Summer of Soul” were among the big winners at the 37th Film Independent Spirit Awards Sunday.The ceremony hosted by Nick Offerman and Megan Mullally was held in a tent by the beach in Santa Monica, California, broadcast on AMC and IFC.
It is the cool, casual counterpart to some of the more traditional film awards shows.“If you don’t win, you can just walk straight into the ocean,” Offerman said.Gyllenhaal won best feature, director and best screenplay for her adaptation of the Elena Ferrante novel “The Lost Daughter.”Through tears, Gyllenhaal said that more than anything she believes in love.
She was effusive in her praise for her crew.“You were the first people to tell me I was a director,” she said. “Thank you to Netflix — I can’t even believe this — for your support. … Nobody ever makes their first movie and comes out loving their financiers.”“I love independent film,” Gyllenhaal added. “I grew up making independent film.”Japan’s “Drive My Car, which has also been nominated for a best picture Oscar, picked up best international feature.Taylour Paige won best female lead for “Zola,” which was based on a Twitter thread about a wild trip to Florida.“Wow, I am in shock.
I wrote something because I’m not eloquent and I’m drunk,” Paige said.She thanked her grandmother who passed away on the day she got word of her nomination and Zola for, “knowing that your story was worth telling.”Simon Rex won best male lead for playing an ex-porn star in Sean Baker’s “Red Rocket.” Rex said his career was in the dumps before Baker called him for the shoestring film.“I’m reeling from the whole experience,” Rex said. “This is basically a glorified student film…I’m grateful and humbled.”Mullally and Offerman got the show off to a lively.
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