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Independent Spirit Award Winners 2023: See the Full List Here

Best Breakthrough Performance
WINNER: Stephanie Hsu, Everything Everywhere All at Once

Frankie Corio, Aftersun
Gracija Filipović, Murina
Lily McInerny, Palm Trees and Power Lines
Daniel Zolghadri, Funny Pages

Best Screenplay
WINNER: Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, Everything Everywhere All at Once

Kogonada, After Yang
Lena Dunham, Catherine Called Birdy
Todd Field, Tár
Sarah Polley, Women Talking

Best First Screenplay
WINNER: John Patton Ford, Emily the Criminal 

Sarah Delappe and Kristen Roupenian, Bodies Bodies Bodies
K.D. Dávila, Emergency
Joel Kim Booster, Fire Island
Jamie Dack and Audrey Findlay, Palm Trees and Power Lines

Best Cinematography
WINNER: Florian Hoffmeister, Tár

Gregory Oke, Aftersun
Hélène Louvart, Murina
Anisia Uzeyman, Neptune Frost
Eliot Rockett, Pearl

Best Editing
WINNER: Paul Rogers, Everything Everywhere All at Once

Blair McClendon, Aftersun
Ricky D’Ambrose, The Cathedral
Dean Fleischer Camp and Nick Paley, Marcel the Shell With Shoes On
Monika Willi, Tár

Robert Altman Award
WINNER: Women Talking—director Sarah Polley; casting directors John Buchan and Jason Knight; ensemble cast

Best Documentary
WINNER

A House Made of Splinters
All That Breathes
Midwives
Riotsville, U.S.A

Best International Film
WINNER: Joyland (Pakistan, USA)

Corsage (Austria, Luxembourg, France, Belgium, Italy, England)
Leonor Will Never Die (Philippines)
Return to Seoul (Cambodia)
Saint Omer (France)

Someone to Watch Award
WINNER: Nikyatu Jusu, Nanny

Adamma Ebo, Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul.
Araceli Lemos, Holy Emy

Truer Than Fiction Award
WINNER: Reid Davenport, I Didn’t See You There

Isabel Castro, Mija
Rebeca Huntt, Beba

John Cassavetes Award
WINNER: The Cathedral

The African Desperate
A Love Song
Holy Emy
Something in the Dirt

Producers Award
WINNER: Tory Lenosky

Liz Cardenas
David Grove Churchill Viste

TV

Best New Scripted Series
WINNER: The Bear
Pachinko
The Porter
Severance
Station Eleven

Best New Non-Scripted or Documentary Series
WINNER: The Rehearsal

Children of the Underground
Mind Over Murder
Pepsi, Where’s My Jet?
We Need to Talk About Cosby

Best Lead Performance in a New Scripted Series
WINNER: Quinta Brunson, Abbott Elementary

Aml Ameen, The Porter
Mohammed Amer, Mo
Bridget Everett, Somebody Somewhere
KaMillion, Rap Sh!t
Melanie Lynskey, Yellowjackets
Himesh Patel, Station Eleven
Sue Ann Pien, As We See It
Adam Scott, Severance
Ben Whishaw, This Is Going to Hurt

Best Supporting Performance in a New Scripted Series
WINNER: Ayo Edebiri, The Bear

Danielle Deadwyler, Station Eleven
Jeff Hiller, Somebody Somewhere
Gbemisola Ikumelo, A League of Their Own
Janelle James, Abbott Elementary
Ebon Moss-Bachrach, The Bear
Frankie Quiñones, This Fool
Sheryl Lee Ralph, Abbott Elementary
Molly Shannon, I Love That for You
Tramell Tillman, Severance

Best Ensemble Cast in a New Scripted Series
WINNER: Pachinko


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