Indie Spirit Awards to add TV awards

[Brayden Fitzsimmons Joined: May 3rd, 2015 Topics: 110 Posts: 7362 View Predictions]

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Best New Scripted Series

• A Teacher (FX)
• I May Destroy You (HBO)
• Little America (AppleTV+)
• Small Axe (Prime Video)
• Unorthodox (Netflix)

Best New Non-Scripted or Documentary Series

• Atlanta’s Missing and Murdered: The Lost Children (HBO)
• City So Real (NatGeo)
• Immigration Nation (Netflix)
• Love Fraud (Showtime)
• We’re Here (HBO)

Best Female Performance in a New Scripted Series

• Elle Fanning, The Great (Hulu)
• Shira Haas, Unorthodox (Netflix)
• Abby McEnny, Work in Progress (Showtime)
• Maitrey Ramakrishnan, Never Have I Ever (Netflix)
• Jordan Kristine Seamón, We Are Who We Are (HBO)

Best Male Performance in a New Scripted Series

• Adam Ali, Little America (AppleTV+)
• Nicco Annan, P Valley (Starz)
• Amit Rahav, Unorthodox (Netflix)
• Harold Torres, Zero Zero Zero
• Conphidance, Little America (AppleTV+)

Best Ensemble Cast – I May Destroy Yiu

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[wolfali Joined: Sep 4th, 2018 Topics: 262 Posts: 18083 View Predictions]

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braydenfitzsimmons wrote:

I May Destroy You (HBO)

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Small Axe (Prime Video) Unorthodox (Netflix)

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Elle Fanning, The Great (Hulu) Shira Haas, Unorthodox (Netflix)

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Amit Rahav, Unorthodox (Netflix)

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Best Ensemble Cast – I May Destroy Yiu

Seeing my faves dominate:

FYC OSCARS : PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN IN ALL CATEGORIES (ESP. ACTRESS – Carey Mulligan AND ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY — EMERALD FENNELL), VANESSA KIRBY FOR "PIECES OF A WOMAN", ESSIE DAVIS FOR "BABYTEETH"

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[puck05 Joined: Sep 21st, 2019 Topics: 11 Posts: 1060 View Predictions]

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Amit Rahav!!!

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[Victor Joined: Jun 18th, 2020 Topics: 1 Posts: 1566 View Predictions]

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Continuing shows should be allowed, so many talent.

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[Sir Shaw Joined: Aug 1st, 2019 Topics: 2 Posts: 373 View Predictions]

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braydenfitzsimmons wrote:

Best Female Performance in a New Scripted Series

• Elle Fanning, The Great (Hulu)
• Shira Haas, Unorthodox (Netflix)
• Abby McEnny, Work in Progress (Showtime)
• Maitrey Ramakrishnan, Never Have I Ever (Netflix)
• Jordan Kristine Seamón, We Are Who We Are (HBO)

Best Male Performance in a New Scripted Series

• Adam Ali, Little America (AppleTV+)
• Nicco Annan, P Valley (Starz)
• Amit Rahav, Unorthodox (Netflix)
• Harold Torres, Zero Zero Zero
• Conphidance, Little America (AppleTV+)

6/10 nominees are people of color.
4/10 nominees are LGBTQ+.

And people still say it’s hard to find top quality work from minority creatives to nominate.

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[wolfali Joined: Sep 4th, 2018 Topics: 262 Posts: 18083 View Predictions]

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It’s a Sin coming for its multiple nominations here next year.

FYC OSCARS : PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN IN ALL CATEGORIES (ESP. ACTRESS – Carey Mulligan AND ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY — EMERALD FENNELL), VANESSA KIRBY FOR "PIECES OF A WOMAN", ESSIE DAVIS FOR "BABYTEETH"

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[Brayden Fitzsimmons Joined: May 3rd, 2015 Topics: 110 Posts: 7362 View Predictions]

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So independent tv is apparently defined not by budget/scale but aesthetic. (per variety)

Ultimately, with no budgetary cap (unlike the $22.5 million limit in film), and with most TV projects coming from major networks and studios, Film Independent president John Walsh told me at the time that it would come down to a “smell test”: “aesthetic, original provocative subject matter, unique voice and diversity. The types of work that we celebrate on the film side, and TV side, they’re going to look very similar. … Somehow these singular voices are finding their way into television and making a mark on the culture. We are remiss if we don’t celebrate that.”

If there’s a through line with the 2021 noms, it’s that all five projects tell uniquely personal stories: “I May Destroy You,” about sexual assault and trauma; “A Teacher,” about exploitation, grooming and abuse; “Small Axe,” stories about West Indian immigrants in 1960s to 1980s London; “Little America,” stories about the immigrant experience in the United States; and “Unorthodox,” about a young woman fleeing her strict Hasidic Jewish community.

But here’s another similarity: The fact that all five nominees come from streaming services (give FX an asterisk, but “A Teacher” launched on its Hulu streaming portal) is telling. These are multi-billion dollar corporations, not scrappy little indie distributors. But premium cable and streamers — free of the need to satisfy advertiser demands for the broadest audience possible — have long been able to run smaller, more narrow and targeted projects that are also some of TV’s most original, and yes, “indie”-minded fare.

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[wolfali Joined: Sep 4th, 2018 Topics: 262 Posts: 18083 View Predictions]

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Hopefully Shira finally wins something for that tour de force performance!

FYC OSCARS : PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN IN ALL CATEGORIES (ESP. ACTRESS – Carey Mulligan AND ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY — EMERALD FENNELL), VANESSA KIRBY FOR "PIECES OF A WOMAN", ESSIE DAVIS FOR "BABYTEETH"

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[wolfali Joined: Sep 4th, 2018 Topics: 262 Posts: 18083 View Predictions]

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I am assuming <i>Normal People</i> was shut out? I don’t see how it could have been ineligible considering <i>Zero Zero Zero </i>is an Amazon import whilst <i>Normal People </i>was co-produced by Hulu.

Is that worrisome for its chances?

FYC OSCARS : PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN IN ALL CATEGORIES (ESP. ACTRESS – Carey Mulligan AND ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY — EMERALD FENNELL), VANESSA KIRBY FOR "PIECES OF A WOMAN", ESSIE DAVIS FOR "BABYTEETH"

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[puck05 Joined: Sep 21st, 2019 Topics: 11 Posts: 1060 View Predictions]

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wolfali wrote:

I am assuming <i>Normal People</i> was shut out? I don’t see how it could have been ineligible considering <i>Zero Zero Zero </i>is an Amazon import whilst <i>Normal People </i>was co-produced by Hulu. Is that worrisome for its chances?

Small Axe is also a nominee so it’s pretty clear they didn’t care for Normal People.

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[Riley Chow Joined: Oct 11th, 2010 Topics: 156 Posts: 17575 View Predictions]

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Normal People is basically two 2.5/3-hour indies, so those snubs are huge!

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[wolfali Joined: Sep 4th, 2018 Topics: 262 Posts: 18083 View Predictions]

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Keep an eye out for Shira and Amit here! The episode of Unorthodox that has been submitted is the finale.

FYC OSCARS : PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN IN ALL CATEGORIES (ESP. ACTRESS – Carey Mulligan AND ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY — EMERALD FENNELL), VANESSA KIRBY FOR "PIECES OF A WOMAN", ESSIE DAVIS FOR "BABYTEETH"

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[Riley Chow Joined: Oct 11th, 2010 Topics: 156 Posts: 17575 View Predictions]

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Shira needs some hardware.

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