The 30th Annual Gotham Independent Film Awards were held on January 11, 2021.
Conducted annually in Manhattan, New York City, the awards celebrate independent filmmakers and are often seen as preemptive of Academy Awards buzz. This year, the awards took on a virtual format due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
This year, ‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’ actors Chadwick Boseman and Viola Davis, director Steve McQueen and writer Ryan Murphy received tribute awards. The cast of ‘Trial of Chicago 7’ was honoured for the ensemble tribute.
The following is the full list of nominees and winners in each category:
Best Feature
‘The Assistant’
‘First Cow’
‘Never Rarely Sometimes Always’
‘Nomadland’
‘Relic’
Winner- ‘Nomadland’
Best Documentary
’76 Days’
‘City Hall’
‘Our Time Machine’
‘A Thousand Cuts’
‘Time’
Winner (tie)- A Thousand Cuts
Winner (tie)-Time
Best International Feature
‘Bacurau’
‘Beanpole’
‘Cuties (Mignonnes)’
‘Martin Eden’
‘Wolfwalkers’
Winner- ‘Identifying Features’
Bingham Ray Breakthrough Director Award
Radha Blank for ‘The Forty-Year-Old Version’
Channing Godfrey Peoples for ‘Miss Juneteenth’
Alex Thompson for ‘Saint Frances’
Carlo Mirabella for ‘Davis for Swallow’
Andrew Patterson for ‘The Vast of Night’
Winner- Andrew Patterson for ‘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
Winner (tie)- The Forty-Year-Old Version, Radha Blank
Winner (tie)- Fourteen, Dan Sallitt
Best Actor
Riz Ahmed in ‘Sound of Metal’
Chadwick Boseman in ‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’
Jude Law in ‘The Nest’
John Magaro in ‘First Cow
Jesse Plemons in ‘I’m Thinking of Ending Things’
Winner- Riz Ahmed in ‘Sound of Metal’
Best Actress
Nicole Beharie in ‘Miss Juneteenth’
Jessie Buckley in ‘I’m Thinking of Ending Things’
Yuh-Jung Youn in ‘Minari’
Carrie Coon in ‘The Nest’
Frances McDormand in ‘Nomadland’
Winner- Nicole Beharie in ‘Miss Juneteenth’
Breakthrough Actor
Jasmine Batchelor in ‘The Surrogate’
Kingsley Ben-Adir in ‘One Night in Miami’
Sidney Flanigan in ‘Never Rarely Sometimes Always’
Orion Lee in ‘First Cow’
Kelly O’Sullivan in ‘Saint Frances’
Winner- Kingsley Ben-Adir in ‘One Night in Miami’
Breakthrough Series — Long Format (over 40 minutes)
‘The Great’
‘Immigration Nation’
‘P-Valley’
‘Unorthodox’
‘Watchmen’
Winner- Watchmen
Breakthrough Series — Short Format (under 40 minutes)
‘Betty’
‘Dave’
‘I May Destroy You’
‘Taste the Nation’
‘Work in Progress’
Winner- ‘I May Destroy You’
