by Nathaniel R
"Everything Everywhere All At Once" was a sweeper
Everything Everywhere All At Once has turned into a steamroller late in awards season, winning guild prizes, recently snatching up all available Dorian Awards, taking all of the SAG awards it was eligible for, and now sweeping again at the Spirits. The Spirits are traditionally the final prize before Oscar (they used to even be held the day before Oscar!) though they don't always align with Hollywood's big night given their more indie-focused love. This time though there will surely be some overlap. The Daniels sci-fi-comedy-action-queer-family drama has won every single one of its seven categories at the annual Film Independent Spirit Awards and that's getting to be a habit, poor BAFTA showing as the exception. Given its dominance at the Spirits, no other film was able to win more than one prize. Despite an impressive showing in the nominations, for example, TÁR only took Best Cinematography since EEAAO wasn't nominated.
After the jump the winners and all the acceptance speeches...
Best Feature
- “Bones and All” (3 nominations, no wins)
- ★ “Everything Everywhere All at Once” (8 nominations converted to 7 wins since there was a double dip nod in supporting)
- “Our Father, the Devil” (1 nomination, no win)
- “TÁR” (7 nominations, 1 win)
- “Women Talking” (2 nominations + The Robert Alman Award)
Best Director
- Todd Field, “TÁR”
- Kogonada, “After Yang”
- ★ Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, “Everything Everywhere All at Once”
- Sarah Polley, “Women Talking”
- Halina Reijn, “Bodies Bodies Bodies”
There's still an off chance that Oscar feels sentimental and gives it to Spielberg but we'll see!
Best First Feature
Aftersun
- ★ “Aftersun”
- “Emily the Criminal”
- “The Inspection”
- “Murina”
- “Palm Trees and Power Lines”
Charlotte Wells continued her complete dominance of "First Feature" categories. Aftersun built enough momentum through all of its critical prizes to boost Paul Mescal into Best Actor at the Oscars, though the Spirits were its last hurrah as a winner.
Best Lead Performance
- Cate Blanchett, “TÁR”
- Dale Dickey, “A Love Song”
- Mia Goth, “Pearl”
- Regina Hall, “Honk for Jesus, Save Your Soul”
- Paul Mescal, “Aftersun”
- Aubrey Plaza, “Emily the Criminal”
- Jeremy Pope, “The Inspection”
- Taylor Russell, “Bones and All”
- Andrea Riseborough, “To Leslie”
- ★ Michelle Yeoh, “Everything Everywhere All at Once”
Yeoh has been building considerable momentum as we march towards Oscar. Whether she'll unseat Cate Blanchett's previously presumed third win will be a nail-biter until the envelope is read. Unless Everything Everywhere wins something very unexpected early in the evening (like Score / Costumes) and then we'll know we have a sweeper on our hands and Yeoh will be our winner.
Best Supporting Performance
- Jamie Lee Curtis, “Everything Everywhere All at Once”
- Brian Tyree Henry, “Causeway”
- Nina Hoss, “TÁR”
- Brian d’Arcy James, “The Cathedral”
- ★ Ke Huy Quan, “Everything Everywhere All at Once
- Trevante Rhodes, “Bruiser”
- Theo Rossi, “Emily the Criminal”
- Mark Rylance, “Bones and All”
- Jonathan Tucker, “Palm Trees and Power Lines”
- Gabrielle Union, “The Inspection”
Ke Huy Quan has collected more acting trophies than anyone this season. A dead certain lock for Oscar night as well.
Breakthrough Performance
- Frankie Corio, “Aftersun”
- Gracija Filipović, “Murina”
- ★ Stephanie Hsu, “Everything Everywhere All at Once”
- Lily McInerny, “Palm Trees and Power Lines”
- Daniel Zolghadri, “Funny Pages”
Given the love for Everything Everywhere All At Once, it was inevitable that Jobu Tupaki would crush her competition in this Spirit category. In another year it's easy to imagine Frankie Corio walking away with this one, though.
Best Screenplay
Best First Screenplay
- “Bodies Bodies Bodies”
- “Emergency”
- ★ “Emily the Criminal”
- “Fire Island”
- “Palm Trees and Power Lines”
We were rooting for Fire Island but Emily the Criminal is a quality picture. Have you streamed it yet?
Best Cinematography
TÁR takes its only prize at the Spirits with this award for Florian Hoffmeister's also Oscar-nominated work.
Best Editing
- “Aftersun”
- “The Cathedral”
- ★ “Everything Everywhere All at Once”
- “Marcel the Shell with Shoes On”
- “TÁR”
Paul Rogers kaleidoscope editing of multiversal chaos was probably an easy victory despite quality competition.
Robert Altman Award
Best Documentary
- “A House Made of Splinters”
- “All That Breathes”
- ★ “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed”
- “Midwives”
- “Riotsville USA”
Best International Film
- “Corsage” (Austria)
- ★ “Joyland” (Pakistan)
- “Leonor Will Never Die” (Phillipines)
- “Return to Seoul” (Cambodia)
- “Saint Omer” (France)
Shocked and quite thrilled that this great queer film from Pakistan took the prize. We grow impatient for its US release so that more of you will have a chance to see it.
Someone to Watch Award
- Adamma Ebo, “Honk for Jesus, Save Your Soul”
- ★ Nikyatu Jusu, “Nanny”
- Araceli Lemos, “Holy Emy”
Truer Than Fiction Award
- Isabel Castro, “Mija”
- ★ Reid Davenport, “I Didn’t See You There”
- Rebeca Huntt, “Beba (Bayba)”
John Cassavetes Award
- “The African Desperate”
- “A Love Song”
- ★ “The Cathedral”
- “Holy Emy”
- “Something in the Dirt”
This prize is for films that were made for under $1 million (it used to be a $500k cap)
Producers Award
- Liz Cardenas
- ★ Tory Lenosky
- David Grove Churchill Viste
AND THE TV SPEECHES TOO...