The 2025 Film Independent Spirit Awards nominees have officially been announced with both GreenSlate client projects Anora and I Saw The TV Glow coming in with significant nominations in big categories. 

Other GreenSlate client projects have secured nominations as well, notably Gotham Best Feature winner A Different Man, Best Screenplay Gotham winner His Three Sisters, and Gotham winner Sing Sing for Outstanding Lead and Supporting Performances.

The full list of nominations for the Spiriting Awards are below, with GreenSlate client projects scoring 29 total nominations and represented by a 💚.

We love supporting indie film and sharing in the excitement when these films and the talented teams behind them are recognized. 

Best Feature

Anora 💚

Producers: Sean Baker, Alex Coco, Samantha Quan

I Saw the TV Glow 💚 

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

Sing Sing 💚

Producers: Clint Bentley, Greg Kwedar, Monique Walton

Nickel Boys

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

The Substance

Producers: Tim Bevan, Coralie Fargeat, Eric Fellner

Best First Feature

Janet Planet 💚

Director/Producer: Annie Baker
Producers: Andrew Goldman, Dan Janvey, Derrick Tseng

The Piano Lesson 💚

Director: Malcolm Washington
Producers: Todd Black, Denzel Washington

Problemista 💚

Director/Producer: Julio Torres
Producers: Ali Herting, Dave McCary, Emma Stone

Dìdi

Director/Producer: Sean Wang
Producers: Valerie Bush, Carlos López Estrada, Josh Peters

In the Summers

Director: Alessandra Lacorazza Samudio
Producers: Janek Ambros, Lynette Coll, Alexander Dinelaris, Cynthia Fernandez De La Cruz, Cristóbal Güell, Sergio Alberto Lira, Rob Quadrino, Jan Suter, Daniel Tantalean, Nando Vila, Slava Vladimirov, Stephanie Yankwitt

John Cassavetes Award

Best feature made for under $1,000,000 

Big Boys

Writer/Director/Producer: Corey Sherman
Producer: Allison Tate

Ghostlight

Writer/Director: Kelly O’Sullivan
Director/Producer: Alex Thompson
Producers: Pierce Cravens, Ian Keiser, Chelsea Krant, Eddie Linker, Alex Wilson

Girls Will Be Girls

Writer/Director/Producer: Shuchi Talati
Producers: Richa Chadha, Claire Chassagne

Jazzy

Writer/Director/Producer: Morrisa Maltz
Writer/Producer: Lainey Shangreaux
Writers: Andrew Hajek, Vanara Taing
Producers: Miranda Bailey, Tommy Heitkamp, John Way, Natalie Whalen, Elliott Whitton

The People’s Joker

Writer/Director: Vera Drew
Writer: Bri LeRose
Producer: Joey Lyons

Best Director

Alonso Ruizpalacios, La Cocina 💚

Jane Schoenbrun, I Saw the TV Glow 💚

Sean Baker, Anora 💚

Ali Abbasi, The Apprentice

Brady Corbet, The Brutalist

Best Screenplay

Aaron Schimberg, A Different Man 💚

Jane Schoenbrun, I Saw the TV Glow 💚

Jesse Eisenberg, A Real Pain 💚

Scott Beck, Bryan Woods, Heretic

Megan Park, My Old Ass

BEST FIRST SCREENPLAY Best First Screenplay

Annie Baker, Janet Planet 💚

Julio Torres, Problemista 💚

India Donaldson, Good One

Joanna Arnow, The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed

Sean Wang, Dìdi

Best Lead Performance

Colman Domingo, Sing Sing 💚

Mikey Madison, Anora 💚

Justice Smith, I Saw the TV Glow 💚

June Squibb, Thelma 💚

Sebastian Stan, The Apprentice

Demi Moore, The Substance

Hunter Schafer, Cuckoo

Keith Kupferer, Ghostlight

Amy Adams, Nightbitch

Ryan Destiny, The Fire Inside

Best Supporting Performance

Yura Borisov, Anora 💚

Kieran Culkin, A Real Pain 💚

Danielle Deadwyler, The Piano Lesson 💚

Karren Karagulian, Anora 💚

Brigette Lundy-Paine, I Saw the TV Glow 💚

Clarence “Divine Eye” Maclin, Sing Sing 💚

Adam Pearson, A Different Man 💚

Carol Kane, Between the Temples

Kani Kusruti, Girls Will Be Girls

Joan Chen, Dìdi

Best Breakthrough Performance

Maria von Hausswolff, Janet Planet 💚

Juan Pablo Ramírez, La Cocina 💚

Isaac Krasner, Big Boys

Katy O’Brian, Love Lies Bleeding

Mason Alexander Park, National Anthem

René Pérez Joglar, In the Summers

Maisy Stella, My Old Ass

Best Cinematography

Dinh Duy Hung, Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell

Jomo Fray, Nickel Boys

Rina Yang, The Fire Inside

Best Editing

Laura Colwell, Vanara Taing, Jazzy

Olivier Bugge Coutté, Olivia Neergaard-Holm, The Apprentice

Anne McCabe, Nightbitch

Hansjörg Weissbrich, September 5

Arielle Zakowski, Dìdi

Robert Altman Award

His Three Daughters 💚

Director: Azazel Jacobs
Casting Director: Nicole Arbusto
Ensemble Cast: Jovan Adepo, Jasmine Bracey, Carrie Coon, Jose Febus, Rudy Galvan, Natasha Lyonne, Elizabeth Olsen, Randy Ramos Jr., Jay O. Sanders

Best Documentary

Gaucho Gaucho

Directors/Producers: Michael Dweck, Gregory Kershaw
Producers: Christos Konstantakopoulos, Cameron O’Reilly, Matthew Perniciaro

Hummingbirds

Directors: Silvia Del Carmen Castaños, Estefanía “Beba” Contreras
Co-Directors/Producers: Miguel Drake-McLaughlin, Diane Ng, Ana Rodriguez-Falco, Jillian Schlesinger
Producers: Leslie Benavides, Rivkah Beth Medow

No Other Land

Directors/Producers: Yuval Abraham, Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Rachel Szor
Producers: Fabien Greenberg, Bård Kjøge Rønning

Patrice: The Movie

Director: Ted Passon
Producers: Kyla Harris, Innbo Shim, Emily Spivack

Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat

Director: Johan Grimonprez
Producers: Rémi Grellety, Daan Milius

Best International Film

All We Imagine as Light

France, India, Netherlands, Luxembourg
Director: Payal Kapadia

Black Dog

China
Director: Guan Hu

Flow

Latvia, France, Belgium
Director: Gints Zilbalodis

Green Border

Poland, France, Czech Republic, Belgium
Director: Agnieszka Holland

Hard Truths

United Kingdom
Director: Mike Leigh

Producers Award

The Producers Award honors emerging producers who, despite highly limited resources, demonstrate the creativity, tenacity, and vision required to produce quality independent films.

Alex Coco

Sarah Winshall

Zoë Worth

Someone to Watch Award

Carla Gutiérrez, Director of Frida 💚

Nicholas Colia, Director of Griffin in Summer

Sarah Friedland, Director of Familiar Touch

Pham Thien An, Director of Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell

Truer Than Fiction Award

Julian Brave NoiseCat, Emily Kassie, Directors of Sugarcane

Rachel Elizabeth Seed, Director of A Photographic Memory

Best New Non-Scripted or Documentary Series

Erased: WW2’s Heroes of Color

Executive Producers: Idris Elba, Johanna Woolford Gibbon, Jamilla Dumbuya, Jos Cushing, Khaled Gad, Matt Robins, Chris Muckle, Sean David Johnson, Simon Raikes
Co-Executive Producer: Annabel Hobley

Hollywood Black

Executive Producers: Shayla Harris, Dave Sirulnick, Stacey Reiss, Jon Kamen, Justin Simien, Kyle Laursen, Forest Whitaker, Nina Yang Bongiovi, Jeffrey Schwarz, Amy Goodman Kass, Michael Wright, Jill Burkhart
Co-Executive Producers: David C. Brown, Laurens Grant

Photographer

Executive Producers: Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin, Pagan Harleman, Betsy Forhan
Co-Executive Producers: Anna Barnes, Brent Kunkle

Ren Faire

Executive Producers: Ronald Bronstein, Benny Safdie, Josh Safdie, Eli Bush, Dani Bernfeld, Lance Oppenheim, David Gauvey Herbert, Nancy Abraham, Lisa Heller, Sara Rodriguez
Co-Executive Producers: Abigail Rowe, Christian Vasquez, Max Allman

Social Studies

Creator/Executive Producer: Lauren Greenfield
Executive Producers: Wallis Annenberg, Regina K. Scully, Andrea van Beuren, Frank Evers, Caryn Capotosto

Best New Scripted Series

Baby Reindeer

Creator/Executive Producer: Richard Gadd
Executive Producers: Wim De Greef, Petra Fried, Matt Jarvis, Ed Macdonald

Diarra From Detroit

Creator/Executive Producer: Diarra Kilpatrick
Executive Producers: Kenya Barris, Miles Orion Feldsott, Darren Goldberg
Co-Executive Producers: Ester Lou, Mark Ganek

English Teacher

Creator/Executive Producer: Brian Jordan Alvarez
Executive Producers: Paul Simms, Jonathan Krisel, Dave King
Co-Executive Producers: Kathryn Dean, Jake Bender, Zach Dunn

Fantasmas

Creator/Executive Producer: Julio Torres
Executive Producers: Emma Stone, Dave McCary, Olivia Gerke, Alex Bach, Daniel
Powell
Co-Executive Producer: Ali Herting

Shōgun

Creators/Executive Producers: Rachel Kondo, Justin Marks
Executive Producers: Edward L. McDonnell, Michael De Luca, Michaela Clavell
Co-Executive Producers: Shannon Goss, Andrew Macdonald, Allon Reich

Best Lead Performance In A New Scripted Series

Brian Jordan Alvarez, English Teacher

Richard Gadd, Baby Reindeer

Lily Gladstone, Under the Bridge

Kathryn Hahn, Agatha All Along

Cristin Milioti, The Penguin

Julianne Moore, Mary & George

Hiroyuki Sanada, Shōgun

Anna Sawai, Shōgun

Andrew Scott, Ripley

Julio Torres, Fantasmas

Best Supporting Performance In A New Scripted Series

Tadanobu Asano, Shōgun

Enrico Colantoni, English Teacher

Betty Gilpin, Three Women

Chloe Guidry, Under the Bridge

Moeka Hoshi, Shōgun

Stephanie Koenig, English Teacher

Patti LuPone, Agatha All Along

Nava Mau, Baby Reindeer

Ruth Negga, Presumed Innocent

Brian Tee, Expats

Best Breakthrough Performance In A New Scripted Series

Jessica Gunning, Baby Reindeer

Diarra Kilpatrick, Diarra From Detroit

Joe Locke, Agatha All Along

Megan Stott, Penelope

Hoa Xuande, The Sympathizer

Best Ensemble Cast In A New Scripted Series

How to Die Alone

Ensemble Cast: Melissa DuPrey, Jaylee Hamidi, KeiLyn Durrel Jones, Arkie Kandola, Elle Lorraine, Michelle McLeod, Chris “CP” Powell, Conrad Ricamora, Natasha Rothwell, Jocko Sims

👏 Congrats to all of this year's nominees!

Mark your calendars, as the Film Independent Spirit Awards ceremony will be held on February 22nd, 2025.