2022 Indie Spirits Awards Noms: The Cathedral, Palm Trees and Power Lines, Murina & Aftersun Are Glowing

Everything Everywhere All At Once, Tár, Women Talking and Bones and All are the heavyweight indies that will be properly feted the day before the Oscars, but its films such as Charlotte Wells’ Aftersun, Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović’s Murina, Jamie Dack’s Palm Trees and Power Lines and Ricky D’Ambrose’s The Cathedral that are having their own victory laps of sorts with today’s Film Independent Spirit Awards nominations. Aftersun lands five nominations, Palm Trees and Power Lines lassoed four and Emily the Criminal matched that tally while Murina and The Cathedral grabbed a trio each.

Everything Everywhere All At Once is the tops all nominated films with eight apiece and the A24 folks dominate all distributors with a fitting twenty four nominations in all. The biggest surprise might be the Our Father, the Devil team who nab a Best Feature nomination going up against Bones and All, Everything Everywhere All At Once, Women Talking and Tár. Here are the complete noms below – we’ll be keeping an eye out on this.

Bones and All
Producers: Timothée Chalamet, Francesco Melzi d’Eril, Luca Guadagnino, David Kajganich, Lorenzo Mieli, Marco Morabito, Gabriele Moratti, Theresa Park, Peter Spears

Everything Everywhere All At Once
Producers: Daniel Kwan, Mike Larocca, Anthony Russo, Joe Russo, Daniel Scheinert, Jonathan Wang

Our Father, the Devil
Producers: Ellie Foumbi, Joseph Mastantuono

Tár
Producers: Todd Field, Scott Lambert, Alexandra Milchan

Women Talking
Producers: Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Frances McDormand

BEST FIRST FEATURE (Award given to director and producer)
Aftersun – Charlotte Wells
Emily the Criminal – John Patton Ford
The Inspection – Elegance Bratton
Murina – Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović
Palm Trees and Power Lines – Jamie Dack

JOHN CASSAVETES AWARD
The African Desperate – Martine Syms
A Love Song – Max Walker-Silverman
The Cathedral – Ricky D’Ambrose
Holy Emy – Araceli Lemos
Something in the Dirt – Justin Benson

BEST DIRECTOR
Todd Field – Tár
Kogonada – After Yang
Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert – Everything Everywhere All At Once
Sarah Polley – Women Talking
Halina Reijn – Bodies Bodies Bodies

BEST SCREENPLAY
Lena Dunham – Catherine Called Birdy
Todd Field – Tár
Kogonada – After Yang
Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert – Everything Everywhere All At Once
Sarah Polley – Women Talking

BEST FIRST SCREENPLAY
Joel Kim Booster – Fire Island
Jamie Dack, Audrey Findlay, Story by Jamie Dack – Palm Trees and Power Lines
K.D. Dávila – Emergency
Sarah DeLappe, Story by Kristen Roupenian – Bodies Bodies Bodies
John Patton Ford – Emily the Criminal

BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE
Cate Blanchett – Tár
Dale Dickey – A Love Song
Mia Goth – Pearl
Regina Hall – Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul.
Paul Mescal – Aftersun
Aubrey Plaza – Emily the Criminal
Jeremy Pope – The Inspection
Andrea Riseborough – To Leslie
Taylor Russell – Bones and All
Michelle Yeoh – Everything Everywhere All At Once

BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE
Jamie Lee Curtis – Everything Everywhere All At Once
Brian Tyree Henry – Causeway
Nina Hoss – Tár
Brian d’Arcy James – The Cathedral
Ke Huy Quan – Everything Everywhere All At Once
Trevante Rhodes – Bruiser
Theo Rossi – Emily the Criminal
Mark Rylance – Bones and All
Jonathan Tucker – Palm Trees and Power Lines
Gabrielle Union – The Inspection

BEST BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE (New Award)
Frankie Corio – Aftersun
Gracija Filipović – Murina
Stephanie Hsu – Everything Everywhere All At Once
Lily McInerny – Palm Trees and Power Lines
Daniel Zolghadri – Funny Pages

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Florian Hoffmeister – Tár
Hélène Louvart – Murina
Gregory Oke – Aftersun
Eliot Rockett – Pearl
Anisia Uzeyman – Neptune Frost

BEST EDITING
Ricky D’Ambrose – The Cathedral
Dean Fleischer Camp, Nick Paley – Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
Blair McClendon – Aftersun
Paul Rogers – Everything Everywhere All At Once
Monika Willi – Tár

ROBERT ALTMAN AWARD
Women Talking

BEST DOCUMENTARY
A House Made of Splinters – Simon Lereng Wilmont
All That Breathes – Shaunak Sen
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed – Laura Poitras
Midwives – Snow Hnin Ei Hlaing
Riotsville, U.S.A. – Sierra Pettengill

BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM
Corsage – Marie Kreutzer
Joyland – Saim Sadiq
Leonor Will Never Die – Martika Ramirez Escobar
Return to Seoul – Davy Chou
Saint Omer – Alice Diop

PRODUCERS AWARD
Liz Cardenas
Tory Lenosky
David Grove Churchill Viste

SOMEONE TO WATCH AWARD
Adamma Ebo – Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul.
Nikyatu Jusu – Nanny
Araceli Lemos – Holy Emy

TRUER THAN FICTION AWARD
Isabel Castro – Mija
Reid Davenport – I Didn’t See You There
Rebeca Huntt – Beba