All Winners and Finalists for our 2023 awards program will be revealed at our October 29th Awards Gala in Los Angeles.
Please scroll down for our complete list of nominees.
2022 Luminary Award Honoree
Rian Johnson
From his early work in short films leading up to his directorial debut Brick (2005), a crime drama made for under $500,000 and grossed $4 million at the box office, to his critically-acclaimed and audience-lauded films Looper (2012), Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017), and Knives Out (2019) – director, writer, producer Rian Johnson has been pushing his own boundaries and exceeding all expectations.
Rian Johnson
From his early work in short films leading up to his directorial debut Brick (2005), a crime drama made for under $500,000 and grossed $4 million at the box office, to his critically-acclaimed and audience-lauded films Looper (2012), Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017), and Knives Out (2019) – director, writer, producer Rian Johnson has been pushing his own boundaries and exceeding all expectations.
Aside from his Academy and BAFTA- nominations, Rian is also a DGA Winner for his directing work in the season 5 episode of Breaking Bad titled Fly (2010). He returned for two more episodes, the most notable of which is titled Ozymandias (2013), frequently cited by critics as ‘one of the best television episodes to air.’
In March 2021, Netflix obtained the rights to two Knives Out sequels for $450 million, with Rian at the helm as director, writer and producer. A year later, Rian is already in post-production for Knives Out 2 while in production on the ten-episode limited series Poker Face, coincidentally starring Next Generation Indie Film Awards 2021 Indie Darling Recipient Natasha Lyonne.
We are incredibly honored to present Rian Johnson with our 2022 Luminary Award. We wish all of our filmmakers a career as rich and aspirational as his.
**Our 2023 Luminary Award Honoree will be announced soon
2022 Best Overall Film / Grand Prize Winner
“Not Going Quietly”
by Nicholas Bruckman and Amanda Roddy
Nicholas Bruckman and Amanda Roddy are filmmakers at People’s Television, a NYC and DC-based independent film and commercial production company. People’s TV’s feature film Valley of Saints won the Sundance Film Festival Audience Award and was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award. Their feature documentary La Americana won numerous festival awards and broadcast worldwide on Nat Geo and PBS. Through People’s TV, Nick and Amanda create films for clients including Facebook, Airbnb, and The Nature Conservancy.
On their award-winning documentary feature Not Going Quietly: