'Boyhood' Leads Gotham Award Nominations, Oscar Isaac Gets Best Actor Nod For 'A Most Violent Year'

It's the middle of October, and you know what that means: announcements of nominations for year-end awards. In the same way that movie summer now starts in February, more and more organizations shift up their ceremonies in order to make a bigger impact, and the latest of these is the Gotham Awards, which just revealed their nods for this year.

Leaning indie-minded on the whole, this year's noms are led by a genuine Oscar hopeful, Richard Linklater's "Boyhood," which picked up four nominations. "Nightcrawler," "Under The Skin," "Dear White People," and "Birdman" each picked up two nods, "The Grand Budapest Hotel" and "Love Is Strange" are among the Best Feature nominees, and "Foxcatcher" has been awarded a special jury prize for its three lead performances, deservedly so.

Perhaps most interestingly, though the film doesn't screen for critics until it premieres at AFI in a few weeks, Oscar Isaac picked...