Awards season is now officially underway with the announcement of the nominations for the 2021 Gotham Independent Film Awards. Leading the way this year are Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Lost Daughter and Rebecca Hall’s Passing, which both scored five nominations including Best Feature, Breakthrough Director, and Best Screenplay.
This year, the Gotham Awards has adopted gender-neutral categories in the acting field with up to ten nominees each for Outstanding Lead Performance, Outstanding Supporting Performance, and Outstanding Performance in a New Series. For the first time, international documentaries were eligible for the Best Documentary category. Four of the five nominees are from countries outside the United States.
In previously announced tribute awards, Jane Campion will receive the Director’s Tribute, the cast of The Harder They Fall will receive the Ensemble Tribute, Oscar hopeful Kristen Stewart will receive the Performer Tribute, and Magnolia Pictures chief Eamonn Bowles will receive the Industry Tribute.
The 31st Annual Gotham Awards ceremony will be held on Monday, November 29, 2021, at the Cipriani Wall Street in New York.
Best Feature
The Green Knight
The Lost Daughter
Passing
Pig
Test Pattern
Best Documentary
Ascension
Faya Dayi
Flee
President
Summer Of Soul (…Or, When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
Best International Feature
Azor
Drive My Car
The Souvenir Part II
Titane
What Do We See When We Look at the Sky?
The Worst Person In The World
Bingham Ray Breakthrough Director
Maggie Gyllenhaal – The Lost Daughter
Edson Oda – Nine Days
Rebecca Hall – Passing
Emma Seligman – Shiva Baby
Shatara Michelle Ford – Test Pattern
Best Screenplay
The Card Counter – Paul Schrader
El Planeta – Amalia Ulman
The Green Knight – David Lowery
The Lost Daughter – Maggie Gyllenhaal
Passing – Rebecca Hall
Red Rocket – Sean Baker & Chris Bergoch
Outstanding Lead Performance
Olivia Colman – The Lost Daughter
Frankie Faison – The Killing of Kenneth Chamberlain
Michael Greyeyes – Wild Indian
Brittany S. Hall – Test Pattern
Oscar Isaac – The Card Counter
Taylour Paige – Zola
Joaquin Phoenix – C’mon C’mon
Simon Rex – Red Rocket
Lili Taylor – Paper Spiders
Tessa Thompson – Passing
Outstanding Supporting Performance
Reed Birney – Mass
Jessie Buckley – The Lost Daughter
Colman Domingo – Zola
Gaby Hoffmann – C’mon C’mon
Troy Kotsur – CODA
Marlee Matlin – CODA
Ruth Negga – Passing
Gotham Breakthrough Performer Award
Emilia Jones – CODA
Natalie Morales – Language Lessons
Rachel Sennott – Shiva Baby
Suzanna Son – Red Rocket
Amalia Ulman – El Planeta
Breakthrough Series – Long Format (over 40 minutes)
The Great
The Good Lord Bird
It’s A Sin
Small Axe
Squid Game
The Underground Railroad
The White Lotus
Breakthrough Series – Short Format (under 40 minutes)
Blindspotting
Hacks
Reservation Dogs
Run the World
We Are Lady Parts
Breakthrough Series – Non-Fiction
City So Real
Exterminate the Brutes
How to With John Wilson
Philly D.A.
Pride
Outstanding Performance in a New Series
Jennifer Coolidge – The White Lotus
Michael Greyeyes – Rutherford Falls
Ethan Hawke – The Good Lord Bird
Devery Jacobs – Reservation Dogs
Lee Jung-jae – Squid Game
Thuso Mbedu – The Underground Railroad
Jean Smart – Hacks
Omar Sy – Lupin
Anya Taylor-Joy – The Queen’s Gambit
Anjana Vasan – We Are Lady Parts
Director’s Tribute
Jane Campion
Ensemble Tribute
The Harder They Fall – Zazie Beetz, Deon Cole, RJ Cyler, Danielle Deadwyler, Idris Elba, Edi Gathegi, Regina King, Delroy Lindo, Jonathan Majors and Lakeith Stanfield
Industry Tribute
Eamonn Bowles
Performer Tribute
Kristen Stewart
