By Armando
The 2023 Gotham Awards, marking the start of the awards season, have just announced their list of nominees.The nominees were announced by Gotham Film & Media Institute executive director Jeffrey Sharp and deputy director Kia Brooks.
Writer-director Andrew Haigh’s critically acclaimed romantic drama “All of Us Strangers” from Searchlight led with four nominations at the Gotham Awards, including a nod for Best International Feature. The Gotham Awards are touted as the first major awards show of the season.
“We are proud to announce this year’s Gotham Award nominees and look forward to celebrating these amazing storytellers in a few weeks,” Sharp said during the broadcast. “The Gotham Awards in many ways reflects the industry and community we serve. Seen by this year’s nominees, storytelling knows no boundaries as our industry continues to find new audiences across the globe.”
Along with “All of Us Strangers,” films up for best international feature include the French courtroom drama thriller “Anatomy of a Fall,” the black comedy fantasy film “Poor Things,” the family drama “Tótem” and historical drama film “The Zone of Interest”.
Past winners of the big prize at Gothams included “Spotlight” (2015), “Moonlight” (2016) and “Everything Everywhere All at Once” (2022). All such films eventually won the the Academy Awards’ Best Picture Film in their respective years.
The Gotham Awards will be held live Monday, Nov. 27, in New York City at 7 p.m.
Here is the full list:
Best Feature
Passages — dir. Ira Sachs
Past Lives — dir. Celine Song
Reality — dir. Tina Satter
Showing Up — dir. Kelly Reichardt
A Thousand and One — dir. A.V. Rockwell
Best International Feature
All of Us Stranger — dir. Andrew Haigh
Anatomy of a Fall — dir. Justine Triet
Poor Things — dir. Yorgos Lanthimos
Tótem — dir. Lila Avilés
The Zone of Interest — dir. Jonathan Glazer
Best Documentary Feature
20 Days in Mariupol — dir. Mstyslav Chernov
Against the Tide — dir. Sarvnik Kaur
Apolonia, Apolonia — dir. Lea Glob
Four Daughter — dir. Kaouther Ben Hania
Our Body — dir. Claire Simon
Breakthrough Director Award
Raven Jackson, All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt
Georgia Oakley, Blue Jean
Michelle Garza Cervera, Huesera
Celine Song, Past Lives
A.V. Rockwell, A Thousand and One
Best Screenplay
All of Us Strangers — Andrew Haigh
Anatomy of a Fall — Justine Triet
May December — Samy Burch
R.M.N. — Cristian Mungiu
The Zone of Interest — Jonathan Glazer
Outstanding Lead Performance
Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Origin
Lily Gladstone, The Unknown Country
Greta Lee, Past Lives
Franz Rogowski, Passages
Babetida Sadjo, Our Father, the Devil
Andrew Scott, All of Us Strangers
Cailee Spaeny, Priscilla
Teyana Taylor, A Thousand and One
Michelle Williams, Showing Up
Jeffrey Wright, American Fiction
Outstanding Supporting Performance
Juliette Binoche, The Taste of Things
Penélope Cruz, Ferrari
Jamie Foxx, They Cloned Tyrone
Claire Foy, All of Us Strangers
Ryan Gosling, Barbie
Glenn Howerton, BlackBerry
Sandra Hüller, The Zone of Interest
Rachel McAdams, Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret
Charles Melton, May December
Da’Vine Joy Randolph, The Holdovers
Breakthrough Series – Under 40 minutes
Beef — creator Lee Sung Jin
High School — creator Clea DuVall, Sara Quin, Tegan Quin
I’m a Virgo — creator Boots Riley
Rain Dogs — creator Cash Carraway
Swarm — creator Donald Glover, Janine Nabers
Breakthrough Series – Over 40 minutes
Anne Rice’s Interview With the Vampire — creator Rolin Jones
Dead Ringers — creator Alice Birch
The English — creator Hugo Blick
The Last of Us — creator Craig Mazin, Neil Druckmann
A Small Light — creator Tony Phelan, Joan Rater
Telemarketers — creator Adam Bhala Lough, Sam Lipman-Stern
Outstanding Performance in a New Series
Jacob Anderson, Anne Rice’s Interview With the Vampire
Dominique Fishback, Swarm
Jharrel Jerome, I’m a Virgo
Natasha Lyonne, Poker Face
Bel Powley, A Small Light
Bella Ramsey, The Last of Us
Chaske Spencer, The English
Rachel Weisz, Dead Ringers
Ali Wong, Beef
Steven Yeun, Beef