Spirit Awards 2024: Past Lives Triumphs, All the Winners List

Past Lives was awarded best film at the 2024 Film Spirit Awards, awarded on Sunday 25 February in Santa Monica. Celine Song was awarded Best Director for her work. Da’Vine Joy Randolph won the Spirit Award for Best Supporting Performance for her role in The Holdovers, repeating her success at the SAG Awards on Saturday, February 24, as well as other awards season events. His co-star, Dominic Sessa, won the Spirit Award for Best Performance by a Newcomer. American Fiction also took home two trophies: Cord Jefferson won best screenplay, while Jeffrey Wright won best lead performance. May December won the award for best screenplay for Samy Burch (the story is by Burch together with Alex Mechanik). Les Filles d’Olfa was awarded best documentary.

Spirit Awards 2024: Past Lives Triumphs, All the Winners List

On the TV side, BEEF was awarded best miniseries, while Ali Wong won the award for best lead performance, also scoring a double following her win at the SAG Awards the previous evening. The Last of Us got two trophies: Nick Offerman won the award for Best Supporting Performance in a New Scripted Series, while Keivonn Montreal Woodard won the award for Best Performance by a Newcomer. Dear Mama was awarded best non-scripted series or documentary. The 39th Spirit Awards were hosted by Saturday Night Live alum Aidy Bryant. Winners were voted on by Film Independent members (some awards were presented at another event last month). During the show, a group of protesters loudly interrupted the speeches of the hosts and winners, chanting “Free Palestine” and “Ceasefire now” with a megaphone outside the tent located on Santa Monica beach.

Also, during the show, the Robert Altman Award, which is given to a film’s director, casting director, and cast, was given to Showing Up, directed by Kelly Reichardt. The casting director is Gayle Keller, while the cast includes André Benjamin, Hong Chau, Judd Hirsch, Heather Lawless, James Le Gros, John Magaro, Matt Malloy, Amanda Plummer, Maryann Plunkett, Denzel Rodriguez and Michelle Williams. Additionally, Jury Duty was awarded the award for Outstanding Cast in a TV Series, which includes Alan Barinholtz, Susan Berger, Cassandra Blair, David Brown, Kirk Fox, Ross Kimball, Pramode Kumar, Trisha LaFache, Mekki Leeper, James Marsden, Edy Modica, Kerry O’Neill, Rashida Olayiwola, Whitney Rice, Maria Russell, Ishmel Sahid, Ben Seaward, Ron Song, and Evan Williams.

Best Feature

“All of Us Strangers”
“American Fiction”
“May December”
“Passages”
“Past Lives” (WINNER)
“We Grown Now”

Best Director

Andrew Haigh – “All of Us Strangers”
Todd Haynes – “May December”
William Oldroyd – “Eileen”
Celine Song – “Past Lives” (WINNER)
Ira Sachs – “Passages”

Best First Feature

“All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt”
“Chronicles of a Wandering Saint”
“Earth Mama”
“A Thousand and One” (WINNER)
“Upon Entry”

Best Lead Performance

Jessica Chastain, “Memory”
Greta Lee, “Past Lives”
Trace Lysette, “Monica”
Natalie Portman, “May December”
Judy Reyes, “Birth/Rebirth”
Franz Rogowski, “Passages”
Andrew Scott, “All of Us Strangers”
Teyana Taylor, “A Thousand and One”
Jeffrey Wright, “American Fiction” (WINNER)
Teo Yoo, “Past Lives”

Best Supporting Performance

Erika Alexander, “American Fiction”
Sterling K. Brown, “American Fiction”
Noah Galvin, “Theater Camp”
Anne Hathaway, “Eileen”
Glenn Howerton, “BlackBerry”
Marin Ireland, “Eileen”
Charles Melton, “May December”
Da’Vine Joy Randolph, “The Holdovers” (WINNER)
Catalina Saavedra, “Rotting in the Sun”
Ben Whishaw, “Passages”

Breakthrough Performance

Marshawn Lynch – “Bottoms”
Atibon Nazaire – “Mountains”
Tia Nomore – “Earth Mama”
Dominic Sessa – “The Holdovers” (WINNER)
Anaita Wali Zada – “Fremont”

Best Screenplay

“American Fiction” (WINNER)
“Birth/Rebirth”
“Bottoms”
“Past Lives”
“The Holdovers”

Best First Screenplay

“Chronicles of a Wandering Saint”
“May December” (WINNER)
“The Starling Girl”
“Theater Camp”
“Upon Entry”

Best Cinematography

“All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt”
“Chronicles of a Wandering Saint”
“The Holdovers” (WINNER)
“Monica”
“We Grown Now”

Best Editing

“How to Blow Up a Pipeline” (WINNER)
“Rotting in the Sun”
“Theater Camp”
“Upon Entry”
“We Grown Now”

Robert Altman Award

“Showing Up” (previously announced WINNER)

Best Documentary

“Bye Bye Tiberias”
“Four Daughters” (WINNER)
“Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project”
“Kokomo City”
“The Mother of All Lies”

Best International Film

“Anatomy of a Fall” (WINNER)
“Godland”
“Mami Wata”
“Totem”
“The Zone of Interest”

Someone to Watch Award

Joanna Arnow
Laura Moss
Monica Sorrelle (previously announced WINNER)

Truer Than Fiction Award

Jesse Short Bull and Laura Tomaselli
Set Hernandez (previously announced WINNER)
Sierra Urich

John Cassavetes Award

“The Artifice Girl”
“Cadejo Blanco”
“Fremont” (WINNER)
“Rotting in the Sun”
“The Unknown Country”

Producers Award

Rachael Fung
Graham Swon
Monique Walton (previously announced WINNER)

Best New Non-Scripted or Documentary Series

“Deadlocked: How America Shaped the Supreme Court”
“Dear Mama” (WINNER)
“Murder in Big Horn”
“Stolen Youth: Inside the Cult at Sarah Lawrence”
“Wrestlers”

Best New Scripted Series

“Beef” (WINNER)
“Dreaming Whilst Black”
“I’m a Virgo”
“Jury Duty”
“Slip”

Best Lead Performance in a New Scripted Series

Emma Corrin, “A Murder at the End of the World”
Dominique Fishback, “Swarm”
Betty Gilpin, “Mrs. Davis”
Jharrel Jerome, “I’m a Virgo”
Zoe Lister-Jones, “Slip”
Bel Powley, “A Small Light”
Bella Ramsey, “The Last of Us”
Ramón Rodríguez, “Will Trent”
Ali Wong, “Beef” (WINNER)
Steven Yeun, “Beef”

Best Supporting Performance in a New Scripted Series

Murray Bartlett, “The Last of Us”
Billie Eilish, “Swarm”
Jack Farthing, “Rain Dogs”
Nick Offerman, “The Last of Us” (WINNER)
Adina Porter, “The Changeling”
Lewis Pullman, “Lessons in Chemistry”
Benny Safdie, “The Curse”
Luke Tennie, “Shrinking”
Olivia Washington, “I’m a Virgo”
Jessica Williams, “Shrinking”

Best Breakthrough Performance in a New Scripted Series

Clark Backo, “The Changeling”
Aria Mia Loberti, “All the Light We Cannot See”
Adjani Salmon, “Dreaming Whilst Black”
Keivonn Montreal Woodard, “The Last of Us” (WINNER)
Kara Young, “I’m a Virgo”