Richard Linklater’s acclaimed drama Boyhood dominated the 24th Gotham Independent Film Award nominations on Thursday, earning four nods in the first event of the movie awards season. Boyhood received nominations for film, actor Ethan Hawke, actress Patricia Arquette and breakthrough actor for Ellar Coltrane.
The lead actor nominating panel also voted to award a special Gotham Jury Award jointly to Steve Carell, Mark Ruffalo and Channing Tatum for their ensemble performance in Foxcatcher.
Other nominations announced on Thursday:
Feature: Besides Boyhood, the nominees are Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance), The Grand Budapest Hotel, Love Is Strange and Under the Skin.
Documentary: Actress, Citizenfour, Life Itself, Manakama and Point and Shoot.
Actor: Vying with Hawke are Bill Hader in The Skeleton Twins, Oscar Isaac in A Most Violent Year, Michael Keaton in Birdman and Miles Teller in Whiplash.
Actress: Joining Arquette are Gugu Mbatha-Raw in Beyond the Lights, Julianne Moore in Still Alice, Scarlett Johansson in Under the Skin and Mia Wasikowska in Tracks.
Bingham Ray breakthrough director: Ana Lily Amirpour for A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, James Ward Byrkit for Coherence, Dan Gilroy for Nightcrawler, Eliza Hittman for It Felt Like Love and Justin Simien for Dear White People.
Breakthrough Actor: Competing with Coltrane are Riz Ahmad in Nightcrawler, Macon Blair in Blue Ruin, Joey King in Wish I Were Here, Jenny Slate in Obvious Child and Tessa Thompson in Dear White People.
Gotham Independent Film Audience Award: Nominees are comprised of the 15 nominated films in the best feature, documentary and Bingham Ray breakthrough director categories.
For the fourth year, the IFP is also presenting the Calvin Klein Spotlight on Women Filmmakers Live the Dream grant, a $25,000 (Dh91,820) cash award for an alumna of the IFP’s Independent Filmmaker Labs. This year’s nominees are Garrett Bradley for Below Dreams, Claire Carre for Embers and Chloe Zhao for Songs My Brother Taught Me.
It was previously announced that actress Tilda Swinton and Foxcatcher director Bennett Miller would receive Gotham Award Tributes, while Netflix’s Ted Sarandos is this year’s recipient of the Industry Tribute honour.
The awards are sponsored by the Independent Film Project. The winners will be announced at the awards ceremony on December 1 at the Cipriani Wall Street.
