Ceremony presentation: Sunday, February 25, 2024
Santa Monica Pier, Los Angeles, California
Hosted by Aidy Bryant
BEST FEATURE
“All Of Us Strangers”
Graham Broadbent
Pete Czernin
Sarah Harvey
Searchlight Pictures
“American Fiction”
Cord Jefferson
Jermaine Johnson
Nikos Karamigios
Ben LeClair
Orion Pictures
“May December”
Jessica Elbaum
Will Ferrell
Grant S. Johnson
Pamela Koffler
Tyler W. Konney
Sophie Mas
Natalie Portman
Christine Vachon
Netflix
“Passages”
Michel Merkt
Saïd Ben Saïd
MUBI
“Past Lives”
David Hinojosa
Pamela Koffler
Christine Vachon
A24
“We Grown Now”
Minhal Baig
Joe Pirro
Sony Pictures Classics
BEST FIRST FEATURE
“All Dirt Roads Taste Of Salt”
Raven Jackson (director)
Maria Altamirano (producer)
Mark Ceryak (producer)
Barry Jenkins (producer)
Adele Romanski (producer)
A24
“Chronicles of a Wandering Saint”
Tomás Gómez Bustillo (director)
Gewan Brown (producer)
Amanda Freedman (producer)
Plenty Good
“Earth Mama”
Savanah Leaf (director)
Sam Bisbee (producer)
Shirley O’Connor (producer)
Medb Riordan (producer)
Cody Ryder (producer)
A24
“A Thousand and One”
A.V. Rockwell (director)
Julia Lebedev (producer)
Rishi Rajani (producer)
Eddie Vaisman (producer)
Lena Waithe (producer)
Brad Weston (producer)
Focus Features
“Upon Entry”
Alejandro Rojas (director)
Juan Sebastián Vásquez (director)
Sergio Adrià (producer)
Carlos Juárez (producer)
Alba Sotorra (producer)
Carles Torras (producer)
Xosé Zapata (producer)
Karma Films
JOHN CASSAVETES AWARD
(Given to the best feature made for under $1,000,000)
“The Artifice Girl”
Franklin Ritch (director | writer)
Aaron B. Koontz (producer)
Ashleigh Snead (producer)
XYZ Films
“Cadejo Blanco”
Justin Lerner (director | writer | producer)
Mauricio Escobar (producer)
Ryan Friedkin (producer)
Jack Patrick Hurley (producer)
Film Movement
“Fremont”
Babak Jalali (director | writer)
Carolina Cavalli (writer)
Rachael Fung (producer)
Chris Martin (producer)
Marjaneh Moghimi (producer)
George Rush (producer)
Sudnya Shroff (producer)
Laura Wagner (producer)
Music Box Films
“Rotting In The Sun”
Sebastián Silva (director | writer)
Pedro Peirano (writer)
Jacob Wasserman (producer)
MUBI
“The Unknown Country”
Morrisa Maltz (director | writer | producer)
Lily Gladstone (writer)
Lainey Bearkiller Shangreaux (writer | producer)
Vanara Taing (writer | producer)
Katherine Harper (producer)
Laura Heberton (producer)
Tommy Heitkamp (producer)
Music Box Films
BEST DIRECTOR
Andrew Haigh
“All Of Us Strangers”
Searchlight Pictures
Todd Haynes
“May December“
Netflix
William Oldroyd
“Eileen”
NEON
Ira Sachs
“Passages”
MUBI
Celine Song
“Past Lives”
A24
BEST SCREENPLAY
“American Fiction”
Cord Jefferson
Orion Pictures
“Birth/Rebirth”
Laura Moss & Brendan J. O’Brien
Shudder + IFC Films
“Bottoms”
Emma Seligman & Rachel Sennott
Orion Pictures
“The Holdovers”
David Hemingson
Focus Features + Miramax
“Past Lives”
Celine Song
A24
BEST FIRST SCREENPLAY
“Chronicles of a Wandering Saint”
Tomás Gómez Bustillo
Plenty Good
“May December”
Samy Burch & Alex Mechanik
Netflix
“The Starling Girl”
Laurel Parmet
Bleecker Street
“Theater Camp”
Noah Galvin
Molly Gordan
Nick Lieberman
Ben Platt
Searchlight Pictures
“Upon Entry”
Alejando Rojas & Juan Sebastián Vásquez
Karma Films
BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE
Jessica Chastain
“Memory”
Ketchup Entertainment
Greta Lee
“Past Lives“
A24
Trace Lysette
“Monica“
IFC Films
Natalie Portman
“May December”
Netflix
Judy Reyes
“Birth/Rebirth”
Shudder + IFC Films
Franz Rogowski
“Passages“
MUBI
Andrew Scott
“All Of Us Strangers”
Searchlight Pictures
Teyana Taylor
“A Thousand and One”
Focus Features
Jeffrey Wright
“American Fiction”
Orion Pictures
Teo Yoo
“Past Lives”
A24
BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE
Erika Alexander
“American Fiction”
Orion Pictures
Sterling K. Brown
“American Fiction”
Orion Pictures
Noah Galvin
“Theater Camp”
Searchlight Pictures
Anne Hathaway
“Elieen”
NEON
Glenn Howerton
“BlackBerry”
IFC Films
Marin Ireland
“Elieen”
NEON
Charles Melton
“May December”
Netflix
Da’Vine Joy Randolph
“The Holdovers”
Focus Features + Miramax
Catalina Saavedra
“Rotting In The Sun”
MUBI
Ben Whishaw
“Passages“
MUBI
BEST BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE
Marshawn Lynch
“Bottoms”
Orion Pictures
Atibon Nazaire
“Mountains”
Neon Heart Productions
Tia Nomore
“Earth Mama”
A24
Dominic Sessa
“The Holdovers”
Focus Features + Miramax
Anaita Wali Zada
“Fremont”
Music Box Films
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
“All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt”
Jomo Fray
A24
“Chronicles of a Wandering Saint”
Pablo Lozano
Plenty Good
“The Holdovers”
Eigil Bryld
Focus Features + Miramax
“Monica”
Katelin Arizmendi
IFC Films
“We Grown Now”
Pat Scola
Sony Pictures Classics
BEST EDITING
“How To Blow Up A Pipeline”
Daniel Garber
NEON
“Rotting In The Sun”
Santiago Cendejas
Gabriel Díaz
Sofía Suberxaseaux
MUBI
“Theater Camp”
Jon Philpot
Searchlight Pictures
“Upon Entry”
Emanuele Tiziani
A24
“We Grown Now”
Stephanie Filo
Sony Pictures Classics
ROBERT ALTMAN AWARD
“Showing Up” (A24)
Directed by Kelly Reichardt
Casting by Gayle Keller
Ensemble Cast including André Benjamin, Hong Chau, Judd Hirsch, Heather Lawless, James Le Gros, John Magaro, Matt Malloy, Amanda Plummer, Maryann Plunkett, Denzel Rodriguez, Michelle Williams
BEST DOCUMENTARY
“Bye Bye Tiberias”
Lina Soualem (director)
Jean-Marie Nizan (producer)
JHR Films
“Four Daughters”
Kaouther Ben Hania (director)
Nadim Cheikhrouha (producer)
Kino Lorber
“Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project”
Joe Brewster (director | producer)
Michèle Stephenson (director | producer)
Tommy Oliver (producer)
HBO Documentary Films
“Kokomo City”
D. Smith (director)
Bill Butler (producer)
Harris Doran (producer)
Magnolia Pictures
“The Mother of All Lies”
Asmae El Moudir (director | producer)
Insight Films
BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM
“Anatomy Of A Fall”
(France)
Justine Triet (director)
NEON
“Godland”
(Denmark/Iceland)
Hlynur Pálmason (director)
Janus Films
“Mami Wata”
(Nigeria)
C.J. “Fiery” Obasi (director)
Dekanalog
“Tótem”
(Mexico)
Lila Avilés (director)
Sideshow + Janus Films
“The Zone Of Interest”
(UK/Poland/USA)
Jonathan Glazer (director)
A24
TELEVISION
BEST NEW SCRIPTED SERIES
“Beef”
Lee Sung Jin (creator | executive producer)
Steven Yeun (executive producer)
Ali Wong (executive producer)
Jake Schreier (executive producer)
Ravi Nandan (executive producer)
Alli Reich (executive producer)
Alice Ju (co-executive producer)
Carrie Kemper (co-executive producer)
Netflix + A24
“Dreaming Whilst Black”
Adjani Salmon (creator | executive producer)
Maximilian Evans (creator)
Natasha Jatania (creator)
Laura Seixas (creator)
Tanya Qureshi (executive producer)
Dhanny Joshi (executive producer)
Bal Samra (executive producer)
Thomas Stogdon (executive producer)
Showtime + Paramount+
“I’m A Virgo”
Boots Riley (creator | executive producer)
Tze Chun (executive producer)
Michael Ellenberg (executive producer)
Lindsey Springer (executive producer)
Jharrel Jerome (executive producer)
Rebecca Rivo (executive producer)
Marcus Gardley (co-executive producer)
Carver Karaszewski (co-executive producer)
Prime Video
“Jury Duty”
Lee Eisenberg (creator | executive producer)
Gene Stupnitsky (creator | executive producer)
David Bernad (executive producer)
Ruben Fleischer (executive producer)
Nicholas Hatton (executive producer)
Cody Heller (executive producer)
Todd Schulman (executive producer)
Jake Szymanski (executive producer)
Andrew Weinberg (executive producer)
Freevee
“Slip”
Zoe Lister-Jones (creator | executive producer)
Ro Donnelly (executive producer)
Dakota Johnson (executive producer)
Katie O’Connell Marsh (executive producer)
David Fortier (executive producer)
Ivan Schneeberg (executive producer)
The Roku Channel
BEST NEW NON-SCRIPTED OR DOCUMENTARY SERIES
“Deadlocked: How American Shaped The Supreme Court”
Vinnie Malhotra (executive producer)
Aaron Saidman (executive producer)
Eli Holzman (executive producer)
Dawn Porter (executive producer)
Showtime + Paramount+
“Dear Mama”
Lasse Järvi (executive producer)
Quincy “QD3” Jones III (executive producer)
Staci Robinson (executive producer)
Nelson George (executive producer)
Charles D. King (executive producer)
Peter Nelson (executive producer)
Adel “Future” Nur (executive producer)
Jamal Joseph (executive producer)
Ted Skillman (executive producer)
Allen Hughes (executive producer)
Steve Berman (executive producer)
Marc Cimino (executive producer)
Jody Gerson (executive producer)
John Janick (executive producer)
Nicholas Ferrall (executive producer)
Nigel Sinclair (executive producer)
FX + Hulu
“Murder In Bighorn”
Matthew Galkin (executive producer)
Vinnie Malhotra (executive producer)
Lisa Kalikow (co-executive producer)
Joshua Levine (co-executive producer)
Showtime
“Stolen Youth: Inside the Cult at Sarah Lawrence”
Mindy Goldberg (executive producer)
Dan Cogan (executive producer)
Liz Garbus (executive producer)
Jon Bardin (executive producer)
Zach Heinzerling (executive producer)
Krista Parris (executive producer)
Daniel Barban Levin (executive producer)
Felicia Rosario (executive producer)
Julie Gaither (co-executive producer)
Hulu
“Wrestlers”
Greg Whiteley (executive producer)
Ryan O’Dowd (executive producer)
Alejandro Melendez (co-executive producer)
Adam Leibowitz (co-executive producer)
Netflix
BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE IN A NEW SCRIPTED SERIES
Emma Corrin
“A Murder at the End of the World”
FX on Hulu
Dominique Fishback
“Swarm”
Prime Video
Betty Gilpin
“Mrs. Davis”
Peacock
Jharrel Jerome
“I’m A Virgo”
Prime Video
Zoe Lister-Jones
“Slip”
The Roku Channel
Bel Powley
“A Small Light”
Disney+
Bella Ramsey
“The Last Of Us”
HBO | Max
Ramón Rodríguez
“Will Trent”
ABC
Ali Wong
“Beef”
Netflix + A24
Steven Yeun
“Beef”
Netflix + A24
BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE IN A NEW SCRIPTED SERIES
Murray Bartlett
“The Last Of Us”
HBO | Max
Billie Eilish
“Swarm”
Prime Video
Jack Farthing
“Rain Dogs”
HBO
Nick Offerman
“The Last Of Us”
HBO | Max
Adina Porter
“The Changeling”
Apple TV+
Lewis Pullman
“Lessons in Chemistry”
Apple TV+
Benny Safdie
“The Curse”
Showtime
Luke Tennie
“Shrinking”
Apple TV+
Olivia Washington
“I’m a Virgo”
Showtime
Jessica Williams
“Shrinking”
Apple TV+
BEST BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE IN A NEW SCRIPTED SERIES
Clark Backo
“The Changeling”
Apple TV+
Aria Mia Loberti
“All the Light We Cannot See”
Netflix
Adjani Salmon
“Dreaming Whilst Black”
Showtime + Paramount+
Keivonn Montreal Woodard
“The Last Of Us”
HBO | Max
Kara Young
“I’m A Virgo”
Prime Video
BEST ENSEMBLE CAST IN A NEW SCRIPTED SERIES
“Jury Duty” (Freevee)
Ensemble Cast including Alan Barinholtz, Susan Berger, Cassandra Blair, David Brown, Kirk Fox, Ross Kimball, Pramode Kumar, Trisha LaFache, Mekki Leeper, James Marsden, Edy Modica, Kerry O’Neill, Rashida Olayiwola, Whitney Rice, Maria Russell, Ishmel Sahid, Ben Seaward, Ron Song, Evan Williams
SPECIAL HONORS
PRODUCERS AWARD
presented by Bulleit Frontier Whiskey
The Producers Award honors emerging producers who, despite highly limited resources, demonstrate the creativity, tenacity and vision required to produce quality independent films.
Rachael Fung
“Fremont” & “Little Woods”
Graham Swon
“The Cathedral” & “The Scary of Sixty-First”
Monique Walton
“Bull”
SOMEONE TO WATCH AWARD
The Someone to Watch Award recognizes a talented filmmaker of singular vision who has not yet received appropriate recognition.
Joanna Arnow
“The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed”
Laura Moss
“Birth/Rebirth”
Monica Sorelle
“Mountains”
TRUER THAN FICTION AWARD
The Truer Than Fiction Award is presented to an emerging director of non-fiction features who has not yet received significant recognition.
Set Hernandez
“unseen”
Jesse Short Bull & Laura Tomaselli
“Lakota Nation vs. United States”
Sierra Urich
“Joonam”
About the Film Independent
In 1981, Gregory Nava and a small band of directors, writers and producers began gathering regularly to share creative ideas and discuss ways to increase resources for independent filmmakers.
The non-profit, member-driven organization Independent Feature Project (IFP)/West soon emerged from these meetings with the mission to cultivate the careers of independent filmmakers, build larger audiences for independent film and champion diversity in the entertainment industry. National recognition quickly followed when the organization took on production of the Spirit Awards in the late 1980s and the LA Film Festival in 2000. In time, IFP/West became Film Independent — a more accurate banner for the spectrum of services and programs the organization had expanded to include.
Today, Film Independent encompasses a broad community of individuals who appreciate and sustain artist-driven filmmaking.
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