The 2018/2019 film awards season officially kicked off with the nominations for the Gotham Award for the best independent films, selected by a heterogeneous commission made up of critics, journalists and festival curators.
They lead by equal number of nominations Yorgos Lanthimos' La Favorita and Paul Schrader's First Reformed with three nominations each, followed by If Beale Street Could Talk of the already Oscar-winning Moonlight Berry Jenkins, the success of Bo Burnham's Sundance Eighth Grade and Ari Aster's horror of the year Hereditary.
Below, all the nominations:
Best Film
First Reformed
The Favorite
Madeline's Madeline
If Beale Street Could Talk
"The Rider"
Best Documentary
Bisbee '17
Hale County This Morning, This Evening
Minding the gap
Shirkers
Won't You Be My Neighbor?
Bingham Ray Breakthrough Director Award
Bo Burnham, Eighth Grade
Ari Aster, Hereditary
Boots Riley, Sorry to Bother You
Crystal Moselle, Skate Kitchen
Jennifer Fox, The Tale
Best Screenplay
Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara, The Favorite
Cory Finley, Thoroughbreds
Paul Schrader, First Reformed
Tamara Jenkins, Private Life
Andrew Bujalski, Support the Girls
Best Actor
Adam Driver, BlacKkKlansman
Ben Foster, Leave No Trace
Richard E. Grant, Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Ethan Hawke, First Reformed
Lakeith Stanfield, Sorry to Bother You
Best Actress
Glenn Close, The Wife
Toni Collette, Hereditary
Kathryn Hahn, Private Life
Regina Hall, Support the Girls
Michelle Pfeiffer, Where is Kyra?
Special Jury Award For Ensemble Performance
The Favorite: Olivia Colman, Emma Stone, and Rachel Weisz
Best Emerging Actor
Thomasin Harcourt, Leave No Trace
Helena Howard, Madeline's Madeline
Kiki Layne, If Beale Street Could Talk
Elsie Fisher, Eighth Grade
Yalitza Aparicio, Rome
Best Debut Series
Alias Grace
Big Mouth
The End of the F *** ing World
Killing Eve
pose
Sharp Objects
Best Debut Series - Short Form
195 Lewis
Cleaner Daze
Distance
The F Word
She's the Ticket
The prizes will be awarded on Monday 26 November.
