Anora
#FIRSTLOOK: NOMINATIONS ANNOUNCED FOR 2025 FILM INDEPENDENT SPIRIT AWARDS
The 2025 Film Independent Spirit Awards nominations were announced today with Sean Baker‘s ANORA and Jane Schoenbrun‘s I SAW THE TV GLOW both leading the way with six nominations! The Awards take place February 22, 2025 in Santa Monica, marking the 40th edition of the Awards. SNL alumni Aidy Bryant returns to hosting duties.
Nominees are as follows:
Best Feature
“Anora”
“I Saw the TV Glow”
“Nickel Boys”
“Sing Sing”
“The Substance”
Best First Feature
“Didi”
“In the Summers”
“Janet Planet”
“The Piano Lesson”
“Problemista”
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 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, “Didi”
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 Screenplay
Aaron Schimberg, “A Different Man”
Scott Beck and Bryan Woods, “Heretic”
Jane Schoenbrun, “I Saw the TV Glow”
Megan Park, “My Old Ass”
Jesse Eisenberg, “A Real Pain”
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, “Didi”
Best International Film
“All We Imagine as Light”
“Black Dog”
“Flow”
“Green Border”
“Hard Truths”
Best Documentary
“Gaucho Gaucho”
“Hummingbirds”
“No Other Land”
“Patrice: The Movie”
“Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat”
Best Cinematography
“La Cocina”
“The Fire Inside”
“Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell”
“Janet Planet”
“Nickel Boys”
Best Editing
“The Apprentice”
“Didi”
“Jazzy”
“Nightbitch”
“September 5”
Best New Scripted Series
“Baby Reindeer”
“Diarra from Detroit”
“English Teacher”
“Fantasmas”
“Shogun”
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, “Shogun”
Anna Sawai, “Shogun”
Andrew Scott, “Ripley”
Best Supporting Performance in a New Scripted Series
Tadanobu Asano, “Shogun”
Enrico Colantoni, “English Teacher”
Betty Gilpin, “Three Women”
Chloe Guidry, “Under the Bridge”
Moeka Hoshi, “Shogun”
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, and Jocko Sims
Best New Non-Scripted or Documentary Series
“Erased: WW2’s Heroes of Color”
“Hollywood Black”
“Photographer”
“Ren Faire”
“Social Studies”
John Cassavetes Award
“Big Boys”
“Ghostlight”
“Girls Will Be Girls”
“Jazzy”
“The People’s Joker”
Producers Award
Alex Coco
Sarah Winshall
Zoe Worth
Robert Altman Award
“His Three Daughters”
Someone to Watch Award
Nicholas Colia
Sarah Friedland
Pham Tien An
Truer Than Fiction Award
Julian Brave Noisecat
Carla Gutierrez
Rachel Elizabeth Seed
#GIVEAWAY: ENTER FOR A CHANCE TO WIN CINEPLEX RUN-OF-ENGAGEMENT PASSES TO SEE “ANORA”
Elevation Pictures x Mr. Will want to give Readers a chance to win Cineplex Run-of-Engagement Passes to see ANORA. This is our favourite Film of 2024 so far!
Synopsis:
Anora, a young sex worker from Brooklyn, meets and impulsively marries the son of an oligarch. Once the news reaches Russia, her fairytale is threatened as the parents set out for New York to get the marriage annulled.
Starring: Mikey Madison, Mark Eydelshteyn, Yura Borisov, Karren Karagulian and Vache Tovmasyan
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Elevation Pictures release ANORA October 25, 2024.
(Photo/video credit: Elevation Pictures)
#FIRSTLOOK: NEW REDBAND TRAILER FOR “ANORA”
After taking the prestigious Palme d’Or at Cannes, we get a new redband trailer for Sean Baker‘s ANORA, coming to theatres this October via Elevation Pictures!
Synopsis:
Anora, a sex worker from Brooklyn, gets her chance at a Cinderella story when she meets and marries the son of an oligarch. Once the news reaches Russia, her fairytale is threatened as the parents set out for New York to get the marriage annulled.
Starring Mikey Madison, Mark Eidelstein, Yuri Borisov
Written and directed by Sean Baker
(Photo/video credit: Elevation Pictures)
#FIRSTLOOK: PALME D’OR WINNER “ANORA” TO BE RELEASED IN CANADA VIA ELEVATION PICTURES.
Elevation Pictures is thrilled to announce that ANORA, directed by Sean Baker and starring Mickey Madison, has won the Palme d’Or at the 77th Annual Cannes Film Festival. The Film follows an exotic dancer’s challenging relationship with the son of a Russian oligarch.
The Canadian distributor also will release RUMOURS which premiered to raves, starring Alicia Vikander and Cate Blanchett. The Guy Maddin film centers on World leaders who meet at the G7, but get lost in the woods whilst trying to compose a joint statement on an unspecified global crisis. Beset by thick fog and menaced by undead bog bodies and a giant brain, they navigate the tortured passions between them.
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