With two prizes, including Best Feature, “Nomadland” was the top winner at 2020 IFP Gotham Awards. The winners were announced in New York City on January 11, 2021. “Nomadland,” a drama directed by Chloé Zhao and starring Frances McDormand as a widow who lives out of her van, also received the Gotham Audience Award, which is voted on by IFP members. On January 6, 2021, it was announced that Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP) is renaming itself the Gotham Film & Media Institute, also known as The Gotham.
Best Actress went to Nicole Beharie of “Miss Juneteenth,” while Best Actor went to Riz Ahmed of “Sound of Metal.” Breakthrough Actor (a category for people of any gender) was awarded to “One Night in Miami…” actor Kingsley Ben-Adir, who portrays Malcolm X in the movie.
There were two categories that resulted in ties in winners: Best Documentary was awarded to director Ramona S. Diaz’s “A Thousand Cuts” (about Filipina journalist Maria Ressa’s battles with government backlash in the Philippines) and director Garrett Bradley’s “Time,” a movie spanning decades about Louisiana woman Fox Rich’s quest to get her husband released from prison. The Best Screenplay award also resulted in two winners: Radha Blank’s “The Forty-Year-Old Version” (a comedy about a female playwright who decides to become a rapper at 40 years old) and Dan Sallitt’s “Fourteen,” a comedy about a mentally ill woman.
This was the first Gotham Awards show to have TV categories. The winners were both from HBO: the superhero drama “Watchmen” for Breakthrough Series – Long Format and the #MeToo drama “I May Destroy You” for Breakthrough Series – Short Format.
In non-competitive categories, the Film Tribute Award went to actress Viola Davis, actor Chadwick Boseman, filmmaker Steve McQueen and the Netflix drama “The Trial of the Chicago 7.” “Westworld” actor Jeffrey Wright received the Made in New York award, which is given to entertainers who were raised in New York City or have strong ties to New York.
The Western drama “First Cow” went into the ceremony with the most nominations (four), but ended up not winning any IFP Gotham Awards.
Here is the complete list of nominees and winners of the 2020 IFP Gotham Awards:
*=winner
Best Feature
The Assistant
Kitty Green, director; Kitty Green, Scott Macaulay, James Schamus, P. Jennifer Dana, Ross Jacobson, producers (Bleecker Street)
First Cow
Kelly Reichardt, director; Neil Kopp, Vincent Savino, Anish Savjani, producers (A24)
Never Rarely Sometimes Always
Eliza Hittman, director; Adele Romanski, Sara Murphy, producers (Focus Features)
Nomadland*
Chloé Zhao, director; Frances McDormand, Peter Spears, Mollye Asher, Dan Janvey, Chloé Zhao, producers (Searchlight Pictures)
Relic
Natalie Erika James, director; Anna Mcleish, Sarah Shaw, Jake Gyllenhaal, Riva Marker, producers (IFC Midnight)
Fernanda Valadez, director; Astrid Rondero, producer (Kino Lorber)
Martin Eden
Pietro Marcello, director; Pietro Marcello, Beppe Caschetto, Thomas Ordonneau, Michael Weber, Viola Fügen, producers (Kino Lorber)
Wolfwalkers
Tomm Moore, Ross Stewart, directors; Paul Young, Nora Twomey, Tomm Moore, Stéphan Roelants, producers (Apple)
Bingham Ray Breakthrough Director Award
Radha Blank for The Forty-Year-Old Version (Netflix)
Channing Godfrey Peoples for Miss Juneteenth (Vertical Entertainment)
Alex Thompson for Saint Frances (Oscilloscope Laboratories)
Carlo Mirabella-Davis for Swallow (IFC Films)
Andrew Patterson for The Vast of Night (Amazon Studios)*
Best Screenplay
Bad Education, Mike Makowsky (HBO)
First Cow, Jon Raymond, Kelly Reichardt (A24)
The Forty-Year-Old Version, Radha Blank (Netflix)*
Fourteen, Dan Sallitt (Grasshopper Film)*
The Vast of Night, James Montague, Craig Sanger (Amazon Studios)
Best Actor
Riz Ahmed in Sound of Metal (Amazon Studios)*
Chadwick Boseman in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (Netflix)
Jude Law in The Nest (IFC Films)
John Magaro in First Cow (A24)
Jesse Plemons in I’m Thinking of Ending Things (Netflix)
Best Actress
Nicole Beharie in Miss Juneteenth (Vertical Entertainment)*
Jessie Buckley in I’m Thinking of Ending Things (Netflix)
Yuh-Jung Youn in Minari (A24)
Carrie Coon in The Nest (IFC Films)
Frances McDormand in Nomadland (Searchlight Pictures)
Breakthrough Actor
Jasmine Batchelor in The Surrogate (Monument Releasing)
Kingsley Ben-Adir in One Night in Miami… (Amazon Studios)*
Sidney Flanigan in Never Rarely Sometimes Always (Focus Features)
Orion Lee in First Cow (A24)
Kelly O’Sullivan in Saint Frances (Oscilloscope Laboratories)
Breakthrough Series – Long Format (over 40 minutes)
The Great, Tony McNamara, creator; Tony McNamara, Marian Macgowan, Mark Winemaker, Elle Fanning, Brittany Kahan Ward, Doug Mankoff, Andrew Spaulding, Josh Kesselman, Ron West, Matt Shakman, executive producers (Hulu)
Immigration Nation, Christina Clusiau, Shaul Schwarz, Dan Cogan, Jenny Raskin, Brandon Hill, Christian Thompson, executive producers (Netflix)
P-Valley, Katori Hall, creator; Katori Hall, Dante Di Loreto, Peter Chernin, Jenno Topping, Liz W. Garcia, executive producers (STARZ)
Unorthodox, Anna Winger, Alexa Karolinski , creators; Anna Winger, Henning Kamm, executive producers (Netflix)
Watchmen, Damon Lindelof, Creator for Television; Tom Spezialy , Nicole Kassell , Stephen Williams, Joseph E. Iberti, executive producers (HBO)*
Breakthrough Series – Short Format (under 40 minutes)
Betty, Crystal Moselle, Lesley Arfin, Igor Srubshchik, Jason Weinberg, executive producers (HBO)
Dave, Dave Burd, Jeff Schaffer, creators; Dave Burd, Jeff Schaffer, Saladin K. Patterson, Greg Mottola, Kevin Hart, Marty Bowen, Scooter Braun, Mike Hertz, Scott Manson, James Shin, executive producers (FX Networks)
I May Destroy You, Michaela Coel, creator; Michaela Coel, Phil Clarke, Roberto Troni, executive producers (HBO)*
Taste the Nation, Padma Lakshmi, David Shadrack Smith, Sarina Roma, executive producers (Hulu)
Work in Progress, Abby McEnany, Tim Mason, creators, Abby McEnany, Tim Mason, Lilly Wachowski, Lawrence Mattis, Josh Adler, Ashley Berns, Julia Sweeney, Tony Hernandez, executive producers (SHOWTIME)
The following is a press release from Independent Filmmaker Project:
The Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP), the nation’s premier member organization of independent storytellers, announced today the nominees for the 30th Annual IFP Gotham Awards. Eleven competitive awards will be presented to independent features and series.
The IFP Gotham Awards is one of the leading awards for independent film and signals the kick-off to the film awards season. As the first major awards ceremony of the season, the IFP Gotham Awards provide critical early recognition and media attention to worthy independent films. The awards are also unique for their ability to assist in catapulting award recipients prominently into national awards season attention.
“We congratulate the 2020 IFP Gotham Award nominees. In this unprecedented year we look forward to bringing the industry together and shining a light on some incredible films and television shows. We are proud to be celebrating our 30th anniversary in our resilient city, and continuing the core mission of IFP, independent storytelling.” said Jeffrey Sharp, Executive Director of IFP.
Forty-one films and series received nominations this year. Nominees are selected by committees of film critics, journalists, festival programmers, and film curators. Separate juries of writers, directors, actors, producers, editors and others directly involved in making films will determine the final IFP Gotham Award recipients.
The IFP Gotham Awards ceremony will be held on Monday, January 11, 2021. The awards show will be presented live from Cipriani Wall Street New York in a hybrid format featuring virtual interactive tables in order to follow health and safety protocols brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic.
The annual Gotham Actor Tributes, Director Tribute, and Industry Tribute will be announced at a later date.
The 2020 IFP Gotham Award nominations are:
Best Feature
The Assistant
Kitty Green, director; Kitty Green, Scott Macaulay, James Schamus, P. Jennifer Dana, Ross Jacobson, producers (Bleecker Street)
First Cow
Kelly Reichardt, director; Neil Kopp, Vincent Savino, Anish Savjani, producers (A24)
Never Rarely Sometimes Always
Eliza Hittman, director; Adele Romanski, Sara Murphy, producers (Focus Features)
Nomadland
Chloé Zhao, director; Frances McDormand, Peter Spears, Mollye Asher, Dan Janvey, Chloé Zhao, producers (Searchlight Pictures)
Relic
Natalie Erika James, director; Anna Mcleish, Sarah Shaw, Jake Gyllenhaal, Riva Marker, producers (IFC Midnight)
Fernanda Valadez, director; Astrid Rondero, producer (Kino Lorber)
Martin Eden
Pietro Marcello, director; Pietro Marcello, Beppe Caschetto, Thomas Ordonneau, Michael Weber, Viola Fügen, producers (Kino Lorber)
Wolfwalkers
Tomm Moore, Ross Stewart, directors; Paul Young, Nora Twomey, Tomm Moore, Stéphan Roelants, producers (Apple)
Bingham Ray Breakthrough Director Award
Radha Blank for The Forty-Year-Old Version (Netflix)
Channing Godfrey Peoples for Miss Juneteenth (Vertical Entertainment)
Alex Thompson for Saint Frances (Oscilloscope Laboratories)
Carlo Mirabella-Davis for Swallow (IFC Films)
Andrew Patterson for The Vast of Night (Amazon Studios)
Best Screenplay
Bad Education, Mike Makowsky (HBO)
First Cow, Jon Raymond, Kelly Reichardt (A24)
The Forty-Year-Old Version, Radha Blank (Netflix)
Fourteen, Dan Sallitt (Grasshopper Film)
The Vast of Night, James Montague, Craig Sanger (Amazon Studios)
Best Actor
Riz Ahmed in Sound of Metal (Amazon Studios)
Chadwick Boseman in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (Netflix)
Jude Law in The Nest (IFC Films)
John Magaro in First Cow (A24)
Jesse Plemons in I’m Thinking of Ending Things (Netflix)
Best Actress
Nicole Beharie in Miss Juneteenth (Vertical Entertainment)
Jessie Buckley in I’m Thinking of Ending Things (Netflix)
Yuh-Jung Youn in Minari (A24)
Carrie Coon in The Nest (IFC Films)
Frances McDormand in Nomadland (Searchlight Pictures)
Breakthrough Actor
Jasmine Batchelor in The Surrogate (Monument Releasing)
Kingsley Ben-Adir in One Night in Miami… (Amazon Studios)
Sidney Flanigan in Never Rarely Sometimes Always (Focus Features)
Orion Lee in First Cow (A24)
Kelly O’Sullivan in Saint Frances (Oscilloscope Laboratories)
Breakthrough Series – Long Format (over 40 minutes)
The Great, Tony McNamara, creator; Tony McNamara, Marian Macgowan, Mark Winemaker, Elle Fanning, Brittany Kahan Ward, Doug Mankoff, Andrew Spaulding, Josh Kesselman, Ron West, Matt Shakman, executive producers (Hulu)
Immigration Nation, Christina Clusiau, Shaul Schwarz, Dan Cogan, Jenny Raskin, Brandon Hill, Christian Thompson, executive producers (Netflix)
P-Valley, Katori Hall, creator; Katori Hall, Dante Di Loreto, Peter Chernin, Jenno Topping, Liz W. Garcia, executive producers (STARZ)
Unorthodox, Anna Winger, Alexa Karolinski , creators; Anna Winger, Henning Kamm, executive producers (Netflix)
Watchmen, Damon Lindelof, Creator for Television; Tom Spezialy , Nicole Kassell , Stephen Williams, Joseph E. Iberti, executive producers (HBO)
Breakthrough Series – Short Format (under 40 minutes)
Betty, Crystal Moselle, Lesley Arfin, Igor Srubshchik, Jason Weinberg, executive producers (HBO)
Dave, Dave Burd, Jeff Schaffer, creators; Dave Burd, Jeff Schaffer, Saladin K. Patterson, Greg Mottola, Kevin Hart, Marty Bowen, Scooter Braun, Mike Hertz, Scott Manson, James Shin, executive producers (FX Networks)
I May Destroy You, Michaela Coel , creator; Michaela Coel, Phil Clarke, Roberto Troni, executive producers (HBO)
Taste the Nation, Padma Lakshmi, David Shadrack Smith, Sarina Roma, executive producers (Hulu)
Work in Progress, Abby McEnany, Tim Mason, creators, Abby McEnany, Tim Mason, Lilly Wachowski, Lawrence Mattis, Josh Adler, Ashley Berns, Julia Sweeney, Tony Hernandez, executive producers (SHOWTIME)
Gotham Audience Award
IFP members will determine the Gotham Audience Award with nominees comprised of the 20 nominated films in the Best Feature, Best Documentary, Best International Feature, and Bingham Ray Breakthrough Director Award categories. All IFP current, active members are eligible to vote. Voting will take place online in December.
Thirty-five writers, critics and programmers participated in the nomination process.
The Nominating Committees for the 2020 IFP Gotham Awards were:
Nominating Committee for Best Feature and Best Screenplay:
Justin Chang, Film Critic, Los Angeles Times, NPR’s “Fresh Air”
K. Austin Collins. Film Critic, Rolling Stone
Eric Kohn, Executive Editor & Chief Critic, IndieWire
Alison Willmore, Film Critic, Vulture
Stephanie Zacharek, Film Critic, TIME
Nominating Committee for Best Documentary:
Ben Fowlie, Executive Director, Points North Institute; Founder, Camden International Film Festival
Cynthia Fuchs, Director Film & Media Studies, George Mason University; Contributing Editor, PopMatters
Sky Sitney, Co-Creator & Co-Director, Double Exposure Investigative Film Festival
Abby Sun, Curator, the DocYard, and Researcher, MIT Open Doc Lab
Alissa Wilkinson, Film Critic, Vox
Nominating Committee for Best International Feature:
Florence Almozini, Senior Programmer at Large, Film at Lincoln Center
Bilge Ebiri, Film Critic and Writer, New York Magazine/Vulture
David Fear, Senior Editor & Film/TV Critic, Rolling Stone
Tomris Laffly, Film Critic, RogerEbert.com, Variety
David Rooney, Chief Film Critic, The Hollywood Reporter
Nominating Committee for Breakthrough Director
Monica Castillo, Arts and Culture Reporter, Colorado Public Radio
Peter Debruge, Chief Film Critic, Variety
David Ehrlich, Senior Film Critic, Indiewire
Devika Girish, Assistant Editor, Film Comment and Film at Lincoln Center
Soraya Nadia McDonald, Culture Critic, The Undefeated
Nominating Committee for Best Actor and Best Actress:
Robert Daniels, Contributor, RogerEbert.com and The Playlist
Tim Grierson, Senior U.S. Critic, Screen International; Contributing Editor, MEL
Christy Lemire, Film Critic, RogerEbert.com; Co-host Breakfast All Day podcast
Nominating Committee for Breakthrough Actor:
Kate Erbland, Deputy Editor, Film, IndieWire
Jon Frosch, Reviews Editor, The Hollywood Reporter
Beatrice Loayza, Writer & Film Critic
David Sims, Staff Writer, Culture, The Atlantic
Brian Tallerico, Editor, RogerEbert.com
Nominating Committee for Breakthrough Series
Judy Berman, TV Critic, TIME
Jen Chaney, TV Critic, Vulture
Daniel Fienberg, Chief Television Critic, The Hollywood Reporter
Caroline Framke, TV Critic, Variety
Matthew Gilbert, TV Critic, The Boston Globe
Sponsors The Premier Sponsor of the 2020 Gotham Awards is The New York Times. The Official Auto Partner is Cadillac, the Official Water Partner is FIJI Water, the Official Airline Partner is JetBlue, and the Official Wine Partner is Robert Hall Winery.
About IFP
The Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP) champions the future of storytelling by connecting artists with essential resources at all stages of development and distribution. The organization, under the leadership of Executive Director and award-winning producer Jeffrey Sharp, fosters a vibrant and sustainable independent storytelling community through its year-round programs, which include IFP Week, Filmmaker Magazine, and the IFP Gotham Awards.
About the IFP Gotham Awards
The IFP Gotham Awards, selected by distinguished juries and presented in New York City, the home of independent film, are the first honors of the film awards season. This public showcase honors the filmmaking community, expands the audience for independent films, and supports the work that IFP does behind the scenes throughout the year to bring such films to fruition.
Netflix’s “Marriage Story,” writer/director Noah Baumbach’s drama about the contentious divorce of a director and an actress, was the top winner at the 29th Annual Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP) Gotham Awards, which were presented at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City on December 2, 2019. “Marriage Story” won in every category for which it was nominated: Best Feature, Best Actor (for Adam Driver), Best Screenplay and Gotham Audience Award. There is no separate category for Best Director. The award for Best Feature goes to the director and producers.
Meanwhile, Awkwafina won Best Actress for A24’s “The Farwell,” a drama about a Chinese family who decides not to tell the family matriarch that she has cancer. Taylor Russell of the African American family drama A24’s “Waves” was named Breakthrough Actor, while Laure De Clermont-Tonnerre of Focus Features’ “The Mustang” won the prize for Bingham Ray Breakthrough Director. Netflix’s “American Factory,” about the culture clash between American factory workers and the factory’s Chinese owners, was named Best Documentary.
For TV series, Netflix’s “When They See Us” about the Central Park Five was named Breakthrough Series–Long Format, while Hulu’s comedy “PEN15” was award Breakthrough Series–Short Format.
In addition to the competitive awards, Gotham Tributes were given to actors Laura Dern and Sam Rockwell, director Ava DuVernay, and the Gotham Industry Tribute to Glen Basner.
The dominance of Netflix at the award show signals that the streaming service has considerably increased its clout for movie awards. Netflix’s 2018 drama “Roma” dominated much of the top prizes for that awards season. For 2019, Netflix has top contenders “Marriage Story” (which qualifies for all movie awards for U.S. films) and “The Irishman,” whose large budget (a reported $140 million) makes it ineligible for independent film awards.
Because Netflix films are not carried by major movie theater chains in the U.S. and many other countries (due to Netflix making its movies available on the streaming services less than 60 days after their theatrical release), it remains to be seen how Netflix’s nonconformist business policies for movies will affect its chances for Best Picture prizes at award shows, such as the Oscars and Golden Globes, where Netflix has to compete against traditional major studios.
Here is the complete list of winners and nominations for the 2019 IFP Gotham Awards:
*=winner
Best Feature The Farewell Lulu Wang, director; Daniele Melia, Marc Turtletaub, Peter Saraf, Andrew Miano, Chris Weitz, Jane Zheng, Lulu Wang, Anita Gou, producers (A24)
Hustlers Lorene Scafaria, director; Jessica Elbaum, Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas, Jennifer Lopez, Benny Medina, Will Ferrell, Adam McKay, producers (STXfilms)
Marriage Story* Noah Baumbach, director; Noah Baumbach, David Heyman, producers (Netflix)
Uncut Gems Josh Safdie, Benny Safdie, directors; Scott Rudin, Eli Bush, Sebastian Bear McClard, producers (A24)
Waves Trey Edward Shults, director; James Wilson, Kevin Turen, Trey Edward Shults, producers (A24)
Best Documentary American Factory* Steven Bognar, Julia Reichert, directors; Steven Bognar, Julia Reichert, Jeff Reichert, Julie Parker Benello, producers (Netflix)
Apollo 11 Todd Douglas Miller, director; Todd Douglas Miller, Thomas Baxley Petersen, Evan Krauss, producers (NEON and CNN Films)
The Edge of Democracy Petra Costa, director; Petra Costa, Tiago Pavan, Joanna Natasegara, Shane Boris, producers (Netflix)
Midnight Traveler
Hassan Fazili, director; Emelie Mahdavian, Su Kim, producers (Oscilloscope Laboratories)
One Child Nation Nanfu Wang, Jialing Zhang, directors; Nanfu Wang, Jialing Zhang, Christoph Jörg, Julie Goldman, Christopher Clements, Carolyn Hepburn, producers (Amazon Studios)
Bingham Ray Breakthrough Director Award Laure De Clermont-Tonnerre for The Mustang (Focus Features)*
Kent Jones for Diane (IFC Films)
Joe Talbot for The Last Black Man in San Francisco (A24)
Olivia Wilde for Booksmart (United Artists Releasing)
Phillip Youmans for Burning Cane (ARRAY Releasing)
Best Screenplay The Farewell, Lulu Wang (A24)
High Flying Bird, Tarell Alvin McCraney (Netflix)
The Last Black Man in San Francisco, Jimmie Fails, Joe Talbot, Rob Richert(A24)
Marriage Story, Noah Baumbach (Netflix)*
Midsommar, Ari Aster (A24)
Best Actor Willem Dafoe in The Lighthouse (A24)
Adam Driver in Marriage Story (Netflix)*
Aldis Hodge in Clemency (NEON)
André Holland in High Flying Bird (Netflix)
Adam Sandler in Uncut Gems (A24)
Best Actress Awkwafina in The Farewell (A24)*
Elisabeth Moss in Her Smell (Gunpowder & Sky)
Mary Kay Place in Diane (IFC Films)
Florence Pugh in Midsommar (A24)
Alfre Woodard in Clemency (NEON)
Breakthrough Actor Julia Fox in Uncut Gems (A24)
Aisling Franciosi in The Nightingale (IFC Films)
Chris Galust in Give Me Liberty (Music Box Films)
Noah Jupe in Honey Boy (Amazon Studios)
Jonathan Majors in The Last Black Man in San Francisco (A24)
Taylor Russell in Waves (A24)*
Breakthrough Series – Long Format (over 40 minutes) Chernobyl, Craig Mazin, creator; Craig Mazin, Carolyn Strauss, Jane Featherstone, executive producers (HBO)
David Makes Man, Tarell Alvin McCraney, creator; Mike Kelley, Melissa Loy, Tarell Alvin McCraney, Denitria Harris-Lawrence, Michael B. Jordan, Oprah Winfrey, executive producers (OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network)
My Brilliant Friend, Saverio Costanzo, creator; Domenico Procacci; Lorenzo Mieli, Mario Gianani, Guido De Laurentiis, Elena Recchia, Jennifer Schuur, Paolo Sorrentino, executive producers (HBO)
Unbelievable, Susannah Grant, Sarah Timberman, Carl Beverly, Lisa Cholodenko, Ayelet Waldman & Michael Chabon, Katie Couric, Richard Tofel, Neil Barsky, Robyn Semien, Marie, executive producers (Netflix)
When They See Us, Ava DuVernay, creator; Jeff Skoll, Jonathan King, Jane Rosenthal, Robert De Niro, Berry Welsh, Oprah Winfrey, Ava DuVernay, executive producers (Netflix)*
Breakthrough Series – Short Format (under 40 minutes) PEN15, Maya Erskine, Anna Konkle, Sam Zvibleman, creators; Anna Konkle, Sam Zvibleman, Debbie Liebling, Gabe Liedman, Marc Provissiero, Brooke Pobjoy, Andy Samberg, Jorma Taccone, Akiva Schaffer, Becky Sloviter, Shelley Zimmerman, Brin Lukens, Jordan Levin, executive producers (Hulu)*
Ramy, Ramy Youssef, Ari Katcher, Ryan Welch, creators; Ramy Youssef, Jerrod Carmichael, Ravi Nandan, Bridget Bedard, Ari Katcher, Ryan Welch, executive producers (Hulu)
Tuca & Bertie,Lisa Hanawalt, creator; Lisa Hanawalt, Raphael Bob-Waksberg, Noel Bright, Steven A. Cohen, Tiffany Haddish, Ali Wong, executive producers (Netflix)
Undone, Kate Purdy, Raphael Bob-Waksberg, creators; Kate Purdy, Raphael Bob-Waksberg, Noel Bright, Steven A. Cohen, Tommy Pallotta, executive producers (Amazon Prime Video)
Gotham Audience Award Marriage Story*
IFP members determined the Gotham Audience Award with nominees comprised of the 15 nominated films in the Best Feature, Best Documentary, and Bingham Ray Breakthrough Director Award categories.
When it comes to awards, it’s nice to be nominated, but it’s even better to win. After several major studio films that were released in 2018 (such as “Green Book,” “Bohemian Rhapsody” and “Black Panther”) ended up dominating the Academy Awards, the industry is waiting to see how Netflix will fare in the awards race against traditional movie studios. Here’s a tally of the feature films released in U.S. theaters in 2019 that have gotten the most awards so far. This list, which is in alphabetical order, will be updated as more award winners are announced.
Updated: February 9, 2020
“63 Up”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ugw7hUoJ0C0
International Press Academy Satellite Awards
Best Documentary
“1917”
Academy Awards
Best Cinematography (Roger Deakins)
Best Sound Mixing
Best Visual Effects
American Film Institute (AFI) Awards
AFI Top 10 Movie of the Year
American Society of Cinematographers Awards
Best Theatrical Release (Roger Deakins)
BAFTA Film Awards
Best Film
Outstanding British Film
Best Director (Sam Mendes)
Best Cinematography (Roger Deakins)
Best Sound (Scott Millan, Oliver Tarney, Rachael Tate, Mark Taylor, Stuart Wilson)
Best Production Design (Dennis Gassner, Lee Sandales)
Best Special Visual Effects (Greg Butler, Guillaume Rocheron, Dominic Tuohy)
Black Film Critics Circle Awards
Best Cinematography (Roger Deakins)
Chicago Film Critics Association Awards
Best Cinematography (Roger Deakins)
Critics’ Choice Awards
Best Director (Sam Mendes) *Tie with Bong Joo Ho of “Parasite”
Best Cinematography (Roger Deakins)
Best Editing (Lee Smith)
Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Awards
Best Picture
Best Director (Sam Mendes)
Best Cinematography (Roger Deakins)
Best Musical Score (Thomas Newman)
Denver Film Critics Society Awards
Best Picture
Best Director (Sam Mendes)
Visual Effects
Directors Guild of America Awards
Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film (Sam Mendes)
Florida Film Critics Circle Awards
Best Cinematography (Roger Deakins)
GALECA Dorian Awards
Visually Striking Film of the Year *Tied with “Portrait of a Lady on Fire”
Georgia Film Critics Association
Best Cinematography (Roger Deakins)
Best Production Design (Dennis Gassner and Lee Sandales)
Bes Original Score (Thomas Newman)
Golden Globe Awards
Best Motion Picture – Drama
Best Director (Sam Mendes)
Hollywood Critics Association Awards
Best Picture
Best Action/War Film
Best Cinematography (Roger Deakins)
Best Editing (Lee Smith)
International Press Academy Satellite Awards
Best Cinematography (Roger Deakins)
Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards
Best Picture
Best Director (Sam Mendes)
Best Cinematography (Roger Deakins)
Las Vegas Film Critics Circle Awards
Best Cinematography (Roger Deakins)
Music City Film Critics Association Awards
Best Picture
Best Director (Sam Mendes)
Best Cinematography (Roger Deakins)
Best Editing (Lee Smith)
Best Sound
National Board of Review Awards
Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography (Roger Deakins)
Nevada Film Critics Society Awards
Best Cinematography (Roger Deakins)
North Texas Film Critics Association Awards
Best Director (Sam Mendes)
Best Cinematography (Roger Deakins)
Online Association of Female Film Critics Awards
Best Cinematography (Roger Deakins)
Online Film and Television Association Awards
Best Cinematography (Roger Deakins)
Best Sound Effects
Best Breakthrough Performance: Male (George MacKay)
Best Original Score (Thomas Newman)
Phoenix Critics Circle Awards
Best Cinematography (Roger Deakins)
Producers Guild of America Awards
Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures (Sam Mendes, Pippa Harris, Jayne‐Ann Tenggren and Callum McDougall)
St. Louis Film Critics Association Awards
Best Action Film
Best Cinematography (Roger Deakins)
Best Music Score (Thomas Newman)
San Diego Film Critics Society Awards
Best Production Design (Dennis Gassner)
San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle Awards
Best Cinematography (Roger Deakins)
Seattle Film Critics Society Awards
Best Cinematography (Roger Deakins)
Utah Film Critics Association Awards
Best Director (Sam Mendes)
Best Cinematography (Roger Deakins)
Washington, D.C. Area Film Critics Association Awards
Best Cinematography (Roger Deakins)
“Abominable”
African American Film Critics Association Awards
Best Animated Film
“Ad Astra”
Chicago Film Critics Association Awards
Best Use of Visual Effects (Allen Maris, Jedediah Smith, Guillaume Rocheron and Scott R. Fisher)
Phoenix Critics Circle Awards
Best Science Fiction Film
San Diego Film Critics Society Awards
Best Visual Effects
Seattle Film Critics Society Awards
Best Visual Effects (Allen Maris, Jedediah Smith, Guillaume Rocheron and Scott R. Fisher)
“After”
E! People’s Choice Awards
Drama Movie of 2019
Teen Choice Awards
Choice Drama Movie
Choice Drama Movie Actor (Hero Fiennes-Tiffin)
Choice Drama Movie Actress (Josephine Langford)
“Aladdin”
E! People’s Choice Awards
Family Movie of 2019
Teen Choice Awards
Choice Sci-Fi/Fantasy Movie
Choice Sci-Fi/Fantasy Movie Actor (Will Smith)
Choice Sci-Fi/Fantasy Movie (Naomi Scott)
“Alita: Battle Angel”
Florida Film Critics Circle Awards
Best Visual Effects (Joe Letteri and Eric Saindon)
Hollywood Critics Association Awards
Best Animated of VFX Performance (Rosa Salazar)
International Press Academy Satellite Awards
Best Visual Effects (Joe Letteri and Eric Saindon)
“Amazing Grace”
Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards
Best Documentary (tied with “Apollo 11”)
“American Factory”
Academy Awards
Best Documentary Feature
Critics’ Choice Documentary Awards
Best Director (Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert) *Tied with Peter Jackson of “They Shall Not Grow Old”
Best Political Documentary
Directors Guild of America Awards
Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentary
Film Independent Spirit Awards
Best Documentary
IFP Gotham Awards
Best Documentary
International Documentary Association Awards
Best Director (Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert)
Los Angeles Critics Association Awards
Best Documentary
Oklahoma Film Critics Circle Awards
Best Documentary
Sundance Film Festival
US Documentary Directing Award (Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert)
Toronto Film Critics Association Awards
Best Documentary
“Apollo 11”
American Cinema Editors (ACE) Eddie Awards
Best Edited Documentary
Chicago Film Critics Association Awards
Best Documentary
Critics’ Choice Documentary Awards
Best Documentary Feature
Best Editing (Todd Douglas Miller)
Bes Score (Matt Morton)
Best Archival Documentary
Best Science/Nature Documentary
Dallas-Forth Worth Film Critics Association Awards
Best Documentary
Detroit Film Critics Society Awards
Best Documentary
Florida Film Critics Circle Awards
Best Documentary
Georgia Film Critics Association Awards
Best Documentary
Hollywood Critics Association Awards
Best Documentary
Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards
Best Documentary (tied with “Amazing Grace”)
Las Vegas Film Critics Circle Awards
Best Documentary
Los Angeles Critics Association Awards
Best Editing (Todd Douglas Miller)
Music City Film Critics Association Awards
Best Documentary
Nevada Film Critics Society Awards
Best Documentary
North Texas Film Critics Association Awards
Best Documentary
Online Association of Female Film Critics Awards
Best Documentary
Online Film and Television Association Awards
Best Documentary
Phoenix Critics Circle Awards
Best Documentary
Producers Guild of America Awards
Outstanding Producer of Documentary Motion Picture (Todd Douglas Miller and Thomas Petersen)
St. Louis Film Critics Association Awards
Best Documentary
San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle Awards
Best Documentary
Seattle Film Critics Society Awards
Best Documentary
Utah Film Critics Association Awards
Best Documentary Feature
Best Film Editing (Todd Douglas Miller)
Best Original Score (Matt Morton)
Washington, D.C. Area Film Critics Association Awards
Best Documentary
“Atlantics”
BFI London Film Festival
Sutherland Prize (for a director’s first feature film)
Cannes Film Festival
Grand Prix (second place)
Los Angeles Critics Association Awards
Best Cinematography (Claire Mathon)
New York Film Critics Circle Awards
Best First Film
“Avengers: Endgame”
Art Directors Guild Awards
Excellence in Production Design – Fantasy Film (Charles Wood)
Critics’ Choice Awards
Best Action Movie
Best Visual Effects
E! People’s Choice Awards
Movie of 2019
Action Movie of 2019
Male Movie Star of 2019 (Robert Downey Jr.
Hollywood Critics Association Awards
Best Blockbuster
Best Visual Effects
Hollywood Film Awards
Hollywood Blockbuster Award (Kevin Feige and Victoria Alonso)
Las Vegas Film Critics Circle Awards
Best Visual Effects
MTV Movie & TV Awards
Best Movie
Best Hero (Robert Downey Jr.)
Best Villain (Josh Brolin)
Music City Film Critics Association Awards
Best Action Film
Nevada Film Critics Society Awards
Best Visual Effects
Online Film and Television Association Awards
Best Visual Effects
St. Louis Film Critics Association Awards
Best Visual Effects
Screen Actors Guild Awards
Outstanding Action Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Motion Picture
Teen Choice Awards
Choice Movie
Choice Action Movie Actor (Robert Downey Jr.)
Choice Action Movie Actress (Scarlett Johansson)
Choice Movie Villain (Josh Brolin)
Utah Film Critics Association Awards
Vice/Martin Award for Performance in a Science-Fiction, Fantasy or Horror Film (Robert Downey Jr.)
Washington, D.C. Area Film Critics Association Awards
Best Visual Effects
Best Motion Capture Performance (Josh Brolin)
“A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood”
North Texas Film Critics Association Awards
Best Supporting Actor (Tom Hanks)
“The Black Godfather”
African American Film Critics Association Awards
Best Documentary
“Bombshell”
Academy Awards
Best Makeup and Hairstyling (Kazu Hiro, Anne Morgan and Vivian Baker)
BAFTA Film Awards
Best Makeup and Hair (Kazu Hiro, Anne Morgan and Vivian Baker)
Critics’ Choice Awards
Best Hair and Makeup (Kazu Hiro, Anne Morgan and Vivian Baker)
Hollywood Critics Association Awards
Best Hair and Makeup (Kazu Hiro, Anne Morgan and Vivian Baker)
Las Vegas Film Critics Circle Awards
Best Supporting Actress (Margot Robbie)
Make-Up and Hair Stylist Guild Awards
Best Contemporary Make-up in a Feature-length Motion Picture (Vivian Baker, Cristina Waltz and Richard Redlefsen)
Best Special Make-up Effects in a Feature-length Motion Picture (Kazu Hiro, Vivian Baker and Richard Redlefsen)
Best Contemporary Hair Styling in a Feature-length Motion Picture (Anne Morgan, Jaime Leigh Mcintosh and Adruitha Lee)
Nevada Film Critics Society Awards
Best Actress (Charlize Theron) *Tie with Scarlett Johansson of “Marriage Story”
North Texas Film Critics Association Awards
Best Actress (Charlize Theron)
Online Film and Television Association Awards
Best Makeup and Hair
St. Louis Film Critics Association Awards
Best Supporting Actress (Margot Robbie) *Also awarded for “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood”
“Booksmart”
Film Independent Spirit Awards
Best First Feature
GALECA Dorian Awards
Unsung Film of the Year
Hollywood Critics Association Awards
Best Comedy/Musical *Tied with “Rocketman”
Best Female Director (Olivia Wilde)
Best Performance by an Actress 23 and Under (Kaitlyn Dever)
Hollywood Film Awards
Hollywood Breakthrough Director Award (Olivia Wilde)
Indiana Film Journalists Association Awards
Breakout of the Year (Olviia Wilde)
Las Vegas Film Critics Circle Awards
Breakout Filmmaker (Olivia Wilde)
Online Film and Television Association Awards
Best breakthrough Director (Olivia Wilde)
Philadelphia Film Critics Circle Awards
Best Directorial Debut (Olivia Wilde) *Tied with Joe Talbot of “The Last Black Man in San Francisco”
St. Louis Film Critics Association Awards
Best Comedy
Toronto Film Critics Association Awards
Best First Feature (Olivia Wilde)
“Brittany Runs a Marathon”
Sundance Film Festival
U.S. Dramatic Audience Award
“The Cave”
International Documentary Association Awards
Best Writing (Alisar Hasan and Feras Fayyad)
Toronto International Film Festival
People’s Choice Documentary Award
“Clemency”
Sundance Film Festival
U.S. Dramatic Grand Jury Award
Cold Case Hammarskjöld
Sundance Film Festival
World Cinema Documentary Grand Jury Directing Award (Mads Brügger)
“Dolemite Is My Name”
African American Film Critics Association Awards
Best Actor (Eddie Murphy)
Best Supporting Actress (Da’Vine Joy Randolph)
Black Film Critics Circle Awards
Best Picture
Best Actor (Eddie Murphy)
Best Supporting Actor (Da’Vine Joy Randolph)
Best Ensemble
Critics’ Choice Awards
Best Comedy Film
Best Costume Design (Ruth E. Carter)
International Press Academy Satellite Awards
Best Costume Design (Ruth E. Carter)
San Diego Film Critics Society Awards
Best Comedic Performance (Wesley Snipes)
Best Costume Design (Ruth E. Carter)
Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards
Best Supporting Actress (Da’Vine Joy Randolph)
Las Vegas Film Critics Circle Awards
Best Comedy
Best Costume Design (Ruth E. Carter)
Online Film and Television Association Awards
Best Costume Design (Ruth E. Carter) *Tied with “Little Women”
Seattle Film Critics Society Awards
Best Costume Design (Ruth E. Carter)
“Downton Abbey”
Hollywood Film Awards
Hollywood Costume Design Award (Anna Mary Scott Robbins)
Make-Up and Hair Stylist Guild Awards
Best Period Hair Styling and/or Character Hair Styling in a Feature-length Motion Picture (Anne Nosh Oldham, Elaine Browne and Marc Pilcher)
“The Farewell”
American Film Institute (AFI) Awards
AFI Top 10 Movie of the Year
Chicago Film Critics Association Awards
Milos Stehlik Award for Breakthrough Filmmaker (Lulu Wang)
Film Independent Spirit Awards
Best Feature
Best Supporting Female (Shuzhen Zhao)
Golden Globe Awards
Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Comedy (Awkwafina)
Hollywood Critics Association Awards
Best Independent Film *Tied with “Waves”
IFP Gotham Awards
Best Actress (Awkwafina)
International Press Academy Satellite Awards
Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical (Awkwafina)
North Texas Film Critics Association Awards
Best Supporting Actress (Zhao Shuzhen)
Online Association of Female Film Critics Awards
Breakthrough Filmmaker (Lulu Wang)
Online Film and Television Association Awards
Best Breakthrough Performance: Female (Awkwafina)
San Diego Film Critics Society Awards
Best Supporting Actress (Zhao Shuzhen)
“Fighting With My Family”
Detroit Film Critics Society Awards
Breakthrough (Florence Pugh) *Also awarded for “Midsommar” and “Little Women”
Florida Film Critics Circle Awards
Pauline Kael Breakout Award (Florence Pugh) *Also awarded for “Midsommar” and “Little Women”
Georgia Film Critics Association Awards
Breakthrough Award (Florence Pugh) *Also awarded for “Midsommar” and “Little Women”
Las Vegas Film Critics Circle Awards
Best Family Film
“Five Feet Apart”
E! People’s Choice Awards
Drama Movie Star of 2019 (Cole Sprouse)
“For Sama”
BAFTA Film Awards
Best Documentary
British Independent Film Awards
Best British Independent Film
Best Documentary
Best Director (Waad al-Khateab and Edward Watts)
Best Editing (Chloe Lambourne and Simon McMahon)
Cannes Film Festival
L’oeil d’or (Best Documentary)
Indiana Film Journalists Association Awards
Best Documentary
International Documentary Association Awards
Best Feature
London Film Critics Circle Awards
Best Documentary
National Board of Review Awards
NBR Freedom of Expression Award
South by Southwest Film Festival
Grand Jury Award for Best Documentary
Audience Award for Best Documentary
“Ford v Ferrari”
Academy Awards
Best Film Editing
Best Sound Mixing
BAFTA Film Awards
Best Editing (Andrew Buckland, Michael McCusker)
Cinema Audio Society Awards
Best Motion Picture – Live-Action
Hollywood Film Awards
Hollywood Director Award (James Mangold)
Hollywood Editor Award (Michael McCusker and Andrew Buckland)
Hollywood Sound Award (Donald Sylvester, Paul Massey, David Giammarco and Steven A. Morrow)
Indiana Film Journalists Association Awards
Hoosier Award (Jason Keller)
International Press Academy Satellite Awards
Best Motion Picture – Drama
Best Director (James Mangold)
Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama (Christian Bale)
Best Film Editing (Andrew Buckland and Michael McCusker
Best Sound Editing and Mixing (Donald Sylvester, Paul Massey, David Giammarco and Steven A. Morrow)
Las Vegas Film Critics Circle Awards
Best Action Film
Best Film Editing (Andrew Buckland and Michael McCusker)
San Diego Film Critics Society Awards
Best Editing (Andrew Buckland, Michael McCusker and Dirk Westervelt)
San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle Awards
Best Film Editing (Andrew Buckland)
Washington, D.C. Area Film Critics Association Awards
Best Editing (Andrew Buckland and Michael McCusker)
“Frozen 2”
Annie Awards
Best Acting in an Animated Feature Production (Josh Gad)
Best Animated Effects in an Animated Feature Production
“Harriet”
Black Film Critics Circle Awards
Best Director (Kasi Lemmons) *Tied with Martin Scorsese of “The Irishman”
Hollywood Film Awards
Hollywood Breakout Actress Award (Cynthia Erivo)
Las Vegas Film Critics Circle Awards
Best Song (“Stand Up,” written by Cynthia Erivo and Joshuah Brian Campbell)
Philadelphia Film Critics Circle Awards
Elaine May Award
Society of Composers and Lyricists Awards
Outstanding Original Song for Visual Media (“Stand Up,” written by Cynthia Erivo and Joshuah Brian Campbell)
“Honey Boy”
Directors Guild of America Awards
Outstanding Directorial Achievement of a First-Time Feature Film Director (Alma Har’el)
Sundance Film Festival
U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Vision and Craft
Hollywood Critics Association Awards
Best Performance by an Actor 23 and Under (Noah Jupe)
Hollywood Film Awards
Hollywood Breakthrough Screenwriter Award (Shia LaBeouf)
Las Vegas Film Critics Circle Awards
Best Male Youth Performance – Actor Under 21 (Noah Jupe)
Online Association of Female Film Critics Awards
Best Supporting Actor (Shia LaBeouf)
“Honeyland”
American Society of Cinematographers Awards
Best Documentary (Fejmi Daut and Samir Ljuma )
Boston Society of Film Critics Awards
Best Documentary
Critics’ Choice Documentary Awards
Best First Documentary Feature (Tamara Kotevska and Ljubomir Stefanov)
Denver Film Critics Society Awards
Best Documentary
GALECA Dorian Awards
Documentary of the Year
International Documentary Association Awards
Best Cinematography (Fejmi Daut and Samir Ljuma)
Pare Lorentz Award
Sundance Film Festival
World Cinema Documentary Grand Jury Award
World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Impact for Change (Tamara Kotevska and Ljubomir Stefanov)
World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Cinematography (Fejmi Daut and Samir Ljuma)
New York Film Critics Circle Awards
Best Nonfiction Film
Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards
Best Documentary
“How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World”
Annie Awards
Best Special Production
Indiana Film Journalists Association Awards
Best Animated Film
National Board of Review Awards
Best Animated Feature
Vancouver Film Critic Circle Awards
Best Animated Film
“Hustlers”
GALECA Dorian Awards
Film Performance of the Year — Supporting Actress (Jennifer Lopez)
Hollywood Critics Association Awards
Best Supporting Actress (Jennifer Lopez)
Indiana Film Journalists Association Awards
Best Supporting Actress (Jennifer Lopez)
International Press Academy Satellite Awards
Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture (Jennifer Lopez)
Los Angeles Critics Association Awards
Best Supporting Actress (Jennifer Lopez)
Nevada Film Critics Society Awards
Best Supporting Actress (Jennifer Lopez)
Oklahoma Film Critics Circle Awards
Best Supporting Actress (Jennifer Lopez)
Online Association of Female Film Critics Awards
Best Supporting Actress (Jennifer Lopez)
Online Film and Television Association Awards
Best Supporting Actress (Jennifer Lopez)
San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle Awards
Best Supporting Actress (Jennifer Lopez)
Seattle Film Critics Society Awards
Best Supporting Actress (Jennifer Lopez)
Washington, D.C. Area Film Critics Association Awards
Best Supporting Actress (Jennifer Lopez)
“I Lost My Body”
Annie Awards
Best Feature – Independent
Writing in an Animated Feature Production (Jérémy Clapin and Guillaume Laurant)
Black Film Critics Circle Awards
Best Animated Film
Boston Society of Film Critics Awards
Best Animated Film
Florida Film Critics Circle Awards
Best Animated Film
International Cinephile Society Awards
Best Animated Picture
Los Angeles Critics Association Awards
Best Animated Film
Best Music/Score (Dan Levy)
New York Film Critics Circle Awards
Best Animated Film
San Diego Film Critics Society Awards
Best Animated Film
San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle Awards
Best Animated Film
Utah Film Critics Association Awards
Best Animated Feature
“The Irishman”
American Film Institute (AFI) Awards
AFI Top 10 Movie of the Year
Black Film Critics Circle Awards
Best Director (Martin Scorsese) *Tied with Kasi Lemmons of “Harriet”)
Best Adapted Screenplay (Steven Zaillian)
Boston Society of Film Critics Awards
Best Editing (Thelma Schoonmaker)
Chicago Film Critics Association Awards
Best Editing (Thelma Schoonmaker)
Critics’ Choice Awards
Best Acting Ensemble
Detroit Film Critics Society Awards
Best Director (Martin Scorsese)
Best Supporting Actor (Joe Pesci)
Florida Film Critics Circle Awards
Best Supporting Actor (Joe Pesci)
Georgia Film Critics Association Awards
Best Supporting Actor (Joe Pesci)
Best Adapted Screenplay (Steven Zaillian)
Hollywood Critics Association Awards
Best Supporting Actor (Joe Pesci)
Hollywood Film Awards
Hollywood Supporting Actor Award (Al Pacino)
Hollywood Producer Award (Emma Tillinger Koskoff)
Hollywood Visual Effects Award (Pablo Helman)
International Cinephile Society Awards
Best Supporting Actor (Joe Pesci)
Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards
Best Supporting Actor (Joe Pesci)
London Film Critics Circle Awards
Best Supporting Actor (Joe Pesci)
National Board of Review Awards
Best Film
Best Adapted Screenplay
NBR Icon Award (Martin Scorsese, Robert De Niro, Al Pacino)
Nevada Film Critics Society Awards
Best Supporting Actor (Joe Pesci)
New York Film Critics Circle Awards
Best Film
Best Supporting Actor (Joe Pesci)
North Texas Film Critics Association Awards
Best Picture
Oklahoma Film Critics Circle Awards
Best Director (Martin Scorsese)
Best Adapted Screenplay (Steven Zaillian)
Philadelphia Film Critics Circle Awards
Best Director (Martin Scorsese)
Best Supporting Actor (Joe Pesci) *Tied with Brad Pitt of “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood”
Best Soundtrack
St. Louis Film Critics Association Awards
Best Adapted Screenplay (Steven Zaillian)
San Diego Film Critics Society Awards
Best Picture
Best Supporting Actor (Joe Pesci) *Tied with Brad Pitt of “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood”
Toronto Film Critics Association Awards
Best Screenplay (Steven Zaillian)
Utah Film Critics Association Awards
Best Supporting Actor (Joe Pesci)
“Jawline”
Sundance Film Festival
US Documentary Special Jury Award for Emerging Filmmaker (Liza Mandelup)
“John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum”
Hollywood Critics Association Awards
Best Stunt Work
Online Film and Television Association Awards
Best Stunt Coordination
Seattle Film Critics Society Awards
Best Action Choreography
“Jojo Rabbit”
Academy Awards
Best Adapted Screenplay (Taika Waititi)
American Cinema Editors (ACE) Eddie Awards
Best Edited Feature Film (Comedy)
American Film Institute (AFI) Awards
AFI Top 10 Movie of the Year
BAFTA Film Awards
Best Adapted Screenplay (Taika Waititi)
Casting Society of America Artios Awards
Best Studio or Independent Comedy
Critics’ Choice Awards
Best Young Actor/Actress (Roman Griffin Davis)
Hollywood Critics Association Awards
Best Adapted Screenplay (Taika Waititi)
Hollywood Film Awards
Hollywood Cinematography (Mihai Mălaimare Jr.)
Hollywood Production Design Award (Ra Vincent)
Music City Film Critics Association Awards
Best Young Actor (Roman Griffin Davis)
Nevada Film Critics Society Awards
Best Adapted Screenplay (Taika Waititi)
North Texas Film Critics Association Awards
Best Newcomer (Roman Griffin Davis)
Online Association of Female Film Critics Awards
Best Adapted Screenplay (Taika Waititi)
Online Film and Television Association Awards
Best Youth Performance (Roman Griffin Davis)
Phoenix Critics Circle Awards
Best Comedy Film
Best Supporting Actress (Thomasin McKenzie)
San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle Awards
Best Adapted Screenplay (Taika Waititi)
Seattle Film Critics Society Awards
Best Youth Performance (Thomasin McKenzie)
Toronto International Film Festival
People’s Choice Award
Washington, D.C. Area Film Critics Association Awards
Best Youth Performance (Roman Griffin Davis)
Writers Guild of America Awards
Best Adapted Screenplay (Taika Waititi)
“Joker”
Academy Awards
Best Actor (Joaquin Phoenix)
Best Original Score (Hildur Guðnadóttir)
American Film Institute (AFI) Awards
AFI Top 10 Movie of the Year
BAFTA Film Awards
Best Actor (Joaquin Phoenix)
Best Original Score (Hildur Guðnadóttir)
Best Casting (Shayna Markowitz)
Critics’ Choice Awards
Best Actor (Joaquin Phoenix)
Best Original Score (Hildur Guðnadóttir)
Denver Film Critics Society Awards
Best Actor (Joaquin Phoenix)
Best Original Score (Hildur Guðnadóttir)
Golden Globe Awards
Best Actor in Motion Picture – Drama (Joaquin Phoenix)
Best Original Score (Hildur Guðnadóttir)
Hollywood Critics Association Awards
Best Actor (Joaquin Phoenix)
Best Original Score (Hildur Guðnadóttir)
International Press Academy Satellite Awards
Best Adapted Screenplay (Todd Phillips and Scott Silver)
Best Score (Hildur Guðnadóttir)
London Film Critics Circle Awards
Best Actor (Joaquin Phoenix)
Make-Up and Hair Stylist Guild Awards
Best Period and/or Character Make-up in a Feature-length Motion Picture (Nicki Ledermann, Tania Ribalow and Sunday English)
Music City Film Critics Association Awards
Best Actor (Joaquin Phoenix)
Best Original Score (Hildur Guðnadóttir)
North Texas Film Critics Association Awards
Best Actor (Joaquin Phoenix)
Philadelphia Film Critics Circle Awards
Steve Friedman Award
Phoenix Critics Circle Awards
Best Score (Hildur Guðnadóttir)
San Diego Film Critics Society Awards
Best Actor (Joaquin Phoenix) *Tied with Adam Driver of “Marriage Story”
Screen Actors Guild Awards
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role (Joaquin Phoenix)
Society of Composers and Lyricists Awards
Outstanding Original Score for a Studio Film (Hildur Guðnadóttir)
Venice International Film Festival
Golden Lion Award
“Judy”
Academy Awards
Best Actress (Renée Zellweger)
BAFTA Film Awards
Best Actress (Renée Zellweger)
British Independent Film Awards
Best Actress (Renée Zellweger)
Best Makeup & Hair Design (Jeremy Woodhead)
Critics’ Choice Awards
Best Actress (Renée Zellweger)
Film Independent Spirit Awards
Best Female Lead (Renée Zellweger)
GALECA Dorian Awards
Film Performance of the Year — Actress (Renée Zellweger)
Golden Globe Awards
Best Actress in Motion Picture – Drama (Renée Zellweger)
Hollywood Film Awards
Hollywood Actress Award (Renée Zellweger)
Las Vegas Film Critics Circle Awards
Best Actress (Reneé Zellweger)
London Film Critics Circle Awards
Best Actress (Reneé Zellweger)
National Board of Review Awards
Best Actress (Reneé Zellweger)
Screen Actors Guild Awards
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role (Reneé Zellweger)
“Just Mercy”
African American Film Critics Association Awards
Best Supporting Actor (Jamie Foxx)
“Klaus”
Annie Awards
Best Character Animation in an Animated Feature Production
Best Character Design in an Animated Feature Production
Best Directing in an Animated Feature Production (Sergio Pablos)
Best Production Design in an Animated Feature Production (Szymon Biernaki, Marcin Jakubowski)
Best Storyboarding in an Animated Feature Production (Sergio Pablos)
Best Editorial in an Animated Feature Production
BAFTA Film Awards
Best Animated Film
“Knives Out”
American Film Institute (AFI) Awards
AFI Top 10 Movie of the Year
Casting Society of America Artios Awards
Best Big Budget Comedy
Denver Film Critics Society Awards
Best Original Screenplay (Rian Johnson)
Hollywood Critics Association Awards
Best Cast Ensemble
Indiana Film Journalists Association Awards
Best Ensemble Acting
International Press Academy Satellite Awards
Best Ensemble – Motion Picture
Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards
Best Original Screenplay (Rian Johnson)
Las Vegas Film Critics Circle Awards
Best Ensemble
Music City Film Critics Association Awards
Best Comedy Film
Best Ensemble
National Board of Review Awards
Best Ensemble
North Texas Film Critics Association Awards
Gary Murray Award (Best Ensemble)
Oklahoma Film Critics Circle Awards
Best Ensemble
Best Original Screenplay (Rian Johnson)
Online Association of Female Film Critics Awards
Best Acting Ensemble
Philadelphia Film Critics Circle Awards
Best Picture
Best Script (Rian Johnson)
Phoenix Critics Circle Awards
Best Comedy Film
Best Screenplay (Rian Johnson)
Special Achievement Award: Ensemble Acting
San Diego Film Critics Society Awards
Best Ensemble
Washington, D.C. Area Film Critics Association Awards
Best Ensemble
“Knock Down the House”
Sundance Film Festival
U.S. Documentary Audience Award
“The Last Black Man in San Francisco”
African American Film Critics Association Awards
Best Independent Film
Boston Society of Film Critics Awards
Best New Filmmaker (Joe Talbot)
Casting Society of America Artios Awards
Best Low-Budget Comedy or Drama
Los Angeles Critics Association Awards
New Generation Prize (Joe Talbot, Jimmie Fails, Jonathan Majors)
Oklahoma Film Critics Circle Awards
Best First Feature (Joe Talbot)
Philadelphia Film Critics Circle Awards
Best Directorial Debut (Joe Talbot) *Tied with Olivia Wilde of “Booksmart”
San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle Awards
Best Original Score (Emile Mosseri)
Marlon Riggs Award (Jimmie Fails and Joe Talbot)
Sundance Film Festival
U.S. Dramatic Directing Award (Joe Talbot)
U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Creative Collaboration
“Les Misérables”
Cannes Film Festival
Jury Prize
“The Lighthouse”
American Society of Cinematographers Awards
Spotlight Award (Jarin Blaschke)
Dallas-Forth Worth Film Critics Association
Russell Smith Award (for low-budget or cutting-edge films)
Film Independent Spirit Awards
Best Supporting Male (Willem Dafoe)
Best Cinematography (Jarin Blaschke)
Indiana Film Journalists Association Awards
Best Supporting Actor (Willem Dafoe)
Original Vision Award (Robert Eggers)
International Press Academy Satellite Awards
Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture (Willem Dafoe)
Las Vegas Film Critics Circle Awards
Best Supporting Actor (Willem Dafoe)
Philadelphia Film Critics Circle Awards
Best Cinematography (Jarin Blaschke)
San Diego Film Critics Society Awards
Best Cinematography (Jarin Blaschke)
Seattle Film Critics Society Awards
Best Supporting Actor (Willem Dafoe)
“The Lion King”
Casting Society of America Artios Awards
Best Animation *Tie with “Toy Story 4”
E! People’s Choice Awards
Animated Movie Star of 2019 (Beyoncé)
International Press Academy Satellite Awards
Best Motion Picture – Animated or Mixed Media
“Little Women”
Academy Awards
Best Costume Design (Jacqueline Durran)
American Film Institute (AFI) Awards
AFI Top 10 Movie of the Year
BAFTA Film Awards
Best Costume Design (Jacqueline Durran)
Boston Society of Film Critics Awards
Best Picture
Best Actress (Saoirse Ronan)
Best Ensemble Cast
Best Original Score (Alexandre Desplat)
Chicago Film Critics Association Awards
Best Supporting Actress (Florence Pugh)
Best Adapted Screenplay (Greta Gerwig)
Best Costume Design (Jacqueline Durran)
Best Original Score (Alexandre Desplat)
Critics’ Choice Awards
Best Adapted Screenplay (Greta Gerwig)
Denver Film Critics Society Awards
Best Adapted Screenplay (Greta Gerwig)
Best Supporting Actress (Florence Pugh) *Tie with Laura Dern
Detroit Film Critics Society Awards
Breakthrough (Florence Pugh) *Also awarded for “Midsommar” and “Fighting With My Family”
Florida Film Critics Circle Awards
Best Ensemble
Best Adapted Screenplay (Greta Gerwig)
Breakout Award (Florence Pugh) *Also awarded for “Midsommar” and “Fighting With My Family”
Georgia Film Critics Association Awards
Best Supporting Actress (Florence Pugh)
Best Ensemble
Breakthrough (Florence Pugh) *Also awarded for “Midsommar” and “Fighting With My Family”
Indiana Film Journalists Association Awards
Best Adapted Screenplay (Greta Gerwig)
Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards
Best Adapted Screenplay (Greta Gerwig)
Music City Film Critics Association Awards
Best Supporting Actress (Florence Pugh)
New York Film Critics Circle Awards
Best Supporting Actress (Laura Dern)
Online Film and Television Association Awards
Best Adapted Screenplay (Greta Gerwig)
Best Costume Design (Jacqueline Durrance) *Tied with “Dolemite Is My Name”
Philadelphia Film Critics Circle Awards
Best Supporting Actress (Florence Pugh)
Best Breakthrough Performance (Florence Pugh)
San Diego Film Critics Society Awards
Breakthrough Artist (Florence Pugh) *Also awarded for “Midsommar”
USC Libraries Scripter Awards
Best Film
Utah Film Critics Association Awards
Best Supporting Actress (Florence Pugh)
Best Adapted Screenplay (Greta Gerwig)
Washington, D.C. Area Film Critics Association Awards
Best Adapted Screenplay (Greta Gerwig)
“Luce”
San Diego Film Critics Society Awards
Best Adapted Screenplay (Julius Onah)
“Maiden”
Critics’ Choice Documentary Awards
Best Sports Documentary
National Board of Review Awards
Best Documentary
“Marriage Story”
Academy Awards
Best Supporting Actress (Laura Dern)
American Film Institute (AFI) Awards
AFI Top 10 Movie of the Year
BAFTA Film Awards
Best Supporting Actress (Laura Dern)
Boston Society of Film Critics Awards
Best Actor (Adam Driver)
Best Supporting Actress (Laura Dern)
Casting Society of America Artios Awards
Studio or Independent Drama
Chicago Film Critics Association Awards
Best Actor (Adam Driver)
Critics’ Choice Awards
Best Supporting Actress (Laura Dern)
Dallas-Forth Worth Film Critics Association Awards
Best Actor (Adam Driver)
Best Actress (Scarlett Johansson)
Best Supporting Actress (Laura Dern)
Best Screenplay (Noah Baumbach)
Denver Film Critics Society Awards
Best Actress (Scarlett Johansson)
Best Supporting Actress (Laura Dern) *Tied with Florence Pugh of “Little Women”
Detroit Film Critics Society Awards
Best Actor (Adam Driver)
Best Actress (Scarlett Johansson)
Best Supporting Actress (Laura Dern)
Best Screenplay (Noah Baumbach)
Film Independent Spirit Awards
Robert Altman Award
Best Screenplay (Noah Baumbauch)
Florida Film Critics Circle Awards
Best Actor (Adam Driver)
Best Actress (Scarlett Johansson)
Best Supporting Actress (Laura Dern)
Golden Globe Awards
Best Supporting Actress in Motion Picture (Laura Dern)
Georgia Film Critics Association Awards
Best Actor (Adam Driver)
Hollywood Critics Association Awards
Best Male Director (Noah Baumbach)
Hollywood Film Awards
Hollywood Supporting Actress Award (Laura Dern)
Hollywood Film Composer Award (Randy Newman)
IFP Gotham Awards
Best Feature
Gotham Audience Award
Best Actor (Adam Driver)
Best Screenplay (Noah Baumbach)
Indiana Film Journalists Association Awards
Best Picture
Best Actor (Adam Driver)
Best Original Screenplay (Noah Baumbach)
International Press Academy Satellite Awards
Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama (Scarlett Johansson)
Best Original Screenplay (Noah Baumbach)
Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards
Best Actor (Adam Driver)
London Film Critics Circle Awards
Screenwriter of the Year (Noah Baumbach)
Best Supporting Actress (Laura Dern)
Los Angeles Critics Association Awards
Best Screenplay (Noah Baumbach)
Nevada Film Critics Society Awards
Best Film
Best Director (Noah Baumbach)
Best Actor (Adam Driver)
Best Actress (Scarlett Johansson) *Tie with Charlize Theron of Bombshell”
New York Film Critics Circle Awards
Best Supporting Actress (Laura Dern)
Online Association of Female Film Critics Awards
Best Actor (Adam Driver)
Best Actress (Scarlett Johansson) *Tied with Lupita Nyong’o of “Us”
Best Original Screenplay (Noah Baumbach)
Online Film and Television Association Awards
Best Actor (Adam Driver)
Best Adapted Song (“Being Alive”)
Philadelphia Film Critics Circle Awards
Best Actor (Adam Driver)
Phoenix Critics Circle Awards
Best Actor (Adam Driver)
St. Louis Film Critics Association Awards
Best Actor (Adam Driver)
Best Original Screenplay (Noah Baumbach} *Tied with Quentin Tarantino’s “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood”
San Diego Film Critics Society Awards
Best Actor (Adam Driver) *Tied with Joaquin Phoenix of “Joker”
Best Original Screenplay (Noah Baumbach)
Screen Actors Guild Awards
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role (Laura Dern)
Seattle Film Critics Society Awards
Best Actor (Adam Driver)
Toronto Film Critics Association Awards
Best Actor (Adam Driver)
Best Supporting Actress (Laura Dern)
Utah Film Critics Association Awards
Best Actor (Adam Driver)
Best Actress (Scarlett Johansson)
Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards
Best Actor (Adam Driver)
Best Actress (Scarlett Johansson)
Best Supporting Actress (Laura Dern)
Best Screenplay (Noah Baumbach)
Washington, D.C. Area Film Critics Association Awards
Best Actor (Adam Driver)
Best Original Screenplay (Noah Baumbach)
“Midnight Family”
International Documentary Association Awards
Best Editing (Luke Lorentzen and Paloma López Carrillo)
“Midsommar”
Detroit Film Critics Society Awards
Breakthrough (Florence Pugh) *Also awarded for “Fighting With My Family” and “Little Women”
Florida Film Critics Circle Awards
Pauline Kael Breakout Award (Florence Pugh) *Also awarded for “Fighting With My Family” and “Little Women”
Georgia Film Critics Association
Breakout Award (Florence Pugh) *Also awarded for “Fighting With My Family” and “Little Women”
Las Vegas Film Critics Circle Awards
Best Horror Film
Online Association of Female Film Critics Awards
Breakthrough Performance (Florence Pugh)
San Diego Film Critics Society Awards
Breakthrough Artist (Florence Pugh) *Also awarded for “Little Women”
“Mike Wallace Is Here”
International Documentary Association Awards
ABC News VideoSource Award
“Missing Link”
Golden Globe Awards
Best Animated Film
Las Vegas Film Critics Circle Awards
Best Animated Film
Toronto Film Critics Association Awards
Best Animated Film
“Monos”
Sundance Film Festival
World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award
“Motherless Brooklyn”
International Press Academy Satellite Awards
Auteur Award (Edward Norton)
Best Art Direction and Production Design (Beth Mickle and Michael Ahern)
“Murder Mystery”
E! People’s Choice Awards
Comedy Movie of 2019
“The Mustang”
IFP Gotham Awards
Breakthrough Director (Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre)
International Press Academy Satellite Awards
Best First Feature (Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre)
“Once Upon a Time in Hollywood”
Academy Awards
Best Supporting Actor (Brad Pitt)
Best Production Design (Barbara Ling and Nancy Haigh)
American Film Institute (AFI) Awards
AFI Top 10 Movie of the Year
Art Directors Guild Awards
Excellence in Production Design – Period Film (Barbara Ling)
BAFTA Film Awards
Best Supporting Actor (Brad Pitt)
Black Film Critics Circle Awards
Best Supporting Actor (Brad Pitt)
Boston Society of Film Critics Awards
Best Supporting Actor (Brad Pitt)
Best Screenplay (Quentin Tarantino)
Casting Society of America Artios Awards
Best Big Budget Drama
Chicago Film Critics Association Awards
Best Supporting Actor (Brad Pitt)
Critics’ Choice Awards
Best Picture
Best Original Screenplay (Quentin Tarantino)
Best Supporting Actor (Brad Pitt)
Best Production Design (Barbara Ling)
Dallas-Forth Worth Film Critics Association Awards
Best Supporting Actor (Brad Pitt)
Best Art Direction (Barbara Ling)
Denver Film Critics Society Awards
Best Supporting Actor (Brad Pitt)
Detroit Film Critics Society Awards
Best Use of Music
Best Ensemble
Florida Film Critics Circle Awards
Best Art Direction/Production Design (Barbara Ling)
Golden Globe Awards
Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy
Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture (Brad Pitt)
Best Screenplay (Quentin Tarantino)
Best Production Design (Barbara Ling and Nancy Haigh)
International Press Academy Satellite Awards
Best Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical
Las Vegas Film Critics Circle Awards
Best Picture
Best Director (Quentin Tarantino)
Best Original Screenplay (Quentin Tarantino)
Best Score
Best Production Design (Barbara Ling)
Best Female Youth Performance – Actress Under 21 (Julia Butters)
Los Angeles Critics Association Awards
Best Production Design (Barbara Ling)
Music City Film Critics Association Awards
Best Supporting Actor (Brad Pitt)
Best Production Design (Barbara Ling)
National Board of Review Awards
Best Director (Quentin Tarantino)
Best Supporting Actor (Brad Pitt)
Nevada Film Critics Society Awards
Best Original Screenplay (Quentin Tarantino)
Best Production Design (Barbara Ling)
Philadelphia Film Critics Circle Awards
Best Supporting Actor (Brad Pitt) *Tied With Joe Pesci of “The Irishman”
St. Louis Film Critics Association Awards
Best Picture
Best Director (Quentin Tarantino)
Best Supporting Actor (Brad Pitt)
Best Supporting Actress (Margot Robbie) *Also awarded for “Bombshell”
Best Original Screenplay (Quentin Tarantino) *Tied with Noah Baumbach’s “Marriage Story”
Best Editing (Fred Raskin)
Best Production Design (Barbara Ling)
Best Music Soundtrack (Holly Adams, music supervisor/soundtrack producer)
Best Scene (Spahn Ranch)
San Diego Film Critics Society Awards
Best Supporting Actor (Brad Pitt) *Tied with Joe Pesci of “The Irishman”
Best Use of Music
San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle Awards
Best Picture
Best Supporting Actor (Brad Pitt)
Best Production Design (Barbara Ling)
Seattle Film Critics Society Awards
Best Production Design (Barbara Ling)
Screen Actors Guild Awards
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role (Brad Pitt)
Toronto Film Critics Association Awards
Best Supporting Actor (Brad Pitt)
Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards
Best Supporting Actor (Brad Pitt)
Washington, D.C. Area Film Critics Association Awards
Best Supporting Actor (Brad Pitt)
Best Production Design (Barbara Ling)
“One Child Nation”
Sundance Film Festival
U.S. Documentary Grand Jury Award
“Pain and Glory”
Cannes Film Festival
Best Actor (Antonio Banderas)
GALECA Dorian Awards
Film Performance of the Year — Actor (Antonio Banderas)
Los Angeles Critics Association Awards
Best Actor (Antonio Banderas)
Best Foreign Language Film
Hollywood Film Awards
Hollywood Actor Award (Antonio Banderas)
International Cinephile Society Awards
Best Picture
Best Actor (Antonio Banderas)
New York Film Critics Circle Awards
Best Actor (Antonio Banderas)
San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle Awards
Best Actor (Antonio Banderas)
“Parasite”
Academy Awards
Best Picture
Best Director (Bong Joo Ho)
Best Original Screenplay (Bong Joo Ho and Han Jin Won)
Best International Feature Film
African American Film Critics Association Awards
Best Screenplay (Bong Joo Ho and Han Jin Won)
Best Foreign Film
American Cinema Editors (ACE) Eddie Awards
Best Edited Feature Film (Drama)
American Film Institute (AFI) Awards
Special Award
Art Directors Guild Awards
Excellence in Production Design – Contemporary Film (Lee Ha-Jun)
BAFTA Film Awards
Best Original Screenplay (Bong Joo Ho and Han Jin Won)
Best Film Not in the English Language
Black Film Critics Circle Awards
Best Foreign Film
Boston Society of Film Critics Awards
Best Director (Bong Joo Ho)
Best Foreign Language Film
British Independent Film Awards
Best International Film
Cannes Film Festival
Palme d’Or
Chicago Film Critics Association Awards
Best Picture
Best Director (Bong Joon Ho)
Best Original Screenplay (Bong Joo Ho and Han Jin Won)
Best Foreign Language Film
Critics’ Choice Awards
Best Director (Bong Joo Ho) *Tied With Sam Mendes of “1917”
Best Foreign Language Film
Dallas-Forth Worth Film Critics Association Awards
Best Foreign Language Film
Denver Film Critics Society Awards
Best Foreign Language Film
Detroit Film Critics Society Awards
Best Picture
Film Independent Spirit Awards
Best International Film
GALECA Dorian Awards
Best Film of the Year
Best Director (Bong Joo Ho)
Film Performance of the Year — Supporting Actor (Song Kang Ho)
Foreign Language Film fo the Year
Screenplay of the Year (Bong Joo Ho and Han Jin Won)
Georgia Film Critics Association Awards
Best Picture
Best Director (Bong Joo Ho)
Best Original Screenplay (Bong Joo Ho and Han Jin Won)
Best Foreign Language Film
Golden Globe Awards
Best Foreign Language Film
Hollywood Critics Association Awards
Best Original Screenplay (Bong Joo Ho and Han Jin Won)
Best Foreign Language Film
Hollywood Film Awards
Hollywood Filmmaker Award (Bong Joo Ho)
Indiana Film Journalists Association Awards
Best Director (Bong Joon Ho)
Best Foreign Language Film
International Cinephile Society Awards
Best Original Screenplay (Bong Joo Ho and Han Jin Won)
Best Production Design
Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards
Best Foreign Language Film
Las Vegas Film Critics Circle Awards
Best Foreign Language Film
London Film Critics Circle Awards
Best Film
Best Director (Bong Joo Ho)
Los Angeles Critics Association Awards
Best Picture
Best Director (Bong Joo Ho)
Best Supporting Actor (Song Kang Ho)
Music City Film Critics Association Awards
Best Screenplay (Bong Joo Ho and Han Jin Won)
Best Foreign Film
National Board of Review Awards
Best Foreign Language Film
New York Film Critics Circle Awards
Best Foreign Language Film
North Texas Film Critics Association Awards
Best Foreign Lanuage Film
Oklahoma Film Critics Circle Awards
Best Foreign Language Film
Online Association of Female Film Critics Awards
Best Picture
Best Director (Bong Joo Ho)
Online Film and Television Association Awards
Best Picture
Best Director (Bong Joo Ho)
Best Ensemble
Best Original Screenplay (Bong Joo Ho and Han Jin Won)
Best Film Editing
Best Foreign Language Film
Philadelphia Film Critics Circle Awards
Best Foreign Film
Phoenix Critics Circle Awards
Best Picture
Best Director (Bong Joo Ho)
Best Supporting Actor (Song Kang Ho)
Best Foreign Language Film
St. Louis Film Critics Association Awards
Best Foreign Language Film
San Diego Film Critics Society Awards
Best Foreign Language Film
San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle Awards
Best Director (Bong Joo Ho)
Best Original Screenplay (Bong Joo Ho and Han Jin Won)
Best Foreign Language Film
Seattle Film Critics Society Awards
Best Picture
Best Director (Bong Joo Ho)
Best Ensemble Cast
Best Screenplay (Bong Joo Ho and Han Jin Wan)
Best Foreign Language Film
Screen Actors Guild Awards
Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
Toronto Film Critics Association Awards
Best Picture
Best Director (Bong Joo Ho)
Best Foreign Language Film
Utah Film Critics Association Awards
Best Picture
Best Original Screenplay (Bong Joo Ho and Han Jin Wan)
Best Non-English-Language Film
Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards
Best Picture
Best Director (Bong Joo Ho)
Best Foreign Language Film
Washington, D.C. Area Film Critics Association Awards
Best Picture
Best Director (Bong Joo Ho)
Best Foreign Language Feature
Writers Guild of America Awards
Best Original Screenplay (Bong Joo Ho and Han Jin Wan)
“The Perfect Date”
E! People’s Choice Awards
Comedy Movie Star of 2019 (Noah Centineo)
Teen Choice Awards
Choice Comedy Movie Actor (Noah Centineo)
Choice Comedy Movie Actress (Laura Marano)
“The Personal History of David Copperfield”
British Independent Film Awards
Best Supporting Actor (Hugh Grant)
Best Costume Design (Suzie Harman and Robert Worley)
Best Production Design (Cristina Casali)
Best Casting (Sarah Crowe)
“Portrait of a Lady on Fire”
Boston Society of Film Critics Awards
Best Cinematography (Claire Mathon)
Cannes Film Festival
Best Screenplay (Céline Sciamma)
GALECA Dorian Awards
LGBTQ Film of the Year
Most Visually Striking Movie of the Year *Tied with “1917”
International Cinephile Society Awards
Best Director (Céline Sciamma)
Best Supporting Actress (Adèle Haenel)
Florida Film Critics Circle Awards
Best Picture
Best Director (Céline Sciamma)
Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards
Tom Poe Award (Best LGBTQ Film)
London Film Critics Circle Awards
Best Foreign Language Film
Los Angeles Critics Association Awards
Best Cinematography (Claire Mathon)
New York Film Critics Circle Awards
Best CInematography (Claire Mathon)
Online Association of Female Film Critics Awards
The Rosie Award (for a film that best promotes women)
“Queen & Slim”
African American Film Critics Association Awards
Impact Award
Black Film Critics Circle Awards
Best Original Screenplay (Lena Waithe)
Florida Film Critics Circle Awards
Best First Feature (Melina Matsoukas)
National Board of Review Awards
Best Directorial Debut (Melina Matsoukas)
“Richard Jewell”
American Film Institute (AFI) Awards
AFI Top 10 Movie of the Year
National Board of Review Awards
Breakthrough Performance (Paul Walter Hauser)
Best Supporting Actress (Kathy Bates)
“Rocketman”
Academy Awards
Best Original Song (“(I’m Gonna) Love Me Again”)
Critics’ Choice Awards
Best Original Song (“(I’m Gonna) Love Me Again”) *Tied with “Glasgow (No Place Like Home)” from “Wild Rose”
Golden Globe Awards
Best Actor in Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy (Taron Egerton)
Best Original Song (“(I’m Gonna) Love Me Again”)
Hollywood Critics Association Awards
Best Comedy/Musical *Tied with “Booksmart”
Best Costume Design (Julian Day)
Hollywood Film Awards
Hollywood Breakout Actor Award (Taron Egerton)
Hollywood Make-up and Hair Styling Award (Lizzie Yianni-Georgiou, Tapio Salmi and Barrie Gower)
International Press Academy Satellite Awards
Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical (Taron Egerton)
Music City Film Critics Association Awards
Best Music Film
Best Song (“(I’m Gonna) Love Me Again”)
Online Film and Television Association Awards
Best Original Song (“(I’m Gonna) Love Me Again”)
“Share”
Sundance Film Festival
US Dramatic Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award (Pippa Bianco)
US Dramatic Special Jury Award for Breakthrough Performance (Rhianne Barreto)
“The Souvenir”
Sundance Film Festival
World Cinema Dramatic Grand Jury Award
“Spider-Man: Far From Home”
E! People’s Choice Awards
Female Movie Star of 2019 (Zendaya)
Action Movie Star of 2019 (Tom Holland)
Teen Choice Awards
Choice Summer Movie
Choice Summer Movie Actor (Tom Holland)
Choice SummerMovie Actress (Zendaya)
“Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am”
Black Film Critics Circle Awards
Best Documentary
Critics’ Choice Documentary Awards
Best Biographical Documentary
Society of Composers and Lyricists Awards
Outstanding Original Score for an Independent Film (Kathryn Bostic)
“Toy Story 4”
Academy Awards
Best Animated Feature
American Cinema Editors (ACE) Eddie Awards
Best Edited Animated Feature Film
Art Directors Guild Awards
Excellence in Production Design – Animated Film (Bob Pauley)
Casting Society of America Artios Awards
Best Animation *Tie with “The Lion King”
Chicago Film Critics Association Awards
Best Animated Film
Cinema Audio Society Awards
Best Motion Picture – Animated
Critics’ Choice Awards
Best Animated Film
Dallas-Forth Worth Film Critics Association Awards
Best Animated Film
Detroit Film Critics Society Awards
Best Animated Film
Georgia Film Critics Association Awards
Best Animated Film
Hollywood Critics Association Awards
Best Animated Film
Hollywood Film Awards
Hollywood Animation Award
Music City Film Critics Association Awards
Best Animated Film
Nevada Film Critics Society Awards
Best Animated Movie
North Texas Film Critics Association Awards
Best Animated Film
Oklahoma Film Critics Circle Awards
Best Animated Film
Online Association of Female Film Critics Awards
Best Animated Film
Online Film and Television Association Awards
Best Animated Picture
Best Voiceover Performance (Tom Hanks)
Philadelphia Film Critics Circle Awards
Best Animated Film
Phoenix Critics Circle Awards
Best Animated Film
Producers Guild of America Awards
Outstanding Producer of Animated Theatrical Motion Pictures (Mark Nielsen and Jonas Rivera)
St. Louis Film Critics Association Awards
Best Animated Film
Seattle Film Critics Society Awards
Best Animated Film
Washington, D.C. Area Film Critics Association Awards
Best Animated Feature
Best Vocie Performance (Tonhy Hale)
“The Two Popes”
Hollywood Film Awards
Hollywood Screenwriter Award (Anthony McCarten)
Las Vegas Film Critics Circle Awards
Best Adapted Screenplay (Anthony McCarten)
“Uncut Gems”
Boston Society of Film Critics Awards
Best Actor (Adam Sandler)
Florida Film Critics Circle Awards
Best Original Screenplay (Josh Safdie, Benny Safdie and Ronald Bronstein)
Best Original Score
Film Independent Spirit Awards
Best Male Lead (Adam Sandler)
Best Director (Josh Safdie and Benny Safdie)
Best Editing (Ronald Bronstein and Benny Safdie)
Las Vegas Film Critics Circle Awards
Best Actor (Adam Sandler)
Best Original Score (Daniel Lopatin)
National Board of Review Awards
Best Actor (Adam Sandler)
Best Original Screenplay (Josh Safdie, Benny Safdie and Ronald Bronstein)
New York Film Critics Circle Awards
Best Director (Josh Safdie and Benny Safdie)
Oklahoma Film Critics Circle Awards
Best Actor (Adam Sandler)
St. Louis Film Critics Association Awards
Best Actor (Adam Sandler)
San Diego Film Critics Society Awards
Best Director (Josh Safdie and Benny Safdie)
Seattle Film Critics Society Awards
Best Film Editing (Ronald Bronstein and Benny Safdie)
Best Original Score (Daniel Lopatin)
“Us”
African American Film Critics Association Awards
Best Film
Best Director (Jordan Peele)
Best Actress (Lupita Nyong’o)
Black Film Critics Circle Awards
Best Actress (Lupita Nyong’o)
Chicago Film Critics Association Awards
Best Actress (Lupita Nyong’o)
Critics’ Choice Awards
Best Sci-Fi or Horror Film
Georgia Film Critics Association Awards
Best Actress (Lupita Nyong’o)
Hollywood Critics Association Awards
Best Actress (Lupita Nyong’o)
Best Horror Film
Indiana Film Journalists AssociationAwards
Best Actress (Lupita Nyong’o)
Best Original Score (Michael Abels)
Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards
Best Actress (Lupita Nyong’o)
Vince Koehler Award (Best Sci-Fi, Fantasy or Horror Film)
Music City Film Critics Association Awards
Best Actress (lupita Nyong’o)
Best Horror Film
New York Film Critics Circle Awards
Best Actress (Lupita Nyong’o)
Oklahoma Film Critics Circle Awards
Best Actress (Lupita Nyong’o)
Online Association of Female Film Critics Awards
Best Actress (Lupita Nyong’o) *Tied with Scarlett Johansson of “Marriage Story”
Online Film and Television Association Awards
Best Actress (Lupita Nyong’o)
Best Movie Trailer
Best Movie Poster
Philadelphia Film Critics Circle Awards
Best Actress (Lupita Nyong’o)
Phoenix Critics Circle Awards
Best Actress (Lupita Nyong’o)
Best Horror Film
St. Louis Film Critics Association Awards
Best Horror Film
San Diego Film Critics Society Awards
Best Actress (Lupita Nyong’o)
San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle Awards
Best Actress (Lupita Nyong’o)
Seattle Film Critics Society Awards
Best Actress (Lupita Nyong’o)
Toronto Film Critics Association Awards
Best Actress (Lupita Nyong’o)
Washington, D.C. Area Film Critics Association Awards
Best Actress (Lupita Nyong’o)
Best Original Score (Michael Abels)
“Waves”
African American Film Critics Association Awards
Best Breakout Performance (Kelvin Harrison Jr.)
We See You Award (Taylor Russell)
Hollywood Critics Association Awards
Best Independent Film *Tied with “The Farewell”
Breakthrough Performance Actor (Kelvin Harrison Jr.)
IFP Gotham Awards
Breakthrough Actor (Taylor Russell)
“Wild Rose”
Critics’ Choice Awards
Best Original Song (“Glasgow (No Place Like Home)”) *Tied with “(I’m Gonna) Love Me Again” from “Rocketman”
Denver Film Critics Society Awards
Best Original Song (“Glasgow (No Place Like Home)”)
Georgia Film Critics Association Awards
Best Original Song (“Glasgow (No Place Like Home)”)
Hollywood Critics Association Awards
Best Performance Actress (Jessie Buckley)
Best Original Song (“Glasgow (No Place Like Home)”)
The following is a press release from Independent Filmmaker Project:
Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP), the nation’s premier member organization of independent storytellers, announced today the nominees for the 29th Annual IFP Gotham Awards. Ten competitive awards will be presented to independent features and series. In addition to the competitive awards, Gotham Tributes will be given to actors Laura Dern and Sam Rockwell, director Ava DuVernay, and the Gotham Industry Tribute to Glen Basner.
The IFP Gotham Awards is one of the leading awards for independent film and signals the kick-off to the film awards season. As the first major awards ceremony of the season, the IFP Gotham Awards provide critical early recognition and media attention to worthy independent films. The awards are also unique for their ability to assist in catapulting award recipients prominently into national awards season attention.“We congratulate the 2019 IFP Gotham Award nominees and are excited to recognize these artists on December 2nd here in New York, a city known for its great tradition of independent storytelling. This year has been filled with brilliant performances and dynamic work across film and television and we look forward to celebrating these achievements together,” said Jeffrey Sharp, Executive Director of IFP and the Made in NY Media Center.
Thirty-three films and series received nominations this year. Nominees are selected by committees of film critics, journalists, festival programmers, and film curators. Separate juries of writers, directors, actors, producers, editors and others directly involved in making films will determine the final IFP Gotham Award recipients.
The Gotham Audience Award nominees are comprised of the 15 films nominated for Best Feature, Best Documentary, and the Bingham Ray Breakthrough Director Award. The winners will be selected by online voting of IFP members. Voting for that award begins November 25th and the winner will be announced at the ceremony.
The IFP Gotham Awards ceremony will be held on Monday, December 2nd at Cipriani Wall Street.
The 2019 IFP Gotham Award nominations are:
Best Feature The Farewell Lulu Wang, director; Daniele Melia, Marc Turtletaub, Peter Saraf, Andrew Miano, Chris Weitz, Jane Zheng, Lulu Wang, Anita Gou, producers (A24)
Hustlers Lorene Scafaria, director; Jessica Elbaum, Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas, Jennifer Lopez, Benny Medina, Will Ferrell, Adam McKay, producers (STXfilms)
Marriage Story Noah Baumbach, director; Noah Baumbach, David Heyman, producers (Netflix)
Uncut Gems Josh Safdie, Benny Safdie, directors; Scott Rudin, Eli Bush, Sebastian Bear McClard, producers (A24)
Waves Trey Edward Shults, director; James Wilson, Kevin Turen, Trey Edward Shults, producers (A24)
Best Documentary American Factory Steven Bognar, Julia Reichert, directors; Steven Bognar, Julia Reichert, Jeff Reichert, Julie Parker Benello, producers (Netflix)
Apollo 11 Todd Douglas Miller, director; Todd Douglas Miller, Thomas Baxley Petersen, Evan Krauss, producers (NEON and CNN Films)
The Edge of Democracy Petra Costa, director; Petra Costa, Tiago Pavan, Joanna Natasegara, Shane Boris, producers (Netflix)
Midnight Traveler Hassan Fazili, director; Emelie Mahdavian, Su Kim, producers (Oscilloscope Laboratories)
One Child Nation Nanfu Wang, Jialing Zhang, directors; Nanfu Wang, Jialing Zhang, Christoph Jörg, Julie Goldman, Christopher Clements, Carolyn Hepburn, producers (Amazon Studios)
Bingham Ray Breakthrough Director Award Laure De Clermont-Tonnerre for The Mustang (Focus Features)
Kent Jones for Diane (IFC Films)
Joe Talbot for The Last Black Man in San Francisco (A24)
Olivia Wilde for Booksmart (United Artists Releasing)
Phillip Youmans for Burning Cane (ARRAY Releasing)
Best Screenplay The Farewell, Lulu Wang (A24)
High Flying Bird, Tarell Alvin McCraney (Netflix)
The Last Black Man in San Francisco, Jimmie Fails, Joe Talbot, Rob Richert(A24)
Marriage Story, Noah Baumbach (Netflix)
Midsommar, Ari Aster (A24)
Best Actor Willem Dafoe in The Lighthouse (A24)
Adam Driver in Marriage Story (Netflix)
Aldis Hodge in Clemency (NEON)
André Holland in High Flying Bird (Netflix)
Adam Sandler in Uncut Gems (A24)
Best Actress Awkwafina in The Farewell (A24)
Elisabeth Moss in Her Smell (Gunpowder & Sky)
Mary Kay Place in Diane (IFC Films)
Florence Pugh in Midsommar (A24)
Alfre Woodard in Clemency (NEON)
Breakthrough Actor Julia Fox in Uncut Gems (A24)
Aisling Franciosi in The Nightingale (IFC Films)
Chris Galust in Give Me Liberty (Music Box Films)
Noah Jupe in Honey Boy (Amazon Studios)
Jonathan Majors in The Last Black Man in San Francisco (A24)
Taylor Russell in Waves (A24
Breakthrough Series – Long Format (over 40 minutes) Chernobyl, Craig Mazin, creator; Craig Mazin, Carolyn Strauss, Jane Featherstone, executive producers (HBO)
David Makes Man, Tarell Alvin McCraney, creator; Mike Kelley, Melissa Loy, Tarell Alvin McCraney, Denitria Harris-Lawrence, Michael B. Jordan, Oprah Winfrey, executive producers (OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network)
My Brilliant Friend, Saverio Costanzo, creator; Domenico Procacci; Lorenzo Mieli, Mario Gianani, Guido De Laurentiis, Elena Recchia, Jennifer Schuur, Paolo Sorrentino, executive producers (HBO)
Unbelievable, Susannah Grant, Sarah Timberman, Carl Beverly, Lisa Cholodenko, Ayelet Waldman & Michael Chabon, Katie Couric, Richard Tofel, Neil Barsky, Robyn Semien, Marie, executive producers (Netflix)
When They See Us, Ava DuVernay, creator; Jeff Skoll, Jonathan King, Jane Rosenthal, Robert De Niro, Berry Welsh, Oprah Winfrey, Ava DuVernay, executive producers (Netflix)
Breakthrough Series – Short Format (under 40 minutes) PEN15, Maya Erskine, Anna Konkle, Sam Zvibleman, creators; Anna Konkle, Sam Zvibleman, Debbie Liebling, Gabe Liedman, Marc Provissiero, Brooke Pobjoy, Andy Samberg, Jorma Taccone, Akiva Schaffer, Becky Sloviter, Shelley Zimmerman, Brin Lukens, Jordan Levin, executive producers (Hulu)
Ramy, Ramy Youssef, Ari Katcher, Ryan Welch, creators; Ramy Youssef, Jerrod Carmichael, Ravi Nandan, Bridget Bedard, Ari Katcher, Ryan Welch, executive producers (Hulu)
Tuca & Bertie,Lisa Hanawalt, creator; Lisa Hanawalt, Raphael Bob-Waksberg, Noel Bright, Steven A. Cohen, Tiffany Haddish, Ali Wong, executive producers (Netflix)
Undone, Kate Purdy, Raphael Bob-Waksberg, creators; Kate Purdy, Raphael Bob-Waksberg, Noel Bright, Steven A. Cohen, Tommy Pallotta, executive producers (Amazon Prime Video)
Twenty-six writers, critics and programmers participated in the nomination process. The
Nominating Committees for the 2019 IFP Gotham Awards were:
Nominating Committee for Best Feature, Best Screenplay, and Breakthrough Director: Justin Chang, Film Critic, Los Angeles Times
Ann Hornaday, Chief Film Critic, The Washington Post
Eric Kohn, Executive Editor & Chief Critic, IndieWire
Joshua Rothkopf, Global Deputy Film Editor, Time Out Media
Alison Willmore, Film Critic, Vulture
Nominating Committee for Best Documentary: Chris Boeckmann, Director of Programming, True/False Film Fest
Ben Fowlie, Executive Director, Points North Institute; Founder, Camden International Film Festival
Cynthia Fuchs, Contributing Editor, PopMatters; Director Film & Media Studies, George Mason University
Tom Hall, Executive Director, Montclair Film
Caroline Libresco, Curator, Producer, and Strategist
Nominating Committee for Best Actor and Best Actress: David Ehrlich, Senior Film Critic, Indiewire
David Fear, Senior Editor/Critic, Rolling Stone
Tim Grierson, Senior U.S. Critic, Screen Daily; Chief Film Critic, Paste Magazine
Nominating Committee for Breakthrough Actor: Kate Erbland, Deputy Editor, Film, IndieWire
Jon Frosch, Reviews Editor, The Hollywood Reporter
Odie Henderson, Reviewer, RogerEbert.com
Tomris Laffly, Film Critic, Time Out New York, RogerEbert.com, Variety
David Sims, Staff Writer, Culture, The Atlantic
Nominating Committee for Breakthrough Series Judy Berman, TV Critic, TIME
Jen Chaney, TV Critic, Vulture
Daniel Fienberg, Chief Television Critic, The Hollywood Reporter
Caroline Framke, TV Critic, Variety
Alan Sepinwall, Chief TV Critic, Rolling Stone
Brian Tallerico, Editor, RogerEbert.com
Gotham Audience Award IFP members will determine the Gotham Audience Award with nominees comprised of the 15 nominated films in the Best Feature, Best Documentary, and Bingham Ray Breakthrough Director Award categories. All IFP current, active members will be eligible to vote. Voting will take place online from November 25th at 12:01 AM EST and conclude on November 30th at 5:00 PM EST. In addition, IFP will be scheduling screenings of the nominated films for IFP members in the theater at the Made in NY Media Center by IFP in Brooklyn. These screenings will take place from November 6-25.
Sponsors The Premier Sponsor of the 2019 IFP Gotham Awards is The New York Times, and the Philanthropic Supporter is The Rockefeller Foundation. The Official Water Partner is FIJI Water, the Official Airline Partner is JetBlue and the Official Wine Partner is Robert Hall Winery. Additionally, the awards will be promoted nationally in an eight-page special advertising section in The New York Times in November 2019.
2019 IFP Gotham Awards – Alphabetical List of Nominated Films & Series American Factory Best Documentary
Apollo 11 Best Documentary
Booksmart Breakthrough Director
Burning Cane Breakthrough Director
Chernobyl Breakthrough Series – Long Format (over 40 minutes)
Clemency Best Actor
Best Actress
David Makes Man Breakthrough Series – Long Format (over 40 minutes)
Diane Breakthrough Director
Best Actress
The Edge of Democracy Best Documentary
The Farewell Best Feature
Best Screenplay
Best Actress
Give Me Liberty Breakthrough Actor
Her Smell Best Actress
High Flying Bird Best Screenplay
Best Actor
Honey Boy Breakthrough Actor
Hustlers Best Feature
The Last Black Man in San Francisco Breakthrough Director
Best Screenplay
Breakthrough Actor
The Lighthouse Best Actor
Marriage Story Best Feature
Best Screenplay
Best Actor
Midnight Traveler Best Documentary
Midsommar Best Screenplay
Best Actress
The Mustang Breakthrough Director
My Brilliant Friend Breakthrough Series – Long Format (over 40 minutes)
The Nightingale Breakthrough Actor
One Child Nation Best Documentary
PEN15 Breakthrough Series – Short Format (under 40 minutes)
Ramy Breakthrough Series – Short Format (under 40 minutes)
Russian Doll Breakthrough Series – Short Format (under 40 minutes)
Tuca & Bertie Breakthrough Series – Short Format (under 40 minutes)
Unbelievable Breakthrough Series – Long Format (over 40 minutes)
Uncut Gems Best Feature
Best Actor
Breakthrough Actor
Undone Breakthrough Series – Short Format (under 40 minutes)
Waves Best Feature
Breakthrough Actor
When They See Us Breakthrough Series – Long Format (over 40 minutes)
About IFP The Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP) champions the future of storytelling by connecting artists with essential resources at all stages of development and distribution. The organization fosters a vibrant and sustainable independent storytelling community through its year-round programs, which include IFP Week, IFP Labs (Film, Series & Audio Storytelling), Filmmaker Magazine, IFP Gotham Awards and the Made in NY Media Center by IFP, a tech and media incubator space developed with the New York Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment.
About the IFP Gotham Awards The IFP Gotham Awards, selected by distinguished juries and presented in New York City, the home of independent film, are the first honors of the film awards season. This public showcase honors the filmmaking community, expands the audience for independent films, and supports the work that IFP does behind the scenes throughout the year to bring such films to fruition.
For information on attending, visit the Gothams website.
The following is a press release from the Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP):
The Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP) tonight announced the winners of the 28thAnnual IFP Gotham Awards at a ceremony held at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City.
Winning the Best Feature award was The Rider, director Chloé Zhao’s intimately lyrical, contemporary Western portrait of an injured young rodeo bronc rider’s journey toward a potentially compromised future.
The award for Best Documentary went to Hale County This Morning, This Evening, director RaMell Ross’ adventurously impressionistic and deeply poetic portrait of the lives of two young African American men in rural Alabama filmed over five years.
The IFP Gotham Audience Award, voted by IFP members, went to Won’t You Be My Neighbor?, Morgan Neville’s intimate – and massively popular – documentary on Fred Rogers, exploring both the public and private side of the man who invited generations of children and adults into his television neighborhood.
Winning the award for Best Actor wasEthan Hawkefor his performance in First Reformed as a tormented parish pastor whose ministering to a troubled couple sends him on a path toward his own redemption. Scoring a second award for First Reformed was veteran writer/director Paul Schraderwho won the Best Screenplay award.
Toni Collette was voted Best Actress for her demanding and expansive performance in Hereditary as a guilt-ridden mother who battles through increasing levels of grief and fear to horror as the legacy of a poisoned family tree reaches its culmination.
In the “breakthrough” categories, Eighth Grade scored two wins. Elsie Fisher won the Breakthrough Actor award for her delicately precise and touching performance as a shy and vulnerable teen enduring the final week of middle school while achieving small victories of confidence as she heads toward high school. Fisher’s director – former teen YouTuber, comedian, and musician Bo Burnham – was voted the Bingham Ray Breakthrough Director award for so accurately and sensitively capturing the world of Eighth Grade, his debut feature film.
For breakthroughs in television and digital media, the Breakthrough Series–Long Form award, which aims to honor work that “expands the possibilities of creative, independent storytelling and enriches the landscape or pushes the boundaries of ‘television’” was won by Killing Eve, the comically original BBC America series starring Sandra Oh and Jodie Comer in which a female MI5 officer is assigned to track down a skilled psychopathic assassin, turning into a cat and mouse game of mutual obsession. The Breakthrough Series–Short Form award went to the vibrant and serio-comic195 Lewis, in which a black lesbian couple in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, navigates their relationship surrounded by their distinctively original black queer friends.
As previously announced, in addition to the competitive awards, a Special Jury Award for ensemble performance was presented to Olivia Colman, Emma Stone, and Rachel Weisz as the leads of Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Favourite.
Career Tributes were also given during the ceremony to actors Rachel Weisz (presented by Michael Sheen) and Willem Dafoe (presented by Laurie Anderson), director Paul Greengrass (presented by Frank Marshall), and producer and Founding Chairman and CEO of RadicalMedia, Jon Kamen (presented by Katherine Oliver).
Also during the ceremony, a “Made in NY” Award, given by the Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment (MOME) to honor excellence in New York City’s creative community, was presented by Commissioner Julie Menin to Emmy Award-winning television host, bestselling author, filmmaker and activist Sandra Lee.
The Gotham Award ceremony was streamed on Facebook Live on FB/IFPFilm.
Here is the complete list of 2018 IFP Gotham Awards nominees and winners:
*=winner
Best Feature
(Presented by Patricia Clarkson. The Best Feature jury included Judy Becker, Geoffrey Fletcher, Jon Hamm, Catherine Keener, and Bill Pohlad.)
The Favourite — Yorgos Lanthimos, director; Ceci Dempsey, Ed Guiney, Lee Magiday, Yorgos Lanthimos, producers (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
First Reformed— Paul Schrader, director; Jack Binder, Greg Clark, Victoria Hill, Gary Hamilton, Deepak Sikka, Christine Vachon, David Hinojosa, Frank Murray, producers (A24)
If Beale Street Could Talk— Barry Jenkins, director; Adele Romanski, Sara Murphy, Barry Jenkins, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Megan Ellison, producers (Annapurna Pictures)
Madeline’s Madeline — Josephine Decker, director; Krista Parris, Elizabeth Rao, producers (Oscilloscope Laboratories)
The Rider — Chloé Zhao, director; Bert Hamelinck, Sacha Ben Harroche, Mollye Asher, Chloé Zhao, producers (Sony Pictures Classics)*
Best Documentary
(Presented by Keegan-Michael Key. The Best Documentary jury included Rachel Grady, Alan Jacobsen, Asif Kapadia, Ross Kauffman, and Dawn Porter.)
Bisbee ‘17 — Robert Greene, producer; Douglas Tirola, Susan Bedusa, Bennett Elliott, producers (4th Row Films)
Hale County This Morning, This Evening — RaMell Ross, director; RaMell Ross, Joslyn Barnes, Su Kim, producers (The Cinema Guild)*
Minding the Gap — Bing Liu, director; Diane Quon, Bing Liu, producers (Hulu & Magnolia Pictures)
Won’t You Be My Neighbor?— Morgan Neville, director; Morgan Neville, Caryn Capotosto, Nicholas Ma, producers (Focus Features)
Bingham Ray Breakthrough Director Award
(Presented by Barry Jenkins. The Bingham Ray Breakthrough Director jury included Wren Arthur, Natasha Lyonne, Matthew Porterfield, Kathryn Schubert, and Alfre Woodard.)
Ari Aster for Hereditary (A24) Bo Burnham for Eighth Grade (A24)*
Jennifer Fox for The Tale (HBO)
Crystal Moselle for Skate Kitchen (Magnolia Pictures)
Boots Riley for Sorry to Bother You (Annapurna Pictures)
Best Screenplay
(Presented by Rupert Friend. The Best Screenplay jury included Stephen McKinley Henderson, Phyllis Nagy, Whit Stillman, Michael Taylor, and DeWanda Wise.)
The Favourite — Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara (Fox Searchlight Pictures) First Reformed — Paul Schrader (A24)* Private Life — Tamara Jenkins (Netflix) Support the Girls — Andrew Bujalski (Magnolia Pictures) Thoroughbreds — Cory Finley (Focus Features)
Best Actor
(Presented by Alessandro Nivola. The Best Actor jury included Lisa Cortés, Alexa Fogel, Alessandro Nivola, Mike White, and Constance Wu.)
Adam Driver in BlacKkKlansman (Focus Features)
Ben Foster in Leave No Trace (Bleecker Street)
Richard E. Grant in Can You Ever Forgive Me? (Fox Searchlight Pictures) Ethan Hawke in First Reformed (A24)*
Lakeith Stanfield in Sorry to Bother You (Annapurna Pictures)
Best Actress
(Presented by Kieran Culkin. The Best Actress jury included Sean Baker, Malcolm D. Lee, Sam Levy, Alix Madigan, and Gabourey Sidibe.)
Glenn Close in The Wife (Sony Pictures Classics) Toni Collette in Hereditary (A24)*
Kathryn Hahn in Private Life (Netflix)
Regina Hall in Support the Girls (Magnolia Pictures)
Michelle Pfeiffer in Where is Kyra? (Paladin and Great Point Media)
Special Jury Award for Ensemble Performance
Presented by Cynthia Nixon. The 2018 Best Actress nominating committee also voted to award this special Gotham Jury Award.
The Favourite – Olivia Colman, Emma Stone, and Rachel Weisz (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
Breakthrough Actor
(Presented by Regina Hall. The Breakthrough Actor jury included Anna Boden, Effie Brown, Chris Messina, Zac Stuart Pontier, and Lois Smith.)
Yalitza Aparicio in Roma (Netflix) Elsie Fisher in Eighth Grade (A24)*
Helena Howard in Madeline’s Madeline (Oscilloscope Laboratories)
KiKi Layne in If Beale Street Could Talk (Annapurna Pictures)
Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie in Leave No Trace (Bleecker Street)
Breakthrough Series – Long Form
(Presented by Amy Seimetz and Taylor Schilling. The Breakthrough Series – Long Form jury included Radha Blank, M. Blair Breard, Tatiana Maslany, Amy Seimetz, and Samira Wiley.)
Alias Grace — Sarah Polley, Mary Harron, Noreen Halpern, executive producers (Netflix)
Big Mouth — Nick Kroll, Andrew Goldberg, Jennifer Flackett, Mark Levin, creators; Nick Kroll, Andrew Goldberg, Mark Levin & Jennifer Flackett, executive producers (Netflix)
The End of the F***ing World — Andy Baker, Murray Ferguson, Petra Fried, Ed MacDonald, Dominic Buchanan, Jonathan Entwistle, executive producers (Netflix)
Killing Eve — Sally Woodward Gentle, Lee Morris, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, executive producers (BBC America)*
Pose — Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk, Steven Canals, creators; Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk, Nina Jacobson, Brad Simpson, Alexis Martin Woodall, Sherry Marsh, executive producers (FX Networks)
Sharp Objects — Marti Noxon, creator; Marti Noxon, Jason Blum, Gillian Flynn, Amy Adams, Jean-Marc Vallée, Nathan Ross, Gregg Fienberg, Charles Layton, Marci Wiseman, Jessica Rhoades, executive producers (HBO)
Breakthrough Series – Short Form
(Presented by Amy Seimetz and Taylor Schilling. The Breakthrough Series-Short Form award was voted for on-line by IFP members.)
195 Lewis — Chanelle Aponte Pearson and Rae Leone Allen, creators*
Cleaner Daze —Tess Sweet and Daniel Gambelin, creators
Distance — Alex Dobrenko, creator
The F Word — Nicole Opper, creator
She’s the Ticket — Nadia Hallgren, creator
Gotham Audience Award
(Presented by Mj Rodriguez. IFP members determine the Gotham Audience Award with nominees comprised of the 15 nominated films in the Best Feature, Best Documentary, and Bingham Ray Breakthrough Director Award categories. All IFP current, active members are eligible to vote. Voting took place online from November 19 to November 24, 2018.)
Won’t You Be My Neighbor? — Morgan Neville, director; Morgan Neville, Caryn Capotosto, Nicholas Ma, producers (Focus Features)*
Sponsors
The Premier Sponsor of the 2018 IFP Gotham Awards is The New York Times, and the Platinum Sponsor is GreenSlate. The Official Water Partner is FIJI Water, the Official Chocolate Partner is Lindt Chocolate and the Official Wine Partner is Robert Hall Winery. The Official After-Party Sponsor is Allbirds. Additionally, the awards will be promoted nationally in an eight-page special advertising section in The New York Times in November 2018.
About IFP
The Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP) champions the future of storytelling by connecting artists with essential resources at all stages of development and distribution. The organization fosters a vibrant and sustainable independent storytelling community through its year-round programs, which include IFP Week, IFP Labs (Film, Series & Audio Storytelling), Filmmaker Magazine, IFP Gotham Awards and the Made in NY Media Center by IFP, a tech and media incubator space developed with the New York Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment.
About the IFP Gotham Independent Film Awards
The IFP Gotham Independent Film Awards, selected by distinguished juries and presented in New York City, the home of independent film, are the first honors of the film awards season. This public showcase honors the filmmaking community, expands the audience for independent films, and supports the work that IFP does behind the scenes throughout the year to bring such films to fruition.
The following is a press release from the Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP):
The Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP), the nation’s premier member organization of independent storytellers, announced today the nominees for the 28th Annual IFP Gotham Awards. Ten competitive awards will be presented to independent features and series. In addition to the competitive awards, Gotham Tributes will be given to actors Rachel Weisz and Willem Dafoe, director Paul Greengrass, and the Gotham Industry Tribute to Jon Kamen.
The Gotham Awards is one of the leading awards for independent film and signals the kick-off to the film awards season. As the first major awards ceremony of the film season, the IFP Gotham Awards provide critical early recognition and media attention to worthy independent films. The awards are also unique for their ability to assist in catapulting award recipients prominently into national awards season attention.
“There has been a rich abundance of great films, television, and performances in 2018, and we congratulate those being recognized in the nominations this year,” said Joana Vicente, Executive Director of IFP and the Made in NY Media Center.
Thirty-five films and series received nominations this year. In addition, the nominating committee for the Best Actress category voted to award a Special Jury Award jointly to Olivia Colman, Emma Stone, and Rachel Weisz for their ensemble performance in The Favourite.
Nominees are selected by committees of film critics, journalists, festival programmers, and film curators. Separate juries of writers, directors, actors, producers, editors and others directly involved in making films will determine the final Gotham Award recipients.
The Gotham Audience Award nominees are comprised of the 15 films nominated for Best Feature, Best Documentary, and the Bingham Ray Breakthrough Director Award. The winners will be selected by online voting of IFP members. Voting for that award begins November 17th. In addition this year, the winner of the Breakthrough Series – Short Form (all available on the web) will be selected by online IFP member voting.
The Gotham Awards ceremony will be held on Monday, November 26th at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City.
The 2018 IFP Gotham Award nominations are:
Best Feature
The Favourite — Yorgos Lanthimos, director; Ceci Dempsey, Ed Guiney, Lee Magiday, Yorgos Lanthimos, producers (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
First Reformed— Paul Schrader, director; Jack Binder, Greg Clark, Victoria Hill, Gary Hamilton, Deepak Sikka, Christine Vachon, David Hinojosa, Frank Murray, producers (A24)
If Beale Street Could Talk— Barry Jenkins, director; Adele Romanski, Sara Murphy, Barry Jenkins, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Megan Ellison, producers (Annapurna Pictures)
Madeline’s Madeline — Josephine Decker, director; Krista Parris, Elizabeth Rao, producers (Oscilloscope Laboratories)
The Rider — Chloé Zhao, director; Bert Hamelinck, Sacha Ben Harroche, Mollye Asher, Chloé Zhao, producers (Sony Pictures Classics)
Best Documentary
Bisbee ‘17 — Robert Greene, producer; Douglas Tirola, Susan Bedusa, Bennett Elliott, producers (4th Row Films)
Hale County This Morning, This Evening — RaMell Ross, director; RaMell Ross, Joslyn Barnes, Su Kim, producers (The Cinema Guild)
Minding the Gap — Bing Liu, director; Diane Quon, Bing Liu, producers (Hulu & Magnolia Pictures)
Won’t You Be My Neighbor?— Morgan Neville, director; Morgan Neville, Caryn Capotosto, Nicholas Ma, producers (Focus Features)
Bingham Ray Breakthrough Director Award
Ari Aster for Hereditary (A24)
Bo Burnham for Eighth Grade (A24)
Jennifer Fox for The Tale (HBO)
Crystal Moselle for Skate Kitchen (Magnolia Pictures)
Boots Riley for Sorry to Bother You (Annapurna Pictures)
Best Screenplay
The Favourite — Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara (Fox Searchlight Pictures) First Reformed — Paul Schrader (A24) Private Life — Tamara Jenkins (Netflix)
Support the Girls — Andrew Bujalski (Magnolia Pictures) Thoroughbreds — Cory Finley (Focus Features)
Best Actor
Adam Driver in BlacKkKlansman (Focus Features)
Ben Foster in Leave No Trace (Bleecker Street)
Richard E. Grant in Can You Ever Forgive Me? (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
Ethan Hawke in First Reformed (A24)
Lakeith Stanfield in Sorry to Bother You (Annapurna Pictures)
Best Actress*
Glenn Close in The Wife (Sony Pictures Classics)
Toni Collette in Hereditary (A24)
Kathryn Hahn in Private Life (Netflix)
Regina Hall in Support the Girls (Magnolia Pictures)
Michelle Pfeiffer in Where is Kyra? (Paladin and Great Point Media)
*The 2018 Best Actress nominating committee also voted to award a special Gotham Jury Award to Olivia Colman, Emma Stone, and Rachel Weisz for their ensemble performance in The Favourite. (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
Breakthrough Actor
Yalitza Aparicio in Roma (Netflix)
Elsie Fisher in Eighth Grade (A24)
Helena Howard in Madeline’s Madeline (Oscilloscope Laboratories)
KiKi Layne in If Beale Street Could Talk (Annapurna Pictures)
Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie in Leave No Trace (Bleecker Street)
Breakthrough Series – Long Form
Alias Grace — Sarah Polley, Mary Harron, Noreen Halpern, executive producers (Netflix)
Big Mouth — Nick Kroll, Andrew Goldberg, Jennifer Flackett, Mark Levin, creators; Nick Kroll, Andrew Goldberg, Mark Levin & Jennifer Flackett, executive producers (Netflix)
The End of the F***ing World — Andy Baker, Murray Ferguson, Petra Fried, Ed MacDonald, Dominic Buchanan, Jonathan Entwistle, executive producers (Netflix)
Killing Eve — Sally Woodward Gentle, Lee Morris, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, executive producers (BBC America)
Pose — Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk, Steven Canals, creators; Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk, Nina Jacobson, Brad Simpson, Alexis Martin Woodall, Sherry Marsh, executive producers (FX Networks)
Sharp Objects — Marti Noxon, creator; Marti Noxon, Jason Blum, Gillian Flynn, Amy Adams, Jean-Marc Vallée, Nathan Ross, Gregg Fienberg, Charles Layton, Marci Wiseman, Jessica Rhoades, executive producers (HBO)
Breakthrough Series – Short Form
195 Lewis — Chanelle Aponte Pearson and Rae Leone Allen, creators
Cleaner Daze —Tess Sweet and Daniel Gambelin, creators
Distance — Alex Dobrenko, creator
The F Word — Nicole Opper, creator
She’s the Ticket — Nadia Hallgren, creator
Twenty-seven writers, critics and programmers participated in the nomination process. The Nominating Committees for the 2018 IFP Gotham Independent Film Awards were:
Nominating Committee for Best Feature, Best Screenplay, and Breakthrough Director:
Justin Chang, Film Critic, Los Angeles Times
Bilge Ebiri, Film Critic & Writer, New York Magazine/Vulture
Eric Kohn, Executive Editor & Chief Critic, IndieWire
Christy Lemire, Film Critic, RogerEbert.com; Co-host of What the Flick?! podcast
Alison Willmore, Critic & Culture Writer, BuzzFeed News
Nominating Committee for Best Documentary:
Tom Hall, Executive Director, Montclair Film
Rachel Rosen, Director of Programming, SFFILM
Sky Sitney, Co-creator & Co-director, Double Exposure Investigative Film Festival
Basil Tsiokos, Director of Programming: DOC NYC & Nantucket Film Festival, Documentary Programming Associate, Sundance Film Festival
David Wilson, Co-Conspirator, True/False Film Fest
Nominating Committee for Best Actor and Best Actress:
David Fear, Senior Editor/Critic, Rolling Stone
Mark Harris, Columnist, New York Magazine/Vulture
Ann Hornaday, Chief Film Critic, The Washington Post
Brian Tallerico, Editor, RogerEbert.com
Alissa Wilkinson, Film Critic, Vox
Nominating Committee for Breakthrough Actor:
Austin Collins, Film Critic, Vanity Fair
David Ehrlich, Senior Film Critic, Indiewire
Jon Frosch, Reviews Editor, The Hollywood Reporter
Katie Walsh, Film Critic, Tribune Content Agency, Los Angeles Times
Emily Yoshida, Film Critic, New York Magazine/Vulture
Nominating Committee for Breakthrough Series – Long Form:
Sophie Gilbert, Staff Writer, Culture, The Atlantic
Tim Goodman, Chief Television Critic, The Hollywood Reporter
Liz Shannon Miller, TV Editor, Indiewire
Sonia Saraiya, TV Critic, Vanity Fair
Alan Sepinwall, Chief TV Critic, Rolling Stone
Nominating Committee for Breakthrough Series – Short Form:
IFP members will determine the Gotham Audience Award with nominees comprised of the 15 nominated films in the Best Feature, Best Documentary, and Bingham Ray Breakthrough Director Award categories. All IFP current, active members will be eligible to vote. Voting will take place online from November 19 at 12:01 AM EST and conclude on November 24 at 5:00 PM EST. In addition, IFP will be scheduling screenings of the nominated films for IFP members in the theater at the Made in NY Media Center by IFP in Brooklyn. These screenings will take place from November 9-19. The winner of the Breakthrough Series – Short Form (all available on the web) will also be selected by online IFP member voting.
Sponsors
The Premier Sponsor of the 2018 IFP Gotham Awards is The New York Times, and the Platinum Sponsor is GreenSlate. The Official Water Partner is FIJI Water, the Official Chocolate Partner is Lindt Chocolate and the Official Wine Partner is Robert Hall Winery. The Official After-Party Sponsor is Allbirds. Additionally, the awards will be promoted nationally in an eight-page special advertising section in The New York Times in November 2018.
About IFP
The Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP) champions the future of storytelling by connecting artists with essential resources at all stages of development and distribution. The organization fosters a vibrant and sustainable independent storytelling community through its year-round programs, which include IFP Week, IFP Labs (Film, Series & Audio Storytelling), Filmmaker Magazine, IFP Gotham Awards and the Made in NY Media Center by IFP, a tech and media incubator space developed with the New York Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment.
About the IFP Gotham Independent Film Awards
The IFP Gotham Independent Film Awards, selected by distinguished juries and presented in New York City, the home of independent film, are the first honors of the film awards season. This public showcase honors the filmmaking community, expands the audience for independent films, and supports the work that IFP does behind the scenes throughout the year to bring such films to fruition.
