36th Independent Spirit Awards

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36th Independent Spirit Awards
Awarded for Best in independent film and independent television
Date April 22, 2021
Site Santa Monica Pier
Santa Monica, California, U.S.
Host Melissa Villaseñor
Highlights
Best Feature Nomadland
Most awards Nomadland (4)
Most nominations Never Rarely Sometimes Always (7)
Television coverage
Channel IFC

The 36th Film Independent Spirit Awards, honoring the best independent films and television series of 2020, were presented by Film Independent on April 22, 2021.[1] Though it was initially intended for the ceremony to air on April 24, 2021, it was later changed to April 22, 2021.[2] The nominations were announced on January 26, 2021 by Laverne Cox, Barry Jenkins, and Olivia Wilde.[3][4][5] The ceremony was televised in the United States on IFC and streamed exclusively by AMC+.[6] Melissa Villaseñor hosted the ceremony.[7][8][9]

Expansion

This year, the Film Independent expanded categories in order to honor television series for the first time, debuting five new categories: Best New Scripted Series, Best New Non-Scripted or Documentary Series, Best Male Performance in a New Scripted Series, Best Female Performance in a New Scripted Series, and Best Ensemble Cast in a New Scripted Series.[10][11][12]

Winners and nominees

Film

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Chloé Zhao, Best Feature co-winner, and Best Director and Best Editing winner
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Riz Ahmed, Best Male Lead winner
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Carey Mulligan, Best Female Lead winner
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Youn Yuh-jung, Best Supporting Female winner
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Emerald Fennell, Best Screenplay winner
Best Feature Best Director

Nomadland

Chloé Zhao – Nomadland
Best Male Lead Best Female Lead

Riz Ahmed – Sound of Metal as Ruben Stone

Carey Mulligan – Promising Young Woman as Cassandra "Cassie" Thomas
Best Supporting Male Best Supporting Female

Paul Raci – Sound of Metal as Joe

Youn Yuh-jung – Minari as Soon-ja
Best Screenplay Best First Screenplay

Emerald Fennell – Promising Young Woman

Andy Siara – Palm Springs
Best First Feature Best Documentary Feature

Darius Marder – Sound of Metal

Crip Camp
Best Cinematography Best Editing

Joshua James Richards – Nomadland

Chloé Zhao – Nomadland
Best International Film

Quo Vadis, Aida? ( Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Films with multiple nominations and awards

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Films that received multiple nominations
Nominations Film
7 Never Rarely Sometimes Always
6 Minari
5 Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
Nomadland
4 Miss Juneteenth
3 The Assistant
Bull
First Cow
Promising Young Woman
Sound of Metal
2 I Carry You with Me
Nine Days
Residue

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Films that won multiple awards
Awards Film
4 Nomadland
3 Sound of Metal
2 Promising Young Woman

Television

Best New Scripted Series Best New Non-Scripted or Documentary Series

I May Destroy You (BBC One / HBO)

Immigration Nation (Netflix)
Best Male Performance in a New Scripted Series Best Female Performance in a New Scripted Series

Amit Rahav – Unorthodox as Yakov "Yanky" Shapiro (Netflix)

Shira Haas – Unorthodox as Esther "Esty" Shapiro (Netflix)
Best Ensemble Cast in a New Scripted Series

I May Destroy You – Michaela Coel, Paapa Essiedu, Weruche Opia, and Stephen Wight

Series with multiple nominations and awards

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Series that received multiple nominations
Nominations Series
3 Little America
Unorthodox
2 I May Destroy You

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Series that won multiple awards
Awards Series
2 I May Destroy You
Unorthodox

Special awards

John Cassavetes Award

(The award is given to the best feature made for under $500,000; recipients are the writer, director, and producer)

Residue

Robert Altman Award

(The award is given to its film director, casting director, and ensemble cast)

Emerging Filmmakers Awards

Producers Award

The award honors emerging producers, who despite highly limited resources demonstrate the creativity, tenacity, and vision required to create quality independent films. The winner receives a $25,000 unrestricted cash grant courtesy of Spirit Award Premier Sponsors Genesis Motor North America.

  • Gerry Kim
    • Kara Durrett
    • Lucas Joaquin

Someone to Watch Award

The award honors a talented filmmaker of singular vision who has not yet received appropriate recognition. The winner receives a $25,000 unrestricted cash grant courtesy of Spirit Award Premier Sponsors Genesis Motor North America.

Truer than Fiction Award

The award honors to an emerging director of non-fiction features who has not yet received appropriate recognition. The winner receives a $25,000 unrestricted cash grant courtesy of Spirit Award Premier Sponsors Genesis Motor North America.

See also

References

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