The annual Spirit Awards in Santa Monica, California, tends to be an indie antidote to Hollywood’s biggest night, but this year, the contrast will be starker than usual.
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Elba, who revealed he was suffering with a bad back after playing basketball, also spoke about the physical preparations he made for the role adding: “I ate a lot!” Each drew hearty applause.
“There is transgender talent, there’s very handsome transgender talent”, Taylor told the audience. “So, you better get it out there and put it in your next movie”, Taylor said in her acceptance speech.
But this year there was less overlap between the two sets of nominations, making the Spirit Awards more of an Oscar alternative.
“Spotlight” was the only best picture nominee up for the Spirits’ top award; the bigger budget Oscar favorites it’s vying with, “The Revenant” and “The Big Short“, didn’t qualify. It’s raked in more than million since its release in early November, according to Box Office Mojo estimates, and it’s now won 58 awards since its release, including a BAFTA Award for best screenplay, a SAG Award for best ensemble cast, and the AFI Award for best picture. “I couldn’t have done it without you”, Elba said to Attah.
And don’t forget about the dapper men like Idris Elba who was as handsome as ever despite his preparation for Beasts of No Nation.
The 31st Independent Spirt Awards took place this Saturday, February 27 with the fiendishly talented and hilarious Kate McKinnon & Kumail Nanjiani co-hosting the event.
“Or as Hollywood thinks of us, a straight woman and her IT guy”.
Brie Larson, star of Room, was the only white actor to win on Saturday under the big tent on the Santa Monica beach.
The foreign language film “Son of Saul” took best global film.
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“Spotlight” took the top prize and only one other at Sunday’s Oscar ceremony, but the film’s producers weren’t complaining backstage at the Dolby Theatre. He also shared in best screenplay with his cowriter, Josh Singer. “I call dibs”, Heller said of her actress. “Baker brings the same nonjudgmental approach that characterised his Independent Spirit awards prize-winner Starlet, while an in-your-face soundtrack pumps up the volume to boisterous effect”, wrote The Guardian film critic Mark Kermode.
