Still feeling confident about your Oscar bets? Awards season has unofficially kicked off with the 34th annual Gotham Awards in New York. While the early bird doesn’t always get the Academy Award, the first major film awards ceremony of the season is usually of interest to dedicated Oscar predictors (or just anyone who likes watching acceptance speeches).
Critics choose which movies are nominated at the Gothams, but the winners are ultimately decided by writers, directors, actors, producers, editors, and other people directly involved in the filmmaking process. So what were voters feeling this year? A Different Man successfully challenged Challengers and the rest of its competition to come out on top in the Best Feature category. With two wins each, Sing Sing and Nickel Boys both had great nights. Not so much for Anora, which led this year’s nominations with four nods but ended up going home empty-handed. Below, the full list of 2024 Gotham Awards winners.
Best Feature
Anora
Babygirl
Challengers
A Different Man
Nickel Boys
Best International Feature
All We Imagine As Light
Green Border
Hard Truths
Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell
Vermiglio
Best Documentary Feature
Dahomey
Intercepted
No Other Land
Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat
Sugarcane
Union
Best Director
Payal Kapadia — All We Imagine As Light
Sean Baker — Anora
Guan Hu — Black Dog
Jane Schoenbrun — I Saw the TV Glow
RaMell Ross — Nickel Boys
Best Screenplay
Between the Temples — Nathan Silver, C. Mason Wells
Evil Does Not Exist — Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
Femme — Sam H. Freeman, Ng Choon Ping
His Three Daughters — Azazel Jacobs
Janet Planet — Annie Baker
Breakthrough Director
Shuchi Talati — Girls Will Be Girls
India Donaldson — Good One
Alessandra Lacorazza — In the Summers
Vera Drew — The People’s Joker
Mahdi Fleifel — To a Land Unknown
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 — Ghostlight
Mikey Madison — Anora
Demi Moore — The Substance
Saoirse Ronan — Outrun
Justice Smith — I Saw the TV Glow
Outstanding Supporting Performance
Yura Borisov, Anora
Kieran Culkin, A Real Pain
Danielle Deadwyler, The Piano Lesson
Brigette Lundy-Paine, 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
Brian Tyree Henry, The Fire Inside
Breakthrough Performer
Lily Collias — Good One
Ryan Destiny — The Fire Inside
Maisy Stella — My Old Ass
Izaac Wang — Dìdi
Brandon Wilson — Nickel Boys
Ensemble Tribute
The Piano Lesson
Director Tribute
Denis Villeneuve — Dune: Part Two
Anniversary Tribute
Franklin Leonard and the Black List
Performer Tribute
Angelina Jolie — Maria
Visionary Tribute
Timothée Chalamet and James Mangold — A Complete Unknown
Spotlight Tribute
Zendaya — Challengers
Social Justice Tribute
Sing Sing
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