THE GOTHAM AWARDS 2024 – Winners

The Gotham Film & Media Institute’s 34TH ANNUAL GOTHAM AWARDS were back for another year of honoring the best filmmaking and acting of the year. Taking place on December 2, 2024, at Cipriani Wall Street in New York, SAGindie was there for the celebration. Joining us at the SAGindie table (alongside SAGindie’s Darrien Michele Gipson, Eliza Hajek, and Michael Sládek), were actors Jelani Alladin (Fellow Travelers), Chris Briney (Mean Girls), Catherine Cohen (Only Murders in the Building), Thomas Doherty (Dandelion), Lío Mehiel (In the Summers), Nicolette Robinson (Woman of the Hour), Alicia Witt (Longlegs), and filmmaker Laura Moss (Birth/Rebirth). See more photos from the night here.

Check out the full list of the 2024 Gotham Awards nominees and winners below!

——

2024 Gotham Awards Nominees & Winners:

Best Feature

• Anora
• Babygirl
• Challengers
• A Different Man – WINNER
• Nickel Boys

Best International Feature

• All We Imagine as Light – WINNER
• Green Border
• Hard Truths
• Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell
• Vermiglio

Best Documentary

• Dahomey
• Intercepted
• No Other Land – WINNER
• Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat
• Sugarcane
• Union

Outstanding Lead Performance

• Pamela Anderson (The Last Showgirl)
• Adrien Brody (The Brutalist)
• Colman Domingo (Sing Sing) – WINNER
• Marianne Jean-Baptiste (Hard Truths)
• Nicole Kidman (Babygirl)
• Keith Kupferer (Ghostlight)
• Mikey Madison (Anora)
• Demi Moore (The Substance)
• Saoirse Ronan (The Outrun)
• Justice Smith (I Saw the TV Glow)

Outstanding Supporting Performance

• Yura Borisov (Anora)
• Kieran Culkin (A Real Pain)
• Danielle Deadwyler (The Piano Lesson)
• Brian Tyree Henry (The Fire Inside)
• Brigette Lundy-Paine (I Saw the TV Glow)
• Natasha Lyonne (His Three Daughters)
• Clarence Maclin (Sing Sing) – WINNER
• Katy O’Brian (Love Lies Bleeding)
• Adam Pearson (A Different Man)
• Guy Pierce (The Brutalist)

Breakthrough Performance

• Lily Collias (Good One)
• Ryan Destiny (The Fire Inside)
• Maisy Stella (My Old Ass)
• Izaac Wang (Dìdi)
• Brandon Wilson (Nickel Boys) – WINNER

Best Director

• Sean Baker (Anora)
• Guan Hu (Black Dog)
• Payal Kapadia (All We Imagine as Light)
• RaMell Ross (Nickel Boys) – WINNER
• Jane Schoenbrun (I Saw the TV Glow)

Breakthrough Director

• India Donaldson (Good One)
• Vera Drew (The People’s Joker) – WINNER
• Mahdi Fleifel (To a Land Unknown)
• Alessandra Lacorazza (In the Summers)
• Shuchi Talati (Girls Will Be Girls)

Best Screenplay

• Annie Baker (Janet Planet)
• NG Choon Ping & Sam H. Freeman (Femme)
• Ryûsuke Hamaguchi (Evil Does Not Exist)
• Azazel Jacobs (His Three Daughters) – WINNER
• Nathan Silver & C. Mason Wells (Between the Temples)

Gotham Ensemble Tribute

• The Piano Lesson (Samuel L. Jackson, John David Washington, Ray Fisher, Danielle Deadwyler, Michael Potts, Corey Hawkins, and Erykah Badu)

Gotham Performer Tribute

• Angelina Jolie (Maria)

Gotham Director Tribute

• Denis Villeneuve (Dune: Part Two)

 Gotham Anniversary Tribute

• Franklin Leonard and The Black List

 Gotham Social Justice Tribute

• Sing Sing

 Gotham Visionary Tribute

• Timothée Chalamet and James Mangold (A Complete Unknown)

 Gotham Spotlight Tribute

• Zendaya (Challengers)

CONGRATS TO THE 2024 GOTHAM AWARD WINNERS!

_______

If you’re an independent filmmaker or know of an independent film-related topic we should write about, email blogadmin@sagindie.org for consideration.