30th Annual IFP Gotham Awards Nominations

Awards season is now officially underway with the announcement of the nominations for the 30th Annual IFP Gotham Awards. Leading the way this year is Kelly Reichardt’s period drama First Cow, which scored four nominations including Best Feature. In a remarkable move, the five films nominated for Best Feature were all directed by female filmmakers.

The 30th Annual IFP Gotham Awards ceremony will be held on Monday, January 11th 2021. 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.

Best Feature

The Assistant
First Cow
Never Rarely Sometimes Always
Nomadland
Relic

Best Documentary

76 Days
City Hall
Our Time Machine
A Thousand Cuts
Time

Best International Feature

Bacurau
Beanpole
Cuties (Mignonnes)
Identifying Features
Martin Eden
Wolfwalkers

Breakthrough Director

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

Best Screenplay

Bad Education – Mike Makowsky
First Cow – Jon Raymond, Kelly Reichardt
The Forty-Year-Old Version – Radha Blank
Fourteen – Dan Sallitt
The Vast of Night – James Montague, Craig Sanger

Best Actor

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

Best Actress

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

Breakthrough Actor

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

Breakthrough Series – Long Format (over 40 minutes)

The Great
Immigration Nation
P-Valley
Unorthodox
Watchmen

Breakthrough Series – Short Format (under 40 minutes)

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


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Author: Doug Jamieson

From musicals to horror and everything in between, Doug has an eclectic taste in films. Both a champion of independent cinema and a defender of more mainstream fare, he prefers to find an equal balance between two worlds often at odds with each other. A film critic by trade but a film fan at heart, Doug also writes for his own website The Jam Report, and Australia’s the AU review.