Past Lives topped a marquee Best Feature category that included Netflixs May December, Amazon MGM Studios American Fiction, Searchlights All of Us Strangers, Sony Pictures Classics We Grown Now and Mubis Passages. T concept in our film, an Eastern concept, and its called inyeon, Song, making her feature directorial debut, said in her acceptance speech with her producers and cast. It is about how just by being in the same space and time in this life, it means we actually knew each other for many, many lives that came before this one. I think that making this movie I have felt this way about everybody who is on stage here Its a feeling that I get where I feel so much less lonely because I know everyone here feels the same so thank you so much for everything. Last years Spirit winner for Best Feature, Everything Everywhere All at Once, also from A24, went on to win the Best Picture Oscar. Todays other Oscar nominees fared well today with Jeffrey Wright winning Best Lead Performance for American Fiction, which also scored a Best Screenplay win for its writerdirector Cord Jefferson; May December writers Samy Burch and Alex Mechanik won the Best First Screenplay prize. Past Lives, American Fiction and May December came into today tied for the most overall nominations with five. It was Focus Features The Holdovers, an Oscar Best Picture nominee but not a Best Feature nominee here today, that took the most trophies with three for frontrunner DaVine Joy Randolph as Best Supporting Performance, Dominic Sessa for Breakthrough Performance and Eigil Bryld for Cinematography. Other Oscar nominees scoring wins today included Anatomy of a Fall which won for Best International Film and Four Daughters which won for Best Documentary. RELATED 2024 Awards Season Calendar Dates For Oscars, Guilds, Tonys & More The TV side was led by multiple wins for The Last of Us (acting performances from Nick Offerman and Keivonn Montreal Woodard), and Beef, which won for Best New Scripted Series and for Ali Wong, who topped even costar Steven Yeun in the genderneutral Best Lead Performance in a New Scripted Series category. RELATED Nick Offerman Slams Homophobic Hate Aimed At His Episode Of The Last Of Us In Spirit Awards Speech Todays streamingonly ceremony, hosted ably by Saturday Night Live alum Aidy Bryant, was times interrupted by the sounds of a proPalestinian protester outside the event tent; his chants of Long live Palenstine and Cease fire now were audible during several speeches thanks to his use of a loudspeaker. Several speakers onstage noted the noise, which lasted most of the show. RELATED Aidy Bryants Spirit Awards Monologue Takes On AI, The Strike & Pains Of Hosting Heres todays full list of Spirit Awards winners BEST FEATURE (Given to the producer) Past Lives Producers David Hinojosa, Pamela Koffler, Christine Vachon BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE Jeffrey Wright American Fiction BEST DIRECTOR Celine Song Past Lives BEST FIRST FEATURE (Award given to director and producer) A Thousand and One Director A.V. Rockwell Producers Julia Lebedev, Rishi Rajani, Eddie Vaisman, Lena Waithe, Brad Weston BEST BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE Dominic Sessa The Holdovers JOHN CASSAVETES AWARD (Given to best feature made for under $1,000,000; award given to writer, director and producer) Fremont Director/Writer Babak Jalali Writer Carolina Cavalli Producers Rachael Fung, Chris Martin, Marjaneh Moghimi, George Rush, Sudnya Shroff, Laura Wagner BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY Eigil Bryld The Holdovers BEST EDITING Daniel Garber How to Blow Up a Pipeline BEST NEW SCRIPTED SERIES (Given to the creator, executive producer, coexecutive producer) Beef Creator/Executive Producer Lee Sung Jin Executive Producers Steven Yeun, Ali Wong, Jake Schreier, Ravi Nandan, Alli Reich CoExecutive Producers Alice Ju, Carrie Kemper BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE IN A NEW SCRIPTED SERIES Ali Wong Beef BEST NEW NONSCRIPTED OR DOCUMENTARY SERIES (Award given to creator, executive producer, coexecutive producer) Dear Mama Executive Producers Lasse Jrvi, Quincy QD3 Jones III, Staci Robinson, Nelson George, Charles D. King, Peter Nelson, Adel Future Nur, Jamal Joseph, Ted Skillman, Allen Hughes, Steve Berman, Marc Cimino, Jody Gerson, John Janick, Nicholas Ferrall, Nigel Sinclair BEST SCREENPLAY Cord Jefferson American Fiction BEST FIRST SCREENPLAY Samy Burch; Story by Samy Burch, Alex Mechanik May December BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM (Given to the director) Anatomy of a Fall France Director Justine Triet BEST BREAKTRHOUGH PERFORMANCE IN A NEW SCRIPTED SERIES Keivonn Montreal Woodard The Last of Us BEST DOCUMENTARY (Given to the director and producer) Four Daughters Director Kaouther Ben Hania Producer Nadim Cheikhrouha BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE IN A NEW SCRIPTED SERIES Nick Offerman The Last of Us BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE DaVine Joy Randolph The Holdovers Previously Announced TRUER THAN FICTION AWARD (Presented to an emerging director of nonfiction features who has not yet received significant recognition) Set Hernandez Director Unseen ROBERT ALTMAN AWARD (Given to one films director, casting director and ensemble cast) Showing Up Director Kelly Reichardt Casting Director Gayle Keller Ensemble Cast Andr Benjamin, Hong Chau, Judd Hirsch, Heather Lawless, James Le Gros, John Magaro, Matt Malloy, Amanda Plummer, Maryann Plunkett, Denzel Rodriguez, Michelle Williams PRODUCERS AWARD (Honors emerging producers who, despite highly limited resources, demonstrate the creativity, tenacity and vision required to produce quality independent films)
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