2025 Indie Spirit Awards: Full list of nominees 

The 2025 Indie Spirit Awards nominees were announced on December 4, 2024. The 40th edition of the ceremony is scheduled for February 22, 2025. It will be held in Santa Monica, California, at Santa Monica Beach, as per a report by Deadline.

Without further delay, here's the full list of nominations.

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2025 Indie Spirit Awards: Full list of nominees

2025 Indie Spirit Awards: NOMINEES FOR BEST FIRST FEATURE

Note: This award is given to the director and producer.

Janet Planet

Director/Producer: Annie Baker

Producers: Andrew Goldman, Dan Janvey, Derrick Tseng

Dìdi

Director/Producer: Sean Wang

Producers: Valerie Bush, Carlos López Estrada, Josh Peters

In the Summers

Director: Alessandra Lacorazza Samudio

Producers: Janek Ambros, Lynette Coll, Alexander Dinelaris, Cynthia Fernandez De La Cruz, Cristóbal Güell, Sergio Alberto Lira, Rob Quadrino, Jan Suter, Daniel Tantalean, Nando Vila, Slava Vladimirov, Stephanie Yankwitt

The Piano Lesson

Director: Malcolm Washington

Producers: Todd Black, Denzel Washington

Problemista

Director/Producer: Julio Torres

Producers: Ali Herting, Dave McCary, Emma Stone

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2025 Indie Spirit Awards: NOMINEES FOR THE JOHN CASSAVETES AWARD 

Note: JOHN CASSAVETES AWARD is given to the best feature made for under $1,000,000, and the award is given to the writer, director, and producer.

Big Boys

Writer/Director/Producer: Corey Sherman

Producer: Allison Tate

Ghostlight

Writer/Director: Kelly O’Sullivan

Director/Producer: Alex Thompson

Producers: Pierce Cravens, Ian Keiser, Chelsea Krant, Eddie Linker, Alex Wilson

The People’s Joker

Writer/Director: Vera Drew

Writer: Bri LeRose

Producer: Joey Lyons

Girls Will Be Girls

Writer/Director/Producer: Shuchi Talati

Producers: Richa Chadha, Claire Chassagne

Jazzy

Writer/Director/Producer: Morrisa Maltz

Writer/Producer: Lainey Shangreaux

Writers: Andrew Hajek, Vanara Taing

Producers: Miranda Bailey, Tommy Heitkamp, John Way, Natalie Whalen, Elliott Whitton

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2025 Indie Spirit Awards: NOMINEES FOR BEST FEATURE 

I Saw the TV Glow : Producers: Sam Intili, Dave McCary, Emma Stone, Sarah Winshall, Ali Herting

Nickel Boys : Producers: Joslyn Barnes, Jeremy Kleiner, David Levine, Dede Gardner,

Sing Sing : Producers: Clint Bentley, Greg Kwedar, Monique Walton

Anora: Producers: Sean Baker, Samantha Quan

The Substance: Producers: Tim Bevan, Coralie Fargeat, Eric Fellner

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2025 Indie Spirit Awards: NOMINEES FOR BEST FIRST SCREENPLAY

India Donaldson, Good One

Julio Torres, Problemista

Sean Wang, Dìdi

Joanna Arnow, The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed

Annie Baker, Janet Planet

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2025 Indie Spirit Awards: NOMINEES FOR BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE

Keith Kupferer, Ghostlight

Mikey Madison, Anora

Amy Adams, Nightbitch

Ryan Destiny, The Fire Inside

Colman Domingo, Sing Sing

June Squibb, Thelma

Sebastian Stan, The Apprentice

Demi Moore, The Substance

Hunter Schafer, Cuckoo

Justice Smith, I Saw the TV Glow

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2025 Indie Spirit Awards: NOMINEES FOR BEST DIRECTOR

Brady Corbet, The Brutalist

Alonso Ruizpalacios, La Cocina

Jane Schoenbrun, I Saw the TV Glow

Ali Abbasi, The Apprentice

Sean Baker, Anora

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2025 Indie Spirit Awards: NOMINEES FOR BEST EDITING

Anne McCabe, Nightbitch

Laura Colwell, Vanara Taing, Jazzy

Olivier Bugge Coutté, Olivia Neergaard-Holm, The Apprentice

Hansjörg Weissbrich, September 5

Arielle Zakowski, Dìdi

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2025 Indie Spirit Awards: NOMINEES FOR BEST SCREENPLAY

Scott Beck, Bryan Woods, Heretic

Megan Park, My Old Ass

Aaron Schimberg, A Different Man

Jesse Eisenberg, A Real Pain

Jane Schoenbrun, I Saw the TV Glow

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2025 Indie Spirit Awards: NOMINEES FOR BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

Dinh Duy Hung, Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell

Jomo Fray, Nickel Boys

Maria von Hausswolff, Janet Planet

Juan Pablo Ramírez, La Cocina

Rina Yang, The Fire Inside

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2025 Indie Spirit Awards: NOMINEES FOR BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE

Kieran Culkin, A Real Pain

Danielle Deadwyler, The Piano Lesson

Carol Kane, Between the Temples

Yura Borisov, Anora

Joan Chen, Dìdi

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

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2025 Indie Spirit Awards: NOMINEES FOR BEST BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE

Mason Alexander Park, National Anthem

Isaac Krasner, Big Boys

Katy O’Brian, Love Lies Bleeding

René Pérez Joglar, In the Summers

Maisy Stella, My Old Ass

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2025 Indie Spirit Awards: NOMINEES FOR BEST DOCUMENTARY

Note: This award is given to the director and producer.

Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat

Director: Johan Grimonprez

Producers: Rémi Grellety, Daan Milius

Hummingbirds

Directors: Silvia Del Carmen Castaños, Estefanía “Beba” Contreras

Co-Directors/Producers: Miguel Drake-McLaughlin, Diane Ng, Ana Rodriguez-Falco, Jillian Schlesinger

Producers: Leslie Benavides, Rivkah Beth Medow

No Other Land

Directors/Producers: Yuval Abraham, Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Rachel Szor

Producers: Fabien Greenberg, Bård Kjøge Rønning

Gaucho Gaucho

Directors/Producers: Michael Dweck, Gregory Kershaw

Producers: Christos Konstantakopoulos, Cameron O’Reilly, Matthew Perniciaro

Patrice: The Movie

Director: Ted Passon

Producers: Kyla Harris, Innbo Shim, Emily Spivack

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2025 Indie Spirit Awards: NOMINEES FOR BEST ENSEMBLE CAST IN A NEW SCRIPTED SERIES

How to Die Alone

Ensemble Cast: Arkie Kandola, Elle Lorraine, Michelle McLeod, Chris “CP” Powell, Conrad Ricamora, Natasha Rothwell, Jocko Sims, Melissa DuPrey, Jaylee Hamidi, KeiLyn Durrel Jones

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2025 Indie Spirit Awards: NOMINEES FOR BEST BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE IN A NEW SCRIPTED SERIES

Joe Locke, Agatha All Along

Jessica Gunning, Baby Reindeer

Diarra Kilpatrick, Diarra From Detroit

Megan Stott, Penelope

Hoa Xuande, The Sympathizer

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2025 Indie Spirit Awards: NOMINEES FOR BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE IN A NEW SCRIPTED SERIES

Chloe Guidry, Under the Bridge

Moeka Hoshi, Shōgun

Tadanobu Asano, Shōgun

Enrico Colantoni, English Teacher

Ruth Negga, Presumed Innocent

Brian Tee, Expats

Betty Gilpin, Three Women

Stephanie Koenig, English Teacher

Patti LuPone, Agatha All Along

Nava Mau, Baby Reindeer

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2025 Indie Spirit Awards: NOMINEES FOR BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE IN A NEW SCRIPTED SERIES

Julianne Moore, Mary & George

Hiroyuki Sanada, Shōgun

Lily Gladstone, Under the Bridge

Kathryn Hahn, Agatha All Along

Brian Jordan Alvarez, English Teacher

Richard Gadd, Baby Reindeer

Cristin Milioti, The Penguin

Julio Torres, Fantasmas

Anna Sawai, Shōgun

Andrew Scott, Ripley

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2025 Indie Spirit Awards: NOMINEES FOR BEST NEW SCRIPTED SERIES

Note: This award is given to the Creator, Executive Producer and Co-Executive Producer

Diarra From Detroit

Creator/Executive Producer: Diarra Kilpatrick

Executive Producers: Kenya Barris, Miles Orion Feldsott, Darren Goldberg

Co-Executive Producers: Ester Lou, Mark Ganek

Baby Reindeer

Creator/Executive Producer: Richard Gadd

Executive Producers: Wim De Greef, Petra Fried, Matt Jarvis, Ed Macdonald

Fantasmas

Creator/Executive Producer: Julio Torres

Executive Producers: Emma Stone, Dave McCary, Olivia Gerke, Alex Bach, Daniel

Powell

Co-Executive Producer: Ali Herting

Shōgun

Creators/Executive Producers: Rachel Kondo, Justin Marks

Executive Producers: Edward L. McDonnell, Michael De Luca, Michaela Clavell

Co-Executive Producers: Shannon Goss, Andrew Macdonald, Allon Reich

English Teacher

Creator/Executive Producer: Brian Jordan Alvarez

Executive Producers: Paul Simms, Jonathan Krisel, Dave King

Co-Executive Producers: Kathryn Dean, Jake Bender, Zach Dunn

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2025 Indie Spirit Awards: NOMINEES FOR THE ROBERT ALTMAN AWARD

NOTE: This award is given to one film’s director, casting director, and ensemble cast.

His Three Daughters

Director: Azazel Jacobs, Casting Director: Nicole Arbusto

Ensemble Cast: Jovan Adepo, Jasmine Bracey, Carrie Coon, Jose Febus, Rudy Galvan, Natasha Lyonne, Elizabeth Olsen, Randy Ramos Jr., Jay O. Sanders

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2025 Indie Spirit Awards: NOMINEES FOR BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM

Note: This award is given to the director.

Hard Truths: Director: Mike Leigh

Black Dog: Director: Guan Hu

Flow: Director: Gints Zilbalodis

All We Imagine as Light: Director: Payal Kapadia

Green Border: Director: Agnieszka Holland

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2025 Indie Spirit Awards: NOMINEES FOR SOMEONE TO WATCH AWARD

Sarah Friedland: Director of Familiar Touch

Nicholas Colia: Director of Griffin in Summer

Pham Thien An: Director of Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell

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2025 Indie Spirit Awards: NOMINEES FOR PRODUCERS AWARD

Sarah Winshall

Alex Coco

Zoë Worth

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2025 Indie Spirit Awards: NOMINEES FOR TRUER THAN FICTION AWARD

Carla Gutiérrez, Director of Frida

Julian Brave NoiseCat, Emily Kassie, Directors of Sugarcane

Rachel Elizabeth Seed, Director of A Photographic Memory

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2025 Indie Spirit Awards: NOMINEES FOR BEST NEW NON-SCRIPTED OR DOCUMENTARY SERIES

Note: This award is given to the Creator, Executive Producer, and Co-Executive Producer.

Photographer

Executive Producers: Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin, Pagan Harleman, Betsy Forhan

Co-Executive Producers: Anna Barnes, Brent Kunkle

Ren Faire

Executive Producers: Ronald Bronstein, Benny Safdie, Josh Safdie, Eli Bush, Dani Bernfeld, Lance Oppenheim, David Gauvey Herbert, Nancy Abraham, Lisa Heller, Sara Rodriguez

Co-Executive Producers: Abigail Rowe, Christian Vasquez, Max Allman

Social Studies

Creator/Executive Producer: Lauren Greenfield

Executive Producers: Wallis Annenberg, Regina K. Scully, Andrea van Beuren, Frank Evers, Caryn Capotosto

Erased: WW2’s Heroes of Color

Executive Producers: Idris Elba, Johanna Woolford Gibbon, Jamilla Dumbuya, Jos Cushing, Khaled Gad, Matt Robins, Chris Muckle, Sean David Johnson, Simon Raikes

Co-Executive Producer: Annabel Hobley

Hollywood Black

Executive Producers: Shayla Harris, Dave Sirulnick, Stacey Reiss, Jon Kamen, Justin Simien, Kyle Laursen, Forest Whitaker, Nina Yang Bongiovi, Jeffrey Schwarz, Amy Goodman Kass, Michael Wright, Jill Burkhart

Co-Executive Producers: David C. Brown, Laurens Grant

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What do you think about the above nominations and who are you vouching for in the 2025 Indie Spirit Awards? Let us know in the comments below.