The People’s Joker (2022)
Anora won an impressive 6 awards including Best Film at the Philadelphia Film Critics Circle 7th year-end awards, along with Best Director for Sean Baker, Best Actress and Best Breakthrough Performance for Mikey Madison and Best Ensemble.
The Beast took the top prizes at the Florida Film Critics Circle 2024 awards, winning Best Picture in addition to Best Director for Bertrand Bonello and Best Actress for Léa Seydoux.
The Substance was the big winner of the 2024 Indiana Film Journalists Association awards with six wins including Best Film, Best Director for Coralie Fargeat, Lead performance for Demi Moore.
RaMell Ross’s Nickel Boys is the big winner of the Toronto Film Critics Association 28th awards, winning Best Picture and Best Director for Ross.
Sean Baker’s Anora nabbed Best Picture at the Los Angeles Film Critics Association awards, along with Best Lead Performance for Mikey Madison in a tie with Marianne Jean-Baptiste for Hard Truths.
Anora and I Saw the TV Glow lead the nominations for the 40th Film Independent Spirit Awards with six each.
Aaron Schimberg’s A Different Man was crowned Best Feature at the 34th The Gothams awards. Greg Kwedar’s Sing Sing nabbed performance honors for Colman Domingo and Clarence Maclin.
Anora leads the nominations for the 34th Gothams awards receiving nods for Best Feature, Best Director for Sean Baker.
Slamdance has unveiled The Indie Awards, a new annual award show dedicated to celebrating independent filmmaking. Nominees for awards include Atikamekw Suns, The People’s Joker, Israelism.
Vera Drew directed, edited, co-wrote, and stars in the queer coming-of-age fair use superhero world parody The People’s Joker.
Altered Innocence will release The People’s Joker, Vera Drew’s queer coming-of-age superhero world parody that reimagines the Joker’s origin.
Alison Ellwood’s documentary about Cyndi Lauper, Let The Canary Sing, will kick off the 24th Annual Sound Unseen Film + Music Festival taking place in Minneapolis November 8–12, 2023.