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2024 Gotham Award nominations revealed: See the full list

Christopher Rosen
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Awards season is officially underway, according to the Gotham Film & Media Institute, and “Anora,” “Babygirl,” “Challengers,” “A Different Man,” and “Nickel Boys” are among the films in competition at this year’s Gotham Awards.

On Tuesday, the membership-based, non-profit independent film group announced its nominees for the 2024 Gotham Awards, the “start of the annual awards season” according to press materials. “Anora” led with four nominations, including Best Feature, Best Lead Performance for Mikey Madison, Best Supporting Performance for Yura Borisov, and Best Director for Sean Baker

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The other Best Feature nominees included “Babygirl” (which landed Nicole Kidman a nomination for Best Lead Performance), “Challengers,” “A Different Man” (which also received recognition for Adam Pearson in Best Supporting Performance), and “Nickel Boys” (which had two other nominations – Best Director for RaMell Ross and Breakthrough Performance for Brandon Wilson).

Other highlights among the nominees include Demi Moore and Pamela Anderson in the Best Lead Performance category, and Oscar favorites Kieran CulkinGuy Pearce, and Danielle Deadwyler in the Best Supporting Performance category. (The Gothams have gender-neutral acting categories with actors and actresses competing for one award.)

The full list of nominations is below:

Best Feature 

Anora

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Sean Baker, director; Sean Baker, Alex Coco, Samantha Quan, producers (NEON)

Babygirl

Halina Reijn, director; David Hinojosa, Julia Oh, Halina Reijn, producers (A24)

Challengers

Luca Guadagnino, director; Luca Guadagnino, Rachel O’Connor, Amy Pascal, Zendaya, producers (Amazon MGM Studios)

A Different Man

Aaron Schimberg, director; Gabriel Mayers, Vanessa McDonnell, Christine Vachon, producers (A24)

Nickel Boys

RaMell Ross, director; Joslyn Barnes, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, David Levine, producers (Orion Pictures/Amazon MGM Studios)

Best International Feature

All We Imagine as Light

Payal Kapadia, director; Julien Graff, Thomas Hakim, producers (Sideshow and Janus Films)

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Green Border

Agnieszka Holland, director; Fred Bernstein, Agnieszka Holland, Marcin Wierzchoslawski, producers (Kino Lorber) 

Hard Truths

Mike Leigh, director; Georgina Lowe, producer (Bleecker Street)

Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell

Thien An Pham, director; Jeremy Chua, Tran Van Thi, producers (Kino Lorber)

Vermiglio

Maura Delpero, director; Francesca Andreoli, Maura Delpero, Santiago Fondevila Sance, Leonardo Guerra Seràgnoli, producers (Sideshow and Janus Films)

Best Documentary Feature 

Dahomey

Mati Diop, director; Mati Diop, Judith Lou Lévy, Eve Robin, producers (MUBI) 

Intercepted

Oksana Karpovych, director; Darya Bassel, Olha Beskhmelnytsina, Rocío B. Fuentes, Giacomo Nudi, Lucie Rego Pauline Tran Van Lieu, producers (Grasshopper Film)

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No Other Land

Yuval Abraham, Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Rachel Szor, directors; Fabien Greenberg, B?rd Kj?ge R?nning, producers (Antipode Films)

Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat

Johan Grimonprez, director; Rémi Grellety, Daan Milius, producers (Kino Lorber)

Sugarcane

Julian Brave NoiseCat, Emily Kassie, directors; Emily Kassie, Kellen Quinn, producers (National Geographic Documentary Films)

Union

Stephen Maing, Brett Story, directors; Samantha Curley, Mars Verrone, producers (Self-Distributed)

Best Director

Payal Kapadia, All We Imagine as Light (Sideshow and Janus Films)

Sean Baker, Anora (NEON)

Guan Hu, Black Dog (The Forge)

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Jane Schoenbrun, I Saw the TV Glow (A24)

RaMell Ross, Nickel Boys (Orion Pictures/Amazon MGM Studios)

Best Screenplay

Between the Temples, Nathan Silver, C. Mason Wells (Sony Pictures Classics)

Evil Does Not Exist, Ry?suke Hamaguchi (Sideshow and Janus Films)

Femme, Sam H. Freeman, Ng Choon Ping (Utopia)

His Three Daughters, Azazel Jacobs (Netflix)

Janet Planet, Annie Baker (A24)

Breakthrough Director

Shuchi Talati, Girls Will Be Girls (Juno Films, Inc)

India Donaldson, Good One (Metrograph Pictures)

Alessandra Lacorazza, In the Summers (Music Box Films)

Vera Drew, The People’s Joker (Altered Innocence)

Mahdi Fleifel, To a Land Unknown (Watermelon Pictures)

Outstanding Lead Performance

Pamela Anderson, The Last Showgirl (Roadside Attractions)

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Adrien Brody, The Brutalist (A24)

Colman Domingo, Sing Sing (A24)

Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Hard Truths (Bleecker Street)

Nicole Kidman, Babygirl (A24)

Keith Kupferer, Ghostlight (IFC Films)

Mikey Madison, Anora (NEON)

Demi Moore, The Substance (MUBI)

Saoirse Ronan, Outrun (Sony Pictures Classics)

Justice Smith, I Saw the TV Glow (A24)

Outstanding Supporting Performance

Yura Borisov, Anora (NEON)

Kieran Culkin, A Real Pain (Searchlight Pictures)

Danielle Deadwyler, The Piano Lesson (Netflix)

Brigette Lundy-Paine, I Saw the TV Glow (A24)

Natasha Lyonne, His Three Daughters (Netflix)

Clarence Maclin, Sing Sing (A24)

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Katy O’Brian, Love Lies Bleeding (A24)

Guy Pearce, The Brutalist (A24)

Adam Pearson, A Different Man (A24)

Brian Tyree Henry, The Fire Inside (Amazon MGM Studios)

Breakthrough Performer

Lily Collias, Good One (Metrograph Pictures)

Ryan Destiny, The Fire Inside (Amazon MGM Studios)

Maisy Stella, My Old Ass (Amazon MGM Studios)

Izaac Wang, Dìdi Y(Focus Features) 

Brandon Wilson, Nickel Boys (Orion Pictures/Amazon MGM Studios)

Nominees for the Gotham Awards, now in its 34th year, “are selected by committees of film and television critics, journalists, festival programmers, and film curators.” To choose the winners, “Separate juries of writers, directors, actors, producers, editors, and others directly involved in making films will determine the final Gotham Award recipients.”

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This year’s juries were as follows:

Nominating Committee for Best Feature, Best Director, and Best Screenplay:

Justin Chang, Film Critic, The New Yorker

Peter Debruge, Film Critic, Variety 

David Ehrlich, Chief Film Critic and Reviews Editor for IndieWire

Jessica Kiang, Freelance Film Critic; Programmer, Belfast Film Festival, Berlin Film Festival 

Alison Willmore, Film Critic, New York Magazine

Nominating Committee for Best Documentary Feature:

Tania Ahmadi, Director of Editorial, Docunight

Bedatri Datta Choudhury,Programmer, DOC NYC, Arts and Entertainment Editor, The Philadelphia Inquirer

Eric Hynes, Curator of Film, Museum of the Moving Image

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Dara Messinger, Director of Programming, DCTV’s Firehouse Cinema

Sky Sitney, Co-Founder and Festival Director, DC/DOX

Nominating Committee for Best International Feature:

David Fear, Chief Film Critic, Rolling Stone

Douglas Greenwood, Film Editor, i-D; Freelance, New York Times and GQ

Wendy Ide, Chief Film Critic, The Observer

Beatrice Loayza, Freelance Film Critic, New York Times, Film Comment, Sight & Sound, Criterion

Guy Lodge, Film Critic, Variety, The Observer

Nominating Committee for Breakthrough Director:

Carlos Aguilar, Film Critic and Journalist

Lindsey Bahr, Film Writer, Associated Press

Kate Erbland, Editorial Director, IndieWire

Lovia Gyarkye, Arts and Culture Critic, The Hollywood Reporter

Jourdain Searles, Film Critic and Programmer

Nominating Committee for Outstanding Lead Performance, Outstanding Supporting Performance, and Breakthrough Performer:

Monica Castillo, Freelance Film Critic, RogerEbert.com; Senior Film Programmer, Jacob Burns Film Center 

Robert Daniels, Associate Editor, RogerEbert.com

Tim Grierson, Senior U.S. Critic, Screen International; author, This Is How You Make a Movie

Tomris Laffly, Freelance Film Journalist and Film Critic

Brian Tallerico, Managing Editor, RogerEbert.com

Of note about the Gotham Awards is the eligibility rules. According to the group’s website, the film submission form for consideration needed to be submitted by this year’s deadline of September 19. Moreover, “the film must be made accessible by password-protected viewing link or hosted ‘virtual screening room’ for screening by the nominating committees no later than the close of the submission period.”

Another wrinkle: According to the Gothams eligibility rules, films considered for Best Feature “must be directed, and/or produced (credited ‘producer’ or ‘produced by’), and/or written by individuals who are U.S. citizens or permanently U.S.-based. A minimum of two different individuals across these roles are required. If the film’s director is American as defined and fulfills at least two of these roles, this is sufficient for eligibility.” This is why movies like Netflix’s Best Picture contender “Emilia Perez” and Netflix’s Angelina Jolie vehicle “Maria,” directed respectively by French filmmaker Jacques Audiard and Chilean director Pablo Larrain, were not eligible in the Best Feature race (but were eligible in the Best International Feature category). In the end, neither film received a single nomination from the Gotham Awards.

The Gotham Awards take place on Monday, December 2 in New York.

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