Song also picked up Best Director for her emotional tale of reconnection and regret, While AV Rockwell took Best First Feature for A Thousand And One and Co-writer/director Babak Jalali won the John Cassavetes Award for best feature made for under $1 million for Fremont.
The Holdovers took home the most film gongs, nabbing Best Cinematography for Eigil Bryld, a welcome Best Breakthrough Performance for Dominic Sessa and in what should probably this year be renamed the Da’Vine Joy Randolph Award, she won her latest trophy: Best Supporting Performance.
How To Blow Up A Pipeline‘s Daniel Garber won Best Editing, American Fiction‘s Jeffrey Wright nabbed Best Lead Performance (the Indie Spirits have been gender neutral for their acting awards for a while), and the latter also saw writer/director Cord Jefferson score Best Screenplay.
Best First Screenplay was given to May December‘s Samy Burch and Alex Mechanik, with Anatomy Of A Fall named Best International Film. Four Daughters was Best Documentary and Dear Mama won Best New Non-Scripted Or Documentary Series.
With the Spirits also recognizing TV, The Last Of Us‘ Nick Offerman won another award, this time Best Supporting Performance In A New Scripted Series, with the show’s Keivonn Montreal Woodard given Best Breakthrough Performance In A New Scripted Series. Best New Scripted series went to perennial winner Beef, while that show’s Ali Wong took Best Lead Performance In A New Scripted Series.