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Simply hours after the 2024 SAG Awards, the 2024 Unbiased Spirit Awards return, honoring impartial movies and TV exhibits and streaming sequence.
The ceremony, hosted by Aidy Bryant, takes place on Sunday at 2 pm PT from the Santa Monica Pier. This yr’s awards present will stream reside on Movie Unbiased’s YouTube channel and X (previously generally known as Twitter) web page, in addition to on IMDb’s YouTube channel and X web page.
Or you may watch through the video participant embedded beneath.
American Fiction, Could December and Previous Lives lead the movie nominees this yr with 5 every, whereas I am a Virgo and The Final of Us have been essentially the most acknowledged on the TV facet, receiving 4 nominations every. For the second yr in a row, the awards classes are gender-neutral. Winners are voted on by Movie Unbiased members.
This yr’s presenters embrace Elizabeth Banks, Joel Kim Booster, Adam Brody, Danielle Brooks, David Brown, Sterling Okay. Brown, Quinta Brunson, Emma Corrin, Colman Domingo, Hannah Einbinder, Jim Gaffigan, Noah Galvin, Ronald Gladden, Stephanie Hsu, Anna Kendrick, Jude Legislation, Greta Lee, Jharrel Jerome, Aja Naomi King, Zoe Lister-Jones, Aria Mia Loberti, Hint Lysette, James Marsden, Thomasin McKenzie, Natalie Morales, Rashida “Sheedz” Olayiwola, Ben Platt, Lewis Pullman, Emma Roberts , Andrew Scott, Milo Ventimiglia, Jessica Williams and Jimmy O. Yang. Lily Gladstone can even function the ceremony’s honorary chair.
Forward of the awards present, Bryant spoke to The Hollywood Reporter about what viewers can count on from this yr’s ceremony. She teased that, for her monologue, she’ll contact on the SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes from 2023, “particularly as a result of this occasion feels extra free from the studio system. That is extra inner, for these people who find themselves actually into it.”
Bryant added, “The strike affected all of us far and huge, so it might be loopy to not point out it. Personally, I used to be grappling with how lengthy it took for the studios to come back to an association and what a squeeze it was placing on our IATSE and Teamster brethren.”
As for why she was excited to tackle internet hosting duties, the SNL alum shared, “These awards, and what they’re about, actually do contact my coronary heart. There is a type of yuckiness in Hollywood generally, and there is one thing pure and exquisite about supporting impartial movie.”
