Scene baker Anora In the preview of next Sunday Oscar, the best film for Mickey Madison at The Independent Spirit Awards on Saturday won: A Brooklyn sex worker won about the film and his tornado relationship with the son of a Russian elite class about a Brooklyn sex worker. Recent weeks as the front-fronter of an award season.

Santa Monica is a more irreversible sister for Spirit Awards, Chegier, Academy Awards held at a beach tent in California, celebrating the best in independent film and television.

Host Eddie Bryant called it “the third or fourth largest night of Hollywood”.

In accepting the direction award, Baker spoke emotionally about the difficulty of making independent films in an industry, which is no longer able to fund risks. He said that the Indies are in danger of calling card films – films are made only as a means of hiring for big projects.

“The system must change because it is only unstable,” Baker said with enthusiastic applause. “We should not meet barely.”

Director Scene Baker speaks as the film “Anora”, winning the Best Feature Award on February 22, 2025 during the 40th Film Independent Spirit Awards in Santa Monica, California, US. Photo Credit: Mario Anjuni

Anora Best Film Competition included Jane Shionbron’s psychological horror I watched the glow of the TVRamel Ross’ Kolson Whitehead adaptation Nickel BoysGreg Quader’s disorder drama To sing a songAnd Korli Farget’s body horror Substance,

This year many other possible Oscar winners were celebrating. Kiran Kulkin, considered an Oscar favorite, won the auxiliary performance award A real painHis director, co-star and writer Jesse Eisenberg won the best script for the film about two cousins ​​on a Holocost tour in Poland.

Kalkin was not to accept – he missed his BAFTa win over the last weekend, who used to do for a family member – but other Oscars such as Madison and Demi Moore were nominated.

Madison won the top acting award on Moore in Bufts in the previous weekend, and stopped for Pet Dog Pilaf on the way to stage on Saturday. Acting categories for Spirit Awards are gender-plated and contains 10 spots, which means that the Oscar nominees like Madison and Moore Callman Domingo were against nominees (To sing a song) And sebstian stain (Learner,

Mickey Madison presents Santa Monica, California, US, Best Feature Award for “Anora” during the 40th Film Independent Spirit Awards on February 22, 2025 with Best Lead Performance Award with Samantha Quan, the winner of “Anora”. Photo Credit: Daniel Cole

Graduate award has gone No other landA Palestinian-Israeli collective, a film about the destruction of a village in West Bank, which does not have distribution. It is also a strong Oscar contender in a competitive category. The filmmakers were not present to accept the award.

FlowWordless animated Latvian Cat film won, Best International Film. At the Oscar, it is competing in the international film category and animation.

While the Atma Award winners do not always sink with the academy, they can often reflect a growing consensus Everything everywhere at once Year. The awards limit eligibility for presentations with a budget of $ 30 million or less, which means more expensive Oscar nominated person Wicked And Tibba: Part Two Were not running.

Sean Wang accepted for Best First feature and best first screenplay prize DickyHe said that it was special to share the stage with one of his stars, zone chains, which was also nominated for the same award 25 years ago. XIU XIU: sent girl,

Netflix event Baby reindeer Also, many awards were raised for actors Richard Gadd, Jessica Ganing and Neva Mau.

Mau, which is trans, talked about the importance of actors sticking together, “As we go to this next chapter.”

“We don’t know what is going to happen, but we know our power,” Mau said. “We are people and our labor is everything.”

The winner of the best supporting performance Neva Mau, Jessica Guning of the best supporting performance in a new scripted series for “Baby Randier”, winner of the best success performance in a new scripted series for “Baby Rendier”, winner 40th film independent in Santa Monica During the Spirit Awards, California, US, 22 February, 2025 | Photo Credit: Daniel Cole

Other television winners include ShagunFor the best new scripted series, and How to die aloneFor a contingent of best artists.

How to die alone Producer and star Natasha Rothwell was emotional accepting a contingent of artists. The show was recently canceled after its first season. Rothwell said that it was “a show about the need to see, as you are, be valuable.”

“For black stories, visibility is not a privilege: it is a need,” Rothwell said. “We deserve to take space, to be complicated, cheerful, and to be completely human.”

The LightHet show usually took a moment to accept the effect of the wildfire on Los Angeles. Bryant filed a petition for anyone who watched the show, in the audience or on YouTube Livestream, to help LA La rebuilding, he pointed to a QR code, which was a film to the film independent emergency filmmaker Rahat Kosh Donated to donate on livestream, providing grants to alumni. Affected by wildfire.

The show also paid tribute to the film independent president Josh Welsh for a long time, who died at the age of 62 earlier this year. Welsh had colon cancer.

Bryant said in his inauguration that it was “a great year for the film and a bad year for human life.” Saturday night Live Alum kicked some nominees like Emma Stone, ribing the incident. Bryant said, “Emma was a manufacturer on four enrolled projects tonight.” “But even more important, his hair is less now.”

Stone also portrayed prominently in Eisenburg’s speech, when she took the best screenplay award A real painSince they met on the set Zombieland In 2009, she said, she is supporting her writing despite being “the most famous person I know” and produced both of her films.

“I think not him as my creator, but as an angel goddamdar, as if I am riding Kotel for his goodwill,” Eisenberg said.

The camera torn and moved the audience to the audience. She and her husband Dave McKeri’s production company Fruit Tree also produced Julio Torres’ Problem And Imaginary And schoenbrun I watched the glow of the TV,

I watched the glow of the TV Went to the show tied with Anora With six nominations. This manufacturer left with only one for Sarah Winkel.