby Reindeer (WINNER)
- Ruth Negga, Presumed Innocent
- Brian Tee, Expats
Best Breakthrough Performance in a New Scripted Series
- Jessica Gunning, Baby Reindeer (WINNER)
- Diarra Kilpatrick, Diarra From Detroit
- Joe Locke, Agatha All Along
- Megan Stott, Penelope
- Hoa Xuande, The Sympathizer
Best First Feature
- Dìdi (WINNER)
- In the Summers
- Janet Planet
- The Piano Lesson
- Problemista
John Cassavetes Award (for the best feature made for under $1,000,000)
- Big Boys
- Ghostlight
- Girls Will Be Girls (WINNER)
- Jazzy
- The People’s Joker
Best Screenplay
- Scott Beck and Bryan Woods, Heretic
- Jesse Eisenberg, A Real Pain (WINNER)
- Megan Park, My Old Ass
- Aaron Schimberg, A Different Man
- Jane Schoenbrun, I Saw the TV Glow
Best Ensemble Cast in a New Scripted Series
- How to Die Alone (WINNER)Ensemble Cast: Melissa DuPrey, Jaylee Hamidi, KeiLyn Durrel Jones, Arkie Kandola, Elle Lorraine, Michelle McLeod, Chris “CP” Powell, Conrad Ricamora, Natasha Rothwell, Jocko Sims
Best New Scripted Series
- Baby Reindeer
- Diarra From Detroit
- English Teacher
- Fantasmas
- Shōgun (WINNER)
Best New Nonscripted or Documentary Series
- Erased: WW2’s Heroes of Color
- Hollywood Black (WINNER)
- Photographer
- Ren Faire
- Social Studies
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
- Sean Wang, Dìdi (WINNER)
Best Cinematography
- Dinh Duy Hung, Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell
- Jomo Fray, Nickel Boys (WINNER)
- Maria von Hausswolff, Janet Planet
- Juan Pablo Ramírez, La Cocina
- Rina Yang, The Fire Inside
Best Editing
- Laura Colwell, Vanara Taing, Jazzy
- Olivier Bugge Coutté, Olivia Neergaard-Holm,The Apprentice
- Anne McCabe, Nightbitch
- Hansjörg Weissbrich, September 5 (WINNER)
- Arielle Zakowski, Dìdi
Someone to Watch Award
- Nicholas Colia, Director of Griffin in Summer
- Sarah Friedland, Director of Familiar Touch (WINNER)
- Pham Thien An, Director of Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell
Best Supporting Performance
- Yura Borisov, Anora
- Joan Chen, Dìdi
- Kieran Culkin, A Real Pain (WINNER)
- 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
Truer Than Fiction Award
- Julian Brave NoiseCat, Emily Kassie, Directors of Sugarcane
- Carla Gutiérrez, Director of Frida
- Rachel Elizabeth Seed, Director of A Photographic Memory (WINNER)
Robert Altman Award
- His Three Daughters, Director: Azazel Jacobs (WINNER)
Best International Film
- All We Imagine as Light
- Black Dog
- Flow (WINNER)
- Green Border
- Hard Truths
Producers Award
- Alex Coco
- Sarah Winshall (WINNER)
- Zoë Worth
Best Director
- Ali Abbasi, The Apprentice
- Sean Baker, Anora (WINNER)
- Brady Corbet, The Brutalist
- Alonso Ruizpalacios, La Cocina
- Jane Schoenbrun, I Saw the TV Glow
Best Lead Performance in a New Scripted Series
- Brian Jordan Alvarez, English Teacher
- Richard Gadd, Baby Reindeer (WINNER)
- 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 Lead Performance
- Amy Adams, Nightbitch
- Ryan Destiny, The Fire Inside
- Colman Domingo, Sing Sing
- Keith Kupferer, Ghostlight
- Mikey Madison, Anora (WINNER)
- Demi Moore, The Substance
- Hunter Schafer, Cuckoo
- Justice Smith, I Saw the TV Glow
- June Squibb, Thelma
- Sebastian Stan, The Apprentice
Best Feature
- Anora (WINNER)
- I Saw the TV Glow
- Nickel Boys
- Sing Sing
- The Substance
