{"id":2288098,"date":"2026-02-18T21:22:39","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T21:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2288098"},"modified":"2026-02-18T21:22:39","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T21:22:39","slug":"does-money-rid-a-film-of-its-independent-spirit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/does-money-rid-a-film-of-its-independent-spirit\/","title":{"rendered":"Does Money Rid a Film of Its Independent Spirit?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The following article is an excerpt from the new edition of \u201cIndieWire\u2019s The Lead Up,\u201d a weekly newsletter in which our Awards Editor Marcus Jones<\/a> takes readers on the awards trail, interviewing key figures responsible for some of the most compelling stories of the season, and offering predictions on who will win. Subscribe here to receive the newsletter in your inbox every Tuesday.<\/p>\n

What constitutes an independent spirit nowadays?<\/p>\n

Just days after this year\u2019s Film Independent Spirit Awards, a question lingers: what are award shows that are meant to honor independent films actually in service of? And, if a winter awards show doesn\u2019t present itself as a bellwether for the Oscars, does it even count?<\/p>\n

While I write that as a joke, I do think that part of the reason why this year\u2019s Indie Spirits telecast fell flat was due to some unfortunate no-shows. Film Independent<\/a>,…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The following article is an excerpt from the new edition of \u201cIndieWire\u2019s The Lead Up,\u201d a weekly newsletter in which our Awards Editor Marcus Jones takes readers on the awards trail, interviewing key figures responsible for some of the most compelling stories of the season, and offering predictions on who will win. Subscribe here to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2288099,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2288098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Does-Money-Rid-a-Film-of-Its-Independent-Spirit.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2288098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2288098"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2288098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2288100,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2288098\/revisions\/2288100"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2288099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2288098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2288098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2288098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}