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2021 Film Independent Spirit Awards Winners (Complete List)
“Nomadland” wins four awards, including Best Feature; “Sound of Metal” wins three and “Promising Young Woman” takes two
Brian Welk | April 22, 2021 @ 7:01 PM
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“Nomadland” won Best Feature at the 2021 Film Independent Spirit Awards, which were announced live Thursday, and for the first time in primetime.
The coronavirus resulted in moving the Indie Spirits, now in its 36th year, away from its usual slot as an afternoon hangout in a tent near the Santa Monica pier on the Saturday before the Oscars to now taking place Thursday, April 22 on IFC, with the show also being simulcast on AMC+.
Stills from
Nomadland (clockwise from left)
I spent the last month of winter swaddled in a neo-western cocoon. Three movies I have waited a year to watch due to pandemic delays finally became available:
First Cow,
Bacurau, and
Nomadland. All three have quickly taken their places among my favorite movies, and while they vary greatly in mood and style from slow and meditative to thrilling and majestic they all play with the tropes of the American western.
It is perhaps not surprising that in the second half of the Trump administration these directors all women or people of color turned to the western to explore contemporary American life. American mythologies about the West are, after all, an early expression of an “America first” ideology. The western genre in popular culture crystalized White supremacist fantasies about mastering the land and exerting control over all non-White others. As these forces have reasserted themselves in public discourse, t
– Critics’ Choice Awards [Best Original Screenplay]
– Alliance of Women Film Journalists [Best Screenplay, Original]
– Atlanta Film Critics Society [Best Screenplay]
– Chicago Indie Critics [Best Original Screenplay] – empate
– Columbus Film Critics Association [Best Original Screenplay]
– Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics [Best Screenplay]
– Georgia Film Critics Awards [Best Original Screenplay]
– Hollywood Critics Association [Best Original Screenplay]
– Houston Film Critics [Best Screenplay]
– Kansas City Film Critics Circle [Best Original Screenplay]
– Los Angeles Film Critics Association [Best Screenplay]
– New York Film Critics Online [Best Screenplay]
– North Dakota Film Society [Best Screenplay]
– Oklahoma Film Critics Circle [Best Original Screenplay]
– Online Association of Female Film Critics [Best Original Screenplay] – empate