Sean Baker’s “Anora” won best film, best director and best actor for Mikey Madison at the Independent Spirit Awards on Saturday.
SANTA MONICA, CALIFORNIA - FEBRUARY 22: Alex Coco, Karren Karagulian, Sean Baker , Mikey Madison , Vache Tovmasyan, Samantha Quan, Mark Eydelshteyn, and Yura Borisov accept the Best Feature Award for" Anora " onstage during the 2025 Film Independent Spirit Awards on February 22, 2025 in Santa Monica, California. The film about a Brooklyn sex worker and her whirlwind affair with a Russian oligarch’s son has emerged in recent weeks as an awards season front-runner.
“The system has to change because this is simply unsustainable,” Baker said to enthusiastic applause. “We shouldn’t be barely getting by.”This year had several other possible Oscar winners celebrating. Kieran Culkin, considered an Oscar favorite, won the supporting performance award for “A Real Pain.” His director, co-star and writer Jesse Eisenberg won best screenplay for the film about two cousins embarking on a Holocaust tour in Poland.
Madison won the top acting prize over Moore at the BAFTAs last weekend, as well, and stopped Saturday to peton the way to the stage. Acting categories for the Spirit Awards are gender neutral and include 10 spots each, meaning Madison and Moore were up against Oscar nominees like Colman Domingo and Sebastian Stan .the lauded film by a Palestinian-Israeli collective about the destruction of a village in the West Bank which doesn’t have distribution.
While the Spirit Award winners don’t always sync up with the academy, they can often reflect a growing consensus as in the “Everything Everywhere All At Once” year. The awards limit eligibility to productions with budgets of $30 million or less, meaning more expensive Oscar nominees likeaccepted best first feature and best first screenplay prizes for “Dìdi.
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