» Independent Spirit Awards 2021: all winners revealed

Independent Spirit Awards 2021: all winners revealed

Today all the winners of the Independent Spirit Awards 2021 have finally been presented, we present them to you below.

The Independent Spirit Awards 2021 and their winners close the race for Oscar. As per tradition, the 36th edition of the awards for American independent cinema also took place close to the night of the Academy, albeit in virtual form.

Nomadland and its director Choé Zhao they won the most important awards, Best Film and Best Director, as well as Best Editing (for Zhao) and Best Cinematography (to director Joshua James Richards’ collaborator).

Emerald Fennell wins Best Screenplay Award for A promising woman, while in the same category of rookies, Andy Siara wins for Palm Springs.

Speaking of rookies, among the winners of the Independent Spirit Awards 2021 we find Darius Marder, which wins the Best Debut Film Award for Sound of Metal, while the international film is the one from Bosnia and Herzegovina Quo Vadis, Aida? from Jasmila Žbanić. The original Netflix Crip Camp wins Best Documentary.

Surprises on the actor front, which could question the predictions (already not very sure) for the same categories at the Oscars: Riz Ahmed wins the Best Lead Award for his role in Sound of Metal, bypassing Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom favorite Chadwick Boseman.

Likewise Carey Mulligan wins as protagonist with her performance in A Promising Woman, overtaking actresses of the caliber of Viola Davis and Frances McDormand: the actress dedicated her victory to the “independent spirit” of cinema, represented by the late English actress Helen McCrory, who passed away on April 16th.

In the non-protagonist categories, Yuh-Jung Youn wins for the interpretation in Minari and Paul Raci for Sound of Metal. Below, here’s what all the winners of the 2021 Independent Spirit Awards are:

Best Film

Nomadland, directed by Chloé Zhao
First Cow, directed by Kelly Reichardt
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, directed by George C. Wolfe
Never Rarely Sometimes Always (Never Rarely Sometimes Always), directed by Eliza Hittman
Minari, directed by Lee Isaac Chung

Best Debut Film

Sound of Metal, directed by Darius Marder
The 40-Year-Old Version, directed by Radha Blank
I Carry You with Me, directed by Heidi Ewing
Miss Juneteenth, directed by Channing Godfrey Peoples
Nine Days, directed by Edson Oda

Best Director

Chloé Zhao – Nomadland
Lee Isaac Chung – Minari
Emerald Fennell – Promising Young Woman
Eliza Hittman – Never Rarely Sometimes Always
Kelly Reichardt – First Cow

Best Actress in a Leading Role

Carey Mulligan – Promising Young Woman
Nicole Beharie – Miss Juneteenth
Viola Davis – Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Sidney Flanigan – Never Rarely Sometimes Always
Julia Garner – The Assistant
Frances McDormand – Nomadland

Best Actor in a Leading Role

Riz Ahmed – Sound of Metal
Chadwick Boseman – Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Adarsh Gourav – The White Tiger
Rob Morgan – Bull
Steven Yeun – Minari

Best Supporting Actress

Yoon Yeo-jeong – Minari
Alexis Chikaeze – Miss Juneteenth
Han Ye-ri – Minari
Valerie Mahaffey – French Exit
Talia Ryder – Never Rarely Sometimes Always

Best Supporting Actor

Paul Raci – Sound of Metal
Colman Domingo – Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Orion Lee – First Cow
Glynn Turman – Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Benedict Wong – Nine Days

Best Screenplay

Emerald Fennell – Promising Young Woman
Lee Isaac Chung – Minari
Eliza Hittman – Never Rarely Sometimes Always
Mike Makowsky – Bad Education
Alice Wu – The Half of It

Best Debut Screenplay

Andy Siara – Palm Springs – Live like there’s no tomorrow (Palm Springs)
Kitty Green – The Assistant
Noah Hutton – Lapsis
Channing Godfrey Peoples – Miss Juneteenth
James Sweeney – Straight Up

Best Photography

Joshua James Richards – Nomadland
Jay Keitel – She Dies Tomorrow
Shabier Kirchner – Bull
Michael Latham – The Assistant
Hélène Louvart – Never Rarely Sometimes Always

Best editing

Chloé Zhao – Nomadland
Andy Canny – The Invisible Man
Scott Cummings – Never Rarely Sometimes Always
Merawi Gerima – Residue
Enat Sidi – I Carry You with Me

Best Documentary

Crip Camp: Revolutionary Disabilities (Crip Camp), directed by Nicole Newnham and Jim LeBrecht
The mouse agent, directed by Maite Alberdi
Colectiv, directed by Alexander Nanau
**** Johnson Is Dead, directed by Kirsten Johnson
Time, directed by Garrett Bradley

Best foreign film

Quo vadis, Aida?, Directed by Jasmila Žbanić (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Bacurau, directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles (Brazil)
The Disciple, directed by Chaitanya Tamhane (India)
Felkészülés meghatározatlan ideig tartó együttlétre, directed by Lili Horvát (Hungary)
La Nuit des rois, directed by Philippe Lacôte (Ivory Coast)