2026 FILM INDEPENDENT SPIRIT AWARDS SCREENER TITLES

Film Independent Spirit Awards voters who had active Memberships as of December 17, 2025, will gain access to screeners of the following nominated titles for consideration throughout the voting process. Providing screeners is completely optional for nominees and it is always possible that some will be unable to participate. 

Screeners are intended for personal use - for voting consideration only; any violations of Terms and Agreements within the Nominee Screening Room platform may result in legal action.

NOMINEE SCREENING ROOM

Film Independent partners with Vision Media to provide secure online streaming of participating titles. You will receive an email from support@visiondigital.io on or after Monday, December 29, 2025, inviting you to access our Nominee Screening Room. For security purposes, your name will be both visibly watermarked in the upper left corner of the screen and forensically watermarked on each title you watch.  

PLEASE NOTE: The following list is a working document of titles that will be available for viewing in the Nominee Screening Room on or after Monay, December 29, 2025. Nominees have until January 12, 2026 to add their titles to this space. You can refer back to this list or visit the Nominee Screening Room to see the most recent group of available titles at any time during the voting consideration period.

Current Participating Feature Film Titles

  • A Little Prayer
  • A Poet
  • All That's Left of you
  • The Baltimorons
  • Blue Sun Palace
  • Come See Me in the Good Light
  • Dust Bunny
  • East of Wall
  • Eephus
  • Endless Cookie
  • Familiar Touch
  • Friendship
  • Good Boy
  • Hedda
  • If I Had Legs I'd Kick You
  • Lucky Lu
  • Lurker
  • My Undesirable Friends: Part i - Last Air in Moscow
  • Nouvelle Vague
  • On Becoming a Guinea Fowl
  • One of Them Days
  • Outerlands
  • The Perfect Neighbor
  • Peter Hujar's Day
  • The Plague
  • Rebuilding
  • Roofman
  • The Secret Agent
  • She's the He
  • Sirāt
  • Sorry, Baby
  • Sovereign
  • Splitsville 
  • The Tale of Silyan
  • The Testament of Ann Lee
  • Train Dreams
  • Twinless
  • Warfare

Current Participating Television Titles

  • Adolescence
    • Episode 1 - #1.1
    • Episode 3 - #1.3
    • Episode 4 - #1.4
  • Alien: Earth
    • Episode 1 - Neverland
    • Episode 5 - In Space, No One...
  • Black Doves
    • Episode 3 - The Coming Night
  • Citizen Nation
    • Episode 1 - Chasing Victory
  • Common Side Effects
    • Episode 9 - Cliff's Edge
  • Deli Boys
    • Episode 1 - Pilot
    • Episode 6 - Lucky Boys
  • Dying for Sex
    • Episode 1 - Good Value Diet Soda
    • Episode 8 - It's Not That Serious
  • Forever 
    • Episode 1 - Reunion
    • Episode 6 - The Honeymoon
    • Episode 8 - Forever...
  • Hurricane Katrina: Race Against Time
    • Episode 3 - A Desperate Place
  • The Lowdown
    • Episode 1 - Pilot
  • A Man on the Inside 
    • Episode 7 - From Russian Hill with Love
  • Mr Loverman
    • Episode 3 - #1.3
    • Episode 4 - #1.4
    • Episode 7 - #1.7
  • North of North
    • Episode 1 - Top of the World
    • Episode 6 - Carnivores
  • Overcompensating
    • Episode 5 - Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites
  • Pee-wee as Himself
    • Episode 1 - Part 1
  • The Pitt
    • Episode 1 - 7:00 AM
    • Episode 15 - 9:00 PM
  • Say Nothing
    • Episode 2 - Land of Wink, Password, and Nod
  • Seen & Heard: The History of Black Television
    • Episode 2 - Part 2: Heard
  • The Studio
    • Episode 2 - The Oner
  • Vow of Silence: The Assassination of Annie Mae
    • Episode 2 - Wounded Knee 1973
  • Washington Black
    • Episode 8 - If You See My Mama, Whisper Her This...

Please Note: In some instances, you may find that artwork, closed captions or audio descriptions are temporarily unavailable for certain titles in the Nominee Screening Room. Missing features will be added as they become available for each title. 

ANTI-PIRACY POLICY: Film Independent is an anti-piracy organization. Members are afforded the opportunity to watch nominated titles via the Nominee Screening Room for consideration purposes only. We expect the utmost integrity from our community during this process. Upon viewing each nominated title, Members will be asked to comply to the terms of our Restricted Use Agreement. Violation of the terms of this agreement will result in in the termination of Membership, expulsion from Film Independent and potential legal action by the filmmakers/distributors. 

VOTING OVERVIEW
As a voter, we ask that you keep the following criteria in mind when considering each nominated title. These values adhere directly to our mission to champion creative independence in visual storytelling in all its forms, and to foster a culture of inclusion. We support a global community of artists and audiences who embody diversity, innovation, curiosity and uniqueness of vision. It is this criteria that was referenced by our Nominating Committee to determine this year's nominees.

OFFICIAL VOTING CRITERIA
• Diversity, Innovation, Curiosity, Uniqueness of vision
• Original, provocative subject matter

Voting will take place online between January 19 - February 3 at 5pm PT, 2026. Happy viewing and voting!

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