The Gotham Awards are finally here - 2018 Nominations and Winner

The Gotham Awards are one of the two major honors for independent film. They are presented early in awards season. The other major honor for independent film is indie awards show, the Film Independent Spirit Awards which is going to be in Los Angeles at the end of the season, the week before the Oscars. The nominations for this awards was announced on Nov. 16.

The same Best feature film which was announced in Gotham Awards which has subsequently won in Oscar occurred four times - Birdman(2014) SpotLight(2015) Moonlight(2016) and Call Me By Your Name(2017) - this streak broken last year as it did not win.

2018 Gotham Awards winners below

Best Feature

The Rider  - WON

The Favourite

First Reformed

If Beale Street Could Talk

Madelines Madeline

Best Documentary

Hale County This Morning, This Evening - WON

Bisbee17

Minding the Gap

Shirkers

Wont You Be My Neighbor

Bingham Ray Breakthrough Director Award

Bo Burnham for Eighth Grade  - WON

Ari Aster for Hereditary

Jennifer Fox for The Tale

Crystal Moselle for Skate Kitchen

Boots Riley for Sorry to Bother You

Best Screenplay

First Reformed, Paul Schrader - WON

The Favourite - Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara

Private Life - Tamara Jenkins

Support the Girls - Andrew Bujalski

Thoroughbreds - Cory Finley

Best Actor

Ethan Hawke in First Reformed - WON

Adam Driver in BlacKkKlansman

Ben Foster in Leave No Trace

Richard E. Grant in Can You Ever Forgive Me

Lakeith Stanfield in Sorry to Bother You

Best Actress

Toni Collette in Hereditary - WON

Glenn Close in The Wife

Kathryn Hahn in Private Life

Regina Hall in Support the Girls

Michelle Pfeiffer in Where is Kyra

Special Gotham Jury Award:

Olivia Colman, Emma Stone, and Rachel Weisz for their ensemble performance in The Favourite

Breakthrough Actor

Elsie Fisher in Eighth Grade - WON

Yalitza Aparicio in Roma

Helena Howard in Madelines Madeline

KiKi Layne in If Beale Street Could Talk

Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie in Leave No Trace

Gotham Audience Award

Wont You Be My Neighbor - WON

Bisbee 17

Eighth Grade

The Favourite

First Reformed

Hale County This Morning, This Evening

Hereditary

If Beale Street Could Talk

Madelines Madeline

Minding the Gap

The Rider

Shirkers

Skate Kitchen

Sorry to Bother You

The Tale

Breakthrough Series :  Long Form

Killing Eve - WON

Alias Grace

Big Mouth

The End of the Fing World

Pose

Sharp Objects

Breakthrough Series : Short Form

195 Lewis- WON

Cleaner Daze

Distance

The F Word

Shes the Ticket

Congratulations to the winners!!