Nominations for the 2023 Film Independent Spirit Awards are in, and “Women Talking” is the only real woman-helmed title competing for Best Feature. Written and directed by Sarah Polley, the Rooney Mara-starrer is impressed by a real story and follows a gaggle of girls in a distant spiritual group reckoning with the aftermath of sexual assault. The drama is ready to obtain the Robert Altman Award, which is given to at least one movie’s director, casting director, and ensemble solid.
Polley is up for Best Director and Best Screenplay. She’s joined by Halina Reijn (“Bodies Bodies Bodies”) within the former class and Lena Dunham (“Catherine Called Birdy”) within the latter.
Three of 5 titles within the working for Best First Feature are helmed by ladies: Charlotte Wells’ “Aftersun,” a portrait of a pre-teen woman’s trip together with her father, Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović’s “Murina,” a coming-of-age story a few teenage woman who’s drawn to her father’s former boss, and Jamie Dack’s “Palm Trees and Power Lines,” which additionally facilities round a teenage woman’s life-changing encounter with an older man.
Five options are nominated for Best International Film, and three of them are directed by ladies: Austria’s International Oscar decide, Marie Kreutzer’s “Corsage,” France’s International Oscar decide, Alice Diop’s “Saint Omer,” and Martika Ramirez Escobar’s “Leonor Will Never Die,” a comedy a few filmmaker who falls right into a coma.
Three of 5 Best Documentary contenders are additionally directed by ladies. Laura Poitras’ Oscar hopeful, “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed,” a tribute to artist Nan Goldin and an exploration of the opioid disaster, is joined by Snow Hnin Ei Hlaing’s “Midwives,” a portrait of two midwives working in western Myanmar, and Sierra Pettengill’s “Riotsville, U.S.A.,” a glance inside mannequin cities constructed by the Army to coach police and the navy.
Cate Blanchett (“Tár”), Michelle Yeoh (“Everything Everywhere All At Once”), and Gabrielle Union (“The Inspection”) are amongst this yr’s performing nominees.
The Indie Spirit Awards will happen March 4. Nominations for TV classes are set to be introduced December 13. Head over to Variety to take a look at the entire movie nominees, together with Best Cinematography hopefuls Hélène Louvart (“Murina”) and Anisia Uzeyman (“Neptune Frost”).