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Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Lost Daughter wins big at the 2022 Film Independent Spirit Awards

March 7, 2022 by Gary Collinson

The winners of the 37th annual Film Independent Spirit Awards were announced in Hollywood on Sunday, with Maggie Gyllenhaal’s feature directorial debut The Lost Daughter taking home the top honour, adding the Best Feature award to Gyllenhaal’s two wins for Best Director and Best Screenplay.

Other winners from the ceremony included Simon Rex (Red Rocket) and Taylour Paige (Zola) for Best Male Lead and Best Female Lead respectively and Troy Kotsur (CODA) and Ruth Negga (Passing) for Best Supporting Male and Best Supporting Female, while Reservation Dogs was named Best New Scripted Series and also won Best Ensemble Cast in a New Scripted Series.

Check out the full list of winners here…

Best Feature
“A Chiara”
“C’mon C’mon”
“The Lost Daughter” (Winner)
“The Novice”
“Zola”

Best Director
Janicza Bravo, “Zola”
Maggie Gyllenhaal, “The Lost Daughter” (Winner)
Lauren Hadaway, “The Novice”
Mike Mills, “C’mon, C’mon”
Ninja Thyberg, “Pleasure”

Best Male Lead
Clifton Collins, Jr., “Jockey”
Frankie Faison, “The Killing of Kenneth Chamberlain”
Michael Greyeyes, “Wild Indian”
Udo Kier, “Swan Song”
Simon Rex, “Red Rocket” (Winner)

Best Female Lead
Isabelle Fuhrman, “The Novice”
Brittany S. Hall, “Test Pattern”
Patti Harrison, “Together Together”
Taylour Paige, “Zola” (Winner)
Kali Reis, “Catch the Fair One”

Best Supporting Male
Colman Domingo, “Zola”
Meeko Gattuso, “Queen of Glory”
Troy Kotsur, “CODA” (Winner)
Will Patton, “Sweet Thing”
Chaske Spencer, “Wild Indian”

Best Supporting Female
Jessie Buckley, “The Lost Daughter”
Amy Forsyth, “The Novice”
Ruth Negga, “Passing” (Winner)
Revika Anne Reustle, “Pleasure”
Suzanna Son, “Red Rocket”

Best Screenplay
“C’mon, C’mon”
“The Lost Daughter” (Winner)
“Swan Song”
“Together Together”
“Zola”

Best International Film
“Compartment No. 6”
“Drive My Car” (Winner)
“Parallel Mothers”
“Pebbles”
“Petite Maman”
“Prayers for the Stolen”

Best First Feature
“7 Days” (Winner)
“Holler”
“Queen of Glory”
“Test Pattern”
“Wild Indian”

Best First Screenplay
“Cicada”
“Mass”
“Pig” (Winner)
“Test Pattern”
“Wild Indian”

Best Documentary
“Ascension”
“Flee”
“In the Same Breath”
“Procession”
“Summer of Soul” (Winner)

Best Cinematography
“A Chiara”
“Blue Bayou”
“The Humans”
“Passing” (Winner)
“Zola”

Best Editing
“A Chiara”
“The Killing of Kenneth Chamberlain”
“The Novice”
“The Nowhere Inn”
“Zola” (Winner)

Best New Scripted Series
“Blindspotting”
“It’s a Sin”
“Reservation Dogs” (Winner)
“The Underground Railroad”
“We Are Lady Parts”

Best Female Performance in a Scripted Series
Thuso Mbedu, “The Underground Railroad” (Winner)
Anjana Vasan, “We Are Lady Parts”
Jana Schmieding, “Rutherford Falls”
Jasmine Cephas Jones, “Blindspotting”
Deborah Ayorinde, “THEM: Covenant”

Best Male Performance in a Scripted Series
Ollie Alexander, “It’s a Sin”
Murray Bartlett, “The White Lotus”
Michael Greyeyes, “Rutherford Falls”
Ashley Thomas, “THEM: Covenant”
Lee Jung-jae, “Squid Game” (Winner)

Best New Non-Scripted or Documentary Series
“Black and Missing” (Winner)
“The Choe Show”
“The Lady and the Dale”
“Nuclear Family”
“Philly D.A.”

John Cassavetes Award
“Cryptozoo”
“Jockey”
“Shiva Baby” (Winner)
“Sweet Thing”
“This Is Not a War Story”

Robert Altman Award
The Director, Cast, and Casting Director of “Mass” (Winner)

Someone to Watch Award
Alex Camilleri, “Luzzu” (Winner)
Gillian Wallace Horvat, “I Blame Society”
Michael Sarnoski, “Pig”

Truer Than Fiction Award
“North by Current”
“Faya Dayi” (Winner)
“Try Harder!”

Producers Award
Brad Becker-Parton
Pin-Chun Liu
Lizzie Shapiro (Winner)

Best Ensemble Cast in a New Scripted Series
“Reservation Dogs” (Winner)

 

Filed Under: Awards Season, Gary Collinson, Movies, News, Television Tagged With: Film Independent Spirit Awards, spirit awards

About Gary Collinson

Gary Collinson is Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Flickering Myth. He is a film, television and digital content writer and producer, whose work includes the gothic horror feature The Baby in the Basket, suspense thriller Death Among the Pines, and horror franchise reboot Robert Returns. He is also the author of Holy Franchise, Batman! Bringing the Caped Crusader to the Screen.

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