39th Spirit Award Nominations

The Spirit Award nominations yielded few major surprise, though a few stand out: Julianne Moore didn’t make the supporting cut, nor did Lily Gladston (for The Unknown Country) make it in to lead. Paul Giamatti couldn’t get into the lead race in spite of The Holdovers doing well. That said, it didn’t make the Best Feature race, which is concerning with the unfamiliar We Grown Now taking its place. Showing Up (its sole nomination/award) is an unusual choice for the ensemble award, which allows all of this year’s Oscar contenders to compete in the acting categories. The top nominees were three of this year’s prime Oscar contenders while only two of the next 9 top nominees (getting 4 or 3 nominations) are contending.

Award Tallies

(5) American Fiction, May December, Past Lives
(4) Passages, The Holdovers
(3) All of Us Strangers, Chronicles of a Wandering Saint, Eileen, Rotting in the Sun, Theater Camp, Upon Entry, We Grown Now
(2) All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt, Birth/Rebirth, Bottoms, Earth Mama, Monica, A Thousand and One
(1) Anatomy of a Fall, BlackBerry, Bye Bye Tiberias, Cadejo Blanco, Four Daughters, Fremont, Fremont, Godland, Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project, How to Blow Up a Pipeline, Kokomo City, Mami Wata, Memory, Mountains, Showing Up, The Artifice Girl, The Mother of All Lies, The Starling Girl, The Unknown Country, The Zone of Interest, Totem

The Awards

Best Feature

All of Us Strangers
American Fiction
May December
Passages
Past Lives
We Grown Now

Best Director

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

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
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
Catalina Saavedra – Rotting in the Sun
Ben Whishaw – Passages