#indiewire-honors

#indiewire-honors

On December 4, the IndieWire Honors Winter 2025 ceremony will celebrate the creators and stars responsible for crafting some of the year's best films. Curated and selected by IndieWire's editorial team, IndieWire Honors is a celebration of the filmmakers, artisans, and performers behind films well worth toasting. In the days leading up to the Los Angeles event, IndieWire is showcasing their work with new interviews and tributes from their peers.

"What the fuck? How did that happen?" Actor Wagner Moura was sitting inside a conference room at the Neon offices in Los Angeles, coming to terms with the fact that his new film " The Secret Agent," featuring a performance that made him the first South American to win Best Actor at the Cannes Film Festival, was also the first Portuguese-speaking role that the proud Brazilian had in over a decade.

On December 4, the IndieWire Honors Winter 2025 ceremony will celebrate the creators and stars responsible for crafting some of the year's best films. Curated and selected by IndieWire's editorial team, IndieWire Honors is a celebration of the filmmakers, artisans, and performers behind films well worth toasting. In the days leading up to the Los Angeles event, IndieWire is showcasing their work with new interviews and tributes from their peers. The first time most of us saw IndieWire Honors Maverick Award winner Kristen Stewart was in David Fincher's 2002 thriller "Panic Room," as the terrified 12-year-old whose mother (Jodie Foster) whisks her to safety as an intruder terrorizes their home.

Mona Fastvold has always been drawn to stories about women who lived their lives in the future. Women who dared to imagine how bitter pasts might give way to brighter tomorrows, and did what they could to bring those changes into being. Women - immigrants and settlers - who embodied the utopian potential of a country that has always struggled to live by its own principles, and refused to accept that they were ahead of their time.

IndieWire, the definitive outlet for creative independence in film and TV, announced on Wednesday, November 13 the lineup for the Winter 2025 edition of its IndieWire Honors event, dedicated entirely to film. Curated and selected by IndieWire's editorial team, IndieWire Honors is a celebration of the filmmakers, actors, and artisans responsible for some of the most exciting cinematic works this year.