The Gotham Film and Media Institute’s 30th annual Gotham Award took place on Monday night, and although the ceremony was virtual, the joy of the independent film world was still felt at the Cipriani Wall Street live event in New York.
IFP Executive Director Jeffrey Sharp welcomed the virtual audience and the evening was attended by a handful of in-person presenters, including Renee Elise Goldsberry, Cristin Milioti, Hunter Schafer, Padma Lakshmi, Michael Shannon and Noma Dumezweni, as well as remote presenters such as Zachary Quinto, Lupita Nyong’o, Anthony Mackie, Rebecca Hall and Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre.
Chloe Zhao’s Nomadland received the honor of Best Picture and won the Gotham Audience Award. The Best Documentary was awarded to both Ramona Diaz Thousand cuts and Garrett Bradley Time. Fernanda Valadez’s Identifying features won the Gotham Award for Best International Film.
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On the acting side, Metal soundis Riz Ahmed and Miss JuneteenthNicole Beharie won Best Actor and Best Actress, respectively, while Kingsley Ben-Adir took home the Gotham Award for Best Actor for his time as Malcolm X at Regina King’s One night in Miami …
For the series, Michaela Coel is critically acclaimed and profound I can destroy youwon in the Breakthrough – Short Format series, while the HBO comic / science fiction series won the Emmy 11 times watchmakers won for Breakthrough Series – Long Format.
Besides, besides, Moonlight actor Andre Holland paid tribute to the late great Chadwick Boseman with a tribute to posthumous actor and Viola Davis with a tribute to actress.
Boseman’s wife, Taylor Simone Ledward was virtually available and shared exciting words “He was blessed to live many lives in his focused life,” she said. “He took advantage of the power to let go and let God’s love shine through.”
“Thanks for giving Chad these gifts,” she said. “It is an honor to receive this award on behalf of my husband.”
Holding back the tears, she closed, “Chad, thanks. I love you. I am so proud of you. Keep your light shining on us. “
Steve McQueen received the Director’s Tribute, while Ryan Murphy was honored with an Industry Tribute. The Gotham Awards also presented the first tribute to the Ensemble, which was given to the cast of Aaron Sorkin The Chicago Trial 7.
Golden Globe winner and Emmy nominee actor Jeffrey Wright added another trophy to his mantle with the Made in NY Award, which recognizes the achievements of people and organizations who have made significant contributions to New York’s entertainment and digital media sectors. York during their careers.
Read the full list of winners below.
BEST FEATURE
The assistant
First cow
Never seldom sometimes always
*WINNER* Nomadland
Relic
BEST DOCUMENTARY – TIE
76 days
town hall
Our Time Machine
*WINNER* Thousand cuts
*WINNER* Time
BEST INTERNATIONAL RESOURCE
Bacurau
Varapau
Cuties (Mignonnes)
*WINNER* Identifying features
Martin Eden
Wolfwalkers
BINGHAM RAY DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT AWARD
Radha Blank, The forty-year-old version
Channing Godfrey Peoples, Miss Juneteenth
Alex Thompson, San Francisco
Carlo Mirabella-Davis, swallow
* WINNER * Andrew Patterson, The Vast of Night
BEST SCREENPLAY – TIE
Bad Education, Mike Makowsky
First cow, Jon Raymond, Kelly Reichardt
*WINNER* The forty-year-old version, Radha Blank
*WINNER* Fourteen, Dan Sallitt
The Vast of Night, James Montague, Craig Sanger
BEST ACTOR
* WINNER * Riz Ahmed, Metal sound
Chadwick Boseman, Black Bottom by Ma Rainey
Jude Law in The nest
John Magaro, First cow
Jesse Plemons, I’m thinking about ending things
BEST ACTRESS
* WINNER * Nicole Beharie, Miss Juneteenth
Jessie Buckley, I’m thinking about ending things
Yuh-Jung Youn, Minari
Carrie Coon, The nest
Frances McDormand, Nomadland
DISCOVERY ACTOR
Jasmine Batchelor, The substitute
* WINNER * Kingsley Ben-Adir, One night in Miami …
Sidney Flanigan, Never seldom sometimes always
Orion Lee, First cow
Kelly O’Sullivan, San Francisco
DEVELOPMENT SERIES – LONG FORMAT (40-MORE MINUTES PER EPISODE)
The big
Immigration Nation
P-Valley
Unorthodox
*WINNER* watchmakers
DEVELOPMENT SERIES – SHORT FORMAT (LESS THAN 40 MINUTES PER EPISODE)
Betty
Dave
*WINNER* I can destroy you
Taste the Nation
working in progress
ATRESS TRIBUTE
Viola Davis
ACTOR TRIBUTE
Chadwick Boseman
TAX SET
The cast of The Chicago Trial 7: Sacha Baron Cohen, Eddie Redmayne, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Jeremy Strong, Mark Rylance, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Michael Keaton, Frank Langella, John Carroll Lynch, Alex Sharp, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Caitlin Fitzgerald, Alice Kremelberg and Ben Shenkman.
DIRECTOR’S TRIBUTE
Steve McQueen
INDUSTRY TRIBUTE
Ryan Murphy
AWARD MADE IN NY
Jeffrey Wright
GOTHAM AUDIENCE AWARD
Nomadland