Gold Derby is backstage at the 39th Annual Indie Spirit Awards on the beach in Santa Monica, CA on Sunday, February 25, hosted by comedian, actress and “SNL” alumnus Aidy Bryant. We’ll bring you all of the up-to-date details on the presenters, nominees and winners. (See the complete winners list here.) Read on for the 2024 Spirits live blog.
The kudofest is streaming live on IMDb’s YouTube Channel as well as Film Independent’s YouTube and Twitter accounts starting at 2 p.m. PST/5 p.m. EST.
On the film side, the nominations were dominated by “American Fiction,” “Past Lives” and “May December,” which picked up five nods apiece. Those three films are up for Best Feature along with “All of Us Strangers,” “Passages” and “We Grown Now.” Since 2012, Film Independent and the Spirits have forecast 7 of 12 Best Picture winners at the Academy Awards, including “The Artist” (2012), “12 Years a Slave” (2014), “Birdman” (2015), “Spotlight” (2016), “Moonlight” (2017), “Nomadland” (2021) and “Everything Everywhere All at Once” (2023).
The Spirit Awards pay tribute to independent voices working outside the major studio system in both movies and television, celebrating the most exceptional films, TV/streaming series and artists of 2023. For the second straight year, the sponsoring Film Independent set a budget limit of $30 million for a film to be considered. It’s also the second year that the Indie Spirits are featuring gender-neutral acting categories in both film and TV/streaming. Rather than hand out trophies for Best Actor/Actress and Best Supporting Actor/Actress, the categories include no reference to gender at all. Instead, they honor Best Lead Performance and Best Supporting Performance.
Keep refreshing this 2024 Indie Spirit Awards live blog for our latest from the ceremony.
2:03 p.m. – OK, here we go! Host Aidy Bryant welcomes everyone with, “Welcome to the Film Independent Spirit Awards, otherwise known as the Bisexual Oscars…Best case scenario tomorrow, nobody mentioned me.” She jokes that she needs to be edgy by calling everyone “a stupid bitch.”
2:09 – Aidy is straining a bit in her opening monologue to get laughs, somewhat unsuccessfully. But to her credit, she’s trying awfully hard.
2:11 – Bryant: “If you’re an actress and you’re wearing your own shoes, that’s indie baby.”
2:12 – The first presenters come out: Quinta Brunson and Stephanie Hsu. They’re presenting for Best Supporting Performance. The nominees are Erika Alexander and Sterling K. Brown for “American Fiction,” Noah Galvin for “Theater Camp,” Anne Hathaway for “Eileen,” Glenn Howerton for “BlackBerry,” Marin Ireland for “Eileen,” Charles Melton for “May December,” Da’Vine Joy Randolph for “The Holdovers,” Catalina Saavedra for “Rotting in the Sun” and Ben Whishaw, “Passages.” And the winner is…Da’Vine Joy Randolph.
2:15 – Randolph: “Independent films are the beating heart of this industry.”
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