Actor, Comedian Andy Samberg will serve as host for the 2013 Film Independent Spirit Awards. The 28th annual awards ceremony will be held as a daytime luncheon in a tent on the beach in Santa Monica on Saturday, February 23 with the premiere broadcast airing later that evening at 10:00 pm ET/PT on IFC. 

Emmy® award-winning actor and writer Samberg is achieving as much success behind the scenes as he is on screen. Having just completed his 7th and final season as a cast member on Saturday Night Live, he most recently starred in the critically lauded and Spirit Award nominated film Celeste and Jesse Forever, written by and co-starring Rashida Jones, lent his vocal talents to the box office hit Hotel Transylvania alongside Adam Sandler, and starred on the hit BBC Three sitcom Cuckoo. Other film credits include: Sean Anders’ That’s My Boy opposite Adam Sandler; Will Gluck’s Friends With Benefits opposite Justin Timberlake and Mila Kunis; John Hamberg’s I Love You, Manopposite Paul Rudd and Jason Segel; Chris Miller’s animated feature Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs with Bill Hader, Anna Farris and James Caan; and Akiva Schaffer’s Hot Rod, starring Jorma Taccone, Ian McShane, Sissy Spacek, Isla Fisher and Bill Hader.