The 2022 Independent Spirit Awards were handed out last night and Netflix’s The Lost Daughter was the big winner with three award wins. Netflix also had wins for Passing and Squid Game rounding out a great night for the streaming service.
See below for the full list of nominees and winners; winners are in bold.
FILM CATEGORIES
Best Feature
- A Chiara
- C’mon C’mon
- The Lost Daughter
- The Novice
- Zola
Best First Feature
- 7 Days
- Holler
- Queen of Glory
- Test Pattern
- Wild Indian
Best Director
- Janicza Bravo – Zola
- Maggie Gyllenhaal – The Lost Daughter
- Lauren Hadaway – The Novice
- Mike Mills – C’mon C’mon
- Ninja Thyberg – Pleasure
Best Screenplay
- Nikole Beckwith – Together Together
- Maggie Gyllenhaal – The Lost Daughter
- Janicza Bravo, Jeremy O. Harris – Zola
- Mike Mills – C’mon C’mon
- Todd Stephens – Swan Song
Best Female Lead
- Isabelle Fuhrman – The Novice
- Brittany S. Hall – Test Pattern
- Patti Harrison – Together Together
- Taylour Paige – Zola
- Kali Reis – Catch the Fair One
Best Male Lead
- Clifton Collins Jr. – Jockey
- Frankie Faison – The Killing of Kenneth Chamberlain
- Michael Greyeyes – Wild Indian
- Udo Kier – Swan Song
- Simon Rex – Red Rocket
Best Supporting Female
- Jessie Buckley – The Lost Daughter
- Amy Forsyth – The Novice
- Ruth Negga – Passing
- Revika Reustle – Pleasure
- Suzanna Son – Red Rocket
Best Supporting Male
- Colman Domingo – Zola
- Meeko Gattuso – Queen of Glory
- Troy Kotsur – CODA
- Will Patton – Sweet Thing
- Chaske Spencer – Wild Indian
Best Editing
- Affonso Gonçalves – A Chiara
- Ali Greer – The Nowhere Inn
- Zoi McMillon – Zola
- Enrico Natale – The Killing of Kenneth Chamberlain
- Lauren Hadaway, Nathan Nugent – The Novice
Best Cinematography
- Lol Crawley – The Humans
- Tim Curtin – A Chiara
- Edu Grau – Passing
- Ante Cheng, Matthew Chuang – Blue Bayou
- Ari Wegner – Zola
John Cassavetes Award (Best Feature Made for Less than $500,000)
- Cryptozoo
- Jockey
- Shiva Baby
- Sweet Thing
- This is Not a War Story
Best First Screenplay
- Lyle Mitchell Corbine, Jr – Wild Indian
- Shatara Michelle Ford – Test Pattern
- Fran Kranz – Mass
- Matt Fifer, Sheldon D. Brown – Cicada
- Michael Sarnoski, Vanessa Block – Pig
Best Documentary
- Ascension
- Flee
- In the Same Breath
- Procession
- Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not be Televised)
Best International Film
- Compartment No. 6 – Finland/Russia
- Drive My Car – Japan
- Parallel Mothers – Spain
- Pebbles – India
- Petite Maman – France
- Prayers for the Stolen – Mexico
Robert Altman Award
- Mass
TELEVISION CATEGORIES
Best New Scripted Series
- Blindspotting
- It’s a Sin
- Reservation Dogs
- The Underground Railroad
- We Are Lady Parts
Best New Non-Scripted or Documentary Series
- Black and Missing
- The Choe Show
- The Lady and the Dale
- Nuclear Family
- Philly D.A.
Best Female Performance in a New Scripted Series
- Deborah Ayorinde – THEM: Covenant
- Jasmine Cephas Jones – Blindspotting
- Thuso Mbedu – The Underground Railroad
- Jana Schmieding – Rutherford Falls
- Anjana Vasan – We Are Lady Parts
Best Male Performance in a New Scripted Series
- Olly Alexander – It’s a Sin
- Murray Bartlett – The White Lotus
- Michael Greyeyes – Rutherford Falls
- Lee Jung-Jae – Squid Games
- Ashley Thomas – THEM: Covenant
Best Ensemble Cast
- Reservation Dogs
EMERGING FILMMAKER AWARDS
Producers Award
- Brad Becker-Parton
- Pin-Chun Liu
- Lizzie Shapiro
Someone to Watch Award
- Alex Camilleri
- Michael Sarnoski
- Gillian Wallace Horvat
Truer Than Fiction Award
- Jessica Beshir
- Debbie Lum
- Angelo Madsen Minax
