Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Lost Daughter has won Best Feature at the 2021 Gotham Awards. Gyllenhaal also won Breakthrough Director and Best Screenplay. Elsewhere, the newly-created gender-neutral category for Outstanding Lead Performance ended in a tie with both Olivia Colman (The Lost Daughter) and Frankie Faison (The Killing of Kenneth Chamberlain) taking home the Award.
CODA co-stars Troy Kotsur and Emilia Jones were awarded Outstanding Supporting Performance and Gotham Breakthrough Performer Award, respectively. Drive My Car won Best International Feature and Flee took out Best Documentary.
In previously announced tribute awards, Jane Campion received the Director’s Tribute, the cast of The Harder They Fall were presented the Ensemble Tribute, Kristen Stewart and Peter Dinklage were awarded the Performer Tribute, and Magnolia Pictures chief Eamonn Bowles was honoured with the Industry Tribute.
Winners in bold below.
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 (tie)
Frankie Faison – The Killing of Kenneth Chamberlain (tie)
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 (tie)
Devery Jacobs – Reservation Dogs
Lee Jung-jae – Squid Game
Thuso Mbedu – The Underground Railroad (tie)
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
Peter Dinklage