‘Past Lives’, ‘Beef’, among Spirit Awards winners. Check full list here

A24’s Past Lives won the Best Feature at the 2024 Film Independent Spirit Awards on Sunday. The film’s director Celine Song won the Best Director in a ceremony on the beach in Santa Monica. This award paves the way for the feature at the Oscars, where it is nominated for Best Picture.

On its way to the Best Feature award, Past Lives leapfrogged Netflix’s May December, Amazon MGM Studios’ American Fiction, Searchlight’s All of Us Strangers, Sony Pictures Classics’ We Grown Now and Mubi’s Passages.

“There is a concept in our film, an Eastern concept, and it’s called inyeon. It is about how just by being in the same space and time in this life, it means we actually knew each other for many, many lives that came before this one,” Song said in her acceptance speech.

“I think that making this movie I have felt this way about everybody who is on stage here … It’s a feeling that I get where I feel so much less lonely because I know everyone here feels the same – so thank you so much for everything.”

Last year’s Spirit winner for Best Feature, Everything Everywhere All at Once, also from A24, went on to win the Best Picture Oscar.

Here’s the full list of Spirit Awards winners:

BEST FEATURE
Past Lives
Producers: David Hinojosa, Pamela Koffler, Christine Vachon

BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE
Jeffrey Wright
American Fiction

BEST DIRECTOR
Celine Song
Past Lives

BEST FIRST FEATURE
A Thousand and One
Director: A.V. Rockwell
Producers: Julia Lebedev, Rishi Rajani, Eddie Vaisman, Lena Waithe, Brad Weston

BEST BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE
Dominic Sessa
The Holdovers

JOHN CASSAVETES AWARD
Fremont
Director/Writer: Babak Jalali
Writer: Carolina Cavalli
Producers: Rachael Fung, Chris Martin, Marjaneh Moghimi, George Rush, Sudnya Shroff, Laura Wagner

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Eigil Bryld
The Holdovers

BEST EDITING
Daniel Garber
How to Blow Up a Pipeline

BEST NEW SCRIPTED SERIES
Beef
Creator/Executive Producer: Lee Sung Jin
Executive Producers: Steven Yeun, Ali Wong, Jake Schreier, Ravi Nandan, Alli Reich
Co-Executive Producers: Alice Ju, Carrie Kemper

BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE IN A NEW SCRIPTED SERIES
Ali Wong
Beef

BEST NEW NON-SCRIPTED OR DOCUMENTARY SERIES
Dear Mama
Executive Producers: Lasse Järvi, Quincy ‘QD3’ Jones III, Staci Robinson, Nelson George, Charles D. King, Peter Nelson, Adel ‘Future’ Nur, Jamal Joseph, Ted Skillman, Allen Hughes, Steve Berman, Marc Cimino, Jody Gerson, John Janick, Nicholas Ferrall, Nigel Sinclair

BEST SCREENPLAY
Cord Jefferson
American Fiction

BEST FIRST SCREENPLAY
Samy Burch; Story by Samy Burch, Alex Mechanik
May December

BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM
Anatomy of a Fall
France
Director: Justine Triet

BEST BREAKTRHOUGH PERFORMANCE IN A NEW SCRIPTED SERIES
Keivonn Montreal Woodard
The Last of Us

BEST DOCUMENTARY
Four Daughters
Director: Kaouther Ben Hania
Producer: Nadim Cheikhrouha

BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE IN A NEW SCRIPTED SERIES
Nick Offerman
The Last of Us

BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE
Da’Vine Joy Randolph
The Holdovers

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