• Source: Someone to Watch Award

The Someone to Watch Award is an emerging filmmaker award presented by Film Independent Spirit Awards that recognizes a talented filmmaker of singular vision who has not yet received appropriate recognition.




History


The award includes a $25,000 unrestricted grant. The award was first given at the 1994 award ceremony.
Notable winners/nominees who would soon become recognized include Kelly Reichardt (Wendy and Lucy), Chris Smith (American Movie), Tim Blake Nelson (The Grey Zone), Marc Forster (Finding Neverland), Andrew Bujalski (Mutual Appreciation), Ramin Bahrani (Fahrenheit 451) & Barry Jenkins (Moonlight)




Winners






= 1990s

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1994: Lodge Kerrigan – Clean, Shaven
1995: Christopher Münch – Color of a Brisk and Leaping Day
Tim McCann – Desolation Angels
Jennifer Montgomery – Art for Teachers of Children
Kelly Reichardt – River of Grass
Rafal Zielinski – Fun
1996: Larry Fessenden – Habit
Joe Brewster – The Keeper
Chris Smith – American Job
1997: Scott Saunders – The Headhunter's Sister
Erin Dignam – Loved
Tim Blake Nelson – Eye of God
1998: David D. Williams – Thirteen
Tony Barbieri – One
Lynn Hershman Leeson – Conceiving Ada
Eric Tretbar – Snow
1999: Cauleen Smith – Drylongso
Dan Clark – The Item
Julian Goldberger – Trans
Lisanne Skyler – Getting to Know You




= 2000s

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2000: Marc Forster – Everything Put Together
Dan McCormack – Other Voices
Mia Trachinger – Bunny
2001: Debra Eisenstadt – Daydream Believer
DeMane Davis and Khari Streeter – Lift
Michael Gilio – Kwik Stop
David Maquiling – Too Much Sleep
2002: Przemyslaw Reut – Paradox Lake
Eric Eason – Manito
Eitan Gorlin – The Holy Land
2003: Andrew Bujalski – Funny Ha Ha
Ben Coccio – Zero Day
Ryan Eslinger – Madness and Genius
2004: Jem Cohen – Chain
Bryan Poyser – Dear Pillow
Jennifer Reeves – The Time We Killed
2005: Ian Gamazon and Neill Dela Llana – Cavite
Robinson Devor – Police Beat
Jay Duplass – The Puffy Chair
2006: Julia Loktev – Day Night Day Night
So Yong Kim – In Between Days
Richard Wong – Colma: The Musical
2007: Ramin Bahrani – Chop Shop
Ronald Bronstein – Frownland
Lee Isaac Chung – Munyurangabo
2008: Lynn Shelton – My Effortless Brilliance
Barry Jenkins – Medicine for Melancholy
Nina Paley – Sita Sings the Blues
2009: Kyle Patrick Alvarez – Easier with Practice
Asiel Norton – Redland
Tariq Tapa – Zero Bridge




= 2010s

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2010: Mike Ott – Littlerock
Hossein Keshavarz – Dog Sweat
Laurel Nakadate – The Wolf Knife
2011: Mark Jackson – Without
Simon Arthur – Silver Tongues
Nicholas Ozeki – Mamitas
2012: Adam Leon – Gimme the Loot
David Fenster – Pincus
Rebecca Thomas – Electrick Children
2013: Shaka King – Newlyweeds
Madeline Olnek – The Foxy Merkins
Aaron Douglas Johnston – My Sister's Quinceañera
2014: Rania Attieh and Daniel Garcia – H.
Ana Lily Amirpour – A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
Chris Eska – The Retrieval
2015: Felix Thompson – King Jack
Robert Machoian and Rodrigo Ojeda-Beck – God Bless the Child
Chloé Zhao – Songs My Brothers Taught Me
2016: Anna Rose Holmer – The Fits
Andrew Ahn – Spa Night
Claire Carré – Embers
Ingrid Jungermann – Women Who Kill
2017: Justin Chon — Gook
Amman Abbasi — Dayveon
Kevin Phillips — Super Dark Times
2018: Alexandre Moratto — Sócrates
Ioana Uricaru — Lemonade
Jeremiah Zagar — We the Animals
2019: Rashaad Ernesto Green — Premature
Ash Mayfair — The Third Wife
Joe Talbot — The Last Black Man in San Francisco




= 2020s

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2020: Ekwa Msangi – Farewell Amor
David Midell – The Killing of Kenneth Chamberlain
Annie Silverstein – Bull
2021: Alex Camilleri – Luzzu
Gillian Wallace Horvat – I Blame Society
Michael Sarnoski – Pig
2022: Nikyatu Jusu – Nanny
Adamma Ebo – Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul.
Araceli Lemos – Holy Emy
2023
Monica Sorelle – Mountains
Joanna Arnow – The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed
Laura Moss – Birth/Rebirth




References

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Someone like You
• Barry Jenkins (sutradara)
• Bae Suzy
• Park Jin-young
• Dove Cameron
• Ridley Scott
• Saoirse Ronan
• Susan Boyle
• Adele
• Game of Thrones
• Someone to Watch Award
• Michael Sarnoski
• Socrates (2018 film)
• Someone to Watch Over Me (film)
• 39th Independent Spirit Awards
• The Third Wife
• Someone to Watch Over Me (song)
• Eye of God (film)
• Catherine Lloyd Burns
• 38th Independent Spirit Awards