“First Cow”, “Nomadland” and “Never Rarely Sometimes Always” were all nominated for Best Feature at the 30th annual Gotham Awards.
The 2020-21 awards season gets its first prominent awards ceremony with the 30th annual Gotham Awards. Eleven competitive awards are given to the best films, performances and television series of the previous year. Featured films with several nominees include ‘First Cow’, ‘Never Rarely Sometimes Always’, ‘Nomadland’ and ‘Saint Frances’. All of the nominees for Best of the Year this year are films directed by women, a first in the 30-year history of the Gotham Awards.
In addition to the 11 competing categories, the 30th Gotham Awards will also be awarded five honors throughout the ceremony, including the late Chadwick Boseman (actor tribute, posthumous), Viola Davis (actress tribute), Steve McQueen (director tribute), Ryan Murphy (Industry Tribute), and the first Ensemble Tribute to the cast of Aaron Sorkin’s “The Trial of the Chicago 7.”
The first award of the evening went to the outbreak of “One Night in Miami”, Kingsley Ben-Adir, who appeared on camera from a hotel in London. The actor uses his short acceptance speech to shoot his co-nominee Sidney Flanigan from ‘Never Rarely Sometimes Always’, calling her performance ‘excellent’. Flanigan won the Best Actress award from the New York Critics Circle earlier this season.
Radha Blank was speechless when she accepted the award for best screenplay for her breakout feature “The Forty-Year-Old Version” (“Holy shit, Holy shit,” she said at the beginning of her speech: “I’m quite shocked” ), which is linked to Dan Sallitt’s “Fourteen.” The shared award for best screenplay was the second part of the evening after the best documentary went to ‘Time’ and ‘A Thousand Cuts’.
In Viola Davis’ speech on actress tribute, she reflected on the importance of starring in August’s adaptation of ‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’, for which she is the frontrunner to win an Oscar nomination. ‘White people have always made themselves the guardians of the Black experience; well, I’m so honored to be part of a legacy of autonomy and agency. August Wilson was able to not only discuss the history of Black America, but also to show our humanity. How we loved. How we dreamed. How we hoped, how we go crazy, our humor. Thank you for recognizing the work of August through me. ”
Appearing during the virtual broadcast to honor tribute designer Ryan Murphy, Nicole Kidman says: ‘He is talented behind words, a proverbial triple threat: a producer, a writer and a director for television, film and theater … The true heart of Ryan’s work is his ability to highlight all kinds of people. He has been doing this for decades now. Murphy used his speech to encourage large and small productions to still create inclusive sets in front and behind the camera.
The cast of ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’, including Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Sacha Baron Cohen, recorded a message that was put together from different sources to celebrate their Ensemble Tribute Award. “Half a century after the events of ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’, peaceful protesters are again met with tear gas … political stalemate is harassing our own leaders, the echo is wrong,” reads the message of the cast. nothing else, then it reminds us of the work that still needs to be done to bridge the gap. ‘The trial of the Chicago 7’ then took place, but it’s happening now and it’s destined to continue until America’s its ideal of freedom and justice for all. ‘
“12 Years a Slave” Oscar winner Lupita Nyong’o honors director tribute winner Steve McQueen in a pre-recorded video and says: “He is interested in what history and the imagination have to say about who we are. In ‘Small Ax’ he talks about history but also tells us about his story.The connection between Steve’s story and the larger social context is what makes these films so resonant.It’s a timely reminder of what has changed since then “And, more importantly, what not. These films tell, teach, inspire, leave us hopeful, sad and joyful. Only Steve can capture such an alchemy of raw, hybrid emotions.”
Check out the full list of nominees for the Gotham Awards for 2020 below. IndieWire will put the winners of each category to the test when announced live. Refresh the page for the latest updates.
Best feature
“The assistant”
“First cow”
“Never seldom sometimes always”
“Nomadland”
“Relics”
Best Documentary
“76 days”
“Town hall”
“Our time machine”
“A Thousand Cuts” (WINNER) – DAS
“Time” (WINNER) – BAND
Best international function
Bacurau
“Beanstock”
“Cuties (Mignonnes)”
“Identify features” (WINNER)
“Martin Eden”
“Wolfwalkers”
Bingham Ray Breakthrough Director Award
Carlo Mirabella-Davis, “Swallow”
Rhada Blank, “The Forty Year Old Version”
Andrew Patterson, “The Vast of Night” (WENNER)
Channing Godfrey Peoples, ‘Miss Juneteenth’
Alex Thompson, “Saint Frances”
Best screenplay
‘Poor education’, Mike Makowsky
“First Cow,” Jon Raymond and Kelly Reichardt
“The Forty-Year-Old Version,” Radha Blank (WINNER) – DAS
“Fourteen,” Dan Sallitt (WINNER) – THE
“The Vast of Night,” James Montague and Craig Sanger
Best Actor
Riz Ahmed, “Sound of Metal”
Chadwick Boseman, “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom”
Jude Law, “The Nest”
John Magaro, “First Cow”
Jesse Plemons, “I think things end”
Best Actress
Nicole Beharie, “Miss Juneteenth”
Jessie Buckley, “I Think of an End to Things”
Yuh-Jung Youn, “Minari”
Carrie Coon, “The Nest”
Frances McDormand, “Nomadland”
Breakthrough actor
Sidney Flanigan, “Never Rarely Sometimes Always”
Jasmine Batchelor, “The Surrogate”
Kelly O’Sullivan, ‘Saint Frances’
Orion Lee, “First Cow”
Kingsley Ben-Adir, ‘One Night in Miami’ (WINNER)
Breakthrough series – long form (more than 40 minutes)
“The big”
“Immigration Nation”
“P-Valley”
“Unorthodox”
“Watchmen” (WINNER)
Breakthrough series – short form (less than 40 minutes)
“Betty”
“Dave”
“I may destroy you” (WINNER)
“Taste the nation”
“Work in progress”
Public award: “Nomadland”
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