Film Independent has revealed the television nominations for the 2023 Film Independent Spirit Awards, which this year have become gender-neutral, just like its film colleagues. As revealed online Tuesday morning by Asia Kate Dillon (“Billions“)the announcement included a winner: Apple TV+’s “Pachinko” won Best New Ensemble Cast, featuring Soji Arai, Jin Ha, Inji Jeong, Minha Kim, Kaho Minami, Lee Minho, Steve Sanghyun Noh, Anna Sawai, Jimmi Simpson and Yuh-Jung Youn.
Overall, the top nominees were ABC’s “Abbott Elementary,” FX’s “The Bear,” Apple TV+’s “Severance,” and HBO Max’s “Severance,” all tied with three nods apiece.
“As the television landscape continues to evolve and independent artists expand the idea of how stories can be told, we are proud to change with them,” said Josh Welsh, President of Film Independent. “With our new categories and gender-neutral actor awards, we hope to better reflect the diversity of incredible work created by these talented performers.”
With the categories becoming gender-neutral, the award for Best Lead Performance in a New Scripted Series was expanded to 10 nominees and an award for Best Supporting Performance in a New Scripted Series was added to honor performances outside of lead roles. .
The Independent Spirits’ film portion was announced on November 22, with “Everything Everywhere All At Once” leading the pack.
The television component of the Spirit Awards was first introduced for the 2021 ceremony and honors freshman shows only. In addition, unlike the film competition, there is no budget cap on productions. According to Film Independent, “This year, the Spirit Awards Television nominating committees selected the nominees using the following guidelines: unique vision, original and provocative subject matter, economy of means”.
The 38th Film Independent Spirit Awards will take place on Saturday, March 4, 2023 in person on the beach in Santa Monica. With no television release this year, The Independent Spirits will instead air internationally across multiple online and digital platforms.
Here are the nominees:
BEST NEW SCRIPTED SERIES
“The Bear “ (FX)
Creator/Executive Producer: Christopher Storer
Executive producers: Joanna Calo, Josh Senior, Hiro Murai, Nate Matteson
Co-executive producer: Rene Gube
“Pachinko “ (Apple TV+)
Creator/Executive Producer: Soo Hugh
Executive producers: Michael Ellenberg, Lindsey Springer, Theresa Kang-Lowe, Richard Middleton, Justin Chon, Kogonada
Co-executive producers: Dani Gorin, Sebastian Lee, David Kim, Ethan Kuperberg
” The doorman(Radio Canada)
Creators/Executive Producers: Marsha Greene, Annmarie Morais, Arnold Pinnock
Creator/Co-Executive Producer: Bruce Ramsay
Creator: Aubrey Nealon
Executive producers: Ian Dimerman, Jennifer Kawaja, Charles Officer, RT Thorne, Aml Ameen, Bruno Dubé, Alfre Woodard, Rose Catherine Pinkney, Devin Griffin
Co-executive producers: Elise Cousineau, Andrea Glinski, Steve Cochrane, Daphne Park
“Indemnity” (Apple TV+)
Creator/Executive Producer: Dan Erickson
Executive producers: Ben Stiller, Nicholas Weinstock, Jackie Cohn, Mark Friedman, Andrew Colville, Chris Black, John Cameron
Co-executive producers: Jill Footlick, Kari Drake
“Station Eleven” (HBO Max)
Creator/Executive Producer: Patrick Somerville
Executive producers: Jessica Rhoades, Scott Steindorff, Dylan Russell, Scott Delman, Jeremy Podeswa, Hiro Murai, Nate Matteson
Co-executive producers: David Nicksay, Nick Cuse
(LAST YEAR’S WINNER: “Reservation Dogs”, FX)
BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE IN A NEW SCRIPTED SERIES
Aml Ameen “The wearer”
Mohammad Amer“Month”
Quinta BrunsonAbbott Elementary
Bridget Everett“Someone Somewhere”
KaMillion“Rap Sh!t”
Melanie Lynskey“Yellow Jackets”
Himesh Patel“Station Eleven”
Sue Ann Pien“As We See It”
Adam Scott, “Break”
Ben Wishaw“It will hurt”
(LAST YEAR’S WINNERS: Thuso Mbedu, “The Underground Railroad” and Lee Jung-jae, “Squid Game”)
BEST SUPPORT PERFORMANCE IN A NEW SCRIPTED SERIES
Danielle Deadwyler“Station Eleven”
Ayo Edebiri“The Bear”
Jeff Hillier“Someone Somewhere”
Gbemisola Ikumelo“A league apart”
Janelle JamesAbbott Elementary
Ebon Moss-Bachrach“The Bear”
Frankie Quinones“This crazy guy”
Sheryl Lee RalphAbbott Elementary
Molly Shannon“I like it for you”
Tramell Tillman“Separation”
BEST NEW NON-WRITING OR DOCUMENTARY SERIES
“Subway kids”
Executive producers: Dan Cogan, Liz Garbus, Jon Bardin, Ted Gesing, Gabriela Cowperthwaite, Kate Barry; Co-executive producer: Julie Gaither
“thinking about murder”
Executive producers: Marc Smerling, Nanfu Wang, Max Heckman, Chad Mumm, Mark W. Olsen, Nancy Abraham, Lisa Heller, Sara Rodriguez
“Pepsi, where’s my Jet?”
Executive producers: Nick Boak, Andrew Renzi, Andrew D. Corkin, Theo James, Andrew Fried, Jordan Wynn, Dane Lillegard, Sarina Roma; Co-executive producer: Jeremiah Murphy
“Repetition”
Creator/Executive Producer: Nathan Fielder; Executive producers: Dave Paige, Dan McManus, Christie Smith; Co-executive producers: Carrie Kemper, Eric Notarnicola
“We need to talk about Cosby”
Executive producers: W. Kamau Bell, Andrew Fried, Katie A. King, Vinnie Malhotra, Dane Lillegard, Sarina Roma, Jordan Wynn; Co-executive producer: Géraldine L. Porras
(LAST YEAR WINNER: “Black and Gone”)