‘Peter Hujar’s Day,’ ‘Train Dreams,’ and ‘Sorry, Baby’ lead Spirit Award nominations

Ira Sachs Peter Hujar s Day which recreates an interview with the s photographer led the Film Independent Spirit Awards nominations with five nods including best feature director as well as lead and supporting performances for Ben Whishaw and Rebecca Hall The organization stated nominees for the st edition of the show Wednesday Several films followed with four nominations including best feature and best director like Clint Bentley s lyrical Denis Johnson adaptation Train Dreams and Eva Victor s Sorry Baby about life after an assault First features receiving four nods were Blue Sun Palace One of Them Days and Lurker James Sweeney s dark comedy Twinless and The Plague which like Train Dreams also stars Joel Edgerton were also nominated for best feature Edgerton was among the best acting nominees for Train Dreams alongside the likes of Rose Byrne If I Had Legs I d Kick You Dylan O Brien Twinless Keke Palmer One of Them Days Tessa Thompson Hedda and Whishaw who was also nominated for the Netflix series Black Doves The organization switched to gender neutral acting categories in Supporting performance nominees include Naomi Ackie Sorry Baby Zoey Deutch Nouvelle Vague Kirsten Dunst Roofman Nina Hoss Hedda Jane Levy A Little Prayer Archie Madekwe Lurker Kali Reis Rebuilding Jacob Tremblay Sovereign and Haipeng Xu Blue Sun Palace The Robert Altman Award for one film s directing ensemble and casting went to the Stephen King adaptation The Long Walk with Mark Hamill Cooper Hoffman and David Jonsson Among the international film nominees were Sir t The Secret Agent and On Becoming a Guinea Fowl Documentaries recognized include Come See Me in the Good Light My Undesirable Friends Part I Last Air in Moscow The Perfect Neighbor The Tale of Silyan and Endless Cookie The Spirit Awards also honor television shows where Adolescence Forever and Mr Loverman led with four nominations each The organization stated its nominees hailed from different countries with identifying as women Sometimes the Spirit Awards overlap significantly with major Oscar contenders and winners as it did with Anora and the Everything Everywhere All At Once year and sometimes not The awards limit eligibility to productions with budgets less than million meaning more expensive productions like One Battle After Another were not in the running The st edition of the Spirit Awards will be leaving its longtime home near the Santa Monica Pier for the Hollywood Palladium The show which serves as a fundraising event for Film Independent s year-round programs will be held on Feb nearly a month before the Oscars Source