Spirit Awards: ‘May December’ Only Wins First Screenplay Despite Five Noms as ‘I’m a Virgo,’ ‘All of Us Strangers’ Shut Out

Perhaps the most significant shock at the 2024 Independent Spirit Honors was the tiny however loud demonstration over the continuous Israel-Hamas battle outside the event, the incantations where can be listened to inside the outdoor tents in Santa Monica and on the livestream on Movie Independent’s YouTube network.

The demo was the first to interrupt a significant honors reveal this period.

Yet as host Aidy Bryant and speakers and victors advanced with the event, some recognizing the demonstration, there were still some shocks in terms of which movies won which honors– or really did not win.

After relatively shedding its honors energy with the Display Casts Guild and Oscar elections last month, Might December can’ve had a wedding day at the Spirit Honors, as the Todd Haynes movie, starring Natalie Portman and Julianne Moore, was up for five honors, the exact same number of elections gotten by ideal function and supervisor champion Past Lives and ideal screenplay and lead efficiency champion American Fiction.

Yet Might December won just one honor, in the very best first screenplay classification, for authors Samy Burch and Alex Mechanik. Still, Portman and co-star and other Spirit Honors candidate Charles Melton did have a pair of funny exchanges with Bryant early in the event.

American Fiction celebrity Jeffrey Wright additionally stunned with his sway a number of heavyweights consisting of Portman, Greta Lee (Past Lives), Jessica Chastain (Memory) and Andrew Scott (All of Us Complete Strangers).

There were a number of leading movie candidates at the 2024 Spirit Honors that went home vacant handed.

Flows, which obtained a very early shoutout in Bryant’s talk, was locked out despite 4 elections. In a similar way, top-level honors enthusiastic All of Us Strangers, which stopped working to obtain an Oscar election last month, was up for 3 honors however really did not win.

The complying with three-way candidates additionally all stopped working to win on Sunday: Movie Theater Camp, We Expanded Currently, Deteriorating in the Sunlight, Upon Access, Birth/Rebirth (though one of those honors was the A person to See reward distributed last month), Chronicles of a Roaming Saint and Eileen (though it was chosen two times in the sustaining classification).

On the television side, the well-known I’m a Virgo entered into the Spirit Honors with 4 elections, the exact same as dual champion The Last of Us, however remarkably stopped working to win any kind of of the honors for which it was chosen.