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30th Gotham Awards winners announced, including Nomadland and Chadwick Boseman

January 12, 2021 by EJ Moreno

Every year, the Gotham Awards the very best in independent cinema and the 2021 edition of the show is no different as independent films had an even bigger spotlight on them during the hectic year that was 2020.

During this year’s event, we saw films like Miss Juneteenth and Sound of Metal have a chance to shine. The Gotham Awards even took time to spotlight individual talents like Steve McQueen, Ryan Murphy, and the late Chadwick Boseman.

Check out the full list of winners below:

BEST FEATURE

The Assistant
First Cow
Never Rarely Sometimes Always
*WINNER* Nomadland
Relic

BEST DOCUMENTARY – TIE

76 Days
City Hall
Our Time Machine
*WINNER* A Thousand Cuts
*WINNER* Time

BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE

Bacurau
Beanpole
Cuties (Mignonnes)
*WINNER* Identifying Features
Martin Eden
Wolfwalkers

BINGHAM RAY BREAKTHROUGH DIRECTOR AWARD

Radha Blank, The Forty-Year-Old Version
Channing Godfrey Peoples, Miss Juneteenth
Alex Thompson, Saint Frances
Carlo Mirabella-Davis, Swallow
*WINNER* Andrew Patterson, The Vast of Night

BEST SCREENPLAY – TIE

Bad Education, Mike Makowsky
First Cow, Jon Raymond, Kelly Reichardt
*WINNER* The Forty-Year-Old Version, Radha Blank
*WINNER* Fourteen, Dan Sallitt
The Vast of Night, James Montague, Craig Sanger

BEST ACTOR

*WINNER* Riz Ahmed, Sound of Metal
Chadwick Boseman, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Jude Law in The Nest
John Magaro, First Cow
Jesse Plemons, I’m Thinking of Ending Things

BEST ACTRESS

*WINNER* Nicole Beharie, Miss Juneteenth
Jessie Buckley, I’m Thinking of Ending Things
Yuh-Jung Youn, Minari
Carrie Coon, The Nest
Frances McDormand, Nomadland

BREAKTHROUGH ACTOR

Jasmine Batchelor, The Surrogate
*WINNER* Kingsley Ben-Adir, One Night in Miami…
Sidney Flanigan, Never Rarely Sometimes Always
Orion Lee, First Cow
Kelly O’Sullivan, Saint Frances

BREAKTHROUGH SERIES – LONG FORMAT (40-PLUS MINUTES PER EPISODE)

The Great
Immigration Nation
P-Valley
Unorthodox
*WINNER* Watchmen

BREAKTHROUGH SERIES – SHORT FORMAT (LESS THAN 40 MINUTES PER EPISODE)

Betty
Dave
*WINNER* I May Destroy You
Taste the Nation
Work in Progress

ACTRESS TRIBUTE
Viola Davis

ACTOR TRIBUTE
Chadwick Boseman

ENSEMBLE TRIBUTE
The cast of The Trial of the Chicago 7

DIRECTOR’S TRIBUTE
Steve McQueen

INDUSTRY TRIBUTE
Ryan Murphy

MADE IN N.Y. AWARD
Jeffrey Wright

GOTHAM AUDIENCE AWARD
Nomadland

 

Filed Under: Awards Season, EJ Moreno, Movies, News, Television Tagged With: gotham awards, Gotham Independent Film Awards

About EJ Moreno

EJ Moreno is a film and television critic and entertainment writer who joined the pop culture website Flickering Myth in 2018 and now serves as the executive producer of Flickering Myth TV, a YouTube channel with over 27,000 subscribers. With over a decade of experience, he is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic who is also part of the Critics Choice Association and GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics.

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