“Anora” by Sean Baker won the best film, the best director and the best actor of Mikey Madison at Independent price Saturday in what could be an overview of Next Sunday Oscars: The film about a Brooklyn sex worker and her Whirlwind affair with the son of a Russian oligarch have emerged in recent weeks as the first row of the price season.
The Spirit Awards, held in a beach tent in Santa Monica, California, are the more shaggy and more irreverent sister of the Oscars, celebrating the best of independent cinema and television.
The host Aidy Bryant called him “the third or fourth largest night in Hollywood”.
By accepting the production price, Baker has passionate about the difficulty of making independent films in an industry that is no longer able to finance more risky films. He said the Indies are likely to become movies of call cards – films made only as a way to get hired for greater projects.
“The system must change because it is simply not durable,” Baker told enthusiastic applause. “We shouldn’t barely get out of it.”
The best cinematographic competition of “Anora” included the psychological horror of Jane Schoenbrun “I saw TV shine”, “ Adaptation of Ramell Ross of Colson Whitehead “Nickel Boys”, “ Greg Kwedar incarceration drama “Sing Sing” And the horror of the body of Coralie Fargeat “The substance.”
This year has celebrated several other winners of possible Oscars. Kieran Culkin, considered a favorite of the Oscars, won the price of support performance for “real pain”. Its director, Co-Star and writer Jesse Eisenberg won the best screenplay for the film on two cousins who embark on a Holocaust tour in Poland.
Culkin was not there to accept – he also missed his victory at Bafta last weekend to take care of a family member – but others Oscar nominated As Madison and a half Moore were.
Madison also won the best actor price on Moore in Baftas last weekend, and stopped on Saturday for pets Moore Pilaf dog On the path of the stage. The actor categories for the Spirit Awards are neutral on the genre and include 10 spots each, which means that Madison and Moore were against nominees for Oscars like Colman Domingo (“Sing Sing”) and Sebastian Stan (“The Apprentice” ).
The documentary price went to “No other land”, “ The film rented by a Palestinian-Israeli collective on the destruction of a village in the West Bank which has no distribution. It is also a solid competitor of Oscar in a competitive category. The filmmakers were not present to accept the price.
“Flow”, the animated Latvian cat film without words, won the best international film. In Oscars, he competes in the international category and animation of films.
Although Spirit Award’s winners do not always synchronize with the Academy, they can often reflect an increasing consensus like the year “all everywhere at the same time”. Prices limit eligibility for productions with budgets of $ 30 million or less, which means nominees with more expensive Oscars like “Wicked” And “Dune: second part” were not in the running.
Sean Wang Accepted the best first feature and the best first scenario prices for “Dìdi”. He said it was special to share the scene with one of his stars, Joan Chen, who was also nominated for the same price 25 years ago for “XIU XIU: the girl sent”.
THE Netflix phenomenon “Baby Rendeur” I also won several prizes, for actors Richard Gadd, Jessica Gunning and Nava Mau.
Mau, who is trans, has spoken of the importance of the actors who remain together “while we are entering this next chapter”.
“We don’t know what’s going to happen, but we know our power,” said Mau. “We are the people and our work is everything.”
The other television winners included “Shōgun”, for the best new scripted series, and “How to Die alone”, for the best set.
“How to die alone” Creator and Star Natasha Rothwell was emotional while accepting the overall price. The show was recently canceled After his first season.
Rothwell said it was “a show on the need to feel seen, to be valued like you.”
“For black stories, visibility is not a privilege: it is a necessity,” said Rothwell. “We deserve to take place, to be complex, to be hilarious and to be fully human.”
The generally light spectacle took a moment to recognize The impact of forest fires in Los Angeles. Bryant pleaded for all those who watch the show, in the public or on the Livestream YouTube, to help rebuild the She underlined a QR code which appeared on the Livestream to make donations to the film independent the emergency filmmaker Fund, granting subsidies to the former affected by forest fires.
The program also paid tribute to the independent president for a long time, Josh Welsh, who died earlier this year at 62. Welsh had colon cancer.
Bryant said in its opening that it was a “big year for cinema and a bad year for human life”. The alum of “Saturday Night Live” launched the event flowing some of the nominees, such as Emma Stone.
“Emma was producing four nominated projects tonight,” said Bryant. “But more importantly, her hair is short now.”
Stone also appeared prominently in Eisenberg’s speech when he won the best scenario price for “real pain”. Since they met on the set of “Zombieland” in 2009, he said, she supported her writing despite her “most famous person I know” and produced her two films.
“I think of her not as my producer, but as a fairy godmother, as I mount quarrels for her goodwill,” said Eisenberg.
The camera cut in stone, tears and moved, in the audience. She and the production company of her husband Dave McCary, Fruit Tree, also produced “probantmista” and “phantasmas” by Julio Torres and “I SAW the TV Glow” by Schoenbrun.
“I saw the Glow television” entered the show tie with “Anora” with six nominations. He left with only one, for producer Sarah Winshall.