‘Anora,’ ‘I Saw the TV Glow’ and ‘Shōgun’ lead Spirit Awards nominations

Justice Smith in the movie “I Saw the TV Glow.” Anyone looking for clarity regarding this year’s particularly diffuse and opaque awards season will likely not find it in the nominations for the 40th annual Film Independent Spirit Awards, announced Wednesday morning. Sean Baker’s “Anora,” a melancholy comedy of self-discovery about a stripper in Brighton Beach, earned six nominations, including feature, director and lead performance. BEST FEATURE “Anora” Producers: Sean Baker, Alex Coco, Samantha Quan “I Saw the TV Glow” Producers: Ali Herting, Sam Intili, Dave McCary, Emma Stone, Sarah Winshall “Nickel Boys” Producers: Joslyn Barnes, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, David Levine “Sing Sing” Producers: Clint Bentley, Greg Kwedar, Monique Walton “The Substance” Producers: Tim Bevan, Coralie Fargeat, Eric Fellner BEST FIRST FEATURE “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 “Janet Planet” Director/Producer: Annie Baker Producers: Andrew Goldman, Dan Janvey, Derrick Tseng “The Piano Lesson” Director: Malcolm Washington Producers: Todd Black, Denzel Washington “Problemista” Director/Producer: Julio Torres Producers: Ali Herting, Dave McCary, Emma Stone JOHN CASSAVETES AWARD — Given to the best feature made for under $1,000,000. “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 “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 “The People’s Joker” Writer/Director: Vera Drew Writer: Bri LeRose Producer: Joey Lyons BEST DIRECTOR Ali Abbasi “The Apprentice” Sean Baker “Anora” Brady Corbet “The Brutalist” Alonso Ruizpalacios “La Cocina” Jane Schoenbrun “I Saw the TV Glow” BEST SCREENPLAY Scott Beck, Bryan Woods “Heretic” Jesse Eisenberg “A Real Pain” Megan Park “My Old Ass” Aaron Schimberg “A Different Man” Jane Schoenbrun “I Saw the TV Glow” BEST FIRST SCREENPLAY Joanna Arnow “The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed” Annie Baker “Janet Planet” India Donaldson “Good One” Julio Torres “Problemista Sean Wang “Dìdi” BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE Amy Adams “Nightbitch” Ryan Destiny “The Fire Inside” Colman Domingo “Sing Sing” Keith Kupferer “Ghostlight” Mikey Madison “Anora” Demi Moore “The Substance” Hunter Schafer “Cuckoo” Justice Smith “I Saw the TV Glow” June Squibb “Thelma” Sebastian Stan “The Apprentice” BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE Yura Borisov “Anora” Joan Chen “Dìdi” Kieran Culkin “A Real Pain” Danielle Deadwyler “The Piano Lesson” Carol Kane “Between the Temples” 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” BEST BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE Isaac Krasner “Big Boys” Katy O’Brian “Love Lies Bleeding” Mason Alexander Park “National Anthem” René Pérez Joglar “In the Summers” Maisy Stella “My Old Ass” 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” BEST EDITING Laura Colwell, Vanara Taing “Jazzy” Olivier Bugge Coutté, Olivia Neergaard-Holm “The Apprentice” Anne McCabe “Nightbitch” Hansjörg Weissbrich “September 5” Arielle Zakowski “Dìdi” ROBERT ALTMAN AWARD “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 BEST DOCUMENTARY “Gaucho Gaucho” Directors/Producers: Michael Dweck, Gregory Kershaw Producers: Christos Konstantakopoulos, Cameron O’Reilly, Matthew Perniciaro “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 “Patrice: The Movie” Director: Ted Passon Producers: Kyla Harris, Innbo Shim, Emily Spivack “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat” Director: Johan Grimonprez Producers: Rémi Grellety, Daan Milius BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM “All We Imagine as Light” France, India, Netherlands, Luxembourg Director: Payal Kapadia “Black Dog” China Director: Guan Hu “Flow” Latvia, France, Belgium Director: Gints Zilbalodis “Green Border” Poland, France, Czech Republic, Belgium Director: Agnieszka Holland “Hard Truths” United Kingdom Director: Mike Leigh PRODUCERS AWARD presented by Bulleit Frontier Whiskey — the Producers Award, now in its 28th year, honors emerging producers who, despite highly limited resources, demonstrate the creativity, tenacity and vision required to produce quality independent films. Julian Brave NoiseCat, Emily Kassie Directors of “Sugarcane” Carla Gutiérrez Director of “Frida” Rachel Elizabeth Seed Director of “A Photographic Memory” BEST NEW NON-SCRIPTED OR DOCUMENTARY SERIES “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 “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 BEST NEW SCRIPTED SERIES “Baby Reindeer” Creator/executive producer: Richard Gadd Executive producers: Wim De Greef, Petra Fried, Matt Jarvis, Ed Macdonald “Diarra From Detroit” Creator/executive producer: Diarra Kilpatrick Executive producers: Kenya Barris, Miles Orion Feldsott, Darren Goldberg Co-executive producers: Ester Lou, Mark Ganek “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 “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 BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE IN A NEW SCRIPTED SERIES Brian Jordan Alvarez “English Teacher” Richard Gadd “Baby Reindeer” Lily Gladstone “Under the Bridge” Kathryn Hahn “Agatha All Along” Cristin Milioti “The Penguin” Julianne Moore “Mary & George” Hiroyuki Sanada “Shōgun” Anna Sawai “Shōgun” Andrew Scott “Ripley” Julio Torres “Fantasmas” BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE IN A NEW SCRIPTED SERIES Tadanobu Asano “Shōgun” Enrico Colantoni “English Teacher” Betty Gilpin “Three Women” Chloe Guidry “Under the Bridge” Moeka Hoshi “Shōgun” Stephanie Koenig “English Teacher” Patti LuPone “Agatha All Along” Nava Mau “Baby Reindeer” Ruth Negga “Presumed Innocent” Brian Tee “Expats” BEST BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE IN A NEW SCRIPTED SERIES Jessica Gunning “Baby Reindeer” Diarra Kilpatrick “Diarra From Detroit” Joe Locke “Agatha All Along” Megan Stott “Penelope” Hoa Xuande “The Sympathizer” BEST ENSEMBLE CAST IN A NEW SCRIPTED SERIES “How to Die Alone” Ensemble cast: Melissa DuPrey, Jaylee Hamidi, KeiLyn Durrel Jones, Arkie Kandola, Elle Lorraine, Michelle McLeod, Chris “CP” Powell, Conrad Ricamora, Natasha Rothwell, Jocko Sims