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“O’Dessa” (2025) is another musical film by Geremy Jasper, who previously wrote and directed “Patti Cake$.” This 2017 film was about a rapper with high ambitions, who hoped to leave her sorrows behind to find success in the world of music. That is particularly difficult for someone from her socio-economic background. Most of Patti Cake$’s themes appear in “O’Dessa,” which also follows a young girl leaving her home in pursuit of success. However, the approach is unmistakably different. Jasper’s former film used a rather naturalistic tone of narration while his latest is dynamic, vibrant, and is set in a neon-soaked post-apocalyptic world.

Jasper’s film uses its futuristic setting in contrast to its gritty working-class neighborhoods. It heightens the dreadful darkness in their lives. In this world, even the neon lights feel piercing and harsh. However, at times, they have a glisteningly soft and tender effect, akin to Jane Schoenbrun...

Had anyone told me I’d see Sadie Sink play an androgynous punk rocker who strums her guitar to try and save the world, I’d have said no way. This is not to say that I can’t imagine Sadie playing unique characters, because she’s one of the brightest young stars we have today. However, it just seems bizarre that such a movie would come out at all. O’Dessa tells the story of the titular character, who finds herself orphaned and alone on her barren farm after her mom passes away from sickness. In a land where plasma makes the grass purple and the water is dirt brown, O’Dessa must fulfill a prophecy, one about “the seventh son.” Yes, she is the seventh son, and that’s just the facts; nothing odd about it.

What’s special about O’Dessa is how it takes a truly...

An antique television is set to wreak havoc in Thai horror sci-fi film There’s Something Wrong With the TV. As production is prepping to get underway from Bangkok-based Night Edge Pictures, Variety reports that the feature has found its star.

There’s Something Wrong With the TV is currently in pre-production with plans to release release in the first quarter of 2026.

Sukollawat Kanarot (Thirteen Lives) has been set to star in the horror movie being directed by Lertsiri Boonmee (Slr), Vutichai Wongnophadol (Slr) and Sathanapong Limwongthong (“Chef’s Table”).

The cursed object film follows “teenager Kla and his best friend who discover a mysterious antique television set hidden under the stairs. When powered on, the TV reveals four children apparently trapped inside and held captive by sinister forces. Kla recruits his father Krit (Kanarot) to help rescue the children from the mysterious world within the television, unaware of the truly wicked nature of the device.

The year 2024 was a significant one for horror movies, highlighted by a successful awards season and dominance by the genre at the box office. Notably, the Oscars recognized four films within the genre, signaling a growing appreciation for horror’s artistic merit.

The Academy Awards have historically marginalized horror films, with The Silence of the Lambs in 1991 a notable exception. Its “Big Five” sweep — Best Picture, Director, Actor, Actress, and Adapted Screenplay — remains a unique achievement. However, the recent nominations of films like The Substance and Nosferatu indicate a growing willingness to acknowledge the genre, signaling a potential change in the awards landscape.

The ‘Silence of the Lambs’ cast and production winners hold their Oscars at the 64th Academy Awards in 1992. The film won five Oscars.

Horror at the Academy Awards was first recognized in 1974, when William Friedkin’s groundbreaking The Exorcist received a remarkable 10 nominations including Best Picture. While it won just two awards,...

Andrew Ahn’s latest feature The Wedding Banquet opens this year’s BFI Flare Film Festival, which runs from March 19 – 30 at the BFI Southbank in London.

It’s a big-ticket title, arriving in London following a debut bow at Sundance with a red-hot cast including Bowen Yang, Lily Gladstone, Kelly Marie Tran, and serves as a sign of the festival’s continued relevance and mainstream appeal.

Currently the UK’s largest queer film event, Flare is also one of the world’s longest-running queer film festivals. It turns 40 next year. The BFI is already planning a series of celebrations to mark the milestone. Highlights from this year’s lineup, however, include screenings of Rebecca Lenkiewicz’s Berlinale title Hot Milk starring Emma Mackey and Vicky Krieps, Lamin Leroy Gibba’s buzzy German series Black Fruit, and Truong Minh Quy’s beloved Cannes title Viet and Nam. The festival will close...

In the entertainment industry, content is king, but marketing strategy is what wins the war, as it makes or breaks a film’s success. But what happens when one major studio spotlights the talent and prestige of another with its promotional content? Because that’s exactly what’s happening between Marvel’s Thunderbolts* and A24.

A still from Thunderbolts* | Marvel Studios

Other studios need to take notes from the MCU film’s marketing team. From a perfectly cut trailer to intriguing posts, they’ve done it all and increased Thunderbolts* chances of success at the box office. But what exactly does their recent tactic convey, and why has it brought criticism for A24?

A24 gets called out for their Oscar misses due to poor marketing A still from A Different Man | A24

Thunderbolts* new promotional material doesn’t just hype up Marvel’s long-awaited venture but also pays homage to...

“Today’s the day,” The Woman in the Yard eerily sings in the second official trailer for Universal & Blumhouse’s upcoming horror thriller, and it reveals a closer look at the supernatural nightmare ahead for a fractured family.

The Woman in the Yard releases in theaters on March 28, 2025.

Watch the new trailer below, which not only gives a glimpse of the mysterious entity beneath the ominous black shroud, but reveals that shadows play a key role in her supernatural torment of a family dealing with the immediacy of grief. The trailer also hints at a wish gone wrong.

Danielle Deadwyler (Till, The Harder They Fall, The Piano Lesson) stars as “Ramona, a woman crippled by grief after she survives a car accident that takes her husband. Seriously injured, Ramona now must care for their 14-year-old son and 6-year-old-daughter, alone in her rural farmhouse. Then one day the woman takes form in their yard.

It’s a well-known fact that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences don’t tend to favour genre films when it comes to shortlisting for their tentpole awards ceremony. It’s simply not their bag and that goes that double for anything that happens to fall into the disreputable slum of horror. Indeed — bar a few outliers like Silence of the Lambs, The Exorcist or Get Out — scary movies rarely get a fair shake come Oscar season. Certainly not when compared to, say, glitzy biopics or period pieces that have a more prestigious air about them.

Yet, against all odds, the genre has done quite well for itself this year. Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu is dominating the technical categories, The Substance has found itself as an unlikely contender for four of the “Big Five” awards, and even Alien: Romulus has gotten a look in for its VFX work.

With that being said,...

The 23rd edition of the Golden Schmoes voting period ended at midnight, and now we’ve got a full list of all of the winners chosen by our readers! The longest-running, fan-voted awards on the internet, the winners are always very interesting in that they reveal, in surprising ways, both the divide between fans and traditional voting bodies (like the Academy) and their similarities at times. This year, we didn’t have any record-breakers in terms of the most awarded films, with Deadpool & Wolverine earning 7 nods, while The Substance earned 5, and Dune: Part Two earned 4. The all-time champ for the most wins ever for The Golden Schmoes is still The Dark Knight, with 12 wins.

Both Dune: Part Two and The Substance are Academy favourites this year, while Deadpool & Wolverine was mostly overlooked. However, one movie that’s beloved by the Academy, Emilia Perez, was seemingly hated by our voters,...

This article uses the current names of the filmmakers and actors, which may not be the names that appear in the credits of the films.

Jane Schoenbrun is one of the most exciting voices in the new queer cinema scene. Their films I Saw the TV Glow and We're All Going to the World's Fair depict the search for identity through the lens of horror — but for viewers still scratching their heads over these works of art, a third film may be illuminating: the experimental documentary A Self-Induced Hallucination, which explores the Slender Man phenomenon.

I Saw the TV Glow and We're All Going to the World's Fair both feature young, alienated protagonists whose immersion in their favorite media may lead to self-discovery, or sever them from reality. These powerful fictions take on a new dimension alongside Jane Schoenbrun's documentary A Self-Induced Hallucination, a montage of YouTube videos related to...

On February 26, news broke that Michelle Trachtenberg, an actress who got her start as a child star in the 1990s, passed away at the age of 39. This is a gutting loss on so many levels; not only was Trachtenberg far too young, but she was a stunningly talented performer who pretty much always made a project better simply by showing up. For millennials in particular — who basically grew up with Trachtenberg's body of work — this is a gutting loss, and it's also a major loss for the entertainment industry as a whole. In fact, two millennial writers for /Film who did, in fact, grow up with Trachtenberg's body of work are helming this article, so rest easy.

Trachtenberg had 62 acting credits to her name when she passed, and if you think of her performances on both the big and small screen, a few specific ones will probably come to mind,...

The independent-focused Los Angeles Festival of Movies is preparing for its second edition, unveiling its coming line-up for April 3 to 6. The fest, co-presented by Mubi and Mezzanine, will kick-off with an opening night screening of Amalia Ulman’s south-of-the-border satire “Magic Farm,” starring Chloë Sevigny, Simon Rex and Alex Wolff as an inept documentary crew that ends up in the wrong country after embarking to profile an Argentinian musician. The feature premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January; this Lafm selection will mark its West Coast premiere.

The fest also features a screening of “Friendship,” the A24 comedy starring Tim Robinson and Paul Rudd. Neo Sora’s Gen-z apocalypse ensemble drama “Happyend” will play as the closing night selection.

Other feature inclusions are the world premiere of Dennis Cooper and Zac Farley’s “Room Temperature,” about an annual family-operated haunted house that dramatically ups the stakes; the U.S.

Visually stunning, nostalgic, heartfelt, and full of emotional depth, Jane Schoenbrun’s latest feature-length production, I Saw the TV Glow, is a cinematic masterpiece. Starring Justice Smith (Detective Pikachu) and Jack Haven (Atypical), the throwback film centers around two teenagers in 1996 who find common ground through a shared obsession for a TV show titled, The Pink Opaque. Throughout the film, the pair call their identities into question, with much of the title acting as a parallel for the experience of coming out as trans. Featuring plenty of callbacks to shows of yesteryear like Buffy the Vampire Slayerand Are You Afraid of the Dark?, the horror film isn’t easily comparable to other entries in the genre, more so using the overlying mystery behind its two main characters as the horror aspect.

Arriving on a busy blue carpet for a gray day at the beach, guests at the 2025 Indie Spirit Awards agreed: It’s time to Make the Movies Messy Again.

Inside the ceremony tent, host Aidy Bryant put it perfectly when she said, “It’s been a great year for film and a bad year for human life.” Hundreds of the most important decision-makers and visionary artists championing creative independence today gathered in Santa Monica, California on Saturday to honor the best in boundary-breaking film and TV.

“Anora” and “Baby Reindeer” won the most categories in several tight races, but the show’s main source of dramatic tension came from the countless news items surrounding a tough awards season. From fraught talk of cultural fascism to economic critiques of the entertainment industry, honorees and their peers predicted an uncertain but fiery future for filmmakers, cast, and crew. The word “messy” came...

When asked about how the Trump administration’s attacks on queer rights may affect their films going forward, “I Saw the TV Glow” director Jane Schoenbrun recognized the major political implications of the current moment, but says there are higher priorities than “trying to react.”

“Hopefully [my directing] won’t change much,” Schoenbrun told Variety‘s Marc Malkin at the Independent Spirit Awards red carpet Sunday in Santa Monica, Calif. “Hopefully as an artist, you’re reading the vibe around you and you’re filtering that into what you make. But also, whether you’re an artist or not, queer people just need to be living and loving and being themselves. That’s probably the more important thing than trying to react.”

Schoenbrun, who identifies as nonbinary and uses they/them pronouns, was in attendance for their film “I Saw the TV Glow.” The A24 release led this year’s Indie Spirit nominations,...

Music supervisors behind the songs of “Wicked” and “A Complete Unknown” led the winners at the 15th annual Guild of Music Supervisors Awards on Sunday night.

On the TV side, the music supervisors behind “Agatha All Along” and “Baby Reindeer” triumphed.

Stephen Schwartz was awarded the Icon Award to celebrate his contributions to the music and film industry. The composer and lyricist performed his song “Beautiful City” on stage from his musical “Godspell.”

Oscar nominees Abraham Alexander and Adrian Quesada performed their nominated song “Like a Bird” from “Sing Sing,” which took the prize for best song written and/or recorded for a film. Meanwhile, Danielle Ponder performed her nominated song “Egún” from Apple TV’s “Manhunt,” and the artist Role Model performed their song “Sally, When The Wine Runs Out” as the Spotlight artist of the evening.

Music producer and supervisor Bonnie Greenberg accepted the Legacy Award for her outstanding career in music supervision.

Mikey Madison as Ani and Mark Eydelshteyn as Ivan in ‘Anora’ (Courtesy of Neon)

Anora continues to pick up speed heading into the Oscars, scoring Critics Choice Awards and DGA wins and snagging a Best Feature win at the Film Independent Spirit Awards. Anora also captured Best Director (Sean Baker) and Best Lead Performance (Mikey Madison) wins. A Real Pain and Didi each earned two awards during the February 22, 2025 Spirit Awards ceremony hosted by Aidy Bryant.

On the television side, Baby Reindeer dominated with three wins. The critically acclaimed limited series took home the Best Lead Performance (Richard Gadd), Best Supporting Performance (Nava Mau), and Best Breakthrough Performance (Jessica Gunning) wins. Other television winners included Shogun and How to Die Alone.

2025 Film Independent Spirit Awards Nominees and Winners

Best Feature

Winner: Anora

Producers: Sean Baker, Alex Coco, Samantha Quan

I Saw the TV Glow

Producers: Ali Herting, Sam Intili, Dave McCary,...

Wicked and A Complete Unknown were the top winners at the 15th Guild of Music Supervisors Awards, held Sunday night at the Wiltern in Los Angeles. Sing Sing, I Saw the TV Glow, Yacht Rock: A Dockumentary, and The Supremes at Earl’s All-You-Can-Eat took home the other movie prizes. See the full list below.

The Guild of Music Supervisors Awards celebrate the best in music supervision and songwriting across different media, including film, television, documentaries, and advertising.

2025 Guild of Music Supervisors Award Winners:

Film

Best Music Supervision in Major Budget Films

Winner: Maggie Rodford – Wicked

Best Music Supervision in Mid-Level Budget Films

Winner: Steven Gizicki – A Complete Unknown

Best Music Supervision in Low Budget Films

Winner: Jessica Berndt, Chris Swanson – I Saw the TV Glow

Best Music Supervision in a Non-Theatrically Released Film

Winner: Robin Urdang – The Supremes at Earl’s All-You-Can-Eat

Best Song Written and/or Recorded for...

Wicked and A Complete Unknown were the top film winners at the 15th Guild of Music Supervisors Awards, which were handed out Sunday night at the Wiltern in Los Angeles. Sing Sing, I Saw the TV Glow, Yacht Rock: A Dockumentary and The Supremes at Earl’s All-You-Can-Eat took the other movie prizes. See the full winners list below.

Honoring the year’s best achievements in music supervision and songwriting, the guild handed its TV hardware went to Baby Reindeer, Agatha All Along, English Teacher, Love Island USA and Lolla: The Story of Lollapalooza.

Here are the winners of the 2025 Guild of Music Supervisors Awards:

Film

Best Music Supervision in Major Budget Films

Maggie Rodford – “Wicked”

Best Music Supervision in Mid-Level Budget Films

Steven Gizicki – “A Complete Unknown”

Best Music Supervision in Low Budget Films

Jessica Berndt, Chris Swanson – “I Saw the TV Glow”

Best Music Supervision in a Non-Theatrically...

The music supervisors for “Wicked,” “A Complete Unknown” and “I Saw the TV Glow” won the top feature film awards at the 15th annual Guild of Music Supervisors Awards, which took place on Sunday at the Wiltern Theatre in Los Angeles.

“Wicked” won in the Best Music Supervision in the Major Budget Films category, “A Complete Unknown” won in the mid-level budget category and “I Saw the TV Glow” won for low-budget films.

“The Supremes at Earl’s All-You-Can-Eat” won for non-theatrically released films.

The Oscar-nominated song “Like a Bird” from “Sing Sing” won in the Best Song Written and/or Recorded for a Film category — and in a pointed rebuke to the Oscars’ decision not to perform the nominated songs during that show, “Like a Bird” and two other songs were performed at the Guild of Music Supervisors Awards ceremony.

Television winners included “Baby Reindeer,” “English Teacher,” “Love Island USA” and “Agatha All Along.

The Guild of Music Supervisors Awards revealed its 2025 winners Sunday night (Feb. 23). The 15th annual ceremony was held at The Wiltern in L.A.’s Koreatown and honors the year’s best work in songs and scores for screen.

Sunday’s ceremony began with a video about January’s deadly wildfires, in which guild president Lindsay Wolfington lost her home. She thanked the community for rallying behind her during opening remarks with vp Heather Guibert.

The opening remarks didn’t shy away from addressing the Academy’s decision to “move away” from best original song live performances at the 2025 Oscars. “We are proud that our awards for best song written and or recorded for film and for television, acknowledges the collaborative efforts of the songwriters, the performers, and of course the music,” Guibert told the crowd.

“This year in particular, unlike other awards bodies, we are especially proud to be...

Trans life has always been under attack, but — with the Trump Administration actively stripping this community’s rights away on a daily basis — perhaps never more so than right now. It’s why an indie film like “I Saw the TV Glow” has proven such a cultural touchstone. By using the horror genre to expose the joy and turmoil of being queer, the film has connected with audiences who feel ignored and trapped by the circumstances society has put upon them.

Speaking to IndieWire’s Alison Foreman on the blue carpet at the 2025 Film Independent Spirit Awards, “I Saw the TV Glow” star Jack Haven shared how, in creating an honest reflection of queerness, the film has pushed others to accept themselves as they are rather than face the horror of embracing a falsehood.

“People are coming out as trans faster than their passports can be revoked,” Haven said, pointing...

Heading towards next month’s Academy Awards, Sean Baker’s Anora has been on a complete rebound, taking over awards season via the WGA, DGA and PGA. Now, it has added the Independent Spirit Awards to that list, taking home three at yesterday’s ceremony: Best Feature, Best Director for Baker and Best Lead Performance for Mikey Madison. Going in, it co-led the nominees with five, tying with I Saw the TV Glow.

Check out the full list of winners from the 40th Independent Spirit Awards below:

Best Feature: Anora

Best First Feature: Didi

John Cassavetes Award: Girls Will Be Girls

Best Director: Sean Baker, Anora

Best Screenplay: Jesse Eisenberg, A Real Pain

Best First Screenplay: Sean Wang, Dìdi

Best Lead Performance: Mikey Madison, Anora

Best Supporting Performance: Kieran Culkin, A Real Pain

Best Breakthrough Performance: Maisy Stella, My Old Ass

Best Cinematography: Jomo Fray, Nickel Boys

Best Editing: Hansjörg Weissbrich,...

Jesse Eisenberg is giving a special shout-out to Emma Stone.

The 41-year-old A Real Pain writer and director won Best Screenplay at the 2025 Film Independent Spirit Awards on Saturday (February 22), and he spoke about his Zombieland co-star, who was a producer on the film.

“I met Emma when we were in Zombieland together 2009 and since then — I write little magazine articles and little things on McSweeney’s, and she’s the only person, I’m including my mom here, who would take little screenshots of it over the last 15 years and send me things like, ‘This is such a funny line!’” he said.

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“She was, definitely still [is], the most famous person I know, and yet also the most dedicated to encouraging me as a writer. I think about her not as my producer, but like a fairy godmother, that I am riding the coattails of her goodwill.

The Independent Spirit Awards are an annual award given in the name of independent film, featuring all of the indie films which deserve honor and recognition - celebrating their 40th year. The 2025 winners of the Spirit Awards were announced Saturday evening, in their usual spot in Santa Monica near the beach - one week before the Oscars. The big winner this year is the already celebrated Anora, taking Best Film & Best Director & Best Lead Performance. Sean Baker also recently won the DGA Award for Best Director as well. The other nominations from 2024 included many outstanding indie films many cinephiles have been raving about for years, deserving of some extra time in the spotlight - including Nickel Boys, Sing Sing, I Saw the TV Glow, Cuckoo, Thelma, The Brutalist, Ghostlight, and Didi (which also won a few awards). As usual, a few surprises: I've never heard of Big Boys (a coming-of-age...

Though its timing has changed over the years, the Film Independent Spirit Awards still marks the final turn toward the finish line of awards season, putting a spotlight on both the films that are major Oscar contenders, as well as the projects that prove great cinema can be made at the most micro of budgets.

While the show was expansive in terms of what it honored, including the best of television as well, there was a certain throughline in what was recognized at the Independent Spirit Awards this year. Below, IndieWire dives into the true winners of the 2025 Indie Spirits.

“Anora”

We must start by stating the obvious, as the Palme d’Or winning film released by Neon not only won Best Film, but Best Director for Sean Baker, and Best Lead Performance for Mikey Madison right on the heels of a handful of key awards wins at places like the PGA Awards,...

Mikey Madison scored another win for Anora.

On Saturday, the 25-year-old actress won the award for best lead performance, film, at the Independent Spirit Awards. While addressing the crowd, she thanked the entire cast and the director, Sean Baker.

“I want to thank Sean Baker. All of this started with you. You are an incredible director, a wonderful friend, incredible chihuahua owner,” she said “I’m so grateful that you came into my life.”

Madison was up against Amy Adams (Nightbitch), Ryan Destiny (The Fire Inside), Colman Domingo (Sing Sing), Keith Kupferer (Ghostlight), Demi Moore (The Substance), Hunter Schafer (Cuckoo), Justice Smith (I Saw the TV Glow), June Squibb (Thelma) and Sebastian Stan (The Apprentice), who she said she was “honored to be nominated” alongside. Last week, Madison won the BAFTA for best leading actress.

Madison also addressed Baker’s wife and producer on the film, Samantha Quan, for being “the most incredible,...

Film Independent handed out its 2025 Spirit Awards on Saturday afternoon (February 22), in a Santa Monica ceremony that saw Anora claim three prizes for best feature, director Sean Baker, and lead performance Mikey Madison in the gender-neutral category.

Sean Wang’s Didi took two prizes for best first feature and first screenplay, whileGints Zilbalodis’s Latvian animation Flow won international film and No Other Land was named best documentary. A Real Pain also nabbed two awards for screenplay and supporting actor Kieran Culkin.

While it is too late for the Spirit Awards to have any bearing on the Oscars next weekend...

When Sean Baker (Anora) won best director at the Film Independent Spirit Awards on Saturday, he took the opportunity to reflect on the current state of independent film and said the industry needed to change to keep that genre of films alive.

“Indie film is struggling right now, more than ever,” Baker told the audience in a lengthy speech. “Gone are the days of DVD sales that allow for greater risk to be taken on challenging films. That revenue stream is gone, and the only way to see significant back-end is to have a box office hit with profits that far exceed what any of our films will ever see, unless you are Damien Leone and strike gold with a franchise like Terrifier. But as we all know, that’s an extreme rarity for me, and I think for many of my peers. If we’re lucky, the average number...

The 2025 Film Independent Spirit Awards have wrapped! And now we know, as the full winners list for the Spirit Awards has been revealed, just how much momentum “Anora” has going into the Oscars: a lot. It already got the most Spirits nominations with six, and it ended up winning Best Feature, Best Director for Sean Baker, and Best Lead Performance for Mikey Madison.

Kieran Culkin won Best Supporting Performance for “A Real Pain,” which also won Best Screenplay. “No Other Land” won Best Documentary, and the extraordinary animated film “Flow” won Best International feature.

“Baby Reindeer” collected the most prizes on the TV side with Best Lead Performance in a New Scripted Series going to Richard Gadd, Jessica Gunning won Best Breakthrough Performance in a New Scripted Series, and Best Supporting Performance in a New Scripted Series went to Nava Rau. “Shogun” won Best New Scripted Series.

Host Aidy Bryant...

Anora continued its February roll through awards season, dominating the 40th Annual Film Independent Spirit Awards on Saturday with wins for Best Feature, Best Director for Sean Baker and Best Lead Performance for star Mikey Madison.

In winning for top feature, Anora beat out fellow Oscar Best Picture nominees Nickel Boys and The Substance along with Sing Sing and I Saw the TV Glow. Baker prevailed in the director race over another Academy Award nominee, onetime favorite Brady Corbet for The Brutalist, as well as Ali Abbasi (The Apprentice), Alonso Ruizpalacios (La Cocina), and Jane Schoenbrun (I Saw the TV Glow). And Madison, on the heels of her BAFTA win last week, knocked off her chief Best Actress competition at the Oscars, Demi Moore — setting the stage for a SAG Awards showdown Sunday night.

The victories by Anora and Baker at the Indie Spirits are anything but a surprise, as...

Kieran Culkin took home the win for best supporting performance at the 2025 Independent Spirit Awards on Saturday.

Presented by Kathryn Hahn, Culkin won the honor for his work in Jesse Eisenberg’s A Real Pain, marking his first Spirit Award ever. Culkin — who is starring in Glengarry Glen Ross, which opens March 10 on Broadway — was not present at the Spirit Awards in Santa Monica on Saturday, but Hahn accepted the award on his behalf.

His win at the 2025 Spirit Awards came a little over a month after he won the award for best supporting actor at the 2025 Golden Globes. Culkin, too, became a first-time Oscar nominee this year with a nod in the same category for his portrayal of Benji Kaplan in A Real Pain.

The Succession star was nominated for best supporting performance at the Spirit Awards alongside Yura Borisov (Anora), Joan Chen (Dìdi), Danielle Deadwyler (The Piano Lesson...

The best in independent film and new television shows were honored at the 2025 Independent Spirit Awards and we have the full winners list here.

Anora and I Saw the TV Glow led the film nominations with five nods each while Shogun led the television nominations with five nods as well.

In the end, Anora and Baby Reindeer led their respective categories with three wins each!

Make sure to check out the recap of every celeb who attended the event and take a look at our Best Dressed list as well.

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Best Feature

Anora – Winner

Producers: Sean Baker, Alex Coco, Samantha Quan

I Saw the TV Glow

Producers: Ali Herting, Sam Intili, Dave McCary, Emma Stone, Sarah Winshall

Nickel Boys

Producers: Joslyn Barnes, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, David Levine

Sing Sing

Producers: Clint Bentley, Greg Kwedar, Monique Walton...

The 2025 Film Independent Spirit Awards — the top awards event for the independent film and television community — were handed out on Saturday from the beach in Santa Monica, Calif.

The ceremony, hosted by Saturday Night Live vet Aidy Bryant for the second year in the row, was streamed live on the IMDb and Film Independent YouTube channels at 5 pm Et, and across other social platforms.

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When Jesse Eisenberg won the Film Independent Spirit Award for Best Screenplay for “A Real Pain,” he devoted part of his acceptance speech to thanking executive producer Emma Stone. He praised Stone — who also served as a producer on Spirit-nominated films “I Saw the TV Glow,” “Problemista,” and “Fantasmas” — for using her A-list status to help bold independent films get made, calling her a “fairy godmother” who continues to help guide her career.

Addressing members of the press in the winners room, Eisenberg was asked about the possibility of writing a role for Stone, who he has known since they co-starred in “Zombieland” in 2009. The hyphenate admitted that he loved the idea, but playfully cast doubt on the notion that Stone would ever be able to fit one of his movies into her busy acting schedule.

“Every single person in the world who opens a Final Draft folder wants to write something for Emma Stone.

It was a star-studded afternoon at the 2025 Independent Spirit Awards and we’re recapping the best fashion on the red carpet!

Celebs stepped out to honor the best in indie movies and new television at the event on Saturday afternoon (February 22) at the Santa Monica Pier in Los Angeles.

SNL‘s Aidy Bryant is hosting the show for the second year in a row and you can live stream the event on YouTube. Anora and I Saw the TV Glow lead the film nominations with five nods each while Shogun leads the television nominations with five nods as well.

Make sure to check out our recap of all the celebs who attended to see every look from the red carpet.

Browse through the slideshow for the Best Dressed stars from the Spirit Awards…...

During his acceptance speech for best screenplay at the 2025 Film Independent Spirit Awards, A Real Pain writer and director Jesse Eisenberg called Emma Stone, a producer on the film, his “fairy godmother.”

“I met Emma when we were in Zombieland together 2009 and since then — I write little magazine articles and little things on McSweeney’s, and she’s the only person, I’m including my mom here, who would take little screenshots of it over the last 15 years and send me things like, ‘This is such a funny line!'” Eisenberg said onstage, while Stone was in the audience. “She was, definitely still [is], the most famous person I know, and yet also the most dedicated to encouraging me as a writer. I think about her not as my producer, but like a fairy godmother, that I am riding the coattails of her goodwill. And I think it’s so important that somebody like her,...

Former Saturday Night Live castmember Aidy Bryant opened her monologue at the 2025 Independent Spirit Awards on Saturday by reflecting on an intimate moment between her and Kieran Culkin years ago.

Culkin hosted the sketch comedy series in 2021, and she kissed him during a sketch (which didn’t air).

“Kieran and I actually worked together when he hosted SNL, and we did a sketch and in it, we had to kiss — in a comedic way. And after dress rehearsal, Kieran said to my co-writer, ‘Wow, Aidy really went for it with that kiss,'” the Spirit Awards’ host recalled.

Bryant continued, “That actually got back to me, and then the sketch was cut and it never made it to air. And it just became a thing that I did that I have to live with.”

The comedian then said she wanted to “clear the air” and apologize for being so forward...

The 40th annual Independent Spirit Awards took place in Santa Monica on Feb. 22, with Aidy Bryant as host for the second year in a row.

“Anora” was the biggest winner of the day, being named best feature while Sean Baker and Mikey Madison took home individual trophies for best director and lead performance. “Baby Reindeer” also won big, with Richard Gadd, Nava Mau and Jessica Gunning clinching the awards for lead, supporting and breakthrough performance, though “Shogun” won best new scripted series. And Sean Wang’s “Dìdi” clinched both awards in the debut film category: best first feature as well as best first first screenplay.

See the full list of winners below.

Best Feature

“Anora” (Winner)

“I Saw the TV Glow”

“Nickel Boys”

“Sing Sing”

“The Substance”

Best First Feature

“Dìdi” (Winner)

“In the Summers”

“Janet Planet”

“The Piano Lesson”

“Problemista”

John Cassavetes Award – Given to the best feature made...

Emma Stone and husband Dave McCary are stepping out to support their movie I Saw the TV Glow!

The married couple posed for photos as they arrived at the 2025 Independent Spirit Awards on Saturday (February 22) held at the Santa Monica Pier in Los Angeles.

For the event, Emma, 36, wore a black top with a green skirt while Dave, 39, sported a dark brown suit and tan shirt.

If you didn’t know, Emma and Dave are producers on I Saw the TV Glow, which is nominated Best Feature.

They were joined on the blue carpet by their producing partners Kevin Kelly and Ali Herting.

The 2025 Independent Spirit Awards will air live starting at 5pm Et Film Independent and IMDb YouTube channels with host Aidy Bryant. You can check out the full list of nominations here!

Fyi: Emma is wearing an Emilia Wickstead dress, Alevi Milano shoes, and Irene Neuwirth jewelry while carrying a Louis Vuitton bag.

Hollywood is hitting the beach as the 40th Film Independent Spirit Awards get underway at Santa Monica Pier.

Hosted by Aidy Bryant for the second consecutive year, Anora and I Saw the TV Glow lead the nominations with six apiece at this year’s awards show. Along with Nickel Boys, Sing Sing and The Substance, both films are up for Best Feature.

A movie’s threshold for qualification at the Spirits is that its production cost can’t exceed $30M, which is why several major titles have been excluded from the nominations.

Present at Saturdays awards show were nominees Justice Smith, Danielle Deadwyler, Jessica Gunning and Adam Pearson. Also in attendance were Julia Fox, Walton Goggins, Katie Aselton and more.

The awards show streams live at 2pm Pt on IMDb and Film Independent’s YouTube channels, and across other social platforms.

Indie movies are getting the spotlight at the 2025 Independent Spirit Awards and we’re recapping all of the celebs who showed up on the red carpet!

The afternoon awards show is being held on Saturday (February 22) at the Santa Monica Pier in Los Angeles.

SNL‘s Aidy Bryant is hosting the show for the second year in a row and you can live stream the event on YouTube. Anora and I Saw the TV Glow lead the film nominations with five nods each while Shogun leads the television nominations with five nods as well.

We’ll be keeping track of every celeb in attendance at the event and showing you all of the fashion on the red carpet.

Head inside to see all of the celebs who walked the red carpet…

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Elizabeth Olsen

Fyi: Elizabeth is wearing Erdem.

“Anora” won Best Feature at the the 40th Annual Film Independent Spirit Awards, which took place on Saturday afternoon in Santa Monica and was hosted for the second year in a row by Aidy Bryant. “Anora’s” Indie Spirit win follows its recent triumphs at the DGA and PGA awards and boosts its chances for Oscar glory next week. “Anora” also won Best Director for Sean Baker and Best Lead Performance for Mikey Madison. Repeating her victory at the BAFTAs, Madison beat Demi Moore, who had been considered the solid frontrunner.

In many ways, the Indie Spirit Awards followed a pattern it has shown in recent years: Anytime its voters can give a statuette to an Oscar-nominated film or performance, they do. This year’s Spirit nominations included Oscar nominees in seven different categories — and in every one of those categories, the Academy-approved entry won.

Aside from the three big wins for “Anora,...

Film Independent handed out its 2025 Spirit Awards on Saturday afternoon (February 22), in a Santa Monica ceremony that saw Anora claim three prizes for best feature, director Sean Baker, and lead actor Mikey Madison in the gender-neutral category.

Sean Wang’s Didi took two prizes for best first feature and first screenplay, while Gints Zilbalodis’s Latvian animation Flow won international film and No Other Land was named best documentary. A Real Pain also nabbed two awards for screenplay and supporting actor Kieran Culkin.

Baker gave an impassioned speech calling for higher upfront fees for independent directors who he said take...

Before the Oscars light up Hollywood, the Film Independent Spirit Awards is bringing everyone down to the beach. Its annual celebration has been hosted at the Santa Monica Pier for many years, but 2025’s festivities there hold particular reverence, as just a little over a month ago, the area around this setting was ablaze from wildfires.

As serious as this tragedy was, the Spirit Awards, with “SNL” alumna and “Shrill” creator Aidy Bryant back as host, are sure to bring some much-needed levity to a city and community devastated by these recent natural disasters. Bryant will be joined by fellow “SNL” alumna and recent 50th Anniversary standout Molly Shannon, who serves as this year’s Honorary Chair. Other presenters for the evening include Tadanobu Asano, Carrie Coon, Danielle Deadwyler, Mark & Jay Duplass, Walton Goggins, Kathryn Hahn, Alana Haim, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Patti LuPone, Melanie Lynskey, Natasha Lyonne, Questlove, Edgar Ramirez, Hunter Schafer,...

People love horror movies. As much as they fail to accept it when a discussion about cinema’s horrific impact comes up, one can’t think about movies without the horror genre involved in some way. If cinema is like a stimulus, horror movies must be the greatest catalyst to get a reaction out of a viewer. Are you looking for a good old-fashioned scare-fest while sitting on your couch? HBO Max can be your next big destination for horror movies.

The streaming service has a stacked-up catalog of horror movies from all possible eras. The following list mostly looks at those Horror Movies on HBO Max that, in some way, defined the genre. But even beyond the scope of this list and the flavors explored here, lie many contemporary faces of horror on the streamer. From the slow-burning existential tension of I Saw the TV Glow and The Lighthouse...

As indie filmmakers from around the globe converge on California for the 40th Independent Spirit Awards, IndieWire — the voice of creative independence — is preparing for a groundbreaking day on the arrivals carpet in Santa Monica.

The celebration from Film Independent will air at 5 p.m. Et on Saturday, February 22, but, beforehand, IndieWire will be on the red (technically blue at the Spirits) carpet for informed interviews with many of the event‘s top honorees for videos that will live on IndieWire and on IndieWire’s YouTube page afterward — the videos will be posted as the Spirits ceremony is underway. We’ll talk with many of the presenters, nominees, and other artists making fearless magic at this critical time for storytelling, while we blaze a trail of our own.

Powered by LiveU technology, our show will bring IndieWire viewers exclusive conversations with some of Hollywood’s most respected decision-makers and auteurs.

Ready for some celebrity sightings by the beach? Because the 2025 Film Independent Spirit Awards are pitching a tent and taking over the Santa Monica Pier this Saturday, February 22. The annual ceremony will once again be hosted by “SNL” alum and “Shrill” creator Aidy Bryant, who presided over last year’s events, where she joined a long list of hilarious Spirit Awards emcees that includes Hasan Minaj, Aubrey Plaza, Nick Offerman, John Mulaney and Nick Kroll, Kate McKinnon, and Sarah Silverman. This year also marks an important milestone for Film Independent, as this is its 40th year presenting awards to its community.

For those who want to celebrate at home, the festivities will be streamed live on IMDb’s YouTube and other social platforms, as well as via Film Independent’s YouTube channel starting at 2:00pm Pt/5:00pm Et. See the full list of Spirit Awards nominees here.

While...

As we gear up for the big afternoon on the beach this Saturday, now’s a great time to get to know your nominees. Hopefully you’ve seen their films, and if you’re a Film Independent member, watched your screeners and voted too. But there’s nothing quite like hearing about the process from the creative minds themselves.

That’s exactly what we did with this year’s Directors Close-Up, where we brought together the nominees from some of the top filmmaking categories, to talk shop. Over two weeks this February, we held Zoom sessions for our members, where these creators tell how exactly they got their projects off the ground, the creative choices they made, and what inspires them.

If you missed them live, we’ve got you covered. Let’s take a look at all the action from this year’s Directors Close-Up:

Spirit Of...

Sean Baker’s Anora, written by Baker, and Nickel Boys, written by RaMell Ross and Joslyn Barnes, took the top film prizes at the 77th annual Writers Guild Awards tonight, for Original Screenplay and Adapted Screenplay, respectively. The awards were handed out in concurrent ceremonies in Los Angeles and New York. See the full winners list below.

On the TV side, it was a big night for HBO/Max, which won the Comedy Series award (Hacks), Limited Series (The Penguin), Comedy/Variety Series and Specials and TV & Streaming Movie categories, as well as for Disney/FX’s Shōgun, which topped the Drama & New Series fields.

Anora is coming off a string of wins, including top honors from Directors Guild and Producers Guild, putting it in frontrunner status for the Academy Awards. It’s nominated for six Oscars including Best Picture as well as Directing and Original Screenplay for Baker.

Ross...