2017 Gotham Awards Nominations
The Gotham Awards Nominations are in, which means awards season is officially up on us. The Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP), the premier member organization of independent storytellers, gathered yesterday to announce the noms. Juries, that include critics, writers, and editors came together to nominate 2017’s best Films, Actors/Actresses, Television Shows, Documentaries, and Shorts.
Ten competitive awards will be presented on November 27, 2017. The awards show will be at Cipriani Wall Street and streamed online. The awards will be presented to the following categories:
Best Feature
Call Me By Your Name – Sony Pictures Classics
The Florida Project – A24
Get Out – Universal Pictures
Good Time – A24
I, Tonya – NEON
Best Documentary
Ex Libris – Zipporah Films
Rat Film – MEMORY and Cinema Guild
Strong Island – Netflix
Whose Streets – Magnolia Pictures
The Work – The Orchard and First Look Media
Bingham Ray Breakthrough Director Award
Maggie Betts – Novitiate
Greta Gerwig – Lady Bird
Kogonada – Columbus
Jordan Peele – Get Out
Joshua Z Weinstein – Menashe
Best Screenplay
The Big Sick – Emily Gordon and Kumail Nanijani
Brad’s Status – Mike White
Call Me by Your Name – James Ivory
Get Out – Jordan Peele
Lady Bird – Greta Gerwig
Best Actor*
Williem Dafoe – The Florida Project
James Franco – The Disaster Artist
Daniel Kaluuya – Get Out
Robert Pattinson – Good Time
Adam Sandler – The Meyerowitz Stories
Harry Dean Stanton – Lucky
Best Actress*
Melanie Lynskey – I Don’t Feel at Home in This World
Haley Lu Richardson – Columbus
Margot Robbie – I, Tonya
Saoirse Ronan – Lady Bird
Lois Smith – Marjorie Prime
*The 2017 Best Actor/Best Actress nominating committee also voted to award a special Gotham Jury Award for ensemble performance to the cast of MudBound
Breakthrough Actor
Mary J. Blige – Mudbound
Timothée Chalamet – Call Me by Your Name
Harris Dickinson – Beach Rats
Kelvin Harrison, Jr. – It Comes at Night
Brooklynn Prince –The Florida Project
Breakthrough Series – Long Form
Atlanta – FX Networks
Better Things – FX Networks
Dear White People – Netflix
Fleabag – Amazon
Search Party – TBS
Breakthrough Series – Short Form
555 –Vimeo
Inconceivable – YouTube
Junior – Blackpills and VICE
Let Me Die a Nun – Vimeo
The Strange Eyes of Dr. Myes – YouTube
In addition to the competitive awards, Gotham Award Tributes will be given to actors Nicole Kidman and Dustin Hoffman, director Sofia Coppola, producer Jason Blum, cinematographer Ed Lachman, and a Gotham Humanitarian Tribute to Al Gore.
