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39th Film Independent Spirit Awards (2024)
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Spirit Awards 2024 Winners & Nominees

The 39th Film Independent Spirit Awards (2024) took place on February 25, 2024. Past Lives won Best Feature and one more award. The Holdovers and American Fiction matched it with 2 wins. Every winner and nominee in all 12 categories is below.

All 12 categories Most wins
categories
12
nominations
59
films nominated
32
winners
12
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Best Feature
Past Lives
Headline winners

Spirit Awards 2024: The Winners

Past Lives won Best Feature against 5 other nominees. Celine Song (Best Director), Jeffrey Wright (Best Lead Performance) and Franz Rogowski (Best Supporting Performance) took the main individual prizes.

Past Lives (2023) movie poster Best Feature

Best Feature

Past Lives

2023 · Drama, Romance · Echo Score 85 · $42.7M worldwide

2 wins from 5 nominations at the 39th Film Independent Spirit Awards (2024)

  • Best Director

Two childhood friends, Nora and Hae Sung, reconnect across two decades and thousands of miles. The story follows their poignant reunion and explores themes of identity, longing, and the impact of choices made. As they spend a week together, they reflect on the paths their lives have taken and consider the possibility of a deeper connection, confronting what might have been.

About Past Lives
Scoreboard

Spirit Awards 2024: Which Films Won the Most

Past Lives, The Holdovers and American Fiction won 2 awards each. 9 films won at least once, while We Grown Now went home empty-handed from 3 nominations. Green is wins, blue is nominations.

  1. Past Lives (2023) movie poster
    Past Lives 2 / 5
    2023 · Drama, Romance · 2 wins from 5 nominations
  2. The Holdovers (2023) movie poster
    The Holdovers 2 / 4
    2023 · Comedy, Drama · 2 wins from 4 nominations
  3. American Fiction (2023) movie poster
    American Fiction 2 / 3
    2023 · Comedy, Drama · 2 wins from 3 nominations
  4. May December (2023) movie poster
    May December 1 / 4
    2023 · Comedy, Drama · 1 win from 4 nominations
  5. Passages (2023) movie poster
    Passages 1 / 3
    2023 · Drama · 1 win from 3 nominations
  6. A Thousand and One (2023) movie poster
    A Thousand and One 1 / 2
    2023 · Crime · 1 win from 2 nominations
  7. Four Daughters (2023) movie poster
    Four Daughters 1 / 1
    2023 · Documentary · 1 win from 1 nomination
  8. Anatomy of a Fall (2023) movie poster
    Anatomy of a Fall 1 / 1
    2023 · Crime, Drama · 1 win from 1 nomination
  9. How to Blow Up a Pipeline (2023) movie poster
    How to Blow Up a Pipeline 1 / 1
    2023 · Drama, Thriller · 1 win from 1 nomination
  10. We Grown Now (2024) movie poster
    We Grown Now 0 / 3
    2024 · Drama · 0 wins from 3 nominations
Full results

All 12 Spirit Awards 2024 Categories: Winners & Nominees

12 categories and 59 nominations. The winner of each comes first, on a green row. Search for a film or a person, show only the winners, or jump straight to a category.

12 categories · 59 nominations

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Movie marathon

The Spirit Awards 2024 Best Feature Marathon

All 6 Best Feature nominees at the 39th Film Independent Spirit Awards (2024), back to back: 10 hours 29 minutes.

Total running time 10h 29m 10 hours 29 minutes All 6 films
Longest
American Fiction 1h 57m
Shortest
Passages 1h 31m
By genre

The Genres Behind the Spirit Awards 2024 Winners

Drama led with 45 nominations across 22 films and won 10. A film with several genres counts for each one.

  1. Drama 10 wins · 45 nominations · 22%
  2. Comedy 5 wins · 16 nominations · 31%
  3. Romance 2 wins · 8 nominations · 25%
  4. Thriller 2 wins · 8 nominations · 25%
  5. Documentary 1 win · 5 nominations · 20%
  6. Crime 3 wins · 4 nominations · 75%
  7. Fantasy 0 wins · 4 nominations · 0%
  8. Mystery 0 wins · 2 nominations · 0%
  9. Horror 0 wins · 2 nominations · 0%
  10. Biography 0 wins · 2 nominations · 0%
2024 season

How the Rest of the 2024 Awards Season Voted

The other 14 ceremonies of 2024, with the winner of each top prize. Oppenheimer won the most of them: 6.

All 2024 awards
Earlier years

Previous Spirit Awards Ceremonies

The 6 ceremonies before this one, with the winner of each top prize. The Spirit Awards page has every year back to 1986.

Every Spirit Awards ceremony

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Spirit Awards 2024: Questions & Answers

The top prize, the film that won the most, the most-nominated film, the individual winners and the date of the 39th Film Independent Spirit Awards (2024), answered from the results on this page.

Who won Best Feature at the 39th Film Independent Spirit Awards (2024)?

Past Lives (2023) won Best Feature. The other nominees were All of Us Strangers, American Fiction, May December, Passages and We Grown Now.

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Which film won the most awards at the 39th Film Independent Spirit Awards (2024)?

Past Lives, The Holdovers and American Fiction each won 2 awards.

Which film had the most nominations at the 39th Film Independent Spirit Awards (2024)?

Past Lives (2023) led with 5 nominations and won 2 of them.

Who won the acting and directing awards at the 39th Film Independent Spirit Awards (2024)?

Best Director: Celine Song for Past Lives. Best Lead Performance: Jeffrey Wright for American Fiction. Best Supporting Performance: Franz Rogowski for Passages.

When was the 39th Film Independent Spirit Awards (2024)?

The 39th Film Independent Spirit Awards (2024) took place on February 25, 2024. The database has 12 categories and 59 nominations for it.