With eight nominations, the multiverse-hopping adventure film leads the nomination followed by Tar, Aftersun, Women Talking, and Bones and All.
Before November ended, the Independent Spirit Awards, which is dedicated to independent filmmakers, announced the final list of nominees for this year’s ceremony. Earning eight nods, The Daniel’s Everything Everywhere All At Once leads the tally with nominations in Best Feature, Best Director, Best Lead Performance, Best Supporting Performance (Jamie Lee Curtis and Ke Huay Quan), Best Breakthrough Performance, Best Screenplay, and Best Editing.
It can be remembered that Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert’s Everything Everywhere All At Once made groundbreaking history with its kind of Cinderella story of earning more than $100 million at the global box office against its $25 million budget.
Behind Everything Everywhere All At Once were Tod Field’s Tár garnering seven nominations, and Charlotte Well’s Aftersun, with five. Other top contenders include Sarah Polley’s Women Talking, Luca Guadagnino’s Bones and All, and Our Father, the Devil.
Here’s What You Have to Know About the Independent Spirit Awards
Founded in 1984, the organization was created to celebrate the milestones of independent filmmakers. In its 38th edition, the organization raised the budget cap from $22.5 million to $30 million for the main prizes and $1 million for the John Cassavetes Award. For this year, the award-giving body opted for more gender-neutral acting awards – with 10 main acting categories now having 10 nominees each.
Here’s the complete list of nominees for the 2023 Independent Spirit Awards:
Best Feature
- Bones and All
- Everything Everywhere All At Once
- Our Father, the Devil
- Tár
- Women Talking
Best Director
- Todd Field (Tár)
- Kogonada (After Yang)
- Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert (Everything Everywhere All at Once)
- Sarah Polley (Women Talking)
- Halina Reijn (Bodies Bodies Bodies)
Best Lead Performance
- Cate Blanchett (Tár)
- Dale Dickey (A Love Song)
- Mia Goth (Pearl)
- Regina Hall (Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul)
- Paul Mescal (Aftersun)
- Aubrey Plaza (Emily the Criminal)
- Jeremy Pope (The Inspection)
- Taylor Russell (Bones and All)
- Andrea Riseborough (To Leslie)
- Michelle Yeoh (Everything Everywhere All at Once)
Best Supporting Performance
- Jamie Lee Curtis (Everything Everywhere All at Once)
- Brian Tyree Henry (Causeway)
- Nina Hoss (Tár)
- Brian D’Arcy James (The Cathedral)
- Ke Huy Quan (Everything Everywhere All at Once)
- Trevante Rhodes (Bruiser)
- Theo Rossi (Emily the Criminal)
- Mark Rylance (Bones and All)
- Jonathan Tucker (Palm Trees and Power Lines)
- Gabrielle Union (The Inspection)
Best Breakthrough Performance
- Frankie Corio (Aftersun)
- Garcija Filipovic (Murina)
- Stephanie Hsu (Everything Everywhere All at Once)
- Lily McInerny (Palm Trees and Power Lines)
- Daniel Zolghardi (Funny Pages)
Best Screenplay
- After Yang (Kogonada)
- Catherine Called Birdy (Lena Dunham)
- Everything Everywhere All at Once (Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert)
- Tár (Todd Field)
- Women Talking (Sarah Polley)
Best First Screenplay
- Bodies Bodies Bodies (Sarah DeLappe, Kristen Roupenian)
- Emergency (K.D. Dávila)
- Emily the Criminal (John Patton Ford)
- Fire Island (Joel Kim Booster)
- Palm Trees and Power Lines (Jamie Dack, Audrey Findlay)
Best First Feature
- Aftersun
- Emily the Criminal
- The Inspection
- Murina
- Palm Trees and Power Lines
- John Cassavetes Award
- The African Desperate
- A Love Song
- The Cathedral
- Holy Emy
- Something in the Dirt
Best Cinematography
- Aftersun
- Murina
- Neptune Frost
- Pearl
- Tár
Best Documentary
- A House Made of Splinters
- All that Breathes
- All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
- Midwives
- Riotsville, U.S.A
Best Editing
- Aftersun
- The Cathedral
- Everything Everywhere All at Once
- Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
- Tár
Robert Altman Award
- Women Talking
Best International Film
- Corsage (Austria/Luxembourg/France/Belgium/Italy/England)
- Joyland (Pakistan/USA)
- Leonor Will Never Die (Philippines)
- Return to Seoul (South Korea/France/Belgium/Romania)
- Saint Omer (France)
Producers Award
- Liz Cardenas
- Tory Lenosky
- David Grove Churchill Viste
Someone to Watch Award
- Adamma Ebo (Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul)
- Nikyatu Jusu (Nanny)
- Araceli Lemos (Holy Emy)
The Truer Than Fiction Award
- Isabel Castro (Mija)
- Reid Davenport (I Didn’t See You There)
- Rebeca Huntt (Beba)
