The winners of the Gotham Awards 2021, the prizes that traditionally kick off the film award season, with the 30th edition organized in a hybrid between virtual and face-to-face. Nomadland by Chloé Zhao, the most awarded film of this season so far and already the Golden Lion at the last edition of the Venice Film Festival, continues its run towards the Oscars with two other awards: best film and audience award. Kelly Reichardt's First Cow despite four nominations left the awards ceremony empty-handed. Rice Ahmed was awarded Best Actor for the film Amazon Sound of metal while Miss Juneteenth's Nicole Beharie won Best Actress. Other winners include two ex aequo: the first for best screenplay (“The Forty-Year-Old Version” and “Fourteen”) and the second for best documentary (A Thousand Cuts and Time).
Below is the list of candidates and winners for cinema.
BEST FILM
The Assistant, directed by Kitty Green
First Cow, directed by Kelly Reichardt
Never Rarely Sometimes Always (Never Rarely Sometimes Always), directed by Eliza Hittman
Nomadland, directed by Chloé Zhao - WINNER
Relic, directed by Natalie Erika James
BEST DOCUMENTARY
76 Days, directed by Hao Wu, Weixi Chen and Anonymous
City Hall, directed by Frederick Wiseman
Our Time Machine, directed by Yang Sun and S. Leo Chiang
A Thousand Cuts, directed by Ramona S. Diaz - WINNER
Time, directed by Garrett Bradley - WINNER
BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM
Women at the first steps (Mignonnes), directed by Maïmouna Doucouré
Martin Eden, directed by Pietro Marcello
The Autumn Girl (Dylda), directed by Kantemir Balagov
Identifying Features, directed by Fernanda Valadez - WINNER
Wolfwalkers - The Wolfwalkers, directed by Tomm Moore and Ross Stewart
BEST ACTOR
Riz Ahmed - Sound of Metal - WINNER
Chadwick Boseman - Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
Jude Law - The Nest
John Magaro - First Cow
Jesse Plemons - I'm Thinking of Ending Things
BEST ACTRESS
Nicole Beharie - Miss Juneteenth - WINNER
Jessie Buckley - I'm Thinking of Ending Things
Carrie Coon - The Nest
Frances McDormand - Nomadland
Yoon Yeo-jeong - Minari
BINGHAM RAY AWARD TO BEST REVELATION DIRECTOR
Radha Blank - The Forty-Year-Old Version
Channing Godfrey Peoples - Miss Juneteenth
Carlo Mirabella-Davis - Swallow
Andrew Patterson - The Vast of Night - WINNER
Alex Thompson - Saint Frances
BEST REVELATION INTERPRETER
Jasmine Batchelor - The Surrogate
Kingsley Ben-Adir - One Night in Miami… - WINNER
Sidney Flanigan - Never Rarely Sometimes Always
Orion Lee - First Cow
Kelly O'Sullivan - Saint Frances
BEST SCRIPT
Radha Blank - The Forty-Year-Old Version - WINNER
Dan Sallitt - Fourteen - WINNER
Mike Makowsky - Bad Education
Andrew Patterson and Craig W. Sander - The Vast of Night
Jonathan Raymond and Kelly Reichardt - First Cow
TRIBUTE TO CAREER
Chadwick Boseman
Viola Davis
Steve McQueen
Ryan Murphy
