Maggie Gyllenhaal took home Best Director for The Lost Daughter at the Film Independent Spirit Awards
Kotsur, who is deaf, stars in the inspiring film as a deaf fisherman who relies on his hearing daughter to help him, his wife and his other son — all deaf — navigate a fishing community that doesn't respect or understand them.
Inspiring: Kotsur, who is deaf, stars in the film as a deaf fisherman who relies on his hearing daughter to help him, his wife and his other son — all deaf — navigate a fishing community that doesn't respect or understand them; seen in CODA with Marlee Matlin The film stars Rachel Sennott as a young Jewish woman who has been in a relationship with a sugar daddy while in her senior year of college.
Summer Of Soul features incredible concert footage of Steve Wonder, Sly & The Family Stone, The Stapes Singers and Gladys Knight & The Pips, among other enduring acts. Michael Sarnoski won Best First Screenplay for his director debut Pig, along with his co-story writer Vanessa Block. Best First Feature went to the romantic comedy 7 Days, about a couple who have just had a hasty arranged marriage and are then forced to quarantine together at the start of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
Maggie Gyllenhaal solidified her expansion from acting into filmmaking with her win for Best Screenplay for The Lost Daughter, which she also directed. 'It's the language of the minds of women. I've been sort of afraid to say that because my film is not just for women. It's for everyone. But as soon as I was born, I learned to speak the language of the men who were running the world around me. It was a matter of survival but it was also very interesting, like learning any language. And it meant that I could understand the roots and the subtleties of a lot of great movies,' she continued.
The actress, who was away rehearsing a play, stars in the Rebecca Hall–directed adaptation of Nella Larson's 1929 novel as a Black woman who passes as white who reunites one of her childhood friends , who is also light-skinned enough to pass, but opts not to. The Best New Scripted Series award went to Reservation Dogs, which was created by Taika Waititi and Sterlin Harjo.
True story: The Best New Non-Scripted or Documentary Series award went to Black And Missing, which was executive produced by Soledad O'Brien Fan favorite: Lee Jung-jae, the star of Netflix's massively popular South Korean dystopian thriller Squid Game, was awarded with the Best Male Performance in a New Scripted series award
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