One Battle After Another leads the 2026 crop of BAFTA nominees with 14 mentions, Ryan Coogler’s Sinners follows close behind with 13. But, I predict February 22nd will be a particularly good...
The 2026 Independent Spirit Awards were held on February 15, streaming live on YouTube. See the full list of film winners below.
Best Feature
Peter Hujar’s DayThe PlagueSorry, BabyWINNER: Train DreamsTwinless
Best Director
WINNER: Clint Bentley, Train DreamsMary...
We are in the heart of awards season, with Oscar nominations recently announced and the countdown to the annual ceremony officially underway. Multiple categories have sparked mainstream conversation, including the newly added...
If there’s anyone who can match Marty Mauser’s madness and self-focus in Marty Supreme, it’s Marty’s married girlfriend, Rachel Mizler, played by Odessa A’zion. The two have known each other for years...
Kleber Mendonça Filho’s The Secret Agent is a film informed by the director’s own memories. It’s not unusual for Kleber Mendonça Filho to pull from his personal experience and specific perspective in...
Emilie Blichfeldt’s debut feature, The Ugly Stepsister, is gloriously gross, as the “ugly stepsister” of the Cinderella story goes to extremes to be beautiful enough for the facile Prince to take note of...
For the past decade, Timothée Chalamet has been on a steady ascent from promising indie talent to full-blown Hollywood fixation. Breaking through with Call Me by Your Name, a performance that earned him...
For decades, musicals have enjoyed a complicated relationship with the Oscars. Sometimes they sweep the board, West Side Story, Chicago, Cabaret, and The Sound of Music, all became cultural moments as well as Academy darlings. At other times,...
