Gotham Awards 2023

[Sabin]

Best Feature: Past Lives
Best International Film: Anatomy of a Fall
Best Documentary Film: Four Daughters
Best Leading Performance: Lily Gladstone, Unknown Country
Best Supporting Performance: Charles Melton, May December
Best Screenplay: Anatomy of a Fall
Breakthrough Director: A.V. Rockwell, A Thousand and One

[OscarGuy]

They have a breakthrough director category though.

[Big Magilla]

They do have two breakthrough TV categories but not for acting. Interesting.

[OscarGuy]

Last I looked at their website, they didn't have a breakthrough performance category this year.

[Big Magilla]

The Gotham Awards honoring independent awards have been around since 1991. Initially acting awards were only given for breakthrough performances. Beginning with the 2013 awards, they broke acting awards down between Outstanding Actor, Outstanding Actress, Outstanding Breakthrough Actor, and Outstanding Breakthrough Actress.

They again changed categories with their 2021 awards, distinguishing between Outstanding Lead Performance (regardless of gender), Outstanding Supporting Performance, and Outstanding Breakthrough Performance.

In the past, there was supposedly a rule, either written or unwritten, that put a cap on both the cost of a film and its box-office take. That rule pretty much went by the wayside last year with the Outstanding Feature win for Everything Everywhere All at Once. This year, they seem to have gone back to their previous standards when it comes to Outstanding Feature - none of the nominees except from the low budget Past Lives has even a remote shot a Best Picture Oscar nomination. Conversely, their acting nominees are all over the place from virtual unknowns to Ryan Gosling in the blockbuster Barbie.

I wouldn't go so far as to consider the Gothams a viable Oscar precursor but some of their picks may give the actor's branch of the Academy something to chew on.

All of Us Strangers, which is also nominated for Outstanding International Feature and Screenplay, is the only film with two acting nods - for lead player Andrew Scott and supporting player Claire Foy.

They have nominated Gosling but not Margot Robbie for Barbie, Da' Vine Joy Randolph but not Paul Giamatti for The Holdovers, Charles Melton but not Julianne Moore for May December, and Sandra Huller in support for The Zone of Interest but not in lead for Anatomy of a Fall.

Lily Gladstone is nominated for one of her lesser-known independent films instead of Killers of the Flower Moon for which she will undoubtedly receive an Oscar nomination. Penélope Cruz is nominated for the upcoming Ferrari. Gotham favorites Colman Domingo in Rustin and John Magaro in Past Lives are not nominated.

Could any of these be foreshadowing's of things to come or are they just the Gothams doing their thing?

[Big Magilla]

Sandra Huller is in the running for lead in Anatomy of a Fall and support in Zone of Interest and could become the first performer to be nominated in lead and support in the same year for non-English language films.

[Reza]

I thought Sandra Hüller was being predicted in the lead category. Here she is placed in support.

[anonymous1980]

The first of this year's precursor awards. Here their nominees:

Best Feature

Passages
Ira Sachs, director; Saïd Ben Saïd, Michel Merkt, producers (MUBI)

Past Lives
Celine Song, director; David Hinojosa, Pamela Koffler, Christine Vachon, producers (A24)

Reality
Tina Satter, director; Brad Becker-Parton, Riva Marker, Greg Nobile, Noah Stahl, producers (HBO Films)

Showing Up
Kelly Reichardt, director; Neil Kopp, Vincent Savino, Anish Savjani, producers (A24)

A Thousand and One
A.V. Rockwell, director; Julia Lebedev, Rishi Rajani, Eddie Vaisman, Lena Waithe, Bred Weston, producers (Focus Features)


Best International Feature

All of Us Strangers
Andrew Haigh, director; Graham Broadbent, Peter Czemin, Sarah Harvey, producers (Searchlight Pictures)

Anatomy of a Fall
Justine Triet, director; Marie-Ange Luciani, David Thion, producers (NEON)

Poor Things
Yorgos Lanthimos, director; Ed Guiney, Yorgos Lanthimos, Andrew Lowe, Emma Stone, producers (Searchlight Pictures)

Tótem
Lila Avilés, director; Lila Avilés, Tatiana Graullera, Louise Riousse, producers (Sideshow/Janus Films)

The Zone of Interest
Jonathan Glazer, director; Ewa Puszczynska, James Wilson, producers (A24)


Best Documentary Feature

20 Days in Mariupol
Mstyslav Chernov, director; Raney Aronson-Rath, Mstyslav Chernov, Derl McCrudden, Michelle Mizner, producers (PBS Distribution)

Against the Tide
Sarvnik Kaur, director; Koval Bhatia, Sarvnik Kaur, producers (Snooker Club Films, A Little Anarky Films)

Apolonia, Apolonia
Lea Glob, director; Sidsel Lønvig Siersted, producer (Danish Documentary Production)

Four Daughters
Kaouther Ben Hania, director; Nadim Cheikhrouha, producer (Kino Lorber)

Our Body
Claire Simon, director; Kristina Larsen, producer (Cinema Guild)


Breakthrough Director Award, Presented by Cadillac

Raven Jackson, All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt (A24)

Georgia Oakley, Blue Jean (Magnolia Pictures)

Michelle Garza Cervera, Huesera (XYZ Films)

Celine Song, Past Lives (A24)

A.V. Rockwell, A Thousand and One (Focus Features)


Best Screenplay

All of Us Strangers, Andrew Haigh (Searchlight Pictures)

Anatomy of a Fall, Justine Triet, Arthur Harari (NEON)

May December, Samy Burch (Netflix)

R.M.N., Cristian Mungiu (IFC Films)

The Zone of Interest, Jonathan Glazer (A24)


Outstanding Lead Performance

Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Origin (NEON)

Lily Gladstone, The Unknown Country (Music Box Films)

Greta Lee, Past Lives (A24)

Franz Rogowski, Passages (MUBI)

Babetida Sadjo, Our Father, The Devil (Cineverse)

Andrew Scott, All of Us Strangers (Searchlight Pictures)

Cailee Spaeny, Priscilla (A24)

Teyana Taylor, A Thousand and One (Focus Features)

Michelle Williams, Showing Up (A24)

Jeffrey Wright, American Fiction (Orion Pictures / Amazon MGM Studios)


Outstanding Supporting Performance

Juliette Binoche, The Taste of Things (IFC Films)

Penélope Cruz, Ferrari (NEON)

Jamie Foxx, They Cloned Tyrone (Netflix)

Claire Foy, All of Us Strangers (Searchlight Films)

Ryan Gosling, Barbie (Warner Bros. Pictures)

Glenn Howerton, BlackBerry (IFC Films)

Sandra Hüller, The Zone of Interest (A24)

Rachel McAdams, Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret (Lionsgate)

Charles Melton, May December (Netflix)

Da’Vine Joy Randolph, The Holdovers (Focus Features)