Both Peter Hujar’s Day and One of Them Days received shoutouts in host Ego Nwodim’s 2026 Spirit Awards monologue for the different scale of things each film showed being accomplished in a single day.
But when it came to Spirit Awards wins, Sunday wasn’t either film’s day. Both Peter Hujar’s Day, which went into the ceremony with a leading five nominations, more than any other film, and One of Them Days, one of a number of movies up for four awards including best feature winner Train Dreams and multiple award winners Lurker and Sorry, Baby, went home empty-handed.
Both films had star-studded teams behind them, with Peter Hujar’s Day written and directed by Ira Sachs and starring Ben Whishaw and Rebecca Hall and One of Them Days starring Keke Palmer and SZA in the Issa Rae-produced film directed by Lawrence Lamont and written by Syreeta Singleton,.
SZA was even nominated for best breakthrough performance, losing, in a surprise, to The Plague‘s Kayo Martin.
James Sweeney’s acclaimed Dylan O’Brien starrer Twinless was also shut out despite receiving three nominations. Both Peter Hujar’s Day and Twinless were up for best feature.
On the TV side, while Adolescence swept, winning all four of the awards for which it was nominated, as the Netflix limited series continues to collect trophies nearly a year after it premiered, two other series that also received four nominations, Forever and Mr Loverman, were shut out, failing to win any awards in the TV categories.
The 2026 Film Independent Spirit Awards, hosted by Ego Nwodim, took place live from the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles on Sunday and streamed live on Film Independent and IMDb’s YouTube channels.
