Past Lives Wins Best Feature at 2023 Gotham Awards

Celine Song’s Past Lives has won Best Feature at the 2023 Gotham Independent Film Awards. Elsewhere, A.V. Rockwell won Breakthrough Director for A Thousand and One, while Lily Gladstone was awarded Outstanding Lead Performance for The Unknown Country and Charles Melton scored Outstanding Supporting Performance for May December.

Justine Triet’s Anatomy of a Fall won Best International Feature and Best Screenplay, while Kaouther Ben Hania’s Four Daughters was awarded Best Documentary.

In previously announced categories, Bradley Cooper’s Maestro, George C. Wolfe’s Rustin, Ben Affleck’s Air, Greta Gerwig’s Barbie, Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon, and Michael Mann’s Ferrari were all bestowed Tribute Awards.

Winners in bold below.

Best Feature

Passages
Ira Sachs, director; Saïd Ben Saïd, Michel Merkt, producers (MUBI)

Past Lives
Celine Song, director; David Hinojosa, Pamela Koffler, Christine Vachon, producers (A24)

Reality
Tina Satter, director; Brad Becker-Parton, Riva Marker, Greg Nobile, Noah Stahl, producers (HBO Films)

Showing Up
Kelly Reichardt, director; Neil Kopp, Vincent Savino, Anish Savjani, producers (A24)

A Thousand and One
A.V. Rockwell, director; Julia Lebedev, Rishi Rajani, Eddie Vaisman, Lena Waithe, Bred Weston, producers (Focus Features)

Best Documentary Feature

20 Days in Mariupol
Mstyslav Chernov, director; Raney Aronson-Rath, Mstyslav Chernov, Derl McCrudden, Michelle Mizner, producers (PBS Distribution)

Against the Tide
Sarvnik Kaur, director; Koval Bhatia, Sarvnik Kaur, producers (Snooker Club Films, A Little Anarky Films)

Apolonia, Apolonia 
Lea Glob, director; Sidsel Lønvig Siersted, producer (Danish Documentary Production) 

Four Daughters
Kaouther Ben Hania, director; Nadim Cheikhrouha, producer (Kino Lorber)

Our Body 
Claire Simon, director; Kristina Larsen, producer (Cinema Guild)

Best International Feature

All of Us Strangers
Andrew Haigh, director; Graham Broadbent, Peter Czemin, Sarah Harvey, producers (Searchlight Pictures)

Anatomy of a Fall
Justine Triet, director; Marie-Ange Luciani, David Thion, producers (NEON)

Poor Things
Yorgos Lanthimos, director; Ed Guiney, Yorgos Lanthimos,  Andrew Lowe, Emma Stone, producers (Searchlight Pictures)

Tótem
Lila Avilés, director; Lila Avilés, Tatiana Graullera, Louise Riousse, producers (Sideshow/Janus Films)

The Zone of Interest
Jonathan Glazer, director; Ewa Puszczynska, James Wilson, producers (A24)

Bingham Ray Breakthrough Director

Raven Jackson, All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt (A24)

Georgia Oakley, Blue Jean (Magnolia Pictures)

Michelle Garza Cervera, Huesera (XYZ Films)

Celine Song, Past Lives (A24)

A.V. Rockwell, A Thousand and One (Focus Features)

Best Screenplay

All of Us Strangers, Andrew Haigh (Searchlight Pictures)

Anatomy of a Fall, Justine Triet, Arthur Harari (NEON)

May December, Samy Burch (Netflix)

R.M.N., Cristian Mungiu (IFC Films)

The Zone of Interest, Jonathan Glazer (A24)

Outstanding Lead Performance

Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Origin (NEON)

Lily Gladstone, The Unknown Country (Music Box Films)

Greta Lee, Past Lives (A24)

Franz Rogowski, Passages (MUBI)

Babetida Sadjo, Our Father, The Devil (Cineverse)

Andrew Scott, All of Us Strangers (Searchlight Pictures) 

Cailee Spaeny, Priscilla (A24)

Teyana Taylor, A Thousand and One (Focus Features) 

Michelle Williams, Showing Up (A24)

Jeffrey Wright, American Fiction (Orion Pictures / Amazon MGM Studios)

Outstanding Supporting Performance

Juliette Binoche, The Taste of Things (IFC Films) 

Penélope Cruz, Ferrari (NEON)

Jamie Foxx, They Cloned Tyrone (Netflix) 

Claire Foy, All of Us Strangers (Searchlight Films) 

Ryan Gosling, Barbie (Warner Bros. Pictures) 

Glenn Howerton, BlackBerry (IFC Films) 

Sandra Hüller, The Zone of Interest (A24)

Rachel McAdams, Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret (Lionsgate) 

Charles Melton, May December (Netflix) 

Da’Vine Joy Randolph, The Holdovers (Focus Features)

Cultural Icon & Creator Tribute

Maestro

Global Icon & Creator Tribute

Barbie

Historical Icon and Creator Tribute

Killers of the Flower Moon

Icon & Creator Tribute for Innovation

Ferrari

Icon & Creator Tribute for Social Justice

Rustin

Visionary Icon & Creator Tribute

Air


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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.