The Movie Unbiased Spirit Awards stay a significant fixture of awards season. Whereas they aren’t at all times a definitive predictor of Academy Award outcomes, the ceremony performs a significant function in recognizing distinctive achievements in unbiased movie and tv. This 12 months’s winners provide a captivating snapshot of the gorgeous panorama of titles in each mediums.
One of many night’s most notable victories went to Eva Victor‘s movie Sorry, Child. The A24 launch marks Victor’s function directorial debut, through which additionally they star as Agnes, an individual grappling with unresolved trauma as their pal, Lydie (Naomi Ackie)strikes ahead along with her life and begins a household. The movie presents an intimate and affecting portrait of heartbreak and resilience, centering on a protagonist who’s copping, but striving to develop. Though the movie was ignored by the Academy Awards, the Spirit Awards’ recognition of Victor’s work underscores its influence throughout the unbiased movie neighborhood.
Adolpho Veloso‘s win for cinematography on Practice Desires was one other important second of the evening. In Clint Bentley‘s movie, a lot of Joel Edgerton’s efficiency is inner and understated, inserting larger emphasis on visible storytelling. Veloso’s cinematography shapes the emotional texture of the movie, successfully functioning as a story pressure in its personal proper. His Spirit Award follows a Critics Alternative Award win, additional strengthening his standing this awards season. Practice Desires loved a robust exhibiting total, with Bentley incomes Finest Director and the movie taking house Finest Function amongst its honors. An entire record of this 12 months’s Spirit Award winners is on the market under.
The Full Record of Winners
You’ll be able to see the complete record of winners under:
Finest Function
Peter Hujar’s Day
The Plague
Sorry, Child
Practice Desires – WINNER
Twinless
Finest Director
Clint Bentley, Practice Desires – WINNER
Mary Bronstein, If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
Lloyd Lee Choi, Fortunate Lu
Ira Sachs, Peter Hujar’s Day
Eva Victor Sorry, Child
Finest First Function
Blue Solar Palace
Mud Bunny
East of Wall
Lurker – WINNER
One in all Them Days
Finest Lead Efficiency
Everett Blunck, The Plague
Rose Byrne, If I Had Legs I’d Kick You – WINNER
Kathleen Chalfant, Acquainted Contact
Chang Chen, Fortunate Lu
Joel Edgerton, Practice Desires
Dylan O’Brien, Twinless
Keke Palmer, One in all Them Days
Théodore Pellerin, Lurker
Tessa Thompson, Hedda
Ben Whishaw, Peter Hujar’s Day
Finest Supporting Efficiency
Naomi Ackie, Sorry, Child – WINNER
Zoey Deutch, New wave
Kirsten Dunst, Roofman
Rebecca Corridor, Peter Hujar’s Day
Nina Hoss, Hedda
Jane Levy, A Little Prayer
Archie Madekwe, Lurker
Kali Reis, Rebuilding
Jacob Tremblay, Sovereign
Haipeng Xu, Blue Solar Palace
Finest Breakthrough Efficiency
Liz Larsen, The Baltimorons
You Martin, The Plague – WINNER
Misha Osherovich, She’s the He
SZA, One in all Them Days
Tabata Zimiga, East of Wall
Finest Screenplay
A Little Prayer
Sorry, Child – WINNER
Sovereign
Splitsville
Twinless
Finest First Screenplay
Blue Solar Palace
Friendship
Lurker – WINNER
One in all Them Days
Outerlands
Finest Cinematography
Blue Solar Palace
Mud Bunny
Peter Hujar’s Day
Practice Desires – WINNER
Warfare
Finest Modifying
Eephus
Good Boy
Splitsville
The Testomony of Ann Lee – WINNER
Warfare
Finest Documentary
Come See Me within the Good Mild
Countless Cookie
My Undesirable Associates: Half 1 — Final Air in Moscow
The Good Neighbor – WINNER
The Story of Silyan
Finest Worldwide Movie
All That’s Left of You
On Turning into a Guinea Fowl
A Poet
The Secret Agent – WINNER
Cry
Robert Altman Award
The forged, casting director, and director of The Lengthy Stroll – WINNER
Somebody to Watch Award
Tatti Ribeiro – WINNER
Neo Sister
Annapurna Sriram
More true Than Fiction Award
Tony Benna
Rajee Samarasinghe – WINNER
Brittany Shyne
John Cassavetes Award
The Baltimorons
Boys Go to Jupiter
Eephus
This Island – WINNER
Acquainted Contact
Producers Award
Emma Hannaway
Luca Intili
Tony Yang – WINNER
Tv Finest New Scripted Sequence
Adolescence – WINNER
Widespread Facet Results
Ceaselessly
Mr. Loverman
North of North
Finest New Non-Scripted or Documentary Sequence
Citizen Nation
Hurricane Katrina: Race Towards Time
Pee-Wee As Himself – WINNER
Seen & Heard: The Historical past of Black Tv
Vow of Silence: The Assassination of Annie Mae
Finest Lead Efficiency in a New Scripted Sequence
Sydney Chandler, Alien: Earth
Stephen Graham, Adolescence – WINNER
Ethan Hawke, The Lowdown
Lennie James, Mr. Loverman
Anna Lambe, North of North
Lola Petticrew, Say Nothing
Seth Rogen, The Studio
Lovie Simone, Ceaselessly
Michelle Williams, Dying for Intercourse
Noah Wyle, The Pitt
Finest Supporting Efficiency in a New Scripted Sequence
Ariyon Bakare, Mr. Loverman
Babou Ceesay, Alien: Earth
Sharon D. Clarke, Mr. Loverman
Taylor Dearden, The Pitt
Erin Doherty, Adolescence – WINNER
Stephen McKinley Henderson, A Man on the Inside
Poorna Jagannathan, Deli Boys
Banish Roquemore, Ceaselessly
Jenny Slate, Dying for Intercourse
Ben Whishaw, Black Doves
Finest Breakthrough Efficiency in a New Scripted Sequence
Asif Ali Deli Boys
Wally Baram, Overcompensating
Owen Cooper, Adolescence – WINNER
Michael Cooper Jr., Ceaselessly
Ernest Kinglsey Junior, Washington Black
Finest Ensemble Solid in a New Scripted Sequence
Chief of Struggle – WINNER
Congrats to all of the winners! You’ll be able to watch Victor’s work now in Sorry, Child.

- Launch Date
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June 27, 2025
- Runtime
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103 minutes
- Director
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Eva Victor