"Peter Hujar's Day" Leads the Spirit Award Nominations
Saturday, December 6, 2025 at 8:30PM 
PETER HUJAR'S DAY, Ira Sachs | © Janus Films
In the past few years, the Film Independent Spirit Awards have come closer and closer to The Academy, taste-wise. For a while, it seemed like they were becoming another station of the cross on the long path to Oscar gold, a precursor like so many others. For those who loved these prizes for their independent spirit, such a state of affairs was… well, dispiriting. This year, there's been a notable course correction. In part, it's a change predicated on a season dominated by American big-budget studio fare and international productions – both ineligible here. Still, when Peter Hujar's Day by Ira Sachs is your nomination leader, you're clearly not trying to live in the shadow of Oscar. Instead, the Spirits are doing their own thing, and that's how it should be.
Come discover the full list of nominees, on both the film and TV front, plus some color commentary, after the jump…