30th GOTHAM AWARDS – Winners & Nominees

We’re living in unpredictable times, but there’s still one thing we can always count on: Awards Season! Our friends at the Independent Filmmaker Project (now called The Gotham) held a virtual 30th Annual GOTHAM AWARDS on January 11, 2021. The event was streamed live on Facebook, but if you missed it you can see the full list of winners and honorees – the best indie films, series, performances, and filmmakers of the past year – below!

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2020 Gotham Awards Winners & Nominees:

Best Feature

• The Assistant
• First Cow
• Never Rarely Sometimes Always
• Nomadland – WINNER
• Relic

Best Documentary

• 76 Days
• City Hall
• Our Time Machine
• A Thousand Cuts – WINNER (TIE)
• Time – WINNER (TIE)

Best International Feature

• Bacurau (Brazil)
• Beanpole (Russia)
• Cuties (France)
• Identifying Features (Mexico) – WINNER
• Martin Eden (Italy/France)
• Wolfwalkers (Ireland)

Bingham Ray Breakthrough Director Award

• Radha Blank (The Forty-Year-Old Version)
• Channing Godfrey Peoples (Miss Juneteenth)
• Alex Thompson (Saint Frances)
• Carlo Mirabella-Davis (Swallow)
• Andrew Patterson (The Vast of Night) – WINNER

Best Actress

• Nicole Beharie (Miss Juneteenth) – WINNER
• Jessie Buckley (I’m Thinking of Ending Things)
• Carrie Coon (The Nest)
• Frances McDormand (Nomadland)
• Yuh-Jung Youn (Minari)

Best Actor

• Riz Ahmed (Sound of Metal) – WINNER
• Chadwick Boseman (Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom)
• Jude Law (The Nest)
• John Magaro (First Cow)
• Jesse Plemons (I’m Thinking of Ending Things)

Breakthrough Actor

• Jasmine Batchelor (The Surrogate)
• Kingsley Ben-Adir (One Night in Miami) – WINNER
• Sidney Flanigan (Never Rarely Sometimes Always)
• Orion Lee (First Cow)
• Kelly O’Sullivan (Saint Frances)

Best Screenplay

• Radha Blank (The Forty-Year-Old Version) – WINNER (TIE)
• Mike Makowsky (Bad Education)
• James Montague & Craig Sanger (The Vast of Night)
• John Raymond & Kelly Reichardt (First Cow)
• Dan Sallitt (Fourteen) – WINNER (TIE)

Breakthrough Series – Over 40 Minutes

• The Great
• Immigration Nation
• P-Valley
• Unorthodox
• Watchmen – WINNER

Breakthrough Series – Under 40 Minutes

• Betty
• Dave
• I May Destroy You – WINNER
• Taste the Nation
• Work in Progress

Audience Award

• Nomadland

Ensemble Tribute

• The Trial of the Chicago 7

Actor Tribute

• Chadwick Boseman

Actress Tribute

• Viola Davis

Director Tribute

• Steve McQueen

Producer Tribute

• Ryan Murphy

CONGRATS TO ALL THIS YEAR’S WINNERS! DID YOUR FAVORITE TAKE HOME A GOTHAM AWARD?

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