With the fall festival circuit well underway, we finally have our first batch of award nominations. The Gotham Awards celebrate independent cinema, with movies only being eligible if they have a production below a certain budget cap. 2024 has proven to be a bumper year for indie cinema as the often inaccurate Oscar precursor may have several potential overlaps this year. Usually the Gothams match 1 or 2 of the eventual Oscar Best Picture nominations, given the eligibility constraints and focus on more independent features, this year it looks likely that at least two of the Best Feature nominees may repeat their success at the upcoming Academy Awards.
The nominations in each category are notably sporadic given the category specific five person committees that determine the nominees. This may see a film land a Best Feature nomination but receive nothing in the below the line categories.
The 2024 Gotham Awards will take place on Monday 2nd December in New York City. Here are the full list of nominations:
Best Feature
- “Anora” (NEON)
- “Babygirl” (A24)
- “Challengers” (Amazon MGM)
- “A Different Man” (A24)
- “Nickel Boys” (Orion Pictures/Amazon MGM)
Best International Feature
- “All We Imagine as Light” (Sideshow and Janus Films)
- “Green Border” (Kino Lorber)
- “Hard Truths” (Bleecker Street)
- “Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell” (Kino Lorber)
- “Vermiglio” (Sideshow and Janus Films)
Best Documentary Feature
- “Dahomey” (MUBI)
- “Intercepted” (Grasshopper Film)
- “No Other Land” (Antipode Films)
- “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat” (Kino Lorber)
- “Sugarcane” (National Geographic Documentary Films)
- “Union” (Self-Distributed)
Best Director
- Payal Kapadia “All We Imagine as Light”
- Sean Baker “Anora”
- Guan Hu “Black Dog”
- Jane Schoenbrun “I Saw the TV Glow”
- RaMell Ross “Nickel Boys”
Best Screenplay
- “Between the Temples” Nathan Silver, C. Mason Wells
- “Evil Does Not Exist” Ryusuke Hamaguchi
- “Femme” Sam H. Freeman, Ng Choon Ping
- “His Three Daughters” Azazel Jacobs
- “Janet Planet” Annie Baker
Breakthrough Director
- Shuchi Talati “Girls Will Be Girls”
- India Donaldson “Good One”
- Alessandra Lacorazza “In the Summers”
- Vera Drew “The People’s Joker”
- Mahdi Fleifel “To a Land Unknown”
Outstanding Lead Performance
- Pamela Anderson “The Last Showgirl”
- Adrien Brody “The Brutalist”
- Colman Domingo “Sing Sing”
- Marianne Jean-Baptiste “Hard Truths”
- Nicole Kidman “Babygirl”
- Keith Kupferer “Ghostlight”
- Mikey Madison “Anora”
- Demi Moore “The Substance”
- Saoirse Ronan “The Outrun”
- Justice Smith “I Saw the TV Glow”
Outstanding Supporting Performance
- Yura Borisov “Anora”
- Kieran Culkin “A Real Pain”
- Danielle Deadwyler “The Piano Lesson”
- Brigette Lundy-Paine “I Saw the TV Glow”
- Natasha Lyonne “His Three Daughters”
- Clarence Maclin “Sing Sing”
- Katy O’Brien “Love Lies Bleeding”
- Guy Pearce “The Brutalist”
- Adam Pearson “A Different Man”
- Brian Tyree Henry “The Fire Inside”
Breakthrough Performer
- Lily Collias “Good One”
- Ryan Destiny “The Fire Inside”
- Maisy Stella “My Old Ass”
- Izaac Wong “Didi”
- Brandon Wilson “Nickel Boys”
Films with multiple nominations:
- “Anora” – 4
- “I Saw the TV Glow” – 3
- “Nickel Boys” – 3
- “All We Imagine as Light” – 2
- “Babygirl” – 2
- “The Brutalist” – 2
- “A Different Man” – 2
- “The Fire Inside” – 2
- “Good One” – 2
- “Hard Truths” – 2
- “His Three Daughters” – 2
- “Sing Sing” – 2
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Dan Loves Film 
It appears that “Emilia Perez” and “Anora” are going to be in the best picture discussion, which is terrific! What a year shaping up!
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