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Here Are the 2022 Independent Spirit Award Winners

By: Haley Bosselman By: Haley Bosselman | March 7, 2022 | Awards

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Celebrating independent filmmaking, the Independent Spirit Awards took place in Santa Monica on March 6 and were hosted by beloved actors and husband-wife duo Nick Offerman and Megan Mullally.

The Lost Daughter stood out during the ceremony and earned the big award of the evening, Best Feature, and certified Maggie Gyllenhaal’s directorial debut a success with her win Best Director Win. From the TV side, Reservation Dogs was honored as the Best Ensemble Cast in a New Scripted Series. The FX show also won for Best New Scripted Series.

See also: Here Are the 2022 SAG Award Winners

See the full list of winners below for more from Zola, Red Rocket, Shiva Baby and more.

Best Feature

“The Lost Daughter” WINNER

“A Chiara”

“C’mon C’mon”

“The Novice”

“Zola”

Best Male Lead

Simon Rex, “Red Rocket” WINNER

Clifton Collins Jr., “Jockey”

Frankie Faison, “Killing of Kenneth Chamberlain”

Michael Greyeyes, “Wild Indian”

Udo Kier, “Swan Song”

Best International Film

“Drive My Car” WINNER

“Compartment No. 6”

“Parallel Mothers”

“Pebbles”

“Petite Maman”

“Prayers for the Stolen”

Best Female Lead

Taylour Paige, “Zola” WINNER

Isabelle Fuhrman, “The Novice”

Brittany S. Hall, “Test Pattern”

Patti Harrison, “Together Together”

Kali Reis, “Catch the Fair One”

Best Director

Maggie Gyllenhaal, “The Lost Daughter” WINNER

Janicza Bravo, “Zola”

Lauren Hadaway, “The Novice”

Mike Mills, “C’mon C’mon”

Ninja Thyberg, “Pleasure”

Best Cinematography

Passing (Eduard Grau) WINNER

“A Chiara” (Tim Curtin)

“Blue Bayou” (Matthew Chuang and Ante Cheng)

“The Humans” (Lol Crawley)

“Zola” (Ari Wegner)

Best Ensemble Cast in a New Scripted Series

Reservation Dogs — Paulina Alexis, Funny Bone, Lane Factor, Devery Jacobs, Zahn McClarnon, Lil Mike, Sarah Podemski and D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai

Best Female Performance in a New Scripted Series

Thuso Mbedu, “The Underground Railroad”

Anjana Vasan, “We Are Lady Parts”

Jana Schmieding, “Rutherford Falls”

Jasmine Cephas Jones, “Blindspotting”

Deborah Ayorinde, “THEM: Covenant”

Best Male Performance in a New Scripted Series

Lee Jung-jae, “Squid Game” WINNER

Olly Alexander, “It’s a Sin”

Michael Greyeyes, “Rutherford Falls”

Murray Bartlett, “The White Lotus”

Ashley Thomas, “THEM: Covenant”

Best New Non-Scripted or Documentary Series

“Black and Missing” WINNER

“The Choe Show”

“The Lady and The Dale”

“Nuclear Family”

“Philly D.A.”

Best New Scripted Series

“Reservation Dogs” WINNER

“Blindspotting”

“It’s a Sin”

“The Underground Railroad”

“We Are Lady Parts”

Best Supporting Female

Ruth Negga, “Passing” WINNER

Jessie Buckley, “The Lost Daughter”

Amy Forsyth, “The Novice”

Revika Reustle, “Pleasure”

Suzanna Son, “Red Rocket”

Best Screenplay

Maggie Gyllenhaal, “The Lost Daughter” WINNER

Nikole Beckwith, “Together Together”

Janicza Bravo, Jeremy O. Harris, “Zola”

Mike Mills, “C’mon C’mon”

Todd Stephens, “Swan Song”

Best Editing

“Zola” (Joi McMillon) WINNER

“A Chiara” (Affonso Gonçalves)

“The Nowhere Inn” (Ali Greer)

“The Novice” (Nathan Nugent and Lauren Hadaway)

“The Killing of Kenneth Chamberlain” (Enrico Natale)

Best First Feature

“7 Days” WINNER

“Holler”

“Queen of Glory”

“Test Pattern”

“Wild Indian”

Best First Screenplay

Michael Sarnoski; Story by Vanessa Block, Michael Sarnoski, “Pig” WINNER

Lyle Mitchell Corbine, Jr., “Wild Indian ”

Matt Fifer; Story by Sheldon D. Brown, “Cicada”

Shatara Michelle Ford, “Test Pattern ”

Fran Kranz, “Mass”

Best Documentary

“Summer of Soul” WINNER

“Ascension”

“Flee”

“In The Same Breath”

“Procession”

John Cassavetes Award

“Shiva Baby” WINNER

“Cryptozoo”

“Jockey”

“Sweet Thing”

“This is Not a War Story”

Best Supporting Male

Troy Kotsur, “CODA” WINNER

Colman Domingo, “Zola”

Meeko Gattuso, “Queen of Glory”

Will Patton, “Sweet Thing”

Chaske Spencer, “Wild Indian”

Producers Award

Lizzie Shapiro WINNER

Brad Becker-Parton

Pin-Chun Liu

Someone to Watch Award

Alex Camilleri, “Luzzu” WINNER

Michael Sarnoski, “Pig”

Gillian Wallace Horvat, “I Blame Society”

The Truer Than Fiction Award

Jessica Beshir, “Faya Dayi” WINNER

Angelo Madsen Minax, “North By Current”

Jessica Beshir, “Faya Dayi”

Debbie Lum, “Try Harder!”



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