The Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP) annually presents the Gotham Awards, a ceremony honoring independent films. Jordan Peele’s surprise horror film Get Out led the pack of nominations. The Gotham Tribute Awards will be given to Sofia Coppola, Nicole Kidman, Edward Lachman, Jason Blum, Dustin Hoffman, and Al Gore. The nominees are selected by film critics, journalists, curators, and festival programmers. Those directly involved in the filmmaking process will determine the final Gotham recipients. Dee Rees’ Mudbound earned the special Gotham Jury Award for ensemble performance. The recipients are Carey Mulligan, Garrett Hedlund, Jason Clarke, Jason Mitchell, Mary J. Blige, Rob Morgan, and Jonathan Banks.
Best Feature
Call Me by Your Name
The Florida Project
Get Out
Good Time
I, Tonya
Best Documentary
Ex Libris , The New York Public Library
Rat Film
Strong Island
Whose Streets?
The Work
Bingham Ray Breakthrough Director Award
Maggie Betts, Novitiate
Greta Gerwig, Lady Bird
Kogonada, Columbus
Jordan Peele, Get Out
Joshua Z Weinstein, Menashe
Best Screenplay
The Big Sick, Emily V. Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani
Brad’s Status, Mike White
Call Me by Your Name, James Ivory
Columbus, Kogonada
Get Out, Jordan Peele
Lady Bird, Greta Gerwig
Best Actor
Willem Dafoe, The Florida Project
James Franco, The Disaster Artist
Daniel Kaluuya, Get Out
Robert Pattinson, Good Time
Adam Sandler, The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
Harry Dean Stanton, Lucky
Best Actress
Melanie Lynskey, I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore
Haley Lu Richardson, Columbus
Margot Robbie, I, Tonya
Saoirse Ronan, Lady Bird
Lois Smith, Marjorie Prime
Breakthrough Actor
Mary J. Blige, Mudbound
Timothée Chalamet, Call Me by Your Name
Harris Dickinson, Beach Rats
Kelvin Harrison, Jr., It Comes at Night
Brooklynn Prince, The Florida Project
Breakthrough Series , Long Form
Atlanta
Better Things
Dear White People
Fleabag
Search Party
Breakthrough Series , Short Form
555
Inconceivable
Junior
Let Me Die a Nun
The Strange Eyes of Dr. Myes
The 27th IFP Gotham Awards will take place on November 27th, 2017.
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