While it may nit be the most telling precursor, the Gotham Awards often give a chance to those hoping for Oscar nominations to get a speech in early doors to kick start their campaign. While there isn’t the strongest of correlations between the Gothams and the Oscars, it cannot do harm in winning some industry awards at tgis early point in the season.
The biggest winners were “A Different Man”, “Sing Sing” and “The Nickel Boys”, with the former surprisingly winning Best Feature ahead of season favourite “Anora”, and the latter two winning in two categories. “Sing Sing” has fallen off recently on the campaign trail but wins here for Clarence Maclin and Colman Domingo, as well as planned re-release by A24, may see it sneak back into contention.
Like I said, very early days yet but with National Board of Review and AFI lists in the coming days, as well as Golden Globe nominations on Monday, there is plenty to keep a look out for.
Winners at the 34th Annual Gotham Awards are as follows:
Best Feature
- “Anora” (NEON)
- “Babygirl” (A24)
- “Challengers” (Amazon MGM)
- “A Different Man” (A24) Winner
- “Nickel Boys” (Orion Pictures/Amazon MGM)
Best International Feature
- “All We Imagine as Light” (Sideshow and Janus Films) Winner
- “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) Winner
- “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” Winner
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 Winner
- “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” Winner
- Mahdi Fleifel “To a Land Unknown”
Outstanding Lead Performance
- Pamela Anderson “The Last Showgirl”
- Adrien Brody “The Brutalist”
- Colman Domingo “Sing Sing” Winner
- 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” Winner
- 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” Winner
Films with most wins:
- “Nickel Boys” – 2
- “Sing Sing” – 2
- “All We Imagine as Light” – 1
- “A Different Man” – 1
- “His Three Daughters” – 1
- “No Other Land” – 1
- “The People’s Joker” – 1
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