SANTA MONICA, CA – The past year has been “a great year for movies and a bad year for human life,” host Ady Bryant said Saturday he will launch his 40th independent Spirit Award.
The film award show, made for less than $30 million, is the famous relaxed issue held in a huge tent on Santa Monica Beach (Walton Goggins from “White Lotus” rocking a sleeveless shirt) . However, Saturday’s winner is also competing for Oscar Gold.
With just a week gone by before winning the Academy Awards on March 2nd, Indie Spirits is a writer and director Shawn, who has won three major awards, including Best Feature, Best Director and Best Lead Performance for Star Mikey Madison. We praised Baker’s “Anora.”
The drama about a whirlwind between Brooklyn Sex Worker (Madison) and Russian Oligarch son has received six Academy Award nominations including Oscar Front Runner – Best Picture, Best Director of Baker and Best Actress from Madison I’ve won it. .
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Confessed after accepting the Best Director Award, “Indie Film Lifeler” Baker gave a passionate speech for an independent film that earned a major financial hit amid a decline in DVD revenue.
“We want complete artistic freedom and the freedom for the studio to cast the right person for the role, not the one who wants to cast us. “This is another fight that’s a good fight. For all indie movie life forms.”
Madison beat Demi Moore (“Substance”) for the award, and both were nominated for Best Actress Oscars. Madison thanked Baker for calling him “a great friend and an incredible Chihuahua owner. I’m grateful that you’ve entered my life. ” she said.
Behind the scenes, Madison distracted Oscar’s potential success.
“I don’t expect anything ongoing from these (the awards shows),” Madison said. “I’m really grateful for the love people have shown.”
Thank you to Jesse Eisenberg’s “Real Pain” producer Emma Stone
Jesse Eisenberg won the Best Screenplay Award for “A Real Pain.” Eisenberg thanked producer Emma Stone. “She is definitely the most famous person to this day, but she is the most dedicated to encouraging me as a writer,” Eisenberg said in his acceptance speech. “She’s like my fairy godfather and I’m on her well-meaning coat sale.”
Netflix’s Baby Reonteer has won three awards for Indie Spirits
In the TV category, FX epic “Shōgun” won the Best Scripted series, but “Baby Teanteer” ruled it. The Netflix series, which is about struggling comedians being stalked by obsessed women, has won three awards. Richard Gadd scored the best lead performance, Nabamau scored the best supporting performance, and Jessica Gunning scored the best breakthrough performance.
Gadd, who won three Emmys in the Limited series (which won six Emmys), said that the indie spirit victory marked the end of his awards season.
“For the past six months, it’s been a real privilege,” he said. “It’s absolutely crazy to come from a small town in Scotland and be defended by the best people in Hollywood.”
The actor, who was a comedian struggling before finding TV success, thanked the Spirit Awards.
“I love the way every awards show is slightly different,” Gadd said. “You have an Emmy, and it’s a big, flashy thing. You have a Golden Globe behind the hotel. And this is like a beach aircraft hangar. You.”