Ruth Negga and Andrew Scott among Spirit Award nominees

December 06, 2024
Ruth Negga and Andrew Scott among Spirit Award nominees

Ruth Negga and Andrew Scott are among the nominees for the Spirit Awards in the US, honouring the best of film and television.

Negga is shortlisted in the Best Supporting Performance in a New Scripted Series category for her work on Presumed Innocent.

Presumed Innocent

Scott is shortlisted in the Best Lead Performance in a New Scripted Series category for his work on Ripley.

Ripley

The films Anora (below) and I Saw the TV Glow lead the nominations with six each.

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The Spirit Awards will take place on Saturday 22 February 2025 in Santa Monica, California - the weekend before the Oscars.

The Spirit Awards nominees:

Best Feature
Anora
I Saw the TV Glow
Nickel Boys
Sing Sing
The Substance

Best First Feature
Dìdi
In the Summers
Janet Planet
The Piano Lesson
Problemista

John Cassavetes Award
Big Boys
Ghostlight
Girls Will Be Girls
Jazzy
The People's Joker

Best Director
Ali Abbasi, The Apprentice
Sean Baker, Anora
Brady Corbet, The Brutalist
Alonso Ruizpalacios, La Cocina
Jane Schoenbrun, I Saw the TV Glow

Best Screenplay
Scott Beck, Bryan Woods, Heretic
Jesse Eisenberg, A Real Pain
Megan Park, My Old Ass
Aaron Schimberg, A Different Man
Jane Schoenbrun, I Saw the TV Glow

Best First Screenplay
Joanna Arnow, The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed
Annie Baker, Janet Planet
India Donaldson, Good One
Julio Torres, Problemista
Sean Wang, Dìdi

Best Lead Performance
Amy Adams, Nightbitch
Ryan Destiny, The Fire Inside
Colman Domingo, Sing Sing
Keith Kupferer, Ghostlight
Mikey Madison, Anora
Demi Moore, The Substance
Hunter Schafer, Cuckoo
Justice Smith, I Saw the TV Glow
June Squibb, Thelma
Sebastian Stan, The Apprentice

Best Supporting Performance
Yura Borisov, Anora
Joan Chen, Dìdi
Kieran Culkin, A Real Pain
Danielle Deadwyler, The Piano Lesson
Carol Kane, Between the Temples
Karren Karagulian, Anora
Kani Kusruti, Girls Will Be Girls
Brigette Lundy-Paine, I Saw the TV Glow
Clarence 'Divine Eye' Maclin, Sing Sing
Adam Pearson, A Different Man

Best Breakthrough Performance
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
Maria von Hausswolff, Janet Planet
Juan Pablo Ramírez, La Cocina
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

Best Documentary
Gaucho Gaucho
Hummingbirds
No Other Land
Patrice: The Movie
Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat

Best International Film
All We Imagine as Light
Black Dog
Flow
Green Border
Hard Truths

Producers Award
Alex Coco
Sarah Winshall
Zoë Worth

Someone to Watch Award
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
Carla Gutiérrez, director of Frida
Rachel Elizabeth Seed, director of A Photographic Memory

Best New Non-Scripted or Documentary Series
Erased: WW2's Heroes of Color
Hollywood Black
Photographer
Ren Faire
Social Studies

Best New Scripted Series
Baby Reindeer
Diarra From Detroit
English Teacher
Fantasmas
Shōgun

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

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