“Anora”, la historia desenfadada de una trabajadora sexual que se enreda con una familia de un oligarca ruso, y “I Saw the TV Glow”, una película de terror sobre dos adolescentes cuya obsesión con un programa les hace perder el contacto con la realidad, dominan las nominaciones a los premios Independent Spirit 2025, recibiendo cinco nominaciones cada una. Ambas películas compiten por el premio a la mejor película, donde competirán con la película de terror corporal “The Substance”, así como con “Nickel Boys” y “Sing Sing”, dramas que tratan diferentes aspectos del sistema de justicia penal.
Nominaciones para Amy Adams, Demi Moore, Sebastian Stan y Adam Pearson
MEJOR PELÍCULA (Award given to the producer)
Anora
I Saw the TV Glow
Nickel Boys
Sing Sing
The Substance
MEJOR DEBUT(Award given to director and producer)
Dìdi-Director/Producer: Sean Wang
In the Summers-Director: Alessandra Lacorazza Samudio
Janet Planet-Director/Producer: Annie Baker
The Piano Lesson-Director: Malcolm Washington
Problemista-Director/Producer: Julio Torres
PREMIO JOHN CASSAVETES AWARD – Given to the best feature made for under $1,000,000. (Award given to the writer, director, and producer)
Big Boys
Writer/Director/Producer: Corey Sherman
Producer: Allison Tate
Ghostlight
Writer/Director: Kelly O’Sullivan
Director/Producer: Alex Thompson
Producers: Pierce Cravens, Ian Keiser, Chelsea Krant, Eddie Linker, Alex Wilson
Girls Will Be Girls
Writer/Director/Producer: Shuchi Talati
Producers: Richa Chadha, Claire Chassagne
Jazzy
Writer/Director/Producer: Morrisa Maltz
Writer/Producer: Lainey Shangreaux
Writers: Andrew Hajek, Vanara Taing
Producers: Miranda Bailey, Tommy Heitkamp, John Way, Natalie Whalen, Elliott Whitton
The People’s Joker
Writer/Director: Vera Drew
Writer: Bri LeRose
Producer: Joey Lyons
MEJOR DIRECCIÓN
Ali Abbasi-The Apprentice
Sean Baker-Anora
Brady Corbet-The Brutalist
Alonso Ruizpalacios-La Cocina
Jane Schoenbrun-I Saw the TV Glow
MEJOR GUION
Heretic
A Real Pain
My Old Ass
A Different Man
I Saw the TV Glow
MEJOR PRIMER GUION
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
MEJOR ACTUACIÓN PROTAGONISTA
Amy Adams-Nightbitch
Colman Domingo-Sing Sing
Keith Kupferer-Ghostlight
Mikey Madison-Anora
Demi Moore-The Substance
Hunter Schafer-Cuckoo
Justice Smith-I Saw the TV Glow
June Squibb-Thelma
Sebastian Stan-The Apprentice
MEJOR ACTUACIÓN DE REPARTO
Yura Borisov-Anora
Joan Chen-Dìdi
Kieran Culkin-A Real Pain
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
MEJOR 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
MEJOR FOTOGRAFÍA
Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell
Nickel Boys
Janet Planet
La Cocina
The Fire Inside
MEJOR MONTAJE
Jazzy
The Apprentice
Nightbitch
September 5
Dìdi
PREMIO ROBERT ALTMAN AWARD
His Three Daughters
Director: Azazel Jacobs
Casting Director: Nicole Arbusto
Ensemble Cast: Jovan Adepo, Jasmine Bracey, Carrie Coon, Jose Febus, Rudy Galvan, Natasha Lyonne, Elizabeth Olsen, Randy Ramos Jr., Jay O. Sanders
MEJOR DOCUMENTAL
Gaucho Gaucho
Hummingbirds
No Other Land
Patrice: The Movie
Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat
MEJOR PELÍCULA INTERNACIONAL
All We Imagine as Light
France, India, Netherlands, Luxembourg
Director: Payal Kapadia
Black Dog
China
Director: Guan Hu
Flow
Latvia, France, Belgium
Director: Gints Zilbalodis
Green Border
Poland, France, Czech Republic, Belgium
Director: Agnieszka Holland
Hard Truths
United Kingdom
Director: Mike Leigh
PRODUCERS AWARD presented by Bulleit Frontier Whiskey – The Producers Award, now in its 28th year, honors emerging producers who, despite highly limited resources, demonstrate the creativity, tenacity, and vision required to produce quality independent films.
Alex Coco
Sarah Winshall
Zoë Worth
SOMEONE TO WATCH AWARD – The Someone to Watch Award, now in its 31st year, recognizes a talented filmmaker of singular vision who has not yet received appropriate recognition.
Nicholas Colia
Director of Griffin in Summer
Sarah Friedland
Director of Familiar Touch
Pham Thien An
Director of Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell
TRUER THAN FICTION AWARD – The Truer Than Fiction Award, now in its 30th year, is presented to an emerging director of non-fiction features who has not yet received significant recognition.
Julian Brave NoiseCat, Emily Kassie
Directors of Sugarcane
Carla Gutiérrez
Director of Frida
Rachel Elizabeth Seed
Director of A Photographic Memory
BEST NEW NON-SCRIPTED OR DOCUMENTARY SERIES (Award given to the Creator, Executive Producer, Co-Executive Producer)
Erased: WW2’s Heroes of Color
Executive Producers: Idris Elba, Johanna Woolford Gibbon, Jamilla Dumbuya, Jos Cushing, Khaled Gad, Matt Robins, Chris Muckle, Sean David Johnson, Simon Raikes
Co-Executive Producer: Annabel Hobley
Hollywood Black
Executive Producers: Shayla Harris, Dave Sirulnick, Stacey Reiss, Jon Kamen, Justin Simien, Kyle Laursen, Forest Whitaker, Nina Yang Bongiovi, Jeffrey Schwarz, Amy Goodman Kass, Michael Wright, Jill Burkhart
Co-Executive Producers: David C. Brown, Laurens Grant
Photographer
Executive Producers: Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin, Pagan Harleman, Betsy Forhan
Co-Executive Producers: Anna Barnes, Brent Kunkle
Ren Faire
Executive Producers: Ronald Bronstein, Benny Safdie, Josh Safdie, Eli Bush, Dani Bernfeld, Lance Oppenheim, David Gauvey Herbert, Nancy Abraham, Lisa Heller, Sara Rodriguez
Co-Executive Producers: Abigail Rowe, Christian Vasquez, Max Allman
Social Studies
Creator/Executive Producer: Lauren Greenfield
Executive Producers: Wallis Annenberg, Regina K. Scully, Andrea van Beuren, Frank Evers, Caryn Capotosto