Awards season is now officially underway with the announcement of the nominations for the 34th Gotham Independent Film Awards. Leading the way this year is Sean Baker’s Anora with 4 nominations for Best Feature, Best Director for Baker, Best Lead Performance for Mikey Madison, and Best Supporting Performance for Yura Borisov.
In previously announced tribute awards, Denis Villeneuve will receive the Director Tribute award for Dune: Part Two and the cast of Malcolm Washington’s The Piano Lesson will be honoured with the Ensemble Tribute prize.
The 34th Annual Gotham Awards ceremony will be held on Monday, December 2, 2024 at the Cipriani Wall Street in New York.
Full list of nominations below.
Best Feature
Anora
Babygirl
Challengers
A Different Man
Nickel Boys
Best Documentary Feature
Dahomey
Intercepted
No Other Land
Soundtrack to a Coup D’etat
Sugarcane
Union
Best International Feature
All We Imagine as Light
Green Border
Hard Truths
Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell
Vermiglio
Best Director
Sean Baker – Anora
Guan Hu – Black Dog
Payal Kapadia – All We Imagine as Light
Ramel Ross – Nickel Boys
Jane Schoenbrun – I Saw the TV Glow
Breakthrough Director
India Donaldson – Good One
Vera Drew – The People’s Joker
Mahdi Fleifel – To a Land Unknown
Alessandra Lacorazza – In the Summers
Shuchi Talati – Girls Will be Girls
Best Screenplay
Annie Baker – Janet Planet
Sam H. Freeman & Ng Choon Ping – Femme
Ryusuke Hamaguchi – Evil Does Not Exist
Azazel Jacobs – His Three Daughters
M. Mason Wells & Nathan Silver – Between the Temples
Outstanding Lead Performance
Pamela Anderson – The Last Showgirl
Adrien Brody – The Brutalist
Colman Domingo – Sing Sing
Marianne Jean-Baptiste – Hard Truths
Nicole Kidman – Babygirl
Keith Kupferer – Ghostlist
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-Pain – I Saw the TV Glow
Natasha Lyonne – His Three Daughters
Clarence Maclin – Sing Sing
Katy O’Brian – Love Lies Bleeding
Guy Pearce – The Brutalist
Adam Pearson – A Different Man
Breakthrough Performer
Lily Collias – Good One
Ryan Destiny – The Fire Inside
Maisy Stella – My Old Ass
Izaac Wang – Didi
Brandon Wilson – Nickel Boys