This Year’s Gotham Awards Spread The Love: ‘Nomadland’, ‘One Night In Miami,’ ‘Sound Of Metal’ & More Win Awards
Awards season is unfolding a little later than usual this year thanks to the coronavirus pandemic shifting the windows for qualifying films into early 2021. That’s why movies likeNomadlandandMinari, which you’ve seen pop up on various lists naming the Top 10 Films of 2020, aren’t getting wide theatrical releases until February. But the 30th Gotham Awards winners have just been announced, kicking off a season of accolades for the best films from last year. Who walked away with the big prizes? Get the full list of 2021 Gotham Awards winners below.
IndieWirebrought our attention to the list of 2021 Gotham Awards winners, which spread the love among a number of films.Nomadlandwalked away with the top prize for Best Picture, as well as the Audience Award, beating outThe Assistant,First Cow,Never Rarely Sometimes Always, andRelic.Riz Ahmedwon Best Actor forSound of MetalwhileNicole Behariereceived Best Actress forMiss Juneteenth. There isn’t an overall Best Director award, but theBingham Ray Breakthrough DirectorAward went toAndrew PattersonforThe Vast of Night, and there was also a Director Tribute award that went toSteve McQueenfor his work on theSmall Axeseries of films. As for writing accolades, the award for Best Screenplay was a tie betweenThe Forty-Year Old Versionby Radha Blank andFourteenbyDan Sallitt.
There were also several other Tribute awards handed out throughout the evening, includingViola DavisandChadwick Bosemanbeing honored for their turns inMa Rainey’s Black Bottom, as well as an ensemble award for the entire cast ofThe Trial of the Chicago 7.
you may get the full list of 2021 Gotham Awards winners below.
2021 Gotham Awards Winners
Best FeatureThe AssistantFirst CowNever Rarely Sometimes AlwaysNomadland(WINNER)RelicBest Documentary76 DaysCity HallOur Time MachineA Thousand Cuts(WINNER)Time(WINNER)Best International FeatureBacurauBeanpoleCuties(Mignonnes)Identifying Features(WINNER)Martin EdenWolfwalkersBingham Ray Breakthrough Director Award
Radha Blank –The Forty-Year-Old Version
Channing Godfrey Peoples –Miss JuneteenthAlex Thompson –Saint FrancesCarlo Mirabella-Davis –SwallowAndrew Patterson –The Vast of Night(WINNER)Best ScreenplayBad Education -Mike MakowskyFirst Cow, Jon Raymond - Kelly ReichardtThe Forty-Year-Old Version -Radha Blank (WINNER)Fourteen -Dan Sallitt (WINNER)The Vast of Night -James Montague, Craig SangerBest ActorRiz Ahmed -Sound of Metal(WINNER)Chadwick Boseman –Ma Rainey’s Black BottomJude Law –The NestJohn Magaro –First CowJesse Plemons –I’m Thinking of Ending ThingsBest ActressNicole Beharie -Miss Juneteenth(WINNER)Jessie Buckley –I’m Thinking of Ending ThingsYuh-Jung Youn –MinariCarrie Coon –The NestFrances McDormand –NomadlandBreakthrough Actor
Jasmine Batchelor –The Surrogate
Kingsley Ben-Adir –One Night in Miami…(WINNER)Sidney Flanigan –Never Rarely Sometimes AlwaysOrion Lee –First CowKelly O’Sullivan –Saint FrancesBreakthrough Series – Long Form (Over 40 Minutes)The GreatImmigration NationP-ValleyUnorthodoxWatchmen(WINNER)Breakthrough Series – Short Form (Under 40 Minutes)BettyDaveI May Destroy You(WINNER)Taste the NationWork in ProgressAudience AwardNomadlandActress TributeViola DavisActor Tribute
