How to Watch the Independent Spirit Awards 2024

Since 1984, nonprofit arts org Film Independent has been honoring American independent TV and filmmakers for their accomplishments at its Independent Spirit Awards. The 2024 ceremony—the organization’s 39th—will be held on Sunday, February 25 at 5 p.m. ET (the time will be 2 p.m. at the Awards’ Santa Monica Pier home). 

This year’s host will be Aidy Bryant, whom Film Independent President Josh Welsh described as “incandescently talented” when her role was announced. “We can’t wait to see what she has in store for us,” he said. Nominees (which were announced in December) include now-familiar awards show fixtures such as American Fiction, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, and Ali Wong. But you’ll also find some less expected contenders: for example, Marshawn “Beast Mode” Lynch (nominated for his role in Bottoms), best feature nominee We Grown Now, and documentary series nominee Wrestlers. 

The awards can be a breath of fresh air, and not just because of its focus on non-blockbuster titles. Since 2022, the ceremony has also joined the move to make its awards gender neutral. That means the best lead performance and best supporting performance categories will each have 10 nominees, inclusive of people who identify as male, female, and non-binary.

You can watch the Independent Spirit Awards as they happen a few ways: IMDb will stream it live via X (formerly Twitter) and its YouTube channel. Film Independent will have its own livestreams at X and YouTube, as well. In the meantime, here’s the full list of nominees, so you can follow along at home:

BEST FEATURE All of Us Strangers

American Fiction

May December

Passages

Past Lives

We Grown Now

BEST FIRST FEATUREAll Dirt Roads Taste of Salt

Chronicles of a Wandering Saint

Earth Mama

A Thousand and One

Upon Entry

JOHN CASSAVETES AWARD The Artifice Girl

Cadejo Blanco

Fremont

Rotting in the Sun

The Unknown Country

BEST DIRECTORAndrew Haigh, All of Us Strangers

Todd Haynes, May December

William Oldroyd, Eileen

Celine Song, Past Lives

Ira Sachs, Passages

BEST SCREENPLAYAmerican Fiction

Birth/Rebirth

Bottoms

Past Lives

The Holdovers

BEST FIRST SCREENPLAYChronicles of a Wandering Saint

May December

The Starling Girl

Theater Camp

Upon Entry

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHYAll Dirt Roads Taste of Salt

Chronicles of a Wandering Saint

The Holdovers

Monica

We Grown Now

BEST EDITINGHow to Blow Up a Pipeline

Rotting in the Sun

Theater Camp

Upon Entry

We Grown Now

BEST LEAD PERFORMANCEJessica 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

Teo Yoo, Past Lives

BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCEErika 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

Catalina Saavedra, Rotting in the Sun

Ben Whishaw, Passages

BEST BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCEMarshawn Lynch, Bottoms

Atibon Nazaire, Mountains

Tia Nomore, Earth Mama

Dominic Sessa, The Holdovers

Anaita Wali Zada, Fremont

ROBERT ALTMAN AWARD Showing Up

BEST DOCUMENTARY Bye Bye Tiberias

Four Daughters

Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project

Kokomo City

The Mother of All Lies

BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM Anatomy of a Fall

Godland

Mami Wata

Tótem

The Zone of Interest

BEST NEW NON-SCRIPTED OR DOCUMENTARY SERIES Deadlocked: How America Shaped the Supreme Court

Dear Mama

Murder in Big Horn

Stolen Youth: Inside the Cult at Sarah Lawrence

Wrestlers

BEST NEW SCRIPTED SERIES  Beef

Dreaming Whilst Black

I’m a Virgo

Jury Duty

Slip

BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE IN A NEW SCRIPTED SERIESEmma 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 Rodriguez, Will Trent

Ali Wong, Beef

Steven Yeun, Beef

BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE IN A NEW SCRIPTED SERIESMurray Bartlett, The Last of Us

Billie Eilish, Swarm

Jack Farthing, Rain Dogs

Nick Offerman, The Last of Us

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 ENSEMBLE CAST IN A NEW SCRIPTED SERIESJury Duty