{"id":300734,"date":"2026-02-16T10:28:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T10:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/300734\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T10:28:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T10:28:11","slug":"robby-hoffman-jokes-spirit-award-grant-recipients-can-spend-money-how-you-want","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/300734\/","title":{"rendered":"Robby Hoffman Jokes Spirit Award Grant Recipients Can ‘Spend Money How You Want’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tRobby Hoffman<\/a> was the most frequent presenter at the 2026 Independent Spirit Awards<\/a>, and in between delivering some of the most shining commentary on Sunday, she had to jokingly walk back a claim she made when introducing a grant recipient. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe Hacks star hit the Hollywood Palladium<\/a> stage to state the winners of the Spirit Awards<\/a>\u2018 three grants: the Someone to Watch Award, the Truer Than Fiction Award and the Producers Award. While she was introducing the first honor, Hoffman joked that \u201cyou can spend the money how you want. I mean, what the hell do I care, right?\u201d (Tatti Ribeiro, director of\u00a0Valentina, earned the Someone to Watch Award last month.) <\/p>\n

\n\tWhen Hoffman returned to launch the Truer Than Fiction Award segment, she joked that \u201cthe reason I\u2019m back is they told me you\u2019re actually not allowed to use the money however you see fit on the last grant.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI didn\u2019t read the script that they apparently emailed that came out a couple of weeks ago,\u201d Hoffman said. \u201cI\u2019m behind on my emails, that\u2019s the truth.\u201d She also clarified that with \u201cany grant I ever got, I spent appropriately for a creative endeavor. I just want to make it very clear.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI didn\u2019t buy a new mattress. I didn\u2019t go to Musso and Frank\u2019s. I didn\u2019t do none of that, OK?\u201d Hoffman continued as the crowd laughed. \u201cI\u2019m here giving out another grant, and that is a grant to be used specifically for a specific creative endeavor. Unless you\u2019re making a documentary about mattresses, you are not to buy a new one.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tShe concluded, \u201cThat said, you think I\u2019m gonna tell? Just keep your shit on the low. Be smart about it, okay?\u201d When Hoffman pronounced that the results of said winners were announced a month prior, she hilariously quipped, \u201cAlright, what are we doing here?\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tDuring her final appearance at the 2026 Spirit Awards, to segway into the Producers Award, the Emmy Award nominee said that with its attached grant, \u201cyou can actually spend any way you want.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cYes, I talked to them backstage. This is actually one you can spend,\u201d Hoffman added. \u201cIt\u2019s a grant, but it\u2019s all in the language. Remember language? This says \u2018unrestricted grant.\u2019 So the other ones, I was wrong, my bad. It was a grant for a project.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tThe Spirit\u00a0Awards<\/a>\u00a0were\u00a0hosted by Ego Nwodim<\/a>\u00a0on Sunday at the\u00a0Hollywood Palladium<\/a>. The ceremony streamed live on the\u00a0Film Independent<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0IMDb<\/a>\u00a0YouTube channels. <\/p>\n

\n\tTrain Dreams was awarded the title of best feature, finishing Sunday\u2019s ceremony with three awards (Clint Bentley won best director and Adolpho Veloso won best cinematography). See the full\u00a02026 Spirit Awards winners list here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tAnd check out all the\u00a0sparkly blue carpet looks here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Robby Hoffman was the most frequent presenter at the 2026 Independent Spirit Awards, and in between delivering some…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300735,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6971,321,93,61,142122,60,122961,142404,142123],"class_list":{"0":"post-300734","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-awards","9":"tag-celebrities","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-independent-spirit-awards","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-robby-hoffman","15":"tag-spirit-awards","16":"tag-spirit-awards-2026"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}