Spirit Awards 2025: Shōgun, Baby Reindeer and How to Die Alone Among TV Winners — View Full List
The 2025 Film Independent Spirit Awards — the top awards event for the independent film and television community — were handed out on Saturday from the beach in Santa Monica, Calif.
The ceremony, hosted by Saturday Night Live vet Aidy Bryant for the second year in the row, was streamed live on the IMDb and Film Independent YouTube channels at 5 pm ET, and across other social platforms.
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Netflix’s Baby Reindeer walked away with three wins: Best Lead Performance for Richard Gadd, Best Supporting Performance for Nava Mau and Best Breakthrough Performance for Jessica Gunning. Meanwhile, FX’s Shōgun took home the trophy for Best New Scripted Series.
Keep scrolling for a complete list of Spirit Awards TV winners and select winners in major film categories.
TV CATEGORIES
BEST NEW SCRIPTED SERIES
Baby Reindeer
Diarra From Detroit
English Teacher
Fantasmas
Shōgun — WINNER
BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE
Brian Jordan Alvarez, English Teacher
Richard Gadd, Baby Reindeer — WINNER
Lily Gladstone, Under the Bridge
Kathryn Hahn, Agatha All Along
Cristin Milioti, The Penguin
Julianne Moore, Mary & George
Hiroyuki Sanada, Shōgun
Anna Sawai, Shōgun
Andrew Scott, Ripley
Julio Torres, Fantasmas
BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE
Tadanobu Asano, Shōgun
Enrico Colantoni, English Teacher
Betty Gilpin, Three Women
Chloe Guidry, Under The Bridge
Moeka Hoshi, Shōgun
Stephanie Koenig, English Teacher
Patti Lupone, Agatha All Along
Nava Mau, Baby Reindeer — WINNER
Ruth Negga, Presumed Innocent
Brian Tee, Expats
BEST BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE (NEW, SCRIPTED)
Jessica Gunning, Baby Reindeer — WINNER
Diarra Kilpatrick, Diarra From Detroit
Joe Locke, Agatha All Along
Megan Stott, Penelope
Hoa Xuande, The Sympathizer
BEST NEW NON-SCRIPTED OR DOCUMENTARY SERIES
Erased: WW2’s Heroes of Color
Hollywood Black — WINNER
Photographer
Ren Faire
Social Studies
BEST ENSEMBLE CAST
How to Die Alone — WINNER
Melissa Duprey, Jaylee Hamidi, Keilyn Durrel Jones, Arkie Kandola, Elle Lorraine, Michelle McLeod, Chris “CP” Powell, Conrad Ricamora, Natasha Rothwell, Jocko Sims
SELECT FILM CATEGORIES
BEST FEATURE
Anora — WINNER
I Saw the TV Glow
Nickel Boys
Sing Sing
The Substance
BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE
Amy Adams, Nightbitch
Ryan Destiny, The Fire Inside
Colman Domingo, Sing Sing
Keith Kupferer, Ghostlight
Mikey Madison, Anora — WINNER
Demi Moore, The Substance
Hunter Schafer, Cuckoo
Justice Smith, I Saw the TV Glow
June Squibb, Thelma
Sebastian Stan, The Apprentice
BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE
Yura Borisov, Anora
Joan Chen, Dìdi
Kieran Culkin, A Real Pain — WINNER
Danielle Deadwyler, The Piano Lesson
Carol Kane, Between the Temples
Karren Karagulian, Anora
Kani Kusruti, Girls Will Be Girls
Brigette Lundy-Paine, I Saw the TV Glow
Clarence “Divine Eye” Maclin, Sing Sing
Adam Pearson, A Different Man
BEST DIRECTOR
Ali Abbasi, The Apprentice
Sean Baker, Anora — WINNER
Brady Corbet, The Brutalist
Alonso Ruizpalacios, La Cocina
Jane Schoenbrun, I Saw the TV Glow
BEST SCREENPLAY
Scott Beck & Bryan Woods, Heretic
Jesse Eisenberg, A Real Pain — WINNER
Megan Park, My Old Ass
Aaron Schimberg, A Different Man
Jane Schoenbrun, I Saw the TV Glow
BEST DOCUMENTARY
Gaucho Gaucho
Hummingbirds
No Other Land — WINNER
Patrice: The Movie
Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat
JOHN CASSAVETES AWARD
Given to the best feature made for under $1,000,000
Big Boys
Ghostlight
Girls Will Be Girls — WINNER
Jazzy
The People’s Joker
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