Gotham Awards: ‘A Different Man’ pulls off upset for Best Feature [Full List of Winners]
The Gotham Awards, honoring the best in American independent films, held their 34th annual event on Monday night, Dec. 2, launching the fall and winter awards season. So who were the big winners? Scroll down for the complete list of 2024 Gotham Awards champs in all categories, updating live throughout the night.
Nominees were decided by panels of film critics, journalists, festival programmers, and film curators. The winners were then selected by juries of writers, directors, actors, producers, editors, and others directly involved in filmmaking. Those small juries change from year to year and from category to category, so these awards can produce surprising results.
Telling the story of a young sex worker from Brooklyn who meets and impulsively marries the son of a Russian oligarch, “Anora” led the nominations with four bids including Best Feature, as well Sean Baker for Best Director, actress Mikey Madison for Best Lead Performance and actor Yura Borisov for Best Supporting Performance.
The other Best Feature nominees included “Babygirl” (which landed Nicole Kidman a nomination for Best Lead Performance), “Challengers,” “A Different Man” (which also received recognition for Adam Pearson in Best Supporting Performance), and “Nickel Boys” (which had two other nominations – Best Director for RaMell Ross and Breakthrough Performance for Brandon Wilson).
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Best Feature
“Anora” — Sean Baker, director; Sean Baker, Alex Coco, Samantha Quan, producers (NEON)
“Babygirl” — Halina Reijn, director; David Hinojosa, Julia Oh, Halina Reijn, producers (A24)
“Challengers” — Luca Guadagnino, director; Luca Guadagnino, Rachel O’Connor, Amy Pascal, Zendaya, producers (Amazon MGM Studios)
X – “A Different Man” — Aaron Schimberg, director; Gabriel Mayers, Vanessa McDonnell, Christine Vachon, producers (A24)
“Nickel Boys” — RaMell Ross, director; Joslyn Barnes, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, David Levine, producers (Orion Pictures/Amazon MGM Studios)
Best International Feature
X – “All We Imagine as Light” — Payal Kapadia, director; Julien Graff, Thomas Hakim, producers (Sideshow and Janus Films)
“Green Border” — Agnieszka Holland, director; Fred Bernstein, Agnieszka Holland, Marcin Wierzchoslawski, producers (Kino Lorber)
“Hard Truths” — Mike Leigh, director; Georgina Lowe, producer (Bleecker Street)
“Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell” — Thien An Pham, director; Jeremy Chua, Tran Van Thi, producers (Kino Lorber)
“Vermiglio” — Maura Delpero, director; Francesca Andreoli, Maura Delpero, Santiago Fondevila Sance, Leonardo Guerra Seràgnoli, producers (Sideshow and Janus Films)
Best Documentary Feature
“Dahomey” — Mati Diop, director; Mati Diop, Judith Lou Lévy, Eve Robin, producers (MUBI)
“Intercepted” — Oksana Karpovych, director; Darya Bassel, Olha Beskhmelnytsina, Rocío B. Fuentes, Giacomo Nudi, Lucie Rego Pauline Tran Van Lieu, producers (Grasshopper Film)
X – “No Other Land” — Yuval Abraham, Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Rachel Szor, directors; Fabien Greenberg, Bård Kjøge Rønning, producers (Antipode Films)
“Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat” — Johan Grimonprez, director; Rémi Grellety, Daan Milius, producers (Kino Lorber)
“Sugarcane” — Julian Brave NoiseCat, Emily Kassie, directors; Emily Kassie, Kellen Quinn, producers (National Geographic Documentary Films)
“Union” — Stephen Maing, Brett Story, directors; Samantha Curley, Mars Verrone, producers (Self-Distributed)
Best Director
Payal Kapadia, “All We Imagine as Light” (Sideshow and Janus Films)
Sean Baker, “Anora” (NEON)
Guan Hu, “Black Dog” (The Forge)
Jane Schoenbrun, “I Saw the TV Glow” (A24)
X – RaMell Ross, “Nickel Boys” (Orion Pictures/Amazon MGM Studios)
Best Screenplay
“Between the Temples” — Nathan Silver, C. Mason Wells (Sony Pictures Classics)
“Evil Does Not Exist” — Ryûsuke Hamaguchi (Sideshow and Janus Films)
“Femme” — Sam H. Freeman, Ng Choon Ping (Utopia)
X – “His Three Daughters” — Azazel Jacobs (Netflix)
“Janet Planet” — Annie Baker (A24)
Breakthrough Director
Shuchi Talati, “Girls Will Be Girls” (Juno Films, Inc)
India Donaldson, “Good One” (Metrograph Pictures)
Alessandra Lacorazza, “In the Summers” (Music Box Films)
X – Vera Drew, “The People’s Joker” (Altered Innocence)
Mahdi Fleifel, “To a Land Unknown” (Watermelon Pictures)
Outstanding Lead Performance
Pamela Anderson, “The Last Showgirl” (Roadside Attractions)
Adrien Brody, “The Brutalist” (A24)
X – Colman Domingo, “Sing Sing” (A24)
Marianne Jean-Baptiste, “Hard Truths” (Bleecker Street)
Nicole Kidman, “Babygirl” (A24)
Keith Kupferer, “Ghostlight” (IFC Films)
Mikey Madison, “Anora” (NEON)
Demi Moore, “The Substance” (MUBI)
Saoirse Ronan, “Outrun” (Sony Pictures Classics)
Justice Smith, “I Saw the TV Glow” (A24)
Outstanding Supporting Performance
Yura Borisov, “Anora” (NEON)
Kieran Culkin, “A Real Pain” (Searchlight Pictures)
Danielle Deadwyler, “The Piano Lesson” (Netflix)
Brigette Lundy-Paine, “I Saw the TV Glow” (A24)
Natasha Lyonne, “His Three Daughters” (Netflix)
X – Clarence Maclin, “Sing Sing” (A24)
Katy O’Brian, “Love Lies Bleeding” (A24)
Guy Pearce, “The Brutalist” (A24)
Adam Pearson, “A Different Man” (A24)
Brian Tyree Henry, “The Fire Inside” (Amazon MGM Studios)
Breakthrough Performer
Lily Collias, “Good One” (Metrograph Pictures)
Ryan Destiny, “The Fire Inside” (Amazon MGM Studios)
Maisy Stella, “My Old Ass” (Amazon MGM Studios)
Izaac Wang, “Dìdi” (Focus Features)
X – Brandon Wilson, “Nickel Boys” (Orion Pictures/Amazon MGM Studios)
Special tributes went to Angelina Jolie (Performer for “Maria”), Denis Villeneuve (Director for “Dune: Part Two”), Timothée Chalamet and James Mangold (Visionary for “A Complete Unknown”), Zendaya (Spotlight for “Challengers”), the cast of the film “The Piano Lesson” (Ensemble), Franklin Leonard and his company The Black List (Anniversary), and the cast of the film “Sing Sing” (Social Justice).
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