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Noms/WINNERS for 31st Annual Gotham Awards (Independent Film)
The 31st annual Gotham Awards ceremony took place on Nov. 29, 2021 at Cipriani Wall Street (& LIVE on FB)
As you scroll down you'll notice that GA has added categories (mainly in TV) and combined acting categories. That's correct,
GOTHAM AWARDS goes gender-neutral in Acting categories for the 1st time. On the film side Outstanding lead performance, breakthrough performance and Outstanding supporting performance are all gender neutral categories, with eight men and 14 women nominated.
The acting nominees include such major stars as Olivia Colman (“The Lost Daughter”), Joaquin Phoenix (“C’mon, C’mon”) and Tessa Thompson (“Passing”), as well as veteran characters such as Reed Birney (“Mass”) and Colman Domingo (“Zola”).
[Final note: Several "Indie-oriented" films were NOT eligible for awards since ALL nominees MUST have budgets under $35 million: “The French Dispatch” ... “The Eyes of Tammy Faye” ... “The Harder They Fall” ... “King Richard,” ... “The Power of the Dog,” ... “Tick, Tick… Boom!” ... “The Tragedy of Macbeth,” are OUT of contention.]
Check out the full list of WINNERS/nominees:
Best Feature
"The Green Knight” (also other noms) -David Lowery, director; Toby Halbrooks, James M. Johnston, David Lowery, Tim Headington, Theresa Steele Page, producers (A24)
WINNER--“The Lost Daughter” (also WINS for Best Scply, Lead Actor, & Best Breakthru-Director) - -Maggie Gyllenhaal, director; Osnat Handelsman Keren, Talia Kleinhendler, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Charles Dorfman, producers (Netflix)
“Passing” (also other noms) -Rebecca Hall, director; Nina Yang Bongiovi, Forest Whitaker, Margot Hand, Rebecca Hall, producers (Netflix)
“Pig” (also other noms) -Michael Sarnoski, director; Nicolas Cage, Steve Tisch, David Carrico, Adam Paulsen, Dori Roth, Joseph Restiano, Dimitra Tsingou, Thomas Benski, Ben Giladi, Vanessa Block, producers (NEON)
“Test Pattern” (also other noms) -Shatara Michelle Ford, director; Shatara Michelle Ford, Pin-Chun Liu, Yu-Hao Su, producers (Kino Lorber)
Best Documentary Feature
“Ascension” (also other noms) -Jessica Kingdon, director; Kira Simon-Kennedy, Nathan Truesdell, Jessica Kingdon, producers (MTV Documentary Films)
“Faya Dayi” (also other noms) -Jessica Beshir, director and producer (Janus Films)
WINNER--“Flee” (also other noms) -Jonas Poher Rasmussen, director; Monica Hellström, Signe Byrge Sørensen, Charlotte De La Gournerie, producers (NEON)
“President” (also other noms) -Camilla Nielsson, director; Signe Byrge Sørensen, Joslyn Barnes, producers (Greenwich Entertainment)
“Summer Of Soul (…Or, When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised)” (also other noms) -Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson, director; Joseph Patel, Robert Fyvolent, David Dinerstein, producers (Searchlight Pictures, Onyx Collective, Hulu)
Best International Feature
“Azor” (also other noms) -Andreas Fontana, director; Eugenia Mumenthaler, David Epiney, producers (MUBI)
WINNER--“Drive My Car” (also other noms) -Ryusuke Hamaguchi, director; Teruhisa Yamamoto, producer (Sideshow and Janus Films)
“The Souvenir Part II” (also other noms) -Joanna Hogg, director; Ed Guiney, Emma Norton, Andrew Low, Joanna Hogg, Luke Schiller, producers (A24)
“Titane” (also other noms) -Julia Ducournau, director; Jean-Christophe Reymond, producer (NEON)
“What Do We See When We Look at the Sky?” (also other noms) -Alexandre Koberidze, director; Mariam Shatberashvili, producers (MUBI)
“The Worst Person in the World” (also other noms) -Joachim Trier, director; Thomas Robsham, Andrea Berentsen Ottmar, Dyveke Bjørkly Graver, producers (NEON)
Bingham Ray Breakthrough Director Award
WINNER--Maggie Gyllenhaal for “The Lost Daughter” (Netflix)
Edson Oda for “Nine Days” (Sony Pictures Classics)
Rebecca Hall for “Passing” (Netflix)
Emma Seligman for “Shiva Baby” (Utopia Distribution)
Shatara Michelle Ford for “Test Pattern” (Kino Lorber)
Best Screenplay
“The Card Counter,” Paul Schrader (Focus Features)
“El Planeta,” Amalia Ulman (Utopia Distribution)
“The Green Knight,” David Lowery (A24)
WINNER--“The Lost Daughter,” Maggie Gyllenhaal (Netflix)
“Passing,” Rebecca Hall (Netflix)
“Red Rocket,” Sean Baker & Chris Bergoch (A24)
Outstanding Lead Performance
WINNER--Olivia Colman in “The Lost Daughter” (Netflix)
WINNER--Frankie Faison in “The Killing of Kenneth Chamberlain” (Gravitas Ventures)
Michael Greyeyes in “Wild Indian” (Vertical Entertainment)
Brittany S. Hall in “Test Pattern” (Kino Lorber)
Oscar Isaac in “The Card Counter” (Focus Features)
Taylour Paige in “Zola” (A24)
Joaquin Phoenix in “C’mon C’mon” (A24)
Simon Rex in “Red Rocket” (A24)
Lili Taylor in “Paper Spiders” (Entertainment Squad)
Tessa Thompson in “Passing” (Netflix)
Outstanding Supporting Performance
Reed Birney in “Mass” (Bleecker Street)
Jessie Buckley in “The Lost Daughter” (Netflix)
Colman Domingo in “Zola” (A24)
Gaby Hoffmann in “C’mon C’mon” (A24)
WINNER--Troy Kotsur in “CODA” (Apple)
Marlee Matlin in “CODA” (Apple)
Ruth Negga in “Passing” (Netflix)
Breakthrough Performer
WINNER--Emilia Jones in “CODA” (Apple)
Natalie Morales in “Language Lessons” (Shout! Studios)
Rachel Sennott in “Shiva Baby” (Utopia Distribution)
Suzanna Son in “Red Rocket” (A24)
Amalia Ulman in “El Planeta” (Utopia Distribution)
TV/Streaming
Breakthrough Series – Long Format (over 40 minutes)
“The Good Lord Bird,” Ethan Hawke, Mark Richard, creators; James McBride, Brian Taylor, Ryan Hawke, Ethan Hawke, Jason Blum, Albert Hughes, Mark Richard, Marshall Persinger, David Schiff, executive producers (Showtime)
“It’s A Sin,” Russell T Davies, creator; Russell T Davies, Peter Hoar, Nicola Shindler, executive producers (HBO Max)
“Small Axe,” Steve McQueen, creator; Tracey Scoffield, David Tanner, Steve McQueen, executive producers (Amazon Studios)
“Squid Game,” Kim Ji-yeon, Hwang Dong-hyu, executive producers (Netflix)
“The Underground Railroad,” Barry Jenkins, Colson Whitehead, creators; Barry Jenkins, Adele Romanski, Mark Ceryak, Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Colson Whitehead, Jacqueline Hoyt, executive producers (Amazon Studios)
“The White Lotus,” Mike White, creator; Mike White, David Bernad, Nick Hall, executive producers (HBO Max/HBO)
Breakthrough Series – Short Format (under 40 minutes)
“Blindspotting,” Rafael Casal, Daveed Diggs, creators; Rafael Casal, Daveed Diggs, Jess Wu Calder, Keith Calder, Ken Lee, Tim Palen, Emily Gerson Saines, Seith Mann, executive producers (STARZ)
“Hacks,” Lucia Aniello, Paul W. Downs, Jen Statsky, creators; Jen Statsky, Paul W. Downs, Lucia Aniello, Michael Schur, David Miner, Morgan Sackett, executive producers (HBO Max/HBO)
WINNER--“Reservation Dogs,” Sterlin Harjo, Taika Waititi, creators; Taika Waititi, Sterlin Harjo, Garrett Basch, executive producers (FX)
“Run the World,” Leigh Davenport, creator; Yvette Lee Bowser, Leigh Davenport, Nastaran Dibai, executive producers (STARZ)
“We Are Lady Parts,” Nida Manzoor, creator, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Surian Fletcher-Jones, Mark Freeland, executive producers (Peacock)
Breakthrough Nonfiction Series
“City So Real,” Jeff Skoll, Diane Weyermann, Alex Kotlowitz, Gordon Quinn, Betsy Steinberg, Jolene Pinder, executive producers (National Geographic)
“Exterminate All the Brutes,” Raoul Peck, Rémi Grellety, executive producers (HBO/HBO Max)
“How to With John Wilson,” John Wilson, creator; Nathan Fielder, John Wilson, Michael Koman, Clark Reinking, executive producers (HBO/HBO Max)
WINNER--“Philly D.A.,” Ted Passon, Yoni Brook, Nicole Salazar, creators; Dawn Porter, Sally Jo Fifer, Lois Vossen, Ryan Chanatry, Gena Konstantinakos, Jeff Seelbach, Patty Quillin, executive producers (Topic, Independent Lens, PBS)
“Pride,” Christine Vachon, Sydney Foos, Danny Gabai, Kama Kaina, Stacy Scripter, Alex Stapleton (FX)
Outstanding Performance in a New Series
Jennifer Coolidge in “The White Lotus” (HBO Max/HBO)
Michael Greyeyes in “Rutherford Falls” (Peacock)
WINNER--Ethan Hawke in “The Good Lord Bird” (Showtime)
Devery Jacobs in “Reservation Dogs” (FX)
Lee Jung-jae in “Squid Game” (Netflix)
WINNER-- Mbedu in “The Underground Railroad” (Amazon Studios)
Jean Smart in “Hacks” (HBO Max/HBO)
Omar Sy in “Lupin” (Netflix)
Anya Taylor-Joy in “The Queen’s Gambit” (Netflix)
Anjana Vasan in “We Are Lady Parts” (Peacock)
For more info contact https://awards.thegotham.org/
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Noms/WINNERS!!! for 30th Annual Gotham Awards (Independent Film)
WINNERS announced Jan. 11, 2021 in NYC:
New York, NY (November 12, 2020) – The Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP), the nation’s premier member organization of independent storytellers, announced today the nominees for the 30th Annual IFP Gotham Awards. Eleven competitive awards will be presented to independent features and series.
The IFP Gotham Awards is one of the leading awards for independent film and signals the kick-off to the film awards season. As the first major awards ceremony of the season, the IFP Gotham Awards provide critical early recognition and media attention to worthy independent films. The awards are also unique for their ability to assist in catapulting award recipients prominently into national awards season attention.
Forty-one films and series received nominations this year. Nominees are selected by committees of film critics, journalists, festival programmers, and film curators. Separate juries of writers, directors, actors, producers, editors and others directly involved in making films will determine the final IFP Gotham Award recipients.
The IFP Gotham Awards ceremony will be held on Monday, January 11th. The awards show will be presented live from Cipriani Wall Street New York in a hybrid format featuring virtual interactive tables in order to follow health and safety protocols brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic.
The annual Gotham Actor Tributes, Director Tribute, and Industry Tribute will be announced at a later date.
UPDATE: Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP) To Rebrand As The Gotham Film & Media Institute (Or The Gotham)
The 2020 IFP Gotham Award Winners & nominees (DELAYED BY COVID-19) are:
Best Feature
Nomadland -WINNER!!!
Chloé Zhao, director; Frances McDormand, Peter Spears, Mollye Asher, Dan Janvey, Chloé Zhao, producers (Searchlight Pictures)
Nominees:
The Assistant --Kitty Green, dir.; Scott Macaulay, James Schamus, P. Jennifer Dana, Ross Jacobson, prod's (Bleecker St.)
First Cow --Kelly Reichardt, director; Neil Kopp, Vincent Savino, Anish Savjani, producers (A24)
Never Rarely Sometimes Always --Eliza Hittman, director; Adele Romanski, Sara Murphy, producers (Focus Features)
Relic --Natalie Erika James, director; Anna Mcleish, Sarah Shaw, Jake Gyllenhaal, Riva Marker, producers (IFC Midnight)
Best Documentary
A Thousand Cuts -WINNER!!!
Ramona S. Diaz, director; Ramona S. Diaz, Leah Marino, Julie Goldman, Christopher Clements, Carolyn Hepburn, producers (PBS Distribution | FRONTLINE )
TIE
Time -WINNER!!!
--Garrett Bradley, director; Lauren Domino, Kellen Quinn, Garrett Bradley, producers (Amazon Studios)
Nominees:
76 Days --Hao Wu, Weixi Chen, Anonymous, directors; Hao Wu, Jean Tsien, producers (MTV Documentary Films)
City Hall --Frederick Wiseman, director; Frederick Wiseman, Karen Konicek, producers (Zipporah Films)
Our Time Machine --Yang Sun, S. Leo Chiang directors; S. Leo Chiang, Yang Sun, producers (Passion River Films)
Best International Feature: Identifying Features -WINNER!!!
(Mexico-Spain)--Fernanda Valadez, director; Astrid Rondero, producer (Kino Lorber)
Nominees:
Bacurau --Kleber Mendonça Filho, Juliano Dornelles, dir's; Emilie Lesclaux, Saïd Ben Saïd, Michel Merkt, prod's (Kino Lorber)
Beanpole --Kantemir Balagov, director; Alexander Rodnyansky, Sergey Melkumov, producers (Kino Lorber)
Cuties (Mignonnes) --Maïmouna Doucouré, director; Zangro, producer (Netflix)
Martin Eden --Pietro Marcello, dir.; Pietro Marcello, Beppe Caschetto, Thomas Ordonneau, Michael Weber, Viola Fügen, prod's (Kino Lorber)
Wolfwalkers --Tomm Moore, Ross Stewart, dir's; Paul Young, Nora Twomey, Tomm Moore, Stéphan Roelants, prod's (Apple)
Bingham Ray Breakthrough Director Award: Andrew Patterson for The Vast of Night -WINNER!!!(Amazon Studios)
Nominees:
Radha Blank for The Forty-Year-Old Version (Netflix)
Channing Godfrey Peoples for Miss Juneteenth (Vertical Entertainment)
Alex Thompson for Saint Frances (Oscilloscope Laboratories)
Carlo Mirabella-Davis for Swallow (IFC Films)
Best Screenplay
The Forty-Year-Old Version, Radha Blank (Netflix) -WINNER!!!
TIE
Fourteen, Dan Sallitt (Grasshopper Film) -WINNER!!!
Nominees:
Bad Education, Mike Makowsky (HBO)
First Cow, Jon Raymond, Kelly Reichardt (A24)
The Vast of Night, James Montague, Craig Sanger (Amazon Studios)
Best Actor: Riz Ahmed in Sound of Metal (Amazon Studios) -WINNER!!!
Nominees:
Chadwick Boseman in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (Netflix)
Jude Law in The Nest (IFC Films)
John Magaro in First Cow (A24)
Jesse Plemons in I’m Thinking of Ending Things (Netflix)
Best Actress: Nicole Beharie in Miss Juneteenth (Vertical Entertainment) -WINNER!!!
Nominees:
Jessie Buckley in I’m Thinking of Ending Things (Netflix)
Yuh-Jung Youn in Minari (A24)
Carrie Coon in The Nest (IFC Films)
Frances McDormand in Nomadland (Searchlight Pictures)
Breakthrough Actor: Kingsley Ben-Adir in One Night in Miami… (Amazon Studios) -WINNER!!!
Nominees:
Jasmine Batchelor in The Surrogate (Monument Releasing)
Sidney Flanigan in Never Rarely Sometimes Always (Focus Features)
Orion Lee in First Cow (A24)
Kelly O’Sullivan in Saint Frances (Oscilloscope Laboratories)
Gotham Audience Tribute: Nomadland -WINNER!!!
--Chloé Zhao, director; Frances McDormand, Peter Spears, Mollye Asher, Dan Janvey, Chloé Zhao, producers (Searchlight Pictures)
ADDENDUM:
"The Trial of the Chicago 7" has been selected for the Inaugural Ensemble Tribute
MORE info: https://gotham.ifp.org/
[END 2020 STATS, delayed to Jan. 202` due to Covid-19 outbreak]
2019 below and previous awards stats -- GOTHAMS!!!
Nominees & WINNERS! for 29th Annual Gotham Awards (for Independent Film & TV)
WINNERS announced Dec. 2, 2019 in NYC:
Best Feature
“The Farewell” (A24)
“Hustlers” (STXfilms)
“Marriage Story” (Netflix) --WINNER
“Uncut Gems” (A24)
“Waves” (A24)
Best Documentary
“American Factory” (Netflix) --WINNER
“Apollo 11” (NEON and CNN Films)
“The Edge of Democracy” (Netflix)
“Midnight Traveler” (Oscilloscope Laboratories)
“One Child Nation” (Amazon Studios)
Breakthrough Director
Laure De Clermont-Tonnerre for “The Mustang” (Focus Features) --WINNER
Kent Jones for “Diane” (IFC Films)
Joe Talbot for “The Last Black Man in San Francisco” (A24)
Olivia Wilde for “Booksmart” (United Artists Releasing)
Best screenplay
“The Farewell,” Lulu Wang (A24)
“High Flying Bird,” Tarell Alvin McCraney (Netflix)
“The Last Black Man in San Francisco, Jimmie Fails,” Joe Talbot, Rob Richert (A24)
“Marriage Story,” Noah Baumbach (Netflix) --WINNER
Best Actor
Willem Dafoe in “The Lighthouse” (A24)
Adam Driver in “Marriage Story” (Netflix) --WINNER
Aldis Hodge in “Clemency” (NEON)
André Holland in “High Flying Bird” (Netflix)
Adam Sandler in “Uncut Gems” (A24)
Best Actress
Awkwafina in “The Farewell” (A24) --WINNER
Elisabeth Moss in “Her Smell” (Gunpowder & Sky)
Mary Kay Place in “Diane” (IFC Films)
Florence Pugh in “Midsommar” (A24)
Alfre Woodard in “Clemency” (NEON)
Breakthrough Actor
Julia Fox in “Uncut Gems” (A24)
Aisling Franciosi in "The Nightingale" (IFC Films)
Chris Galust in “Give Me Liberty” (Music Box Films)
Noah Jupe in “Honey Boy” (Amazon Studios)
Jonathan Majors in “The Last Black Man in San Francisco” (A24)
Taylor Russell in “Waves” (A24) --WINNER
AUDIENCE AWARD
“Marriage Story” (Netflix) --WINNER
Television nominees/WINNERS
Breakthrough Series – Long Format (over 40 minutes)
Chernobyl (HBO)
David Makes Man (OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network)
My Brilliant Friend (HBO)
Unbelievable (Netflix)
When They See Us (Netflix) --WINNER
Breakthrough Series – Short Format (under 40 minutes)
PEN15 (Hulu) --WINNER
Ramy (Hulu)
Russian Doll (Netflix)
Tuca & Bertie (Netflix)
Undone (Amazon Prime Video)
MORE info: https://gotham.ifp.org/
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Nominees & WINNERS!!
28th Annual IFP Gotham Awards
(Note: TV noms omitted)
New York, NY (October 18, 2018) – The Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP), the nation’s premier member organization of independent storytellers, announced today the nominees for the 28th Annual IFP Gotham Awards. Ten competitive awards will be presented to independent features. In addition to the competitive awards, Gotham Tributes will be given to actors Rachel Weisz and Willem Dafoe, director Paul Greengrass, and the Gotham Industry Tribute to Jon Kamen.
The Gotham Awards is one of the leading awards for independent film and signals the kick-off to the film awards season. As the first major awards ceremony of the film season, the IFP Gotham Awards provide critical early recognition and media attention to worthy independent films. The awards are also unique for their ability to assist in catapulting award recipients prominently into national awards season attention.
“There has been a rich abundance of great films ... and performances in 2018, and we congratulate those being recognized in the nominations this year,” said Joana Vicente, outgoing Executive Director of IFP and the Made in NY Media Center.
[In addition, the nominating committee for the Best Actress category voted to award a Special Jury Award jointly to Olivia Colman, Emma Stone, and Rachel Weisz for their ensemble performance in The Favourite.]
The Gotham Audience Award nominees are comprised of the 15 films nominated for Best Feature, Best Documentary, and the Bingham Ray Breakthrough Director Award. The winners will be selected by online voting of IFP members.
The Gotham Awards ceremony were held on Monday, November 26th at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City.
The 2018 IFP Gotham Award nominees & WINNERS are:
Best Feature
WINNER: The Rider -- Chloé Zhao, director; Bert Hamelinck, Sacha Ben Harroche, Mollye Asher, Chloé Zhao, producers (Sony Pictures Classics) - On DVD now!
Other nominees:
The Favourite
First Reformed
If Beale Street Could Talk
Madeline’s Madeline
Best Documentary
WINNER: Hale County This Morning, This Evening -- RaMell Ross, director; RaMell Ross, Joslyn Barnes, Su Kim, producers (The Cinema Guild)
Other nominees:
Bisbee ‘17
Minding the Gap
Shirkers
Won’t You Be My Neighbor? - On DVD now!
Bingham Ray Breakthrough Director Award
WINNER: Bo Burnham for Eighth Grade (A24) - On DVD now!
Other nominees:
Hereditary (A24) - On DVD now!
The Tale (HBO)
Skate Kitchen (Magnolia Pictures)
Sorry to Bother You (Annapurna Pictures)
Best Screenplay
WINNER: First Reformed, Paul Schrader (A24) - On DVD now!
Other nominees:
The Favourite
Private Life
Support the Girls
Thoroughbreds
Best Actor
WINNER: Ethan Hawke in First Reformed (A24) - On DVD now!
Other nominees:
Adam Driver in BlacKkKlansman
Ben Foster in Leave No Trace
Richard E. Grant in Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Lakeith Stanfield in Sorry to Bother You
Best Actress
WINNER: Toni Collette in Hereditary (A24) - On DVD now!
Other nominees:
Glenn Close in The Wife
Kathryn Hahn in Private Life
Regina Hall in Support the Girls
Michelle Pfeiffer in Where is Kyra?
Breakthrough Actor
WINNER: Elsie Fisher in Eighth Grade (A24) - On DVD now!
Other nominees:
Yalitza Aparicio in Roma
Helena Howard in Madeline’s Madeline
KiKi Layne in If Beale Street Could Talk
Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie in Leave No Trace
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28th Annual IFP Gotham Awards
(Note: TV noms omitted)
New York, NY (October 18, 2018) – The Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP), the nation’s premier member organization of independent storytellers, announced today the nominees for the 28th Annual IFP Gotham Awards. Ten competitive awards will be presented to independent features. In addition to the competitive awards, Gotham Tributes will be given to actors Rachel Weisz and Willem Dafoe, director Paul Greengrass, and the Gotham Industry Tribute to Jon Kamen.
The Gotham Awards is one of the leading awards for independent film and signals the kick-off to the film awards season. As the first major awards ceremony of the film season, the IFP Gotham Awards provide critical early recognition and media attention to worthy independent films. The awards are also unique for their ability to assist in catapulting award recipients prominently into national awards season attention.
“There has been a rich abundance of great films ... and performances in 2018, and we congratulate those being recognized in the nominations this year,” said Joana Vicente, outgoing Executive Director of IFP and the Made in NY Media Center.
[In addition, the nominating committee for the Best Actress category voted to award a Special Jury Award jointly to Olivia Colman, Emma Stone, and Rachel Weisz for their ensemble performance in The Favourite.]
The Gotham Audience Award nominees are comprised of the 15 films nominated for Best Feature, Best Documentary, and the Bingham Ray Breakthrough Director Award. The winners will be selected by online voting of IFP members.
The Gotham Awards ceremony were held on Monday, November 26th at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City.
The 2018 IFP Gotham Award nominees & WINNERS are:
Best Feature
WINNER: The Rider -- Chloé Zhao, director; Bert Hamelinck, Sacha Ben Harroche, Mollye Asher, Chloé Zhao, producers (Sony Pictures Classics) - On DVD now!
Other nominees:
The Favourite
First Reformed
If Beale Street Could Talk
Madeline’s Madeline
Best Documentary
WINNER: Hale County This Morning, This Evening -- RaMell Ross, director; RaMell Ross, Joslyn Barnes, Su Kim, producers (The Cinema Guild)
Other nominees:
Bisbee ‘17
Minding the Gap
Shirkers
Won’t You Be My Neighbor? - On DVD now!
Bingham Ray Breakthrough Director Award
WINNER: Bo Burnham for Eighth Grade (A24) - On DVD now!
Other nominees:
Hereditary (A24) - On DVD now!
The Tale (HBO)
Skate Kitchen (Magnolia Pictures)
Sorry to Bother You (Annapurna Pictures)
Best Screenplay
WINNER: First Reformed, Paul Schrader (A24) - On DVD now!
Other nominees:
The Favourite
Private Life
Support the Girls
Thoroughbreds
Best Actor
WINNER: Ethan Hawke in First Reformed (A24) - On DVD now!
Other nominees:
Adam Driver in BlacKkKlansman
Ben Foster in Leave No Trace
Richard E. Grant in Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Lakeith Stanfield in Sorry to Bother You
Best Actress
WINNER: Toni Collette in Hereditary (A24) - On DVD now!
Other nominees:
Glenn Close in The Wife
Kathryn Hahn in Private Life
Regina Hall in Support the Girls
Michelle Pfeiffer in Where is Kyra?
Breakthrough Actor
WINNER: Elsie Fisher in Eighth Grade (A24) - On DVD now!
Other nominees:
Yalitza Aparicio in Roma
Helena Howard in Madeline’s Madeline
KiKi Layne in If Beale Street Could Talk
Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie in Leave No Trace
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2017 Gotham Awards
27th Annual IFP Gotham Awards -- Winners selected
The Gotham Awards ceremony were held on Monday, November 27, 2017
The 2017 IFP Gotham Independent Film Award WINNERS are:
Best Feature
Call Me by Your Name -- WINNER!
Luca Guadagnino, director; Peter Spears, Luca Guadagnino, Emilie Georges, Rodrigo Teixeira, Marco Morabito, James Ivory, Howard Rosenman, producers (Sony Pictures Classics)
Other nominees:
The Florida Project
Get Out
Good Time
I, Tonya
Best Documentary
Strong Island -- WINNER! [NOW on Netflix.com]
Yance Ford, director; Yance Ford, Joslyn Barnes, producers (Netflix)
Other nominees:
Ex Libris – The New York Public Library
Rat Film
Whose Streets?
The Work
Ensemble Award: The 2017 Best Actor/Best Actress nominating committee also voted to award a special Gotham Jury Award for ensemble performance to Mudbound -- The award went to actors Carey Mulligan, Garrett Hedlund, Jason Clarke, Jason Mitchell, Mary J. Blige, Rob Morgan and Jonathan Banks.
Bingham Ray Breakthrough Director Award
Jordan Peele for Get Out (Universal Pictures)
Other nominees:
Maggie Betts for Novitiate (Sony Pictures Classics)
Greta Gerwig for Lady Bird (A24)
Kogonada for Columbus (Superlative Films/Depth of Field)
Joshua Z Weinstein for Menashe (A24)
Best Screenplay
Get Out, Jordan Peele (Universal Pictures)
Other nominees:
The Big Sick, Emily V. Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani (Amazon Studios)
Brad’s Status, Mike White (Amazon Studios)
Call Me by Your Name, James Ivory (Sony Pictures Classics)
Columbus, Kogonada (Superlative Films/Depth of Field)
Lady Bird, Greta Gerwig (A24)
Best Actor*
James Franco in The Disaster Artist (A24) -- WINNER!! [Starts In NY & LA on Dec. 1st, expands weekly]
Other nominees:
Willem Dafoe in The Florida Project (A24)
Daniel Kaluuya in Get Out (Universal Pictures)
Robert Pattinson in Good Time (A24)
Adam Sandler in The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) (Netflix)
Harry Dean Stanton in Lucky (Magnolia Pictures)
Best Actress*
Saoirse Ronan in Lady Bird (A24) -- WINNER!!
Other nominees:
Melanie Lynskey in I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore (Netflix)
Haley Lu Richardson in Columbus (Superlative Films/Depth of Field)
Margot Robbie in I, Tonya (NEON)
Lois Smith in Marjorie Prime (FilmRise)
Breakthrough Actor
Timothée Chalamet in Call Me by Your Name (Sony Pictures Classics) -- WINNER!!
Other nominees:
Mary J. Blige in Mudbound (Netflix)
Harris Dickinson in Beach Rats (NEON)
Kelvin Harrison, Jr. in It Comes at Night (A24)
Brooklynn Prince in The Florida Project (A24)
Gotham Independent Film Audience Award**
WINNER: Get Out [On DVD now!]
**IFP members determined the Gotham Independent Film Audience Award with nominees comprised of the 14 nominated films in the Best Feature, Best Documentary, and Bingham Ray Breakthrough Director Award categories.
* The 2017 Best Actor/Best Actress nominating committee also voted to award a special
Gotham Jury Award for ensemble performance to Mudbound
*The award went to actors Carey Mulligan, Garrett Hedlund, Jason Clarke, Jason Mitchell, Mary J. Blige, Rob Morgan, and Jonathan Banks.
TV Award winners
Breakthrough Series – Long Form: Atlanta (FX Networks)
Breakthrough Series – Short Form: The Strange Eyes of Dr. Myes (YouTube)
Press release written by Erik Luers on October 19, 2017 -- New York, NY (October 19, 2017) – The Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP), the nation’s premier member organization of independent storytellers, announced today the nominees for the 27th Annual IFP Gotham Awards. For 2017, ten competitive awards will be presented to independent features and series. In addition to the competitive awards, Gotham Award Tributes will be given to actors Nicole Kidman and Dustin Hoffman, director Sofia Coppola, producer Jason Blum, cinematographer Ed Lachman, and a Gotham Humanitarian Tribute to Al Gore. The Gotham Awards is one of the leading awards for independent film and signals the kick-off to the film awards season. As the first major awards ceremony of the film season, the IFP Awards provide critical early recognition and media attention to worthy independent films. The awards are also unique for their ability to assist in catapulting award recipients prominently into national awards season attention.
Thirty-four films and series received nominations this year. In addition, the nominating committee for the Best Actor and Best Actress categories voted to award a Special Jury Award to the ensemble cast of Mudbound. Nominees are selected by committees of film critics, journalists, festival programmers, and film curators. Separate juries of writers, directors, actors, producers, editors and others directly involved in making films will determine the final Gotham Award recipients.
The Gotham Audience Award nominees are comprised of the 14 films nominated for Best Feature, Best Documentary, and the Bingham Ray Breakthrough Director Award. The winners will be selected by online voting of IFP members. Voting for that award begins November 17th. In addition this year, the winner of the Breakthrough Series – Short Form (all available on the web) will be selected by online IFP member voting.
AWARD nominations - TV & MEDIA
Breakthrough Series – Long Form
WINNER: Atlanta, Donald Glover, creator; Donald Glover, Dianne McGunigle, Paul Simms, executive producers (FX Networks)
Better Things, Pamela Adlon, Louis C.K., creators; Dave Becky, M. Blair Breard, Louis C.K., Pamela Adlon, executive producers (FX Networks)
Dear White People, Justin Simien, creator; Yvette Lee Bowser, Justin Simien, Stephanie Allain, Julia Lebedev, executive producers (Netflix)
Fleabag, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, creator; Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Harry Williams, Jack Williams, executive producers (Amazon)
Search Party, Sarah-Violet Bliss, Charles Rogers, Michael Showalter, creators; Sarah-Violet Bliss, Charles Rogers, Michael Showalter, Tony Hernandez, Lilly Burns, executive producers (TBS)
Breakthrough Series – Short Form
555, Kate Berlant, Andrew DeYoung and John Early, creators (Vimeo)
Inconceivable, Joel Ashton McCarthy, creator (YouTube)
Junior, Zoe Cassavetes, creator (Blackpills and VICE)
Let Me Die a Nun, Sarah Salovaara, creator (Vimeo)
WINNER: The Strange Eyes of Dr. Myes, Nancy Andrews, creator (YouTube)
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Twenty-eight writers, critics and programmers participated in the nomination process. The Nominating Committees for the 2017 IFP Gotham Independent Film Awards were:
Nominating Committee for Best Feature, Best Screenplay, and Breakthrough Director:
Justin Chang, Film Critic, Los Angeles Times
Peter Debruge, Chief Film Critic, Variety
Christy Lemire, Film Critic, RogerEbert.com; Co-host of What the Flick?!
David Rooney, Chief Theater Critic, The Hollywood Reporter
Joshua Rothkopf, Global Deputy Film Editor, Time Out New York
Nominating Committee for Best Documentary:
Ben Fowlie, Executive Director, Points North Institute; Founder, Camden International Film Festival
Cynthia Fuchs, Film & TV Reviews, PopMatters; Director of Film & Media Studies, George Mason University
Eric Kohn, Deputy Editor & Chief Critic, Indiewire
Mike Maggiore, Programmer, Film Forum
Alissa Wilkinson, Film Critic, Vox
Nominating Committee for Best Actor and Best Actress:
A.A. Dowd, Film Editor, The A.V. Club
David Ehrlich, Senior Film Critic, Indiewire
Tim Grierson, Senior U.S. Critic, Screen International; Chief Film Critic, Paste
Sheila O’Malley, Writer/Film Critic, RogerEbert.com, The Sheila Variations
Alison Willmore, Film Critic, BuzzFeed News; Co-host Filmspotting: Streaming Video Unit
Nominating Committee for Breakthrough Actor:
Bilge Ebiri, Film Critic, Village Voice
David Sims, Senior Associate Editor, The Atlantic
Brian Tallerico, Film Editor, RogerEbert.com
Katie Walsh, Film Critic, Tribune Content Agency, Los Angeles Times
Emily Yoshida, Film Critic, New York Magazine/Vulture.com
Nominating Committee for Breakthrough Series – Long Form:
Sophie Gilbert, Staff Writer, Culture, The Atlantic
Tim Goodman, Chief Television Critic, The Hollywood Reporter
Liz Shannon Miller, TV Editor, Indiewire
Sonia Saraiya, TV Critic, Variety
Matt Zoller Seitz, Editor-in-Chief, RogerEbert.com; TV Critic, New York Magazine/Vulture.com
Nominating Committee for Breakthrough Series – Short Form:
Jude Dry, Reporter, Critic, Indiewire
Randi Kleiner, Founder & CEO, SeriesFest
Paula Mejia, Associate Editor, Atlas Obscura; Author, Jesus and Mary Chain’s Psychocandy
Sponsors
The Premier Sponsor of the 2017 IFP Gotham Awards is The New York Times, and the Platinum Sponsors are the Greater Fort Lauderdale/Broward County Office of Film, Music and Entertainment and Greenslate. Additionally, the awards will be promoted nationally in an eight-page special advertising section in The New York Times in November 2017.
2017 IFP Gotham Awards – Alphabetical List of Nominated Films & Series
555
Breakthrough Series – Short Form
Atlanta
Breakthrough Series – Long Form
Beach Rats
Breakthrough Actor
Better Things
Breakthrough Series – Long Form
The Big Sick
Best Screenplay
Brad’s Status
Best Screenplay
Call Me by Your Name
Best Feature
Best Screenplay
Breakthrough Actor
Columbus
Breakthrough Director
Best Screenplay
Best Actress
Dear White People
Breakthrough Series – Long Form
The Disaster Artist
Best Actor
Ex Libris – The New York Public Library
Best Documentary
Fleabag
Breakthrough Series – Long Form
The Florida Project
Best Feature
Best Actor
Breakthrough Actor
Get Out
Best Feature
Breakthrough Director
Best Screenplay
Best Actor
Good Time
Best Feature
Best Actor
I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore
Best Actress
I, Tonya
Best Feature
Best Actress
Inconceivable
Breakthrough Series – Short Form
It Comes at Night
Breakthrough Actor
Junior
Breakthrough Series – Short Form
Lady Bird
Breakthrough Director
Best Screenplay
Best Actress
Let Me Die a Nun
Breakthrough Series – Short Form
Lucky
Best Actor
Marjorie Prime
Best Actress
Menashe
Breakthrough Director
The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
Best Actor
Mudbound
Jury Award Ensemble Performance
Breakthrough Actor
Novitiate
Breakthrough Director
Rat Film
Best Documentary
Search Party
Breakthrough Series – Long Form
The Strange Eyes of Dr. Myes
Breakthrough Series – Short Form
Strong Island
Best Documentary
Whose Streets?
Best Documentary
The Work
Best Documentary
About IFP
The Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP) champions the future of storytelling by connecting artists with essential resources at all stages of development and distribution. The organization fosters a vibrant and sustainable independent storytelling community through its year-round programs, which include IFP Week, IFP Labs, Filmmaker Magazine, IFP Gotham Awards and the Made in NY Media Center by IFP, a new incubator space developed with the Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment. IFP represents an ever-growing network of 10,000+ storytellers around the world, and plays a key role in developing 350 new feature and documentary works each year. During its 39-year history, IFP has supported over 12,000 projects and offered resources to more than 20,000+ filmmakers. More info at www.ifp.org
About the IFP Gotham Independent Film Awards
The IFP Gotham Independent Film Awards, selected by distinguished juries and presented in New York City, the home of independent film, are the first honors of the film awards season. This public showcase honors the filmmaking community, expands the audience for independent films, and supports the work that IFP does behind the scenes throughout the year to bring such films to fruition.
For information on attending: http://gotham.ifp.org Everything Coming To Netflix In DecemberRefinery29
The Gotham Awards ceremony were held on Monday, November 27, 2017
The 2017 IFP Gotham Independent Film Award WINNERS are:
Best Feature
Call Me by Your Name -- WINNER!
Luca Guadagnino, director; Peter Spears, Luca Guadagnino, Emilie Georges, Rodrigo Teixeira, Marco Morabito, James Ivory, Howard Rosenman, producers (Sony Pictures Classics)
Other nominees:
The Florida Project
Get Out
Good Time
I, Tonya
Best Documentary
Strong Island -- WINNER! [NOW on Netflix.com]
Yance Ford, director; Yance Ford, Joslyn Barnes, producers (Netflix)
Other nominees:
Ex Libris – The New York Public Library
Rat Film
Whose Streets?
The Work
Ensemble Award: The 2017 Best Actor/Best Actress nominating committee also voted to award a special Gotham Jury Award for ensemble performance to Mudbound -- The award went to actors Carey Mulligan, Garrett Hedlund, Jason Clarke, Jason Mitchell, Mary J. Blige, Rob Morgan and Jonathan Banks.
Bingham Ray Breakthrough Director Award
Jordan Peele for Get Out (Universal Pictures)
Other nominees:
Maggie Betts for Novitiate (Sony Pictures Classics)
Greta Gerwig for Lady Bird (A24)
Kogonada for Columbus (Superlative Films/Depth of Field)
Joshua Z Weinstein for Menashe (A24)
Best Screenplay
Get Out, Jordan Peele (Universal Pictures)
Other nominees:
The Big Sick, Emily V. Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani (Amazon Studios)
Brad’s Status, Mike White (Amazon Studios)
Call Me by Your Name, James Ivory (Sony Pictures Classics)
Columbus, Kogonada (Superlative Films/Depth of Field)
Lady Bird, Greta Gerwig (A24)
Best Actor*
James Franco in The Disaster Artist (A24) -- WINNER!! [Starts In NY & LA on Dec. 1st, expands weekly]
Other nominees:
Willem Dafoe in The Florida Project (A24)
Daniel Kaluuya in Get Out (Universal Pictures)
Robert Pattinson in Good Time (A24)
Adam Sandler in The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) (Netflix)
Harry Dean Stanton in Lucky (Magnolia Pictures)
Best Actress*
Saoirse Ronan in Lady Bird (A24) -- WINNER!!
Other nominees:
Melanie Lynskey in I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore (Netflix)
Haley Lu Richardson in Columbus (Superlative Films/Depth of Field)
Margot Robbie in I, Tonya (NEON)
Lois Smith in Marjorie Prime (FilmRise)
Breakthrough Actor
Timothée Chalamet in Call Me by Your Name (Sony Pictures Classics) -- WINNER!!
Other nominees:
Mary J. Blige in Mudbound (Netflix)
Harris Dickinson in Beach Rats (NEON)
Kelvin Harrison, Jr. in It Comes at Night (A24)
Brooklynn Prince in The Florida Project (A24)
Gotham Independent Film Audience Award**
WINNER: Get Out [On DVD now!]
**IFP members determined the Gotham Independent Film Audience Award with nominees comprised of the 14 nominated films in the Best Feature, Best Documentary, and Bingham Ray Breakthrough Director Award categories.
* The 2017 Best Actor/Best Actress nominating committee also voted to award a special
Gotham Jury Award for ensemble performance to Mudbound
*The award went to actors Carey Mulligan, Garrett Hedlund, Jason Clarke, Jason Mitchell, Mary J. Blige, Rob Morgan, and Jonathan Banks.
TV Award winners
Breakthrough Series – Long Form: Atlanta (FX Networks)
Breakthrough Series – Short Form: The Strange Eyes of Dr. Myes (YouTube)
Press release written by Erik Luers on October 19, 2017 -- New York, NY (October 19, 2017) – The Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP), the nation’s premier member organization of independent storytellers, announced today the nominees for the 27th Annual IFP Gotham Awards. For 2017, ten competitive awards will be presented to independent features and series. In addition to the competitive awards, Gotham Award Tributes will be given to actors Nicole Kidman and Dustin Hoffman, director Sofia Coppola, producer Jason Blum, cinematographer Ed Lachman, and a Gotham Humanitarian Tribute to Al Gore. The Gotham Awards is one of the leading awards for independent film and signals the kick-off to the film awards season. As the first major awards ceremony of the film season, the IFP Awards provide critical early recognition and media attention to worthy independent films. The awards are also unique for their ability to assist in catapulting award recipients prominently into national awards season attention.
Thirty-four films and series received nominations this year. In addition, the nominating committee for the Best Actor and Best Actress categories voted to award a Special Jury Award to the ensemble cast of Mudbound. Nominees are selected by committees of film critics, journalists, festival programmers, and film curators. Separate juries of writers, directors, actors, producers, editors and others directly involved in making films will determine the final Gotham Award recipients.
The Gotham Audience Award nominees are comprised of the 14 films nominated for Best Feature, Best Documentary, and the Bingham Ray Breakthrough Director Award. The winners will be selected by online voting of IFP members. Voting for that award begins November 17th. In addition this year, the winner of the Breakthrough Series – Short Form (all available on the web) will be selected by online IFP member voting.
AWARD nominations - TV & MEDIA
Breakthrough Series – Long Form
WINNER: Atlanta, Donald Glover, creator; Donald Glover, Dianne McGunigle, Paul Simms, executive producers (FX Networks)
Better Things, Pamela Adlon, Louis C.K., creators; Dave Becky, M. Blair Breard, Louis C.K., Pamela Adlon, executive producers (FX Networks)
Dear White People, Justin Simien, creator; Yvette Lee Bowser, Justin Simien, Stephanie Allain, Julia Lebedev, executive producers (Netflix)
Fleabag, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, creator; Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Harry Williams, Jack Williams, executive producers (Amazon)
Search Party, Sarah-Violet Bliss, Charles Rogers, Michael Showalter, creators; Sarah-Violet Bliss, Charles Rogers, Michael Showalter, Tony Hernandez, Lilly Burns, executive producers (TBS)
Breakthrough Series – Short Form
555, Kate Berlant, Andrew DeYoung and John Early, creators (Vimeo)
Inconceivable, Joel Ashton McCarthy, creator (YouTube)
Junior, Zoe Cassavetes, creator (Blackpills and VICE)
Let Me Die a Nun, Sarah Salovaara, creator (Vimeo)
WINNER: The Strange Eyes of Dr. Myes, Nancy Andrews, creator (YouTube)
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Twenty-eight writers, critics and programmers participated in the nomination process. The Nominating Committees for the 2017 IFP Gotham Independent Film Awards were:
Nominating Committee for Best Feature, Best Screenplay, and Breakthrough Director:
Justin Chang, Film Critic, Los Angeles Times
Peter Debruge, Chief Film Critic, Variety
Christy Lemire, Film Critic, RogerEbert.com; Co-host of What the Flick?!
David Rooney, Chief Theater Critic, The Hollywood Reporter
Joshua Rothkopf, Global Deputy Film Editor, Time Out New York
Nominating Committee for Best Documentary:
Ben Fowlie, Executive Director, Points North Institute; Founder, Camden International Film Festival
Cynthia Fuchs, Film & TV Reviews, PopMatters; Director of Film & Media Studies, George Mason University
Eric Kohn, Deputy Editor & Chief Critic, Indiewire
Mike Maggiore, Programmer, Film Forum
Alissa Wilkinson, Film Critic, Vox
Nominating Committee for Best Actor and Best Actress:
A.A. Dowd, Film Editor, The A.V. Club
David Ehrlich, Senior Film Critic, Indiewire
Tim Grierson, Senior U.S. Critic, Screen International; Chief Film Critic, Paste
Sheila O’Malley, Writer/Film Critic, RogerEbert.com, The Sheila Variations
Alison Willmore, Film Critic, BuzzFeed News; Co-host Filmspotting: Streaming Video Unit
Nominating Committee for Breakthrough Actor:
Bilge Ebiri, Film Critic, Village Voice
David Sims, Senior Associate Editor, The Atlantic
Brian Tallerico, Film Editor, RogerEbert.com
Katie Walsh, Film Critic, Tribune Content Agency, Los Angeles Times
Emily Yoshida, Film Critic, New York Magazine/Vulture.com
Nominating Committee for Breakthrough Series – Long Form:
Sophie Gilbert, Staff Writer, Culture, The Atlantic
Tim Goodman, Chief Television Critic, The Hollywood Reporter
Liz Shannon Miller, TV Editor, Indiewire
Sonia Saraiya, TV Critic, Variety
Matt Zoller Seitz, Editor-in-Chief, RogerEbert.com; TV Critic, New York Magazine/Vulture.com
Nominating Committee for Breakthrough Series – Short Form:
Jude Dry, Reporter, Critic, Indiewire
Randi Kleiner, Founder & CEO, SeriesFest
Paula Mejia, Associate Editor, Atlas Obscura; Author, Jesus and Mary Chain’s Psychocandy
Sponsors
The Premier Sponsor of the 2017 IFP Gotham Awards is The New York Times, and the Platinum Sponsors are the Greater Fort Lauderdale/Broward County Office of Film, Music and Entertainment and Greenslate. Additionally, the awards will be promoted nationally in an eight-page special advertising section in The New York Times in November 2017.
2017 IFP Gotham Awards – Alphabetical List of Nominated Films & Series
555
Breakthrough Series – Short Form
Atlanta
Breakthrough Series – Long Form
Beach Rats
Breakthrough Actor
Better Things
Breakthrough Series – Long Form
The Big Sick
Best Screenplay
Brad’s Status
Best Screenplay
Call Me by Your Name
Best Feature
Best Screenplay
Breakthrough Actor
Columbus
Breakthrough Director
Best Screenplay
Best Actress
Dear White People
Breakthrough Series – Long Form
The Disaster Artist
Best Actor
Ex Libris – The New York Public Library
Best Documentary
Fleabag
Breakthrough Series – Long Form
The Florida Project
Best Feature
Best Actor
Breakthrough Actor
Get Out
Best Feature
Breakthrough Director
Best Screenplay
Best Actor
Good Time
Best Feature
Best Actor
I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore
Best Actress
I, Tonya
Best Feature
Best Actress
Inconceivable
Breakthrough Series – Short Form
It Comes at Night
Breakthrough Actor
Junior
Breakthrough Series – Short Form
Lady Bird
Breakthrough Director
Best Screenplay
Best Actress
Let Me Die a Nun
Breakthrough Series – Short Form
Lucky
Best Actor
Marjorie Prime
Best Actress
Menashe
Breakthrough Director
The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
Best Actor
Mudbound
Jury Award Ensemble Performance
Breakthrough Actor
Novitiate
Breakthrough Director
Rat Film
Best Documentary
Search Party
Breakthrough Series – Long Form
The Strange Eyes of Dr. Myes
Breakthrough Series – Short Form
Strong Island
Best Documentary
Whose Streets?
Best Documentary
The Work
Best Documentary
About IFP
The Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP) champions the future of storytelling by connecting artists with essential resources at all stages of development and distribution. The organization fosters a vibrant and sustainable independent storytelling community through its year-round programs, which include IFP Week, IFP Labs, Filmmaker Magazine, IFP Gotham Awards and the Made in NY Media Center by IFP, a new incubator space developed with the Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment. IFP represents an ever-growing network of 10,000+ storytellers around the world, and plays a key role in developing 350 new feature and documentary works each year. During its 39-year history, IFP has supported over 12,000 projects and offered resources to more than 20,000+ filmmakers. More info at www.ifp.org
About the IFP Gotham Independent Film Awards
The IFP Gotham Independent Film Awards, selected by distinguished juries and presented in New York City, the home of independent film, are the first honors of the film awards season. This public showcase honors the filmmaking community, expands the audience for independent films, and supports the work that IFP does behind the scenes throughout the year to bring such films to fruition.
For information on attending: http://gotham.ifp.org Everything Coming To Netflix In DecemberRefinery29
2016 Gotham Awards (WINNERS!! & nominees)
New York, NY (Monday, November 28, 2016) – The Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP) tonight announced the winners of the 26th Annual Gotham Independent Film Awards at its awards ceremony hosted by Keegan-Michael Key and held at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City.
Winning the Best Feature, Best Screenplay, Gotham Audience Award, and a Special Jury Award for Ensemble Performance was Moonlight,director Barry Jenkins’ stunning triptych-structured story of the life of a young black man from childhood to adulthood as he struggles to find his place in the world. Moonlight is the first film in the history of the Gotham Awards to win four awards and the first to win both Best Feature and the Audience Award.
Best Feature
"Moonlight" <--WINNER!!
Barry Jenkins, director; Adele Romanski, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, producers (Dist:A24)
Other nominees:
Certain Women (Kelly Reichardt, director/IFC Films)
Everybody Wants Some!! (Richard Linklater, director/Paramount Pictures)
Manchester by the Sea (Kenneth Lonergan, dir+scply/Amazon Studios)
Paterson (Jim Jarmusch, director/Amazon Studios)
Best Documentary
"O.J.: Made in America" <--WINNER!!
Ezra Edelman, director; Caroline Waterlow, Ezra Edelman, Tamara Rosenberg, Nina Krstic, Deirdre Fenton, Erin Leyden, producers (ESPN Films)
Other nominees:
Cameraperson (Kirsten Johnson, director/Janus Films)
I Am Not Your Negro (Raoul Peck, director/Magnolia Pix, Independent Lens)
Tower (Keith Maitland, director/Kino Lorber, Independent Lens)
Weiner (Josh Kriegman, Elyse Steinberg, directors & producers/Sundance Selects & Showtime Documentary Films)
Bingham Ray Breakthrough Director Award
Trey Edward Shults for "Krisha" (Dist:A24) <--WINNER!!
Other nominees:
Robert Eggers for The Witch (A24)
Anna Rose Holmer for The Fits (Oscilloscope Laboratories)
Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert for Swiss Army Man (A24)
Richard Tanne for Southside with You (Roadside Attractions and Miramax)
Best Screenplay
"Moonlight" [Story by Tarell Alvin McCraney; Screenplay by Barry Jenkins (A24)] <--WINNER!!
Other nominees:
Hell or High Water, Taylor Sheridan (CBS Films)
Love & Friendship, Whit Stillman (Amazon Studios)
Manchester by the Sea, Kenneth Lonergan (Amazon Studios)
Paterson, Jim Jarmusch (Amazon Studios)
Best Actor*
Casey Affleck in "Manchester by the Sea" (Amazon Studios) <--WINNER!!
Other nominees:
Jeff Bridges in Hell or High Water (CBS Films)
Adam Driver in Paterson (Amazon Studios)
Joel Edgerton in Loving (Focus Features)
Craig Robinson in Morris from America (A24)
Best Actress*
Isabelle Huppert in "Elle" (Sony Pictures Classics) <--WINNER!!
Other nominees:
Kate Beckinsale in Love & Friendship (Amazon Studios)
Annette Bening in 20th Century Women (A24)
Ruth Negga in Loving (Focus Features)
Natalie Portman in Jackie (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
Breakthrough Actor*
Anya Taylor-Joy in "The Witch"(A24) <--WINNER!!
Other nominees:
Lily Gladstone in Certain Women (IFC Films)
Lucas Hedges in Manchester by the Sea (Amazon Studios)
Royalty Hightower in The Fits (Oscilloscope Laboratories)
Sasha Lane in American Honey (A24)
IFP Gotham Audience Award
"Moonlight" Directed by Barry Jenkins/Produced by Adele Romanski, Dede Gardner, and Jeremy Kleiner ( A24)
[Note: The Audience Award was voted for on-line by IFP members.]
[Final Note: The 2016 Best Actor/Best Actress and Breakthrough Actor nominating panels also voted to award a "Special Gotham Jury Award" for Ensemble performance to "Moonlight." <--WINNER!!
The award will go to actors Mahershala Ali, Naomie Harris, Alex Hibbert, André Holland, Jharrel Jerome, Janelle Monáe, Jaden Piner, Trevante Rhodes, and Ashton Sanders.]
Gotham Awards site: https://gotham.ifp.org/ // Video: https://gotham.ifp.org/public/index.cfm?page=147
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[NOTE: Precursor to the Independent SPIRIT awards]
2012 Gotham Independent Film Awards™
– Alphabetical List of Nominated Films
Aquí y Allá (Here and There)
--Breakthrough Director (Film does not have a USA Theatrical release date)
Beasts of the Southern Wild
--Breakthrough Director, Breakthrough Actor (In theaters now/DVD available: Dec. 4, 2012)
Bernie
--Best Feature, Best Ensemble Performance (On DVD now!)
Detropia
--Best Documentary (In theaters now)
Francine
--Breakthrough Director (No DVD info at this time)
Hello, I Must Be Going
--Breakthrough Actor (In theaters now)
How to Survive a Plague
--Best Documentary (In theaters now)
Keep the Lights On
--Breakthrough Actor (In theaters now)
Kid-Thing
--Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You
The Loneliest Planet
--Best Feature (In theaters now)
Marina Abramović: The Artist is Present
--Best Documentary (No DVD info at this time)
The Master
--Best Feature (In theaters now)
Middle of Nowhere
--Best Feature, Breakthrough Actor (In theaters now)
Moonrise Kingdom
--Best Feature, Best Ensemble Performance (On DVD now!)
Now, Forager
--Breakthrough Director (No DVD info at this time)
An Oversimplification of Her Beauty
--Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You
Red Flag
--Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You
Room 237
--Best Documentary (Film does not have a Theatrical release date)
Safety Not Guaranteed
--Best Ensemble Performance (On DVD now!)
Silver Linings Playbook
--Best Ensemble Performance (Theatrical release date: Nov. 21, 2012)
Sleepwalk with Me
--Breakthrough Actor (In theaters now)
Sound of My Voice
--Breakthrough Director (On DVD now!)
Sun Don’t Shine
--Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You
Tiger Tail in Blue
--Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You
The Waiting Room
--Best Documentary (In theaters now)
Your Sister’s Sister
--Best Ensemble Performance (On DVD now!)
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For the second consecutive year, IFP is proud present the euphoria Calvin Klein Spotlight on Women Filmmakers ‘Live the Dream’ grant, a $25,000 cash award for an alumna of IFP’s Independent Filmmaker Labs. This grant aims to further the careers of emerging women directors by supporting the completion, distribution and audience engagement strategies of their first feature film.
The nominees are:
Leah Meyerhoff, director, I BELIEVE IN UNICORNS
Stacie Passon, director, CONCUSSION
Visra Vichit Vadakan, KARAOKE GIRL
The 3rd Annual Gotham Independent Film Audience Award will be voted on again by the independent film
community, 230,000 film fans worldwide. To be eligible, a U.S. film must have won an audience award at one of the top 50 U.S. or Canadian film festivals from November 2011 through October 2012.
Vote at http://gotham.ifp.org/audience_award for the 31 films on the eligibility list. The nominees will be announced November 5th, and the winner will be revealed at the Gotham Awards ceremony.
The recipient of the Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You award is determined by the editorial staff of Filmmaker Magazine, a publication of IFP, and a curator from The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). All of these nominees will also be screened for the public at MoMA from November 16-19, 2012.
The Premier Sponsors of the 22nd annual Gotham Independent Film Awards™ are Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) and The New York Times, Presenting Sponsor euphoria Calvin Klein, Official Water FIJI Water, Official Spirit Russian Standard Vodka, Official Wine Partner Mionetto Prosecco, Official Partners: charitybuzz; MoMA; Andaz Wall Street. Additionally, the awards will be promoted nationally in an eight-page special advertising section in The New York Times on November 16th, 2012.
About Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP)
The Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP) is one of the nation’s oldest and largest not-for-profit advocacy organizations for independent filmmakers. Since its debut at the 1979 New York Film Festival, IFP has supported the production of over 7,000 films and offered resources to more than 20,000 filmmakers, providing an opportunity for many diverse voices to be heard. IFP believes that independent films enrich the universal language of cinema, seeding the global culture with new ideas, kindling awareness, and fostering activism. The organization has championed early work by pioneering, independent filmmakers, including Charles Burnett, Edward Burns, Jim Jarmusch, Barbara Kopple, Michael Moore, Mira Nair and Kevin Smith.
IFP represents a network of 10,000 filmmakers in New York City and around the world. Through its workshops, seminars, conferences, mentorships and Filmmaker Magazine, IFP schools its members in the art, technology and business of independent filmmaking. The year-round program includes an Independent Film Week, The Gotham Awards, Filmmaking Labs and Seminars, and a range of programs to promote racial, ethnic, religious, ideological, gender and sexual diversity. IFP, often in collaboration with other cultural institutions, builds audiences by hosting premieres and special screenings.
For more information: www.ifp.org
About the Gotham Independent Film Awards™
The Gotham Independent Film Awards, selected by distinguished juries and presented in New York City, the home of independent film, are the first honors of the film awards season. This public showcase honors the filmmaking community, expands the audience for independent films, and supports the work that IFP does behind the scenes throughout the year to bring such films to fruition.
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Gotham Awards Announce 2012 Nominations (By category/full details)
Best Feature
Bernie
Richard Linklater, director; Richard Linklater, Ginger Sledge, Celine Rattray, Martin Shafer, Liz Glotzer, Matt Williams, David McFadzean, Judd Payne, Dete Meserve, producers (Millennium Entertainment)
The Loneliest Planet
Julia Loktev, director; Jay Van Hoy, Lars Knudsen, Helge Albers, Marie Therese Guirgis, producers (Sundance
Selects)
The Master
Paul Thomas Anderson, director; Joanne Sellar, Daniel Lupi, Paul Thomas Anderson, Megan Ellison, producers (The Weinstein Company)
Middle of Nowhere
Ava DuVernay, director; Howard Barish, Ava DuVernay, Paul Garnes, producers (AFFRM and Participant Media)
Moonrise Kingdom
Wes Anderson, director; Wes Anderson, Scott Rudin, Steven Rales, Jeremy Dawson, producers (Focus Features)
Best Documentary
Detropia
Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady, directors; Heidi Ewing, Rachel Grady, Craig Atkinson, producers (Loki Films)
How to Survive a Plague
David France, director; Howard Gertler, David France, producers (Sundance Selects)
Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present
Matthew Akers, director; Jeff Dupre, Maro Chermayeff, producers (HBO Documentary Films and Music Box Films)
Room 237
Rodney Ascher, director; Tim Kirk, producer (IFC Midnight)
The Waiting Room
Peter Nicks, director; Peter Nicks, Linda Davis, William B. Hirsch, producers (International Film Circuit)
Best Ensemble Performance
Bernie
Jack Black, Shirley MacLaine, Matthew McConaughey (Millennium Entertainment)
Moonrise Kingdom
Bruce Willis, Edward Norton, Bill Murray, Frances McDormand, Tilda Swinton, Jared Gilman, Kara Hayward, Jason Schwartzman, Bob Balaban (Focus Features)
Safety Not Guaranteed
Aubrey Plaza, Mark Duplass, Jake Johnson, Karan Soni, Jenica Bergere, Kristen Bell, Jeff Garlin, Mary Lynn Rajskub (Film District)
Silver Linings Playbook
Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Robert De Niro, Jacki Weaver, Chris Tucker, Anupam Kher (The Weinstein
Company)
Your Sister’s Sister
Emily Blunt, Rosemarie Dewitt, Mark Duplass (IFC Films)
Breakthrough Director
Zal Batmanglij for Sound of My Voice (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
Brian M. Cassidy and Melanie Shatzky for Francine (Factory 25 and The Film Sales
Company)
Jason Cortlund and Julia Halperin for Now, Forager (Argot Pictures)
Antonio Méndez Esparza for Aquí y Allá (Here and There) (Torch
Films)
Benh Zeitlin for Beasts of the Southern Wild (Fox Searchlight
Pictures)
Breakthrough Actor
Mike Birbiglia in Sleepwalk with Me (IFC Films)
Emayatzy Corinealdi in Middle of Nowhere (AFFRM and Participant Media)
Thure Lindhardt in Keep the Lights On (Music Box Films)
Melanie Lynskey in Hello, I Must Be Going (Oscilloscope Laboratories)
Quvenzhané Wallis in Beasts of the Southern Wild (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You
Kid-Thing
David Zellner, director; Nathan Zellner, Producer
An Oversimplification of Her Beauty
Terence Nance, director; Terence Nance, Andrew Corkin, James Bartlett, producers
Red Flag
Alex Karpovsky, director; Alex Karpovsky, Michael Bowes, producers
Sun Don’t Shine
Amy Seimetz, director; Kim Sherman, Amy Seimetz, producers
Tiger Tail in Blue
Frank V. Ross, director; Adam Donaghey, Drew Durepos, producers
http://gotham.ifp.org/
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2012 Gotham Independent Film Awards™
– Alphabetical List of Nominated Films
Aquí y Allá (Here and There)
--Breakthrough Director (Film does not have a USA Theatrical release date)
Beasts of the Southern Wild
--Breakthrough Director, Breakthrough Actor (In theaters now/DVD available: Dec. 4, 2012)
Bernie
--Best Feature, Best Ensemble Performance (On DVD now!)
Detropia
--Best Documentary (In theaters now)
Francine
--Breakthrough Director (No DVD info at this time)
Hello, I Must Be Going
--Breakthrough Actor (In theaters now)
How to Survive a Plague
--Best Documentary (In theaters now)
Keep the Lights On
--Breakthrough Actor (In theaters now)
Kid-Thing
--Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You
The Loneliest Planet
--Best Feature (In theaters now)
Marina Abramović: The Artist is Present
--Best Documentary (No DVD info at this time)
The Master
--Best Feature (In theaters now)
Middle of Nowhere
--Best Feature, Breakthrough Actor (In theaters now)
Moonrise Kingdom
--Best Feature, Best Ensemble Performance (On DVD now!)
Now, Forager
--Breakthrough Director (No DVD info at this time)
An Oversimplification of Her Beauty
--Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You
Red Flag
--Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You
Room 237
--Best Documentary (Film does not have a Theatrical release date)
Safety Not Guaranteed
--Best Ensemble Performance (On DVD now!)
Silver Linings Playbook
--Best Ensemble Performance (Theatrical release date: Nov. 21, 2012)
Sleepwalk with Me
--Breakthrough Actor (In theaters now)
Sound of My Voice
--Breakthrough Director (On DVD now!)
Sun Don’t Shine
--Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You
Tiger Tail in Blue
--Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You
The Waiting Room
--Best Documentary (In theaters now)
Your Sister’s Sister
--Best Ensemble Performance (On DVD now!)
[SCROLL DOWN for more details on nominees / For theatrical info go to http://www.TheReelReviewer.Weebly.com]
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For the second consecutive year, IFP is proud present the euphoria Calvin Klein Spotlight on Women Filmmakers ‘Live the Dream’ grant, a $25,000 cash award for an alumna of IFP’s Independent Filmmaker Labs. This grant aims to further the careers of emerging women directors by supporting the completion, distribution and audience engagement strategies of their first feature film.
The nominees are:
Leah Meyerhoff, director, I BELIEVE IN UNICORNS
Stacie Passon, director, CONCUSSION
Visra Vichit Vadakan, KARAOKE GIRL
The 3rd Annual Gotham Independent Film Audience Award will be voted on again by the independent film
community, 230,000 film fans worldwide. To be eligible, a U.S. film must have won an audience award at one of the top 50 U.S. or Canadian film festivals from November 2011 through October 2012.
Vote at http://gotham.ifp.org/audience_award for the 31 films on the eligibility list. The nominees will be announced November 5th, and the winner will be revealed at the Gotham Awards ceremony.
The recipient of the Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You award is determined by the editorial staff of Filmmaker Magazine, a publication of IFP, and a curator from The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). All of these nominees will also be screened for the public at MoMA from November 16-19, 2012.
The Premier Sponsors of the 22nd annual Gotham Independent Film Awards™ are Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) and The New York Times, Presenting Sponsor euphoria Calvin Klein, Official Water FIJI Water, Official Spirit Russian Standard Vodka, Official Wine Partner Mionetto Prosecco, Official Partners: charitybuzz; MoMA; Andaz Wall Street. Additionally, the awards will be promoted nationally in an eight-page special advertising section in The New York Times on November 16th, 2012.
About Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP)
The Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP) is one of the nation’s oldest and largest not-for-profit advocacy organizations for independent filmmakers. Since its debut at the 1979 New York Film Festival, IFP has supported the production of over 7,000 films and offered resources to more than 20,000 filmmakers, providing an opportunity for many diverse voices to be heard. IFP believes that independent films enrich the universal language of cinema, seeding the global culture with new ideas, kindling awareness, and fostering activism. The organization has championed early work by pioneering, independent filmmakers, including Charles Burnett, Edward Burns, Jim Jarmusch, Barbara Kopple, Michael Moore, Mira Nair and Kevin Smith.
IFP represents a network of 10,000 filmmakers in New York City and around the world. Through its workshops, seminars, conferences, mentorships and Filmmaker Magazine, IFP schools its members in the art, technology and business of independent filmmaking. The year-round program includes an Independent Film Week, The Gotham Awards, Filmmaking Labs and Seminars, and a range of programs to promote racial, ethnic, religious, ideological, gender and sexual diversity. IFP, often in collaboration with other cultural institutions, builds audiences by hosting premieres and special screenings.
For more information: www.ifp.org
About the Gotham Independent Film Awards™
The Gotham Independent Film Awards, selected by distinguished juries and presented in New York City, the home of independent film, are the first honors of the film awards season. This public showcase honors the filmmaking community, expands the audience for independent films, and supports the work that IFP does behind the scenes throughout the year to bring such films to fruition.
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Gotham Awards Announce 2012 Nominations (By category/full details)
Best Feature
Bernie
Richard Linklater, director; Richard Linklater, Ginger Sledge, Celine Rattray, Martin Shafer, Liz Glotzer, Matt Williams, David McFadzean, Judd Payne, Dete Meserve, producers (Millennium Entertainment)
The Loneliest Planet
Julia Loktev, director; Jay Van Hoy, Lars Knudsen, Helge Albers, Marie Therese Guirgis, producers (Sundance
Selects)
The Master
Paul Thomas Anderson, director; Joanne Sellar, Daniel Lupi, Paul Thomas Anderson, Megan Ellison, producers (The Weinstein Company)
Middle of Nowhere
Ava DuVernay, director; Howard Barish, Ava DuVernay, Paul Garnes, producers (AFFRM and Participant Media)
Moonrise Kingdom
Wes Anderson, director; Wes Anderson, Scott Rudin, Steven Rales, Jeremy Dawson, producers (Focus Features)
Best Documentary
Detropia
Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady, directors; Heidi Ewing, Rachel Grady, Craig Atkinson, producers (Loki Films)
How to Survive a Plague
David France, director; Howard Gertler, David France, producers (Sundance Selects)
Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present
Matthew Akers, director; Jeff Dupre, Maro Chermayeff, producers (HBO Documentary Films and Music Box Films)
Room 237
Rodney Ascher, director; Tim Kirk, producer (IFC Midnight)
The Waiting Room
Peter Nicks, director; Peter Nicks, Linda Davis, William B. Hirsch, producers (International Film Circuit)
Best Ensemble Performance
Bernie
Jack Black, Shirley MacLaine, Matthew McConaughey (Millennium Entertainment)
Moonrise Kingdom
Bruce Willis, Edward Norton, Bill Murray, Frances McDormand, Tilda Swinton, Jared Gilman, Kara Hayward, Jason Schwartzman, Bob Balaban (Focus Features)
Safety Not Guaranteed
Aubrey Plaza, Mark Duplass, Jake Johnson, Karan Soni, Jenica Bergere, Kristen Bell, Jeff Garlin, Mary Lynn Rajskub (Film District)
Silver Linings Playbook
Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Robert De Niro, Jacki Weaver, Chris Tucker, Anupam Kher (The Weinstein
Company)
Your Sister’s Sister
Emily Blunt, Rosemarie Dewitt, Mark Duplass (IFC Films)
Breakthrough Director
Zal Batmanglij for Sound of My Voice (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
Brian M. Cassidy and Melanie Shatzky for Francine (Factory 25 and The Film Sales
Company)
Jason Cortlund and Julia Halperin for Now, Forager (Argot Pictures)
Antonio Méndez Esparza for Aquí y Allá (Here and There) (Torch
Films)
Benh Zeitlin for Beasts of the Southern Wild (Fox Searchlight
Pictures)
Breakthrough Actor
Mike Birbiglia in Sleepwalk with Me (IFC Films)
Emayatzy Corinealdi in Middle of Nowhere (AFFRM and Participant Media)
Thure Lindhardt in Keep the Lights On (Music Box Films)
Melanie Lynskey in Hello, I Must Be Going (Oscilloscope Laboratories)
Quvenzhané Wallis in Beasts of the Southern Wild (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You
Kid-Thing
David Zellner, director; Nathan Zellner, Producer
An Oversimplification of Her Beauty
Terence Nance, director; Terence Nance, Andrew Corkin, James Bartlett, producers
Red Flag
Alex Karpovsky, director; Alex Karpovsky, Michael Bowes, producers
Sun Don’t Shine
Amy Seimetz, director; Kim Sherman, Amy Seimetz, producers
Tiger Tail in Blue
Frank V. Ross, director; Adam Donaghey, Drew Durepos, producers
http://gotham.ifp.org/
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PAST CEREMONIES (Archives)
[Report from Variety]
'Winter's Bone' nabs Gothams buzz
Indie drama takes two awards at New York ceremony
Indie drama "Winter's Bone" picked up notable awards-season momentum Monday night when writer-director Debra Granik's pic topped the list of winners at the Gotham Independent Film Awards.
The Roadside Attractions release scored two glass trophies at IFP's annual New York indie film fete, taking home the prize for feature and another for its acting ensemble led by Jennifer Lawrence.
Oscar juggernaut "The Hurt Locker" nabbed the same pair of laurels at the Gothams last year.
Doc award went to Laura Poitras' "The Oath," about two brothers-in-law with associations to Al Qaeda, while another docu, Davis Guggenheim's education-themed "Waiting for 'Superman,'" took home the Gothams' first Festival Genius Award.
The New York-based kudo ceremony, now in its 20th year, is considered one of the early kickoff events of awards season. Recognition at the Gothams can help power a movie's further success in the coming flurry of year-end film kudos.
Winners in seven categories were announced Monday night, with "Holy Rollers" writer-director Kevin Asch taking the breakthrough award for helmer and "Daddy Longlegs" thesp Ronald Bronstein taking the same award for actor.In the tradition of awards winners, Asch thanked his mother, "who not only supported me my whole life but also invested in the film."
Director Mike Ott's "Littlerock," about Japanese siblings stranded in California, won the award for Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You, the category for pics that have not secured a distribution deal. As part of the prize, the film will receive a one-week run at Gotham's Cinema Village, as well as advertising support and a cash prize of $15,000.
Ceremony included career tributes to thesps Robert Duvall and Hilary Swank, helmer Darren Aronofsky and Focus Features topper James Schamus. Focus release "The Kids Are All Right" was nommed for feature and ensemble.
The year's winners were drawn from a femme-heavy pool of nominees -- half of the 30 pics nommed were helmed by women -- that included "Winter's Bone" (which scored four noms) as well as "Tiny Furniture" and "Kids" (two each), all three of which came from female writer-directors.
Juries of scribes, helmers, producers and other bizzers determined who would take home the hardware. Nominations were determined by separate teams of journos and curators.
Eligibility criteria for the Gothams limit candidates to indie-distributed American features that come in on the lower end of the budget spectrum and display a distinct point of view.
The 2010 edition of the Gothams, hosted by Stanley Tucci and Patricia Clarkson, was held at Cipriani Wall Street.
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'Winter's Bone' nabs Gothams buzz
Indie drama takes two awards at New York ceremony
Indie drama "Winter's Bone" picked up notable awards-season momentum Monday night when writer-director Debra Granik's pic topped the list of winners at the Gotham Independent Film Awards.
The Roadside Attractions release scored two glass trophies at IFP's annual New York indie film fete, taking home the prize for feature and another for its acting ensemble led by Jennifer Lawrence.
Oscar juggernaut "The Hurt Locker" nabbed the same pair of laurels at the Gothams last year.
Doc award went to Laura Poitras' "The Oath," about two brothers-in-law with associations to Al Qaeda, while another docu, Davis Guggenheim's education-themed "Waiting for 'Superman,'" took home the Gothams' first Festival Genius Award.
The New York-based kudo ceremony, now in its 20th year, is considered one of the early kickoff events of awards season. Recognition at the Gothams can help power a movie's further success in the coming flurry of year-end film kudos.
Winners in seven categories were announced Monday night, with "Holy Rollers" writer-director Kevin Asch taking the breakthrough award for helmer and "Daddy Longlegs" thesp Ronald Bronstein taking the same award for actor.In the tradition of awards winners, Asch thanked his mother, "who not only supported me my whole life but also invested in the film."
Director Mike Ott's "Littlerock," about Japanese siblings stranded in California, won the award for Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You, the category for pics that have not secured a distribution deal. As part of the prize, the film will receive a one-week run at Gotham's Cinema Village, as well as advertising support and a cash prize of $15,000.
Ceremony included career tributes to thesps Robert Duvall and Hilary Swank, helmer Darren Aronofsky and Focus Features topper James Schamus. Focus release "The Kids Are All Right" was nommed for feature and ensemble.
The year's winners were drawn from a femme-heavy pool of nominees -- half of the 30 pics nommed were helmed by women -- that included "Winter's Bone" (which scored four noms) as well as "Tiny Furniture" and "Kids" (two each), all three of which came from female writer-directors.
Juries of scribes, helmers, producers and other bizzers determined who would take home the hardware. Nominations were determined by separate teams of journos and curators.
Eligibility criteria for the Gothams limit candidates to indie-distributed American features that come in on the lower end of the budget spectrum and display a distinct point of view.
The 2010 edition of the Gothams, hosted by Stanley Tucci and Patricia Clarkson, was held at Cipriani Wall Street.
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Press release
IFP teams up with eBay Giving Works for a
silent auction in support of the organization
November 22 to December 2, 2010 and Announces new sponsor lineup for the
20th AnniversaryGotham Independent Film Awards
www.eBay.com/gothamawards
Royal Bank of Canada Capital Markets signs on as premier sponsor in support of emerging artists, the New York Times renews its support, other new sponsors include
euphoria Calvin Klein, BMW, Russian Standard Vodka, the Andaz Hotel, and Alfred Dunhill online partner Big Live will stream Gotham’s live
http://gotham.ifp.org
New York, NY (November 23, 2010) – The Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP), the nation’s oldest and largest organization of independent filmmakers, announced today that they have teamed up with eBay Giving Works to hold their first ever silent auction from, November 22 to Thursday, December 2, 2010.
The partnership between IFP and eBay has been created to raise funds for IFP in support independent filmmakers. These auction items are one of a kind experiences extended by key supporters and celebrities in the Independent Film World. Auction items include:
Tickets and backstage tour to Time Stands Still with backstage visit with Christina Ricci
Attend a show at The Public Theatre with Phillip Seymour Hoffman
True Blood set visit with Alan Ball
Boardwalk Empire set visit with Steve Buscemi
Two tickets to the Broadway musical Freckleface Strawberry followed by a backstage tour w/Julianne Moore
Fishing with Ed Burns in Manhattan on the spot where She's The One was filmed
Two Tickets to SNL dress rehearsal on January 15, 2011
Backstage walkthrough and house seats for Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson with star Benjamin Walker
Tickets and backstage visit with the director, Julie Taymor for Spider-Man, Turn off the Dark.
Backstage Tour of Bored to Death/meet and greet with Jonathan Ames
Ping pong at SPIN with Susan Sarandon
House seats and backstage passes to FELA
Todd Solondz's DARK HORSE package: 2 tickets to the premiere, autographed script
Two tickets to SNL from Kristin Wiig
Spend a day at International Flavors & Fragrance and create your own perfume with a Master Perfumer
In addition to corporate sponsors RBC, The New York Times, CK Euphoria and others, industry giants such as Fox Searchlight, Focus Features and Deluxe Entertainment Services have renewed their commitment to the Gotham’s. Other Official Partners include MoMA and Slated.
“euphoria Calvin Klein is proud to support the work of the IFP, and join them in celebrating 20 years of recognizing the pioneering voices of independent film” - Thomas Burkhardt, VP Global Marketing Calvin Klein Fragrances
“We are thrilled to enter into theses new partnerships with corporate sponsors who believe in the transformational power of filmmaking and are committed to support independent filmmakers and to celebrate their work at the Gotham awards,” said Joana Vicente, IFP Executive Director of the IFP.
IFP’s 20th Anniversary Gotham Independent Film Awards™ ceremony will be held on Monday, November 29 at Cipriani Wall Street. As the first major awards of the film season, the Gotham Independent Film Awards™ provide critical early recognition and media attention to worthy independent films. The awards are also unique for their ability to assist in catapulting its recipients prominently into national awards season attention, including recent winners and ultimate Oscar® contenders: THE HURT LOCKER (2009), FOOD, INC (2009), Melissa Leo (2008) and Ellen Page (2007).
Last week, IFP announced the co-hosts, Stanley Tucci and Patricia Clarkson, and presenters Julianne Moore, Harvey Keitel, Anthony Mackie, Leighton Meester, Jesse Eisenberg, Sam Rockwell, Steve Buscemi and Michelle Williams, as well as the nominees for the first ever
Festival Genius Audience Award. To vote and see this year’s nominees go to http://gothamawards.slated.com. To see all the nominated films go to http://gotham.ifp.org.
IFP will give tribute to actors Robert Duvall and Hilary Swank (Swank tribute sponsored by euphoria Calvin Klein), director Darren Aronofsky and Focus Features CEO, James Shamus, as well as awards across six competitive categories including: Best Feature, Best Documentary (sponsored by Stella Artois), Breakthrough Director and Breakthrough Actor Awards (sponsored by Alfred Dunhill), Best Ensemble Performance and Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near YouÒ (sponsored by RBC Capital Markets). Also, for the first time ever, IFP and Slated partnered to create the Festival Genius Audience Award where filmgoers get to choose their favorite audience award winning film.
About Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP)
The Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP) is the nation's oldest and largest not-for-profit advocacy organization for independent filmmakers. Since its debut at the 1979 New York Film Festival, IFP has supported the production of over 7,000 films and offered resources to more than 20,000 filmmakers, providing an opportunity for many diverse voices to be heard. IFP believes that independent films enrich the universal language of cinema, seeding the global culture with new ideas, kindling awareness, and fostering activism. The organization has championed early work by pioneering, independent filmmakers, including Charles Burnett, Edward Burns, Jim Jarmusch, Barbara Kopple, Michael Moore, Mira Nair and Kevin Smith.
IFP represents a network of 10,000 filmmakers in New York City and around the world. Through its workshops, seminars, conferences, mentorships and Filmmaker Magazine, IFP schools its members in the art, technology and business of independent filmmaking. The year-round program includes an Independent Film Week, The Gotham Awards, Filmmaking Labs and Seminars, and a range of programs to promote racial, ethnic, religious, ideological, gender and sexual diversity. IFP, often in collaboration with other cultural institutions, builds audiences by hosting premieres and special screenings. The IFP fosters the development of 300 feature and documentary films each year. Recently, the organization licensed the popular Festival Genius software platform through which IFP now reaches over 200,000 film fans worldwide.
For more information: www.ifp.org
About the Gotham Independent Film Awards™
The Gotham Independent Film Awards, selected by distinguished juries and presented in New York City, the home of independent film, are the first honors of the film awards season. This public showcase honors the filmmaking community, expands the audience for independent films, and supports the work that IFP does behind the scenes throughout the year to bring such films to fruition.
For information on attending: http://gotham.ifp.org
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IFP teams up with eBay Giving Works for a
silent auction in support of the organization
November 22 to December 2, 2010 and Announces new sponsor lineup for the
20th AnniversaryGotham Independent Film Awards
www.eBay.com/gothamawards
Royal Bank of Canada Capital Markets signs on as premier sponsor in support of emerging artists, the New York Times renews its support, other new sponsors include
euphoria Calvin Klein, BMW, Russian Standard Vodka, the Andaz Hotel, and Alfred Dunhill online partner Big Live will stream Gotham’s live
http://gotham.ifp.org
New York, NY (November 23, 2010) – The Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP), the nation’s oldest and largest organization of independent filmmakers, announced today that they have teamed up with eBay Giving Works to hold their first ever silent auction from, November 22 to Thursday, December 2, 2010.
The partnership between IFP and eBay has been created to raise funds for IFP in support independent filmmakers. These auction items are one of a kind experiences extended by key supporters and celebrities in the Independent Film World. Auction items include:
Tickets and backstage tour to Time Stands Still with backstage visit with Christina Ricci
Attend a show at The Public Theatre with Phillip Seymour Hoffman
True Blood set visit with Alan Ball
Boardwalk Empire set visit with Steve Buscemi
Two tickets to the Broadway musical Freckleface Strawberry followed by a backstage tour w/Julianne Moore
Fishing with Ed Burns in Manhattan on the spot where She's The One was filmed
Two Tickets to SNL dress rehearsal on January 15, 2011
Backstage walkthrough and house seats for Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson with star Benjamin Walker
Tickets and backstage visit with the director, Julie Taymor for Spider-Man, Turn off the Dark.
Backstage Tour of Bored to Death/meet and greet with Jonathan Ames
Ping pong at SPIN with Susan Sarandon
House seats and backstage passes to FELA
Todd Solondz's DARK HORSE package: 2 tickets to the premiere, autographed script
Two tickets to SNL from Kristin Wiig
Spend a day at International Flavors & Fragrance and create your own perfume with a Master Perfumer
In addition to corporate sponsors RBC, The New York Times, CK Euphoria and others, industry giants such as Fox Searchlight, Focus Features and Deluxe Entertainment Services have renewed their commitment to the Gotham’s. Other Official Partners include MoMA and Slated.
“euphoria Calvin Klein is proud to support the work of the IFP, and join them in celebrating 20 years of recognizing the pioneering voices of independent film” - Thomas Burkhardt, VP Global Marketing Calvin Klein Fragrances
“We are thrilled to enter into theses new partnerships with corporate sponsors who believe in the transformational power of filmmaking and are committed to support independent filmmakers and to celebrate their work at the Gotham awards,” said Joana Vicente, IFP Executive Director of the IFP.
IFP’s 20th Anniversary Gotham Independent Film Awards™ ceremony will be held on Monday, November 29 at Cipriani Wall Street. As the first major awards of the film season, the Gotham Independent Film Awards™ provide critical early recognition and media attention to worthy independent films. The awards are also unique for their ability to assist in catapulting its recipients prominently into national awards season attention, including recent winners and ultimate Oscar® contenders: THE HURT LOCKER (2009), FOOD, INC (2009), Melissa Leo (2008) and Ellen Page (2007).
Last week, IFP announced the co-hosts, Stanley Tucci and Patricia Clarkson, and presenters Julianne Moore, Harvey Keitel, Anthony Mackie, Leighton Meester, Jesse Eisenberg, Sam Rockwell, Steve Buscemi and Michelle Williams, as well as the nominees for the first ever
Festival Genius Audience Award. To vote and see this year’s nominees go to http://gothamawards.slated.com. To see all the nominated films go to http://gotham.ifp.org.
IFP will give tribute to actors Robert Duvall and Hilary Swank (Swank tribute sponsored by euphoria Calvin Klein), director Darren Aronofsky and Focus Features CEO, James Shamus, as well as awards across six competitive categories including: Best Feature, Best Documentary (sponsored by Stella Artois), Breakthrough Director and Breakthrough Actor Awards (sponsored by Alfred Dunhill), Best Ensemble Performance and Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near YouÒ (sponsored by RBC Capital Markets). Also, for the first time ever, IFP and Slated partnered to create the Festival Genius Audience Award where filmgoers get to choose their favorite audience award winning film.
About Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP)
The Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP) is the nation's oldest and largest not-for-profit advocacy organization for independent filmmakers. Since its debut at the 1979 New York Film Festival, IFP has supported the production of over 7,000 films and offered resources to more than 20,000 filmmakers, providing an opportunity for many diverse voices to be heard. IFP believes that independent films enrich the universal language of cinema, seeding the global culture with new ideas, kindling awareness, and fostering activism. The organization has championed early work by pioneering, independent filmmakers, including Charles Burnett, Edward Burns, Jim Jarmusch, Barbara Kopple, Michael Moore, Mira Nair and Kevin Smith.
IFP represents a network of 10,000 filmmakers in New York City and around the world. Through its workshops, seminars, conferences, mentorships and Filmmaker Magazine, IFP schools its members in the art, technology and business of independent filmmaking. The year-round program includes an Independent Film Week, The Gotham Awards, Filmmaking Labs and Seminars, and a range of programs to promote racial, ethnic, religious, ideological, gender and sexual diversity. IFP, often in collaboration with other cultural institutions, builds audiences by hosting premieres and special screenings. The IFP fosters the development of 300 feature and documentary films each year. Recently, the organization licensed the popular Festival Genius software platform through which IFP now reaches over 200,000 film fans worldwide.
For more information: www.ifp.org
About the Gotham Independent Film Awards™
The Gotham Independent Film Awards, selected by distinguished juries and presented in New York City, the home of independent film, are the first honors of the film awards season. This public showcase honors the filmmaking community, expands the audience for independent films, and supports the work that IFP does behind the scenes throughout the year to bring such films to fruition.
For information on attending: http://gotham.ifp.org
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Press release
Stanley Tucci and Patricia Clarkson to Co-host the
20th Anniversary Gotham Independent Film Awards
Confirmed Presenters Include Julianne Moore, Anne Hathaway, Jesse Eisenberg, Barbara Kopple,
Anthony Mackie, Leighton Meester, Rosie Perez, Sam Rockwell, John Turturro and Michelle Williams
http://gotham.ifp.org
New York, NY (November 15, 2010) –The Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP), the nation’s oldest and largest organization of independent filmmakers announced today that actors Stanley Tucci and Patricia Clarkson will serve as hosts of the 20th Anniversary Gotham Independent Film AwardsÔ Show on November 29th in New York City.
Patricia Clarkson can currently be seen starring in the romantic drama, CAIRO TIME, which won the Best Canadian Feature award at the 34th Toronto International Film Festival. Following CAIRO TIME, Clarkson is also in theaters now in the features LEGENDARY and EASY A with Emma Stone and her Gothams co-host, Stanley Tucci. Clarkson last appeared in Martin Scorsese’s SHUTTER ISLAND alongside Leonardo DiCaprio, and in 2009 was seen in Woody Allen's WHATEVER WORKS alongside Larry David and Evan Rachel Wood, as well as Stanley Tucci’s BLIND DATE opposite Tucci. Clarkson's continuous innovative work in independent film earned her the Independent Award for Acting Excellence at the 2009 ShoWest Awards. In 2003, her role in PIECES OF APRIL earned her nominations for Academy, Golden Globe, SAG, Broadcast Film Critics and Independent Spirit awards. The National Board of Review and the National Society of Film Critics named her Best Supporting Actress of the Year for her work in PIECES OF APRIL and THE STATION AGENT. On television, Clarkson won an Emmy in 2002 and 2006 for her guest-starring role on HBO's acclaimed drama "Six Feet Under."
Stanley Tucci has appeared in over 50 films and countless television shows. In 2008 Tucci starred in JULIE & JULIA and THE LOVELY BONES, for which he earned his first Academy Award nomination along with Golden Globe, BAFTA, SAG and Broadcast Film Critics nominations. In the past few years he has appeared in films such as THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA, THE TERMINAL and ROAD TO PERDITION. Tucci just wrapped CAPTAIN AMERICA and is filming THE FIRST AVENGER. He can currently be seen in the upcoming musical, BURLESQUE and in EASY A, in which he re-teams with Patricia Clarkson.
Tucci has also done many films behind the camera including BLIND DATE, JOE GOULD’S SECRET, THE IMPOSTERS and BIG NIGHT. Tucci is no stranger to the theater; and has appeared in over a dozen plays, on and off Broadway. Earlier this year, Tucci made his Broadway directorial debut with a revival of Ken Ludwig’s Lend Me a Tenor and received a Tony Award nomination for Best Revival of a Play. In addition to his accomplishments on film and the stage, Stanley was also nominated for an Emmy for his guest role as Dr. Moretti on “ER.” In 2007, his appearance on “Monk,” received critical attention as well as an Emmy Award in the category of Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series. Tucci also starred in the highly acclaimed HBO drama, CONSPRIACY, a film for which Tucci earned both an Emmy and Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actor in a Made-for-TV-Movie or Miniseries.
“We were delighted to hear that Meryl Streep and Philip Seymour Hoffman passed on hosting the Gotham Awards this year,” said Patricia and Stanley. “It encouraged the two of us to launch a massive Twitter and Facebook campaign to get the hosting gig. As two actors who love and respect each other’s work, and happen to be incredibly good friends too, what could be more fun than hosting the Gotham Awards on their 20th Anniversary. We took the job with the understanding that every time either of us says the word “independent,” everyone at home watching or attending the awards themselves must take a shot. Here’s to a fun evening for all.”
“We are thrilled that last year’s actor tributee, Stanley and indie stalwart, Patti Clarkson will be co-hosting the 20th Anniversary Gotham Awards,” said Joana Vicente, executive director of IFP.
IFP also announced the first batch of confirmed presenters at the awards including: Julianne Moore, Anne Hathaway, Jesse Eisenberg, Barbara Kopple, Anthony Mackie, Leighton Meester, Rosie Perez, Sam Rockwell, John Turturro and Michelle Williams
IFP’s 20th Anniversary Gotham Independent Film Awards™ ceremony will be held on Monday, November 29 at Cipriani Wall Street. As the first major awards of the film season, the Gotham Independent Film Awards™ provide critical early recognition and media attention to worthy independent films. Previous winners for Best Feature and Best Documentary include THE HURT LOCKER (2009), FOOD, INC (2009), FROZEN RIVER (2008), TROUBLE THE WATER (2008), INTO THE WILD (2007), SICKO (2007), HALF NELSON (2006), CAPOTE (2005), MURDERBALL (2005) and SIDEWAYS (2004). The awards are also unique for their ability to assist in catapulting its Breakthrough Actor recipients prominently into national awards season attention, including recent winners and ultimate Oscar® contenders: Melissa Leo (2008), Ellen Page (2007), Rinko Kikuchi (2006), Amy Adams (2005) and Catalina Sandindo Moreno (2004).
Awards will be given out across six competitive categories including: Best Feature, Best Documentary, Breakthrough Director, Breakthrough Actor, Best Ensemble Performance and Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near YouÒ. In addition actors Robert Duvall and Hilary Swank, director Darren Aronofsky and focus Features CEO, James Shamus, will each be presented with a career tribute.
This year, the IFP has created a new award, The Festival Genius Audience Award. To be eligible, a U.S. film must have won an audience award at a U.S. or Canadian film festival from November 2009 through October 2010. The Festival Genius community, 200,000 film fans worldwide, will vote online for the winner. To vote and see this year’s nominees go to http://gothamawards.slated.com.
The Premier sponsors of the 2010 Gotham Independent Film Awards™ are The New York Times and The Royal Bank of Canada. RBC is also the sponsor of the Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You award. IFP welcomes new presenting sponsor of the Actress Tribute award, euphoria Calvin Klein and presenting sponsor, Fox Searchlight; returning sponsors Focus Features and Deluxe Entertainment Services Group, Official Spirit, Russian Standard Vodka, Official Hotel, Andaz Wall Street, Official Partners MoMA and Slated and preferred sponsor of the Breakthrough Director and Breakthrough Actor Awards, Alfred Dunhill. The Gotham Awards will be promoted nationally in an eight-page special advertising section in The New York Times on Friday, November 19, 2010.
The previously announced list of the nominees for the 19th Annual Gotham Independent Film AwardsÔ can be accessed at http://gotham.ifp.org.
About Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP)
The Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP) is the nation's oldest and largest not-for-profit advocacy organization for independent filmmakers. Since its debut at the 1979 New York Film Festival, IFP has supported the production of over 7,000 films and offered resources to more than 20,000 filmmakers, providing an opportunity for many diverse voices to be heard. IFP believes that independent films enrich the universal language of cinema, seeding the global culture with new ideas, kindling awareness, and fostering activism. The organization has championed early work by pioneering, independent filmmakers, including Charles Burnett, Edward Burns, Jim Jarmusch, Barbara Kopple, Michael Moore, Mira Nair and Kevin Smith.
IFP represents a network of 10,000 filmmakers in New York City and around the world. Through its workshops, seminars, conferences, mentorships and Filmmaker Magazine, IFP schools its members in the art, technology and business of independent filmmaking. The year-round program includes an Independent Film Week, The Gotham Awards, Filmmaking Labs and Seminars, and a range of programs to promote racial, ethnic, religious, ideological, gender and sexual diversity. IFP, often in collaboration with other cultural institutions, builds audiences by hosting premieres and special screenings. The IFP fosters the development of 300 feature and documentary films each year. Recently, the organization licensed the popular Festival Genius software platform through which IFP now reaches over 200,000 film fans worldwide.
For more information: www.ifp.org
About the Gotham Independent Film Awards™
The Gotham Independent Film Awards, selected by distinguished juries and presented in New York City, the home of independent film, are the first honors of the film awards season. This public showcase honors the filmmaking community, expands the audience for independent films, and supports the work that IFP does behind the scenes throughout the year to bring such films to fruition.
For information on attending: http://gotham.ifp.org
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Stanley Tucci and Patricia Clarkson to Co-host the
20th Anniversary Gotham Independent Film Awards
Confirmed Presenters Include Julianne Moore, Anne Hathaway, Jesse Eisenberg, Barbara Kopple,
Anthony Mackie, Leighton Meester, Rosie Perez, Sam Rockwell, John Turturro and Michelle Williams
http://gotham.ifp.org
New York, NY (November 15, 2010) –The Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP), the nation’s oldest and largest organization of independent filmmakers announced today that actors Stanley Tucci and Patricia Clarkson will serve as hosts of the 20th Anniversary Gotham Independent Film AwardsÔ Show on November 29th in New York City.
Patricia Clarkson can currently be seen starring in the romantic drama, CAIRO TIME, which won the Best Canadian Feature award at the 34th Toronto International Film Festival. Following CAIRO TIME, Clarkson is also in theaters now in the features LEGENDARY and EASY A with Emma Stone and her Gothams co-host, Stanley Tucci. Clarkson last appeared in Martin Scorsese’s SHUTTER ISLAND alongside Leonardo DiCaprio, and in 2009 was seen in Woody Allen's WHATEVER WORKS alongside Larry David and Evan Rachel Wood, as well as Stanley Tucci’s BLIND DATE opposite Tucci. Clarkson's continuous innovative work in independent film earned her the Independent Award for Acting Excellence at the 2009 ShoWest Awards. In 2003, her role in PIECES OF APRIL earned her nominations for Academy, Golden Globe, SAG, Broadcast Film Critics and Independent Spirit awards. The National Board of Review and the National Society of Film Critics named her Best Supporting Actress of the Year for her work in PIECES OF APRIL and THE STATION AGENT. On television, Clarkson won an Emmy in 2002 and 2006 for her guest-starring role on HBO's acclaimed drama "Six Feet Under."
Stanley Tucci has appeared in over 50 films and countless television shows. In 2008 Tucci starred in JULIE & JULIA and THE LOVELY BONES, for which he earned his first Academy Award nomination along with Golden Globe, BAFTA, SAG and Broadcast Film Critics nominations. In the past few years he has appeared in films such as THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA, THE TERMINAL and ROAD TO PERDITION. Tucci just wrapped CAPTAIN AMERICA and is filming THE FIRST AVENGER. He can currently be seen in the upcoming musical, BURLESQUE and in EASY A, in which he re-teams with Patricia Clarkson.
Tucci has also done many films behind the camera including BLIND DATE, JOE GOULD’S SECRET, THE IMPOSTERS and BIG NIGHT. Tucci is no stranger to the theater; and has appeared in over a dozen plays, on and off Broadway. Earlier this year, Tucci made his Broadway directorial debut with a revival of Ken Ludwig’s Lend Me a Tenor and received a Tony Award nomination for Best Revival of a Play. In addition to his accomplishments on film and the stage, Stanley was also nominated for an Emmy for his guest role as Dr. Moretti on “ER.” In 2007, his appearance on “Monk,” received critical attention as well as an Emmy Award in the category of Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series. Tucci also starred in the highly acclaimed HBO drama, CONSPRIACY, a film for which Tucci earned both an Emmy and Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actor in a Made-for-TV-Movie or Miniseries.
“We were delighted to hear that Meryl Streep and Philip Seymour Hoffman passed on hosting the Gotham Awards this year,” said Patricia and Stanley. “It encouraged the two of us to launch a massive Twitter and Facebook campaign to get the hosting gig. As two actors who love and respect each other’s work, and happen to be incredibly good friends too, what could be more fun than hosting the Gotham Awards on their 20th Anniversary. We took the job with the understanding that every time either of us says the word “independent,” everyone at home watching or attending the awards themselves must take a shot. Here’s to a fun evening for all.”
“We are thrilled that last year’s actor tributee, Stanley and indie stalwart, Patti Clarkson will be co-hosting the 20th Anniversary Gotham Awards,” said Joana Vicente, executive director of IFP.
IFP also announced the first batch of confirmed presenters at the awards including: Julianne Moore, Anne Hathaway, Jesse Eisenberg, Barbara Kopple, Anthony Mackie, Leighton Meester, Rosie Perez, Sam Rockwell, John Turturro and Michelle Williams
IFP’s 20th Anniversary Gotham Independent Film Awards™ ceremony will be held on Monday, November 29 at Cipriani Wall Street. As the first major awards of the film season, the Gotham Independent Film Awards™ provide critical early recognition and media attention to worthy independent films. Previous winners for Best Feature and Best Documentary include THE HURT LOCKER (2009), FOOD, INC (2009), FROZEN RIVER (2008), TROUBLE THE WATER (2008), INTO THE WILD (2007), SICKO (2007), HALF NELSON (2006), CAPOTE (2005), MURDERBALL (2005) and SIDEWAYS (2004). The awards are also unique for their ability to assist in catapulting its Breakthrough Actor recipients prominently into national awards season attention, including recent winners and ultimate Oscar® contenders: Melissa Leo (2008), Ellen Page (2007), Rinko Kikuchi (2006), Amy Adams (2005) and Catalina Sandindo Moreno (2004).
Awards will be given out across six competitive categories including: Best Feature, Best Documentary, Breakthrough Director, Breakthrough Actor, Best Ensemble Performance and Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near YouÒ. In addition actors Robert Duvall and Hilary Swank, director Darren Aronofsky and focus Features CEO, James Shamus, will each be presented with a career tribute.
This year, the IFP has created a new award, The Festival Genius Audience Award. To be eligible, a U.S. film must have won an audience award at a U.S. or Canadian film festival from November 2009 through October 2010. The Festival Genius community, 200,000 film fans worldwide, will vote online for the winner. To vote and see this year’s nominees go to http://gothamawards.slated.com.
The Premier sponsors of the 2010 Gotham Independent Film Awards™ are The New York Times and The Royal Bank of Canada. RBC is also the sponsor of the Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You award. IFP welcomes new presenting sponsor of the Actress Tribute award, euphoria Calvin Klein and presenting sponsor, Fox Searchlight; returning sponsors Focus Features and Deluxe Entertainment Services Group, Official Spirit, Russian Standard Vodka, Official Hotel, Andaz Wall Street, Official Partners MoMA and Slated and preferred sponsor of the Breakthrough Director and Breakthrough Actor Awards, Alfred Dunhill. The Gotham Awards will be promoted nationally in an eight-page special advertising section in The New York Times on Friday, November 19, 2010.
The previously announced list of the nominees for the 19th Annual Gotham Independent Film AwardsÔ can be accessed at http://gotham.ifp.org.
About Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP)
The Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP) is the nation's oldest and largest not-for-profit advocacy organization for independent filmmakers. Since its debut at the 1979 New York Film Festival, IFP has supported the production of over 7,000 films and offered resources to more than 20,000 filmmakers, providing an opportunity for many diverse voices to be heard. IFP believes that independent films enrich the universal language of cinema, seeding the global culture with new ideas, kindling awareness, and fostering activism. The organization has championed early work by pioneering, independent filmmakers, including Charles Burnett, Edward Burns, Jim Jarmusch, Barbara Kopple, Michael Moore, Mira Nair and Kevin Smith.
IFP represents a network of 10,000 filmmakers in New York City and around the world. Through its workshops, seminars, conferences, mentorships and Filmmaker Magazine, IFP schools its members in the art, technology and business of independent filmmaking. The year-round program includes an Independent Film Week, The Gotham Awards, Filmmaking Labs and Seminars, and a range of programs to promote racial, ethnic, religious, ideological, gender and sexual diversity. IFP, often in collaboration with other cultural institutions, builds audiences by hosting premieres and special screenings. The IFP fosters the development of 300 feature and documentary films each year. Recently, the organization licensed the popular Festival Genius software platform through which IFP now reaches over 200,000 film fans worldwide.
For more information: www.ifp.org
About the Gotham Independent Film Awards™
The Gotham Independent Film Awards, selected by distinguished juries and presented in New York City, the home of independent film, are the first honors of the film awards season. This public showcase honors the filmmaking community, expands the audience for independent films, and supports the work that IFP does behind the scenes throughout the year to bring such films to fruition.
For information on attending: http://gotham.ifp.org
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Press release
ROBERT DUVALL, HILARY SWANK, DARREN ARONOFSKY AND JAMES SCHAMUS TO RECEIVE
CAREER TRIBUTES AT IFP’S 20TH ANNIVERSARY GOTHAM INDEPENDENT FILM AWARDS
Monday, November 29, 2010 at Cipriani Wall Street-NYC
New York, NY (September 30, 2010) – The Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP), the nation’s oldest and largest organization of independent filmmakers, announced today that director Darren Aronofsky, actors Hilary Swank and Robert Duvall, and Focus Features CEO, James Schamus, will each be presented with a career Tribute at the 20th Anniversary Gotham Independent Film Awards™ on Monday, November 29th at Cipriani Wall Street, New York, New York.
Signaling the official kick-off to the film awards season, the Gotham Independent Film Awards™ is one of the leading awards for independent film. Anchoring the evening’s seven competitive awards for Best Feature, Best Documentary, Breakthrough Director, Breakthrough Actor, Best Ensemble Performance, Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You and the new Festival Genius Audience Award, are four Tributes to film community icons.
This year’s Tribute selection represents a range of individuals – all veterans well-versed in the journey between lower-budget independent films and large-scale studio releases. In addition, the honorees represent some of the most critically acclaimed and highly anticipated films including: Get Low from Sony Pictures Classics (directed by Aaron Schneider and featuring Robert Duvall); the upcoming Fox Searchlight release Conviction (directed by Tony Goldwyn and featuring Hilary Swank); Black Swan from Fox Searchlight (directed by Darren Aronofsky); and Focus Features’ The Kids are All Right (James Schamus, CEO).
“We are moved and honored to give tribute to four cinematic film luminaries, all of whom have had their roots in independent film, and have steadfastly focused on the art of film, irrespective of the size of the budget of their work” said Joana Vicente, Executive Director of the IFP. “This year’s tributes personify independent spirit and have created an astonishing breadth of work that we are proud to celebrate. James Schamus won the producing award in 1996 and Darren Aronofsky was our Breakthrough Director in 1998. We are thrilled to honor them again for their deserving careers. Robert Duvall and Hilary Swank’s work have enriched our lives; from the smallest of indies to the largest of Hollywood features, we are in awe of their talent and look forward to what lies ahead.”
A leading man since the 1960s, ROBERT DUVALL (Felix Bush) has specialized in taciturn cowboys, fierce leaders and driven characters of all types. Respected by his peers and adored by audiences worldwide, he has earned numerous Oscar® nominations for his performances in The Godfather, Apocalypse Now, The Great Santini and The Apostle. Duvall won the Academy Award® as Best Actor for his role in Tender Mercies, and later earned the Golden Globe for his performance in the title role of HBO‘s Stalin. More recently, Duvall was honored with the Golden Globe and Emmy Award for his iconic portrayal of Print Ritter in AMC‘s Broken Trail. Duvall made his big screen debut in 1962, as the creepy Boo Radley in To Kill A Mockingbird. He has gone on to star in such classics as Bullitt, True Grit, M*A*S*H, The Conversation, Network, The Natural, Colors, Days Of Thunder, A Handmaid’s Tale, Rambling Rose, Wrestling Ernest Hemingway, Phenomenon, A Civil Action, Open Range, and Thank You For Smoking, among many others.
As a director and producer, Duvall got behind the camera for his labor of love project The Apostle in which he also starred. The film went on to earn many accolades, including being named on over seventy-five film critics and Top 10 Films for 1997 lists. He also wrote, produced and starred in Assassination Tango. Duvall was most recently seen as the Old Man in The Road, based on the novel by Cormac McCarthy and Get Low.
HILARY SWANK is the third youngest woman in history to win two Academy Awards® for "Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role.” In addition to the Oscar for her performance in Boys Don't Cry, Swank won the Golden Globe Award, The New York Film Critics Circle, The Los Angeles Film Critics Association, The Chicago Film Critics and The Broadcast Film Critics Association awards for Best Actress. Swank then appeared in Sam Raimi's, The Gift, in Christopher Nolan's, Insomnia, and in the acclaimed HBO telefilm Iron Jawed Angels for which she was honored with both SAG and Golden Globe nominations for her performance. In 2004, Swank starred opposite Clint Eastwood and Morgan Freeman as the title character in Eastwood's Million Dollar Baby. For this performance, she was honored with her second Academy Award® for Best Actress and also garnered prizes from the National Society of Film Critics, the Screen Actors Guild, The Broadcast Film Critics, and a Golden Globe for "Best Lead Actress in a Drama.”
Swank has since starred in PS I Love You, Freedom Writers and this year’s much anticipated, Conviction, in which she plays Betty Anne Waters, a true life hero and mother who spent 18 years working her way through school to get her brother released from prison for a wrongful murder conviction.
DARREN ARONOFSKY exploded on the independent film scene with his 1998 Sundance Film Festival-winning film, π, where he received the Best Director award as well as accolades across the independent film world, winning the 1998 Breakthrough Directing Award from the Gotham Independent Film Awards as well as an Independent Spirit Award. Aronofsky then went on to direct the films Requiem for a Dream, for which Ellen Burstyn received both a Golden Globe and an Academy Award® nomination; The Fountain, starring Hugh Jackman and Rachel Weisz and The Wrestler, which garnered Academy Award® nominations for its stars Mickey Rourke and Marisa Tomei and won Best Picture at the Independent Spirit Awards.
Aronofsky’s upcoming film, Black Swan, which will be released in December, stars Natalie Portman, Vincent Cassell, Mila Kunis, Barbara Hershey and Winona Ryder. Black Swan opened the 2010 Venice Film Festival and received critical acclaim at this year’s Toronto Film Festival.
An integral contributor to the American independent film business for over two decades, JAMES SCHAMUS has the unique distinction of being an award-winning screenwriter and producer who is also a film executive. Additionally, he is Professor in Columbia University’s School of the Arts, where he teaches film history and theory. His published work in the field includes Carl Theodor Dreyer’s Gertrud: The Moving Word, published in 2008. Prior to the formation of Focus Features, Schamus was co-president of the independent film production company Good Machine, which he co-founded in 1991. Schamus and his partners at the company produced over 40 films during an 11-year period, in partnership with filmmakers such as Ang Lee, Todd Solondz, and Nicole Holofcener. Through its financing and distribution arm, Good Machine International, the company represented dozens more filmmakers, among them Pedro Almodóvar and the Coen Brothers. Good Machine was honored with a 10-year retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, and Schamus was honored with the 1996 Gotham Award for Producing with his producing partner Ted Hope.
Schamus is also a screenwriter, and received Academy Award® nominations in the Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Original Song categories for his work on Ang Lee’s Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. The blockbuster film, which Schamus co-wrote and executive-produced, won 4 Academy Awards®. Schamus has had a long collaboration as writer and producer with Ang Lee on eleven feature films including Focus’ Brokeback Mountain, which won 3 Academy Awards®, 4 Golden Globes, 4 BAFTAs, and the Producers Guild of America’s top prize, the [Darryl F. Zanuck] Producer of the Year Award; Taking Woodstock; Lust, Caution; The Hulk; Ride with the Devil; The Ice Storm; The Wedding Banquet; Eat Drink Man Woman; and Pushing Hands. Schamus executive-produced several Good Machine features that won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, including Edward Burns’ The Brothers McMullen, Tom Noonan’s What Happened Was…, and Todd Haynes’ Poison. Schamus was honored with the NBC Screenwriter Tribute at the 2002 Nantucket Film Festival as well as with the Writers Guild of America, East’s 2003 Richard B. Jablow Award for devoted service to the Guild.
Focus’ celebrated releases have included seven more Academy Award® winners: Gus Van Sant’s Milk, Sofia Coppola’s Lost in Translation, Roman Polanski’s The Pianist, Michel Gondry’s Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Walter Salles’ The Motorcycle Diaries, and Joe Wright’s Atonement; and Henry Selick’s Coraline, Joel and Ethan Coen’s Burn After Reading and A Serious Man, Joe Wright’s Pride & Prejudice, Todd Haynes’ Far from Heaven, François Ozon’s Swimming Pool, and Alejandro González Iñárritu’s 21 Grams. Domestically, the current Focus Features slate includes Lisa Cholodenko’s The Kids Are All Right; Anton Corbijn’s The American; Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck’s It’s Kind of a Funny Story; and Sofia Coppola’s Somewhere, which won the Golden Lion Award for Best Picture at the 2010 Venice International Film Festival.
This year’s Gotham Awards tribute recipients join a prestigious group of previous honorees including: actors Stanley Tucci, Natalie Portman, Javier Bardem, Pénelope Cruz and Kate Winslet; filmmakers Mira Nair, Gus Van Sant, Spike Lee and Martin Scorcese; executives Shelia Nevins (HBO Documentaries) and Jonathan Sehring (IFC Films); and film critic Roger Ebert.
Nominees for the 20th Anniversary Gotham Independent Film Awards™ will be announced on October 18th and winners will be honored at a star-studded ceremony at Cipriani Wall Street on November 29th.
The Premier sponsors of the Gotham Independent Film Awards™ are The New York Times and Royal Bank of Canada. The awards will be promoted nationally in an eight-page special advertising section in The New York Times.
About Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP)
The Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP) is the nation's oldest and largest not-for-profit advocacy organization for independent filmmakers. Since its debut at the 1979 New York Film Festival, IFP has supported the production of over 7,000 films and offered resources to more than 20,000 filmmakers, providing an opportunity for many diverse voices to be heard. IFP believes that independent films enrich the universal language of cinema, seeding the global culture with new ideas, kindling awareness, and fostering activism. The organization has championed early work by pioneering, independent filmmakers, including Charles Burnett, Edward Burns, Jim Jarmusch, Barbara Kopple, Michael Moore, Mira Nair and Kevin Smith.
IFP represents a network of 10,000 filmmakers in New York City and around the world. Through its workshops, seminars, conferences, mentorships and Filmmaker Magazine, IFP schools its members in the art, technology and business of independent filmmaking. The year-round program includes an Independent Film Week, The Gotham Awards, Filmmaking Labs and Seminars, and a range of programs to promote racial, ethnic, religious, ideological, gender and sexual diversity. IFP, often in collaboration with other cultural institutions, builds audiences by hosting premieres and special screenings. The IFP fosters the development of 300 feature and documentary films each year. Recently, the organization licensed the popular Festival Genius software platform through which IFP now reaches over 200,000 film fans worldwide.
For more information: www.ifp.org
About the Gotham Independent Film Awards™
The Gotham Independent Film Awards, selected by distinguished juries and presented in New York City, the home of independent film, are the first honors of the film awards season. This public showcase honors the filmmaking community, expands the audience for independent films, and supports the work that IFP does behind the scenes throughout the year to bring such films to fruition.
For information on attending: http://gotham.ifp.org
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ROBERT DUVALL, HILARY SWANK, DARREN ARONOFSKY AND JAMES SCHAMUS TO RECEIVE
CAREER TRIBUTES AT IFP’S 20TH ANNIVERSARY GOTHAM INDEPENDENT FILM AWARDS
Monday, November 29, 2010 at Cipriani Wall Street-NYC
New York, NY (September 30, 2010) – The Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP), the nation’s oldest and largest organization of independent filmmakers, announced today that director Darren Aronofsky, actors Hilary Swank and Robert Duvall, and Focus Features CEO, James Schamus, will each be presented with a career Tribute at the 20th Anniversary Gotham Independent Film Awards™ on Monday, November 29th at Cipriani Wall Street, New York, New York.
Signaling the official kick-off to the film awards season, the Gotham Independent Film Awards™ is one of the leading awards for independent film. Anchoring the evening’s seven competitive awards for Best Feature, Best Documentary, Breakthrough Director, Breakthrough Actor, Best Ensemble Performance, Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You and the new Festival Genius Audience Award, are four Tributes to film community icons.
This year’s Tribute selection represents a range of individuals – all veterans well-versed in the journey between lower-budget independent films and large-scale studio releases. In addition, the honorees represent some of the most critically acclaimed and highly anticipated films including: Get Low from Sony Pictures Classics (directed by Aaron Schneider and featuring Robert Duvall); the upcoming Fox Searchlight release Conviction (directed by Tony Goldwyn and featuring Hilary Swank); Black Swan from Fox Searchlight (directed by Darren Aronofsky); and Focus Features’ The Kids are All Right (James Schamus, CEO).
“We are moved and honored to give tribute to four cinematic film luminaries, all of whom have had their roots in independent film, and have steadfastly focused on the art of film, irrespective of the size of the budget of their work” said Joana Vicente, Executive Director of the IFP. “This year’s tributes personify independent spirit and have created an astonishing breadth of work that we are proud to celebrate. James Schamus won the producing award in 1996 and Darren Aronofsky was our Breakthrough Director in 1998. We are thrilled to honor them again for their deserving careers. Robert Duvall and Hilary Swank’s work have enriched our lives; from the smallest of indies to the largest of Hollywood features, we are in awe of their talent and look forward to what lies ahead.”
A leading man since the 1960s, ROBERT DUVALL (Felix Bush) has specialized in taciturn cowboys, fierce leaders and driven characters of all types. Respected by his peers and adored by audiences worldwide, he has earned numerous Oscar® nominations for his performances in The Godfather, Apocalypse Now, The Great Santini and The Apostle. Duvall won the Academy Award® as Best Actor for his role in Tender Mercies, and later earned the Golden Globe for his performance in the title role of HBO‘s Stalin. More recently, Duvall was honored with the Golden Globe and Emmy Award for his iconic portrayal of Print Ritter in AMC‘s Broken Trail. Duvall made his big screen debut in 1962, as the creepy Boo Radley in To Kill A Mockingbird. He has gone on to star in such classics as Bullitt, True Grit, M*A*S*H, The Conversation, Network, The Natural, Colors, Days Of Thunder, A Handmaid’s Tale, Rambling Rose, Wrestling Ernest Hemingway, Phenomenon, A Civil Action, Open Range, and Thank You For Smoking, among many others.
As a director and producer, Duvall got behind the camera for his labor of love project The Apostle in which he also starred. The film went on to earn many accolades, including being named on over seventy-five film critics and Top 10 Films for 1997 lists. He also wrote, produced and starred in Assassination Tango. Duvall was most recently seen as the Old Man in The Road, based on the novel by Cormac McCarthy and Get Low.
HILARY SWANK is the third youngest woman in history to win two Academy Awards® for "Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role.” In addition to the Oscar for her performance in Boys Don't Cry, Swank won the Golden Globe Award, The New York Film Critics Circle, The Los Angeles Film Critics Association, The Chicago Film Critics and The Broadcast Film Critics Association awards for Best Actress. Swank then appeared in Sam Raimi's, The Gift, in Christopher Nolan's, Insomnia, and in the acclaimed HBO telefilm Iron Jawed Angels for which she was honored with both SAG and Golden Globe nominations for her performance. In 2004, Swank starred opposite Clint Eastwood and Morgan Freeman as the title character in Eastwood's Million Dollar Baby. For this performance, she was honored with her second Academy Award® for Best Actress and also garnered prizes from the National Society of Film Critics, the Screen Actors Guild, The Broadcast Film Critics, and a Golden Globe for "Best Lead Actress in a Drama.”
Swank has since starred in PS I Love You, Freedom Writers and this year’s much anticipated, Conviction, in which she plays Betty Anne Waters, a true life hero and mother who spent 18 years working her way through school to get her brother released from prison for a wrongful murder conviction.
DARREN ARONOFSKY exploded on the independent film scene with his 1998 Sundance Film Festival-winning film, π, where he received the Best Director award as well as accolades across the independent film world, winning the 1998 Breakthrough Directing Award from the Gotham Independent Film Awards as well as an Independent Spirit Award. Aronofsky then went on to direct the films Requiem for a Dream, for which Ellen Burstyn received both a Golden Globe and an Academy Award® nomination; The Fountain, starring Hugh Jackman and Rachel Weisz and The Wrestler, which garnered Academy Award® nominations for its stars Mickey Rourke and Marisa Tomei and won Best Picture at the Independent Spirit Awards.
Aronofsky’s upcoming film, Black Swan, which will be released in December, stars Natalie Portman, Vincent Cassell, Mila Kunis, Barbara Hershey and Winona Ryder. Black Swan opened the 2010 Venice Film Festival and received critical acclaim at this year’s Toronto Film Festival.
An integral contributor to the American independent film business for over two decades, JAMES SCHAMUS has the unique distinction of being an award-winning screenwriter and producer who is also a film executive. Additionally, he is Professor in Columbia University’s School of the Arts, where he teaches film history and theory. His published work in the field includes Carl Theodor Dreyer’s Gertrud: The Moving Word, published in 2008. Prior to the formation of Focus Features, Schamus was co-president of the independent film production company Good Machine, which he co-founded in 1991. Schamus and his partners at the company produced over 40 films during an 11-year period, in partnership with filmmakers such as Ang Lee, Todd Solondz, and Nicole Holofcener. Through its financing and distribution arm, Good Machine International, the company represented dozens more filmmakers, among them Pedro Almodóvar and the Coen Brothers. Good Machine was honored with a 10-year retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, and Schamus was honored with the 1996 Gotham Award for Producing with his producing partner Ted Hope.
Schamus is also a screenwriter, and received Academy Award® nominations in the Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Original Song categories for his work on Ang Lee’s Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. The blockbuster film, which Schamus co-wrote and executive-produced, won 4 Academy Awards®. Schamus has had a long collaboration as writer and producer with Ang Lee on eleven feature films including Focus’ Brokeback Mountain, which won 3 Academy Awards®, 4 Golden Globes, 4 BAFTAs, and the Producers Guild of America’s top prize, the [Darryl F. Zanuck] Producer of the Year Award; Taking Woodstock; Lust, Caution; The Hulk; Ride with the Devil; The Ice Storm; The Wedding Banquet; Eat Drink Man Woman; and Pushing Hands. Schamus executive-produced several Good Machine features that won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, including Edward Burns’ The Brothers McMullen, Tom Noonan’s What Happened Was…, and Todd Haynes’ Poison. Schamus was honored with the NBC Screenwriter Tribute at the 2002 Nantucket Film Festival as well as with the Writers Guild of America, East’s 2003 Richard B. Jablow Award for devoted service to the Guild.
Focus’ celebrated releases have included seven more Academy Award® winners: Gus Van Sant’s Milk, Sofia Coppola’s Lost in Translation, Roman Polanski’s The Pianist, Michel Gondry’s Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Walter Salles’ The Motorcycle Diaries, and Joe Wright’s Atonement; and Henry Selick’s Coraline, Joel and Ethan Coen’s Burn After Reading and A Serious Man, Joe Wright’s Pride & Prejudice, Todd Haynes’ Far from Heaven, François Ozon’s Swimming Pool, and Alejandro González Iñárritu’s 21 Grams. Domestically, the current Focus Features slate includes Lisa Cholodenko’s The Kids Are All Right; Anton Corbijn’s The American; Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck’s It’s Kind of a Funny Story; and Sofia Coppola’s Somewhere, which won the Golden Lion Award for Best Picture at the 2010 Venice International Film Festival.
This year’s Gotham Awards tribute recipients join a prestigious group of previous honorees including: actors Stanley Tucci, Natalie Portman, Javier Bardem, Pénelope Cruz and Kate Winslet; filmmakers Mira Nair, Gus Van Sant, Spike Lee and Martin Scorcese; executives Shelia Nevins (HBO Documentaries) and Jonathan Sehring (IFC Films); and film critic Roger Ebert.
Nominees for the 20th Anniversary Gotham Independent Film Awards™ will be announced on October 18th and winners will be honored at a star-studded ceremony at Cipriani Wall Street on November 29th.
The Premier sponsors of the Gotham Independent Film Awards™ are The New York Times and Royal Bank of Canada. The awards will be promoted nationally in an eight-page special advertising section in The New York Times.
About Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP)
The Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP) is the nation's oldest and largest not-for-profit advocacy organization for independent filmmakers. Since its debut at the 1979 New York Film Festival, IFP has supported the production of over 7,000 films and offered resources to more than 20,000 filmmakers, providing an opportunity for many diverse voices to be heard. IFP believes that independent films enrich the universal language of cinema, seeding the global culture with new ideas, kindling awareness, and fostering activism. The organization has championed early work by pioneering, independent filmmakers, including Charles Burnett, Edward Burns, Jim Jarmusch, Barbara Kopple, Michael Moore, Mira Nair and Kevin Smith.
IFP represents a network of 10,000 filmmakers in New York City and around the world. Through its workshops, seminars, conferences, mentorships and Filmmaker Magazine, IFP schools its members in the art, technology and business of independent filmmaking. The year-round program includes an Independent Film Week, The Gotham Awards, Filmmaking Labs and Seminars, and a range of programs to promote racial, ethnic, religious, ideological, gender and sexual diversity. IFP, often in collaboration with other cultural institutions, builds audiences by hosting premieres and special screenings. The IFP fosters the development of 300 feature and documentary films each year. Recently, the organization licensed the popular Festival Genius software platform through which IFP now reaches over 200,000 film fans worldwide.
For more information: www.ifp.org
About the Gotham Independent Film Awards™
The Gotham Independent Film Awards, selected by distinguished juries and presented in New York City, the home of independent film, are the first honors of the film awards season. This public showcase honors the filmmaking community, expands the audience for independent films, and supports the work that IFP does behind the scenes throughout the year to bring such films to fruition.
For information on attending: http://gotham.ifp.org
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The "Other" INDIE SPIRIT Awards aka ... http://gotham.ifp.org
20th Anniversary Gotham Independent Film Awards™
… it all starts here.
GOTHAM Nominees Announced
Debra Granik’s Winters Bone Receives Three Nominations including Best Feature, Breakthrough Actor and Best Ensemble Performance
The Kids Are All Right and Tiny Furniture both receive two nominations
New York, NY (October 18, 2010) –The Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP), the nation’s oldest and largest organization of independent filmmakers announced today the nominees for the 20th Anniversary Gotham Independent Film Awards™. A total of 26 films were nominated across six competitive categories for Best Feature, Best Documentary, Breakthrough Director, Breakthrough Actor, Best Ensemble Performance and Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near YouÒ.
Signaling the official kick-off to the film awards seasonIFP’s 20th Anniversary Gotham Independent Film Awards™ nominations were announced at 1 p.m. ET / 10 a.m. / PT to a global audience on UStream TV by Elvis Mitchell, film critic and host of “The Treatment,” distributed by KCRW public radio, and soon to be co-host of “Roger Ebert Presents At the Movies,” launching in January 2011.
You can watch the announcement here http://www.ustream.tv/channel/gotham-independent-film-awards-2010.
The Gotham Awards’ 20th Anniversary ceremony will be held on Monday, November 2, 2010 at Cipriani Wall Street. In addition to the competitive awards, actors Robert Duvall and Hilary Swank, director Darren Aronofsky, and Focus Features CEO James Schamus will each be presented with a career tribute.
As the first major awards of the film season, the Gotham Independent Film Awards™ provide critical early recognition and media attention to worthy independent films. Previous winners for Best Feature and Best Documentary include THE HURT LOCKER (2009), FOOD, INC (2009), FROZEN RIVER (2008), TROUBLE THE WATER (2008), INTO THE WILD (2007), SICKO (2007), HALF NELSON (2006) and CAPOTE (2005). The awards are also unique for their ability to assist in catapulting award recipients prominently into national awards season attention, including recent winners and ultimate Oscar® contenders: feature winner, THE HURT LOCKER (2009); Breakthrough Actors, Melissa Leo (2008), Ellen Page (2007), Rinko Kikuchi (2006) and Amy Adams (2005).
Primary criteria for nomination consideration includes American (US-based or US-born directors and producers), feature-length films made with a point of view. Additional criteria include independently distributed films made with an economy of means. For a complete list of criteria, see http://gotham.ifp.org.
Selecting this year’s nominees were 20 film critics, journalists, and curators (see list below). Separate juries of writers, directors, actors, producers, editors and others directly involved in making films will determine final award recipients.
“The Gotham Awards celebrate the collective breath of independent cinema,” said Joana Vicente, executive director of IFP. “Ranging from the small gems produced on micro-budgets to extraordinary films from specialty distributors, the nominees all share the type of creative vision and risk-taking that are a hallmark of independent film. It’s also my pleasure to report that there are more female directors nominated this year than any year before.”
The nominees for the 20th Anniversary Gotham Independent Film Awards are:
Best Feature
Black Swan
Darren Aronofsky, director; Mike Medavoy, Arnold W. Messer, Brian Oliver, Scott Franklin, producers (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
Blue Valentine
Derek Cianfrance, director; Jamie Patricof, Lynette Howell, Alex Orlovsky, producers (The Weinstein Company)
The Kids Are All Right
Lisa Cholodenko, director; Gary Gilbert, Jeffrey Levy-Hinte, Celine Rattray, Jordan Horowitz, Daniela Taplin Lundberg, Philippe Hellmann, producers (Focus Features)
Let Me in
Matt Reeves, director; Simon Oakes, Alex Brunner, Guy East, Tobin Armbrust, Donna Gigliotti, John Nording, Carl Molinder, producers (Overture Films)
Winter's Bone
Debra Granik, director; Anne Rosellini, Alix Madigan-Yorkin, producers (Roadside Attractions)
Best Documentary
12th & Delaware
Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady, directors/producers (HBO Documentary Films)
Inside Job
Charles Ferguson, director; Charles Ferguson, Audrey Marrs, producers (Sony Pictures Classics)
The Oath
Laura Poitras, director/producer (Zeitgeist Films and American Documentary/POV)
Public Speaking
Martin Scorsese, director; Martin Scorsese, Graydon Carter, Margaret Bodde, Fran Lebowitz, producers (HBO Documentary Films)
Sweetgrass
Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Ilisa Barbash, directors; Ilisa Barbash, producer (Cinema Guild)
Best Ensemble Performance
The Kids Are All Right
Annette Bening, Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo, Mia Wasikowska, Josh Hutcherson (Focus Features)
Life During Wartime
Shirley Henderson, Ciarán Hinds, Allison Janney, Michael Lerner, Chris Marquette, Rich Pecci, Charlotte Rampling, Paul Reubens, Ally Sheedy, Dylan Riley Snyder, Renée Taylor, Michael Kenneth Williams (IFC Films)
Please Give
Catherine Keener, Amanda Peet, Oliver Platt, Rebecca Hall, Ann Guilbert, Lois Smith, Sarah Steele, Thomas Ian Nicholas (Sony Pictures Classics)
Tiny Furniture
Lena Dunham, Laurie Simmons, Grace Dunham, Rachel Howe, Merritt Wever, Amy Seimetz, Alex Karpovsky, David Call, Jemima Kirke, Sarah Sophie Flicker, Garland Hunter, Isen Hunter (IFC Films)
Winter’s Bone
Jennifer Lawrence, John Hawkes, Dale Dickey, Lauren Sweetser, Garret Dillahunt, Kevin Breznahan
(Roadside Attractions)
Breakthrough Director
John Wells for The Company Men (The Weinstein Company)
Kevin Asch for Holy Rollers (First Independent Pictures)
Glenn Ficarra and John Requa for I Love You Phillip Morris (Roadside Attractions)
Tanya Hamilton for Night Catches Us (Magnolia Pictures)
Lena Dunham for Tiny Furniture (IFC Films)
Breakthrough Actor
Prince Adu in Prince of Broadway (Elephant Eye Films)
Ronald Bronstein in Daddy Longlegs (IFC Films)
Greta Gerwig in Greenberg (Focus Features)
Jennifer Lawrence in Winter’s Bone (Roadside Attractions)
John Ortiz in Jack Goes Boating (Overture Films)
Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You
Kati with an i
Robert Greene, director; Douglas Tirola, Susan Bedusa, producers
Littlerock
Mike Ott, director; Frederick Thornton, Laura Ragsdale, Sierra Leoni, producers
On Coal River
Francine Cavanaugh and Adams Wood, directors; Jillian Elizabeth, Adams Wood, Francine Cavanaugh, producers
Summer Pasture
Lynn True and Nelson Walker, directors/producers; Tsering Perlo, co-director/co-producer
The Wolf Knife
Laurel Nakadate, director/producer
This year, the IFP has created a new award, The Festival Genius Audience Award. To be eligible, a U.S. film must have won an audience award at a U.S. or Canadian film festival from November 2009 through October 2010. The Festival Genius community, 200,000 film fans worldwide, will vote online for the winner. The nominees will be announced in early November and the winner will be revealed at the Gotham Awards ceremony.
The recipient of the Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near YouÒ award will be determined by the editors of Filmmaker Magazine, a publication of IFP, and a curator from the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). All of these nominees will also be screened for the public at MoMA November 18 – 22.
The nominating committees for the 20h Annual Gotham Independent Film Award™ announced above are as follows:
Nominating Committee for Best Feature and Breakthrough Director:
Thelma Adams, Film Critic, US Weekly
Andrew O'Hehir, Film Critic, Salon.com
Joshua Rothkopf, Senior Film Writer, DVD Editor, Time Out New York
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Film Critic, Entertainment Weekly
Nominating Committee for Ensemble Performance and Breakthrough Actor:
Dave Karger, Senior Writer, Entertainment Weekly
Karen Durbin, Film Critic, Elle Magazine
Sam Adams, Film Critic, Philadelphia City Paper
Karina Longworth, Film Critic, LA Weekly
Rajendra Roy, The Celeste Bartos Chief Curator of Film, Museum of Modern Art
Nominating Committee for Best Documentary:
Cynthia Fuchs, Film-TV Editor, PopMatters
Sean Farnel, Director of Programming, Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Film Festival
Mike Maggiore, Programmer and Publicist, Film Forum
Ronnie Scheib, Film Critic, Variety
Nominating Committee for Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You:
Joshua Siegel, Associate Curator, Department of Film and Media, Museum of Modern Art; and members of the editorial staff and contributors to Filmmaker Magazine: Scott Macaulay (Editor-in-Chief), Livia Bloom, Jason Guerrasio, Brandon Harris, Ray Pride, Alicia Van Couvering
2010 Gotham Independent Film Awards™ – Alphabetical List of Nominated Films
12th & Delaware
Best Documentary nominee
Black Swan
Best Feature nominee
Blue Valentine
Best Feature nominee
Daddy Longlegs
Breakthrough Actor nominee
Greenberg
Breakthrough Actor nominee
Holy Rollers
Breakthrough Director nominee
Inside Job
Best Documentary nominee
Jack Goes Boating
Breakthrough Actor nominee
Kati with an i
Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You nominee
Let Me In
Best Feature nominee
Life During Wartime
Best Ensemble Performance nominee
Littlerock
Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You nominee
I Love You Phillip Morris
Breakthrough Director nominee
Night Catches Us
Breakthrough Director nominee
On Coal River
Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You nominee
Please Give
Best Ensemble Performance nominee
Prince of Broadway
Breakthrough Actor nominee
Public Speaking
Best Documentary nominee
Summer Pasture
Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You nominee
Sweetgrass
Best Documentary nominee
The Company Men
Breakthrough Director nominee
The Kids Are All Right
Best Feature nominee
Best Ensemble Performance nominee
The Oath
Best Documentary nominee
The Wolf Knife
Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You nominee
Tiny Furniture
Best Ensemble Performance nominee
Breakthrough Director nominee
Winter’s Bone
Best Feature nominee
Best Ensemble Performance nominee
Breakthrough Actor nominee
The Premier sponsors of the 2010 Gotham Independent Film Awards™ are The New York Times and The Royal Bank of Canada. RBC is also the sponsor of the Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You award. IFP welcomes new presenting sponsor of the Actress Tribute award, euphoria Calvin Klein and presenting sponsor, Fox Searchlight; returning sponsor Focus Features, Official Spirit, Russian Standard Vodka, Official Hotel, Andaz Wall Street and preferred sponsor of the Breakthrough Director and Breakthrough Actor Awards, Alfred Dunhill. The Gotham Awards will be promoted nationally in an eight-page special advertising section in The New York Times on Friday, November 19, 2010.
About Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP)
The Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP) is the nation's oldest and largest not-for-profit advocacy organization for independent filmmakers. Since its debut at the 1979 New York Film Festival, IFP has supported the production of over 7,000 films and offered resources to more than 20,000 filmmakers, providing an opportunity for many diverse voices to be heard. IFP believes that independent films enrich the universal language of cinema, seeding the global culture with new ideas, kindling awareness, and fostering activism. The organization has championed early work by pioneering, independent filmmakers, including Charles Burnett, Edward Burns, Jim Jarmusch, Barbara Kopple, Michael Moore, Mira Nair and Kevin Smith.
IFP represents a network of 10,000 filmmakers in New York City and around the world. Through its workshops, seminars, conferences, mentorships and Filmmaker Magazine, IFP schools its members in the art, technology and business of independent filmmaking. The year-round program includes an Independent Film Week, The Gotham Awards, Filmmaking Labs and Seminars, and a range of programs to promote racial, ethnic, religious, ideological, gender and sexual diversity. IFP, often in collaboration with other cultural institutions, builds audiences by hosting premieres and special screenings. The IFP fosters the development of 300 feature and documentary films each year. Recently, the organization licensed the popular Festival Genius software platform through which IFP now reaches over 200,000 film fans worldwide.
For more information: www.ifp.org
About the Gotham Independent Film Awards™
The Gotham Independent Film Awards, selected by distinguished juries and presented in New York City, the home of independent film, are the first honors of the film awards season. This public showcase honors the filmmaking community, expands the audience for independent films, and supports the work that IFP does behind the scenes throughout the year to bring such films to fruition.
For information on attending: http://gotham.ifp.org
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The "Other" INDIE SPIRIT Awards aka ... http://gotham.ifp.org
20th Anniversary Gotham Independent Film Awards™
… it all starts here.
GOTHAM Nominees Announced
Debra Granik’s Winters Bone Receives Three Nominations including Best Feature, Breakthrough Actor and Best Ensemble Performance
The Kids Are All Right and Tiny Furniture both receive two nominations
New York, NY (October 18, 2010) –The Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP), the nation’s oldest and largest organization of independent filmmakers announced today the nominees for the 20th Anniversary Gotham Independent Film Awards™. A total of 26 films were nominated across six competitive categories for Best Feature, Best Documentary, Breakthrough Director, Breakthrough Actor, Best Ensemble Performance and Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near YouÒ.
Signaling the official kick-off to the film awards seasonIFP’s 20th Anniversary Gotham Independent Film Awards™ nominations were announced at 1 p.m. ET / 10 a.m. / PT to a global audience on UStream TV by Elvis Mitchell, film critic and host of “The Treatment,” distributed by KCRW public radio, and soon to be co-host of “Roger Ebert Presents At the Movies,” launching in January 2011.
You can watch the announcement here http://www.ustream.tv/channel/gotham-independent-film-awards-2010.
The Gotham Awards’ 20th Anniversary ceremony will be held on Monday, November 2, 2010 at Cipriani Wall Street. In addition to the competitive awards, actors Robert Duvall and Hilary Swank, director Darren Aronofsky, and Focus Features CEO James Schamus will each be presented with a career tribute.
As the first major awards of the film season, the Gotham Independent Film Awards™ provide critical early recognition and media attention to worthy independent films. Previous winners for Best Feature and Best Documentary include THE HURT LOCKER (2009), FOOD, INC (2009), FROZEN RIVER (2008), TROUBLE THE WATER (2008), INTO THE WILD (2007), SICKO (2007), HALF NELSON (2006) and CAPOTE (2005). The awards are also unique for their ability to assist in catapulting award recipients prominently into national awards season attention, including recent winners and ultimate Oscar® contenders: feature winner, THE HURT LOCKER (2009); Breakthrough Actors, Melissa Leo (2008), Ellen Page (2007), Rinko Kikuchi (2006) and Amy Adams (2005).
Primary criteria for nomination consideration includes American (US-based or US-born directors and producers), feature-length films made with a point of view. Additional criteria include independently distributed films made with an economy of means. For a complete list of criteria, see http://gotham.ifp.org.
Selecting this year’s nominees were 20 film critics, journalists, and curators (see list below). Separate juries of writers, directors, actors, producers, editors and others directly involved in making films will determine final award recipients.
“The Gotham Awards celebrate the collective breath of independent cinema,” said Joana Vicente, executive director of IFP. “Ranging from the small gems produced on micro-budgets to extraordinary films from specialty distributors, the nominees all share the type of creative vision and risk-taking that are a hallmark of independent film. It’s also my pleasure to report that there are more female directors nominated this year than any year before.”
The nominees for the 20th Anniversary Gotham Independent Film Awards are:
Best Feature
Black Swan
Darren Aronofsky, director; Mike Medavoy, Arnold W. Messer, Brian Oliver, Scott Franklin, producers (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
Blue Valentine
Derek Cianfrance, director; Jamie Patricof, Lynette Howell, Alex Orlovsky, producers (The Weinstein Company)
The Kids Are All Right
Lisa Cholodenko, director; Gary Gilbert, Jeffrey Levy-Hinte, Celine Rattray, Jordan Horowitz, Daniela Taplin Lundberg, Philippe Hellmann, producers (Focus Features)
Let Me in
Matt Reeves, director; Simon Oakes, Alex Brunner, Guy East, Tobin Armbrust, Donna Gigliotti, John Nording, Carl Molinder, producers (Overture Films)
Winter's Bone
Debra Granik, director; Anne Rosellini, Alix Madigan-Yorkin, producers (Roadside Attractions)
Best Documentary
12th & Delaware
Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady, directors/producers (HBO Documentary Films)
Inside Job
Charles Ferguson, director; Charles Ferguson, Audrey Marrs, producers (Sony Pictures Classics)
The Oath
Laura Poitras, director/producer (Zeitgeist Films and American Documentary/POV)
Public Speaking
Martin Scorsese, director; Martin Scorsese, Graydon Carter, Margaret Bodde, Fran Lebowitz, producers (HBO Documentary Films)
Sweetgrass
Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Ilisa Barbash, directors; Ilisa Barbash, producer (Cinema Guild)
Best Ensemble Performance
The Kids Are All Right
Annette Bening, Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo, Mia Wasikowska, Josh Hutcherson (Focus Features)
Life During Wartime
Shirley Henderson, Ciarán Hinds, Allison Janney, Michael Lerner, Chris Marquette, Rich Pecci, Charlotte Rampling, Paul Reubens, Ally Sheedy, Dylan Riley Snyder, Renée Taylor, Michael Kenneth Williams (IFC Films)
Please Give
Catherine Keener, Amanda Peet, Oliver Platt, Rebecca Hall, Ann Guilbert, Lois Smith, Sarah Steele, Thomas Ian Nicholas (Sony Pictures Classics)
Tiny Furniture
Lena Dunham, Laurie Simmons, Grace Dunham, Rachel Howe, Merritt Wever, Amy Seimetz, Alex Karpovsky, David Call, Jemima Kirke, Sarah Sophie Flicker, Garland Hunter, Isen Hunter (IFC Films)
Winter’s Bone
Jennifer Lawrence, John Hawkes, Dale Dickey, Lauren Sweetser, Garret Dillahunt, Kevin Breznahan
(Roadside Attractions)
Breakthrough Director
John Wells for The Company Men (The Weinstein Company)
Kevin Asch for Holy Rollers (First Independent Pictures)
Glenn Ficarra and John Requa for I Love You Phillip Morris (Roadside Attractions)
Tanya Hamilton for Night Catches Us (Magnolia Pictures)
Lena Dunham for Tiny Furniture (IFC Films)
Breakthrough Actor
Prince Adu in Prince of Broadway (Elephant Eye Films)
Ronald Bronstein in Daddy Longlegs (IFC Films)
Greta Gerwig in Greenberg (Focus Features)
Jennifer Lawrence in Winter’s Bone (Roadside Attractions)
John Ortiz in Jack Goes Boating (Overture Films)
Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You
Kati with an i
Robert Greene, director; Douglas Tirola, Susan Bedusa, producers
Littlerock
Mike Ott, director; Frederick Thornton, Laura Ragsdale, Sierra Leoni, producers
On Coal River
Francine Cavanaugh and Adams Wood, directors; Jillian Elizabeth, Adams Wood, Francine Cavanaugh, producers
Summer Pasture
Lynn True and Nelson Walker, directors/producers; Tsering Perlo, co-director/co-producer
The Wolf Knife
Laurel Nakadate, director/producer
This year, the IFP has created a new award, The Festival Genius Audience Award. To be eligible, a U.S. film must have won an audience award at a U.S. or Canadian film festival from November 2009 through October 2010. The Festival Genius community, 200,000 film fans worldwide, will vote online for the winner. The nominees will be announced in early November and the winner will be revealed at the Gotham Awards ceremony.
The recipient of the Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near YouÒ award will be determined by the editors of Filmmaker Magazine, a publication of IFP, and a curator from the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). All of these nominees will also be screened for the public at MoMA November 18 – 22.
The nominating committees for the 20h Annual Gotham Independent Film Award™ announced above are as follows:
Nominating Committee for Best Feature and Breakthrough Director:
Thelma Adams, Film Critic, US Weekly
Andrew O'Hehir, Film Critic, Salon.com
Joshua Rothkopf, Senior Film Writer, DVD Editor, Time Out New York
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Film Critic, Entertainment Weekly
Nominating Committee for Ensemble Performance and Breakthrough Actor:
Dave Karger, Senior Writer, Entertainment Weekly
Karen Durbin, Film Critic, Elle Magazine
Sam Adams, Film Critic, Philadelphia City Paper
Karina Longworth, Film Critic, LA Weekly
Rajendra Roy, The Celeste Bartos Chief Curator of Film, Museum of Modern Art
Nominating Committee for Best Documentary:
Cynthia Fuchs, Film-TV Editor, PopMatters
Sean Farnel, Director of Programming, Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Film Festival
Mike Maggiore, Programmer and Publicist, Film Forum
Ronnie Scheib, Film Critic, Variety
Nominating Committee for Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You:
Joshua Siegel, Associate Curator, Department of Film and Media, Museum of Modern Art; and members of the editorial staff and contributors to Filmmaker Magazine: Scott Macaulay (Editor-in-Chief), Livia Bloom, Jason Guerrasio, Brandon Harris, Ray Pride, Alicia Van Couvering
2010 Gotham Independent Film Awards™ – Alphabetical List of Nominated Films
12th & Delaware
Best Documentary nominee
Black Swan
Best Feature nominee
Blue Valentine
Best Feature nominee
Daddy Longlegs
Breakthrough Actor nominee
Greenberg
Breakthrough Actor nominee
Holy Rollers
Breakthrough Director nominee
Inside Job
Best Documentary nominee
Jack Goes Boating
Breakthrough Actor nominee
Kati with an i
Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You nominee
Let Me In
Best Feature nominee
Life During Wartime
Best Ensemble Performance nominee
Littlerock
Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You nominee
I Love You Phillip Morris
Breakthrough Director nominee
Night Catches Us
Breakthrough Director nominee
On Coal River
Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You nominee
Please Give
Best Ensemble Performance nominee
Prince of Broadway
Breakthrough Actor nominee
Public Speaking
Best Documentary nominee
Summer Pasture
Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You nominee
Sweetgrass
Best Documentary nominee
The Company Men
Breakthrough Director nominee
The Kids Are All Right
Best Feature nominee
Best Ensemble Performance nominee
The Oath
Best Documentary nominee
The Wolf Knife
Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You nominee
Tiny Furniture
Best Ensemble Performance nominee
Breakthrough Director nominee
Winter’s Bone
Best Feature nominee
Best Ensemble Performance nominee
Breakthrough Actor nominee
The Premier sponsors of the 2010 Gotham Independent Film Awards™ are The New York Times and The Royal Bank of Canada. RBC is also the sponsor of the Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You award. IFP welcomes new presenting sponsor of the Actress Tribute award, euphoria Calvin Klein and presenting sponsor, Fox Searchlight; returning sponsor Focus Features, Official Spirit, Russian Standard Vodka, Official Hotel, Andaz Wall Street and preferred sponsor of the Breakthrough Director and Breakthrough Actor Awards, Alfred Dunhill. The Gotham Awards will be promoted nationally in an eight-page special advertising section in The New York Times on Friday, November 19, 2010.
About Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP)
The Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP) is the nation's oldest and largest not-for-profit advocacy organization for independent filmmakers. Since its debut at the 1979 New York Film Festival, IFP has supported the production of over 7,000 films and offered resources to more than 20,000 filmmakers, providing an opportunity for many diverse voices to be heard. IFP believes that independent films enrich the universal language of cinema, seeding the global culture with new ideas, kindling awareness, and fostering activism. The organization has championed early work by pioneering, independent filmmakers, including Charles Burnett, Edward Burns, Jim Jarmusch, Barbara Kopple, Michael Moore, Mira Nair and Kevin Smith.
IFP represents a network of 10,000 filmmakers in New York City and around the world. Through its workshops, seminars, conferences, mentorships and Filmmaker Magazine, IFP schools its members in the art, technology and business of independent filmmaking. The year-round program includes an Independent Film Week, The Gotham Awards, Filmmaking Labs and Seminars, and a range of programs to promote racial, ethnic, religious, ideological, gender and sexual diversity. IFP, often in collaboration with other cultural institutions, builds audiences by hosting premieres and special screenings. The IFP fosters the development of 300 feature and documentary films each year. Recently, the organization licensed the popular Festival Genius software platform through which IFP now reaches over 200,000 film fans worldwide.
For more information: www.ifp.org
About the Gotham Independent Film Awards™
The Gotham Independent Film Awards, selected by distinguished juries and presented in New York City, the home of independent film, are the first honors of the film awards season. This public showcase honors the filmmaking community, expands the audience for independent films, and supports the work that IFP does behind the scenes throughout the year to bring such films to fruition.
For information on attending: http://gotham.ifp.org
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Press release
ELVIS MITCHELL TO HOST LIVE WEBCAST OF IFP’S
20TH ANNIVERSAY GOTHAM INDEPENDENT FILM AWARDS™ NOMINATIONS ON MONDAY, OCTOBER 18th
Streamed live around the world via UStream TV at 1:00 pm ET / 10:00am PT
New York, NY (October 15, 2010) – The Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP), the nation’s oldest and largest organization of independent filmmakers announced today that Elvis Mitchell will host a live webcast to reveal the nominees for the 20th Anniversary Gotham Independent Film Awards™ on Monday, October 18th.
Signaling the official kick-off to the film awards season, the Gotham Independent Film Awards™ nominations will be announced at 1 p.m. ET / 10 a.m. / PT to a global audience on UStream TV at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/gotham-independent-film-awards-2010.
There will also be a link from IFP’s website. Mitchell, currently host of the public radio show The Treatment, as well as the newly crowned co-host of the revamped TV series Roger Ebert Presents At The Movies, set to air on PBS in January 2011, will announcethe Gotham Award nominations in six competitive awards categories including Best Feature, Best Documentary, the Alfred Dunhill Breakthrough Director and Breakthrough Actor Awards, Best Ensemble Performance and the Royal Bank of Canada, Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You Award. The Festival Genius Audience Award nominees will be announced early November.
"As a New Yorker, I'm thrilled to be part of an event that's so important to the independent film world," said Mitchell.
“We are very excited to announce this year’s 20th Anniversary Gotham Awards nominees live and streaming on line,” said Joana Vicente, executive director of IFP. “Elvis is a highly regarded film critic whose decades of reviews have cemented him as a formidable presence in the film world.”
IFP’s 20th Anniversary Gotham Independent Film Awards™ ceremony will be held on Monday, November 29th at Cipriani Wall Street. In addition to the competitive awards, actors Robert Duvall and Hilary Swank, director Darren Aronofsky and Focus Features’ CEO, James Schamus will each be presented with a career tribute.
As the first major awards of the film season, the Gotham Independent Film Awards™ provide critical early recognition and media attention to worthy independent films. Previous winners for Best Feature and Best Documentary include THE HURT LOCKER (2009), FOOD, INC (2009), FROZEN RIVER (2008), TROUBLE THE WATER (2008), INTO THE WILD (2007), SICKO (2007), HALF NELSON (2006) and CAPOTE (2005). The awards are also unique for their ability to assist in catapulting award recipients prominently into national awards season attention, including recent winners and ultimate Oscar® contenders: feature winners; THE HURT LOCKER (2009); Breakthrough Actors, Melissa Leo (2008), Ellen Page (2007), Rinko Kikuchi (2006) and Amy Adams (2005).
The Premier sponsors of the 2010 Gotham Independent Film Awards™ are The New York Times and The Royal Bank of Canada. RBC is also the sponsor of the Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You award. IFP welcomes new presenting sponsor of the Actress Tribute award, euphoria Calvin Klein and presenting sponsor, Fox Searchlight; returning sponsor Focus Features, Official Spirit, Russian Standard Vodka, Official Hotel, Andaz and preferred sponsor of the Breakthrough Director and Breakthrough Actor Awards, Alfred Dunhill. The Gotham Awards will be promoted nationally in an eight-page special advertising section in The New York Times on Friday, November 19th, 2010.
About Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP)
The Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP) is the nation's oldest and largest not-for-profit advocacy organization for independent filmmakers. Since its debut at the 1979 New York Film Festival, IFP has supported the production of over 7,000 films and offered resources to more than 20,000 filmmakers, providing an opportunity for many diverse voices to be heard. IFP believes that independent films enrich the universal language of cinema, seeding the global culture with new ideas, kindling awareness, and fostering activism. The organization has championed early work by pioneering, independent filmmakers, including Charles Burnett, Edward Burns, Jim Jarmusch, Barbara Kopple, Michael Moore, Mira Nair and Kevin Smith.
IFP represents a network of 10,000 filmmakers in New York City and around the world. Through its workshops, seminars, conferences, mentorships and Filmmaker Magazine, IFP schools its members in the art, technology and business of independent filmmaking. The year-round program includes an Independent Film Week, The Gotham Awards, Filmmaking Labs and Seminars, and a range of programs to promote racial, ethnic, religious, ideological, gender and sexual diversity. IFP, often in collaboration with other cultural institutions, builds audiences by hosting premieres and special screenings. The IFP fosters the development of 300 feature and documentary films each year. Recently, the organization licensed the popular Festival Genius software platform through which IFP now reaches over 200,000 film fans worldwide.
For more information: www.ifp.org
About the Gotham Independent Film Awards™
The Gotham Independent Film Awards, selected by distinguished juries and presented in New York City, the home of independent film, are the first honors of the film awards season. This public showcase honors the filmmaking community, expands the audience for independent films, and supports the work that IFP does behind the scenes throughout the year to bring such films to fruition.
For information on attending: http://gotham.ifp.org
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ELVIS MITCHELL TO HOST LIVE WEBCAST OF IFP’S
20TH ANNIVERSAY GOTHAM INDEPENDENT FILM AWARDS™ NOMINATIONS ON MONDAY, OCTOBER 18th
Streamed live around the world via UStream TV at 1:00 pm ET / 10:00am PT
New York, NY (October 15, 2010) – The Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP), the nation’s oldest and largest organization of independent filmmakers announced today that Elvis Mitchell will host a live webcast to reveal the nominees for the 20th Anniversary Gotham Independent Film Awards™ on Monday, October 18th.
Signaling the official kick-off to the film awards season, the Gotham Independent Film Awards™ nominations will be announced at 1 p.m. ET / 10 a.m. / PT to a global audience on UStream TV at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/gotham-independent-film-awards-2010.
There will also be a link from IFP’s website. Mitchell, currently host of the public radio show The Treatment, as well as the newly crowned co-host of the revamped TV series Roger Ebert Presents At The Movies, set to air on PBS in January 2011, will announcethe Gotham Award nominations in six competitive awards categories including Best Feature, Best Documentary, the Alfred Dunhill Breakthrough Director and Breakthrough Actor Awards, Best Ensemble Performance and the Royal Bank of Canada, Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You Award. The Festival Genius Audience Award nominees will be announced early November.
"As a New Yorker, I'm thrilled to be part of an event that's so important to the independent film world," said Mitchell.
“We are very excited to announce this year’s 20th Anniversary Gotham Awards nominees live and streaming on line,” said Joana Vicente, executive director of IFP. “Elvis is a highly regarded film critic whose decades of reviews have cemented him as a formidable presence in the film world.”
IFP’s 20th Anniversary Gotham Independent Film Awards™ ceremony will be held on Monday, November 29th at Cipriani Wall Street. In addition to the competitive awards, actors Robert Duvall and Hilary Swank, director Darren Aronofsky and Focus Features’ CEO, James Schamus will each be presented with a career tribute.
As the first major awards of the film season, the Gotham Independent Film Awards™ provide critical early recognition and media attention to worthy independent films. Previous winners for Best Feature and Best Documentary include THE HURT LOCKER (2009), FOOD, INC (2009), FROZEN RIVER (2008), TROUBLE THE WATER (2008), INTO THE WILD (2007), SICKO (2007), HALF NELSON (2006) and CAPOTE (2005). The awards are also unique for their ability to assist in catapulting award recipients prominently into national awards season attention, including recent winners and ultimate Oscar® contenders: feature winners; THE HURT LOCKER (2009); Breakthrough Actors, Melissa Leo (2008), Ellen Page (2007), Rinko Kikuchi (2006) and Amy Adams (2005).
The Premier sponsors of the 2010 Gotham Independent Film Awards™ are The New York Times and The Royal Bank of Canada. RBC is also the sponsor of the Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You award. IFP welcomes new presenting sponsor of the Actress Tribute award, euphoria Calvin Klein and presenting sponsor, Fox Searchlight; returning sponsor Focus Features, Official Spirit, Russian Standard Vodka, Official Hotel, Andaz and preferred sponsor of the Breakthrough Director and Breakthrough Actor Awards, Alfred Dunhill. The Gotham Awards will be promoted nationally in an eight-page special advertising section in The New York Times on Friday, November 19th, 2010.
About Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP)
The Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP) is the nation's oldest and largest not-for-profit advocacy organization for independent filmmakers. Since its debut at the 1979 New York Film Festival, IFP has supported the production of over 7,000 films and offered resources to more than 20,000 filmmakers, providing an opportunity for many diverse voices to be heard. IFP believes that independent films enrich the universal language of cinema, seeding the global culture with new ideas, kindling awareness, and fostering activism. The organization has championed early work by pioneering, independent filmmakers, including Charles Burnett, Edward Burns, Jim Jarmusch, Barbara Kopple, Michael Moore, Mira Nair and Kevin Smith.
IFP represents a network of 10,000 filmmakers in New York City and around the world. Through its workshops, seminars, conferences, mentorships and Filmmaker Magazine, IFP schools its members in the art, technology and business of independent filmmaking. The year-round program includes an Independent Film Week, The Gotham Awards, Filmmaking Labs and Seminars, and a range of programs to promote racial, ethnic, religious, ideological, gender and sexual diversity. IFP, often in collaboration with other cultural institutions, builds audiences by hosting premieres and special screenings. The IFP fosters the development of 300 feature and documentary films each year. Recently, the organization licensed the popular Festival Genius software platform through which IFP now reaches over 200,000 film fans worldwide.
For more information: www.ifp.org
About the Gotham Independent Film Awards™
The Gotham Independent Film Awards, selected by distinguished juries and presented in New York City, the home of independent film, are the first honors of the film awards season. This public showcase honors the filmmaking community, expands the audience for independent films, and supports the work that IFP does behind the scenes throughout the year to bring such films to fruition.
For information on attending: http://gotham.ifp.org
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