2017 IFP GOTHAM AWARDS – Winners

[UPDATED 12/4/17]

The fantastic folks at the Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP) kicked off awards season with the 2017 GOTHAM INDEPENDENT FILM AWARDS ceremony. The annual New York City event highlights and awards the best independent films and groundbreaking industry people of the year, taking place on November 27, 2017, at Cipriani Wall Street. This year’s awards were hosted by actor/filmmaker JOHN CAMERON MITCHELL, and SAGindie was there to help celebrate along with our actor tablemates Jordana Spiro, Jasmine Cephas Jones, Anthony Ramos, Dominique Fishback, Simone Missick, and Dorian Missick. A great time was had by all! Now be sure to check out the full list of award-winners below!

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2017 Gotham Award Nominees & Winners:

Best Feature

• Call Me By Your Name – WINNER
• The Florida Project
• Get Out
• Good Time
• I, Tonya

Best Documentary

• Ex Libris: The New York Public Library
• Rat Film
• Strong Island – WINNER
• Whose Streets?
• The Work

Bingham Ray Breakthrough Director Award

• Maggie Betts (Novitiate)
• Greta Gerwig (Lady Bird)
• Kogonada (Columbus)
• Jordan Peele (Get Out) – WINNER
• Joshua Z. Weinstein (Menashe)

Best Screenplay

• Greta Gerwig (Lady Bird)
• Emily V. Gordon & Kumail Nanjiani (The Big Sick)
• James Ivory (Call Me By Your Name)
• Kogonada (Columbus)
• Jordan Peele (Get Out) – WINNER
• Mike White (Brad’s Status)

Best Actor

• Willem Dafoe (The Florida Project)
• James Franco (The Disaster Artist) – WINNER
• Daniel Kaluuya (Get Out)
• Robert Pattinson (Good Time)
• Adam Sandler (The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected))
• Harry Dean Stanton (Lucky)

Best Actress

• Melanie Lynskey (I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore)
• Haley Lu Richardson (Columbus)
• Margot Robbie (I, Tonya)
• Saoirse Ronan (Lady Bird) – WINNER
• Lois Smith (Marjorie Prime)

Breakthrough Actor

• Mary J. Blige (Mudbound)
• Timothée Chalamet (Call Me By Your Name) – WINNER
• Harris Dickinson (Beach Rats)
• Kelvin Harrison, Jr. (It Comes at Night)
• Brooklynn Prince (The Florida Project)

Breakthrough Series – Long Form

• Atlanta – WINNER
• Better Things
• Dear White People
• Fleabag
• Search Party

Breakthrough Series – Short Form

• 555
• Inconceivable
• Junior
• Let Me Die a Nun
• The Strange Eyes of Dr. Myes – WINNER

Gotham Jury Award for Ensemble Performance

• Mudbound (Carey Mulligan, Garrett Hedlund, Jason Clarke, Jason Mitchell, Mary J. Blige, Rob Morgan, Jonathan Banks)

Audience Award

• Get Out

Director Tribute

• Sofia Coppola

Actor Tribute

• Dustin Hoffman

Actress Tribute

• Nicole Kidman

Cinematographer Tribute

• Ed Lachman

Industry Tribute

• Jason Blum

Humanitarian Tribute

• Al Gore

CONGRATS TO ALL THE WINNERS! WHAT WERE YOUR GOTHAM AWARDS ’17 HIGHLIGHTS?

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