Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Beginners and The Tree of Life tie for Best Feature at the Gotham Independent Film Awards 2011

Awards season got underway on Monday night as the stars gathered in New York City for the 21st Annual Gotham Awards, with Mike Mills' comedy drama Beginners sharing the top honour - Best Feature - with Terrence Malick's Palme d'Or winner The Tree of Life, after fending off competition from The Descendants, Meek's Cutoff and Take Shelter. The award for Best Breakthrough Actor / Actress went to rising English actress Felicity Jones for Like Crazy, while Dee Rees was named Best Breakthrough Director for her debut feature Pariah.

Along with Best Feature, Beginners took home a second award as the likes of Ewan McGregor, Christopher Plummer Ewan McGregor and Mélanie Laurent were honoured with Best Ensemble Performance, while special tribute awards were also given to Charlize Theron, Gary Oldman, David Cronenberg and Tom Rothman, CEO of Fox Filmed Entertainment. Take a look at the full list of winners (and nominees) right here...

Best Feature
Beginners (dir. Mike Mills)
The Tree of Life (dir. Mike Mills)
The Descendants (dir. Alexander Payne)
Meek's Cutoff (dir. Kelly Reichardt)
Take Shelter (dir. Jeff Nichols)

Best Breakthrough Actor/Actress
Felicity Jones (Like Crazy)
Elizabeth Olsen (Martha Marcy May Marlene)
Harmony Santana (Gun Hill Road)
Shailene Woodley (The Descendants)
Jacob Wysocki (Terri)

Best Breakthrough Director
Dee Rees (Pariah)
Mike Cahill (Another Earth)
Sean Durkin (Martha Marcy May Marlene)
Vera Farmiga (Higher Ground)
Evan Glodell (Bellflower)

Best Documentary
Better This World (dir. Katie Galloway and Kelly Duane de la Vega)
Bill Cunningham New York (dir. Richard Press)
Hell and Back Again (dir. Danfung Dennis)
The Interrupters (dir. Steve James)
The Woodmans (dir. C. Scott Willis)

Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You
Scenes of a Crime (dir. Blue Hadaegh and Grover Babcock)
Codependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same (dir. Madeleine Olnek)
Green (dir. Sophia Takal)
The Redemption of General Butt Naked (dir. Eric Strauss and Daniele Anastasion)
Without (dir. Mark Jackson)

Audience Award
Girlfriend
(dir. Justin Lerner)
Being Elmo: A Puppeteers Journey (dir. Constance Marks)
Buck (dir. Cindy Meehl)
The First Grader (dir. Justin Chadwick)
Wild Horse, Wild Ride (dir. Alex Dawson and Greg Gricus)

Best Ensemble Performance
Beginners - (Ewan McGregor, Christopher Plummer, Mélanie Laurent, Goran Visnjic, Kai Lennox, Mary Page Keller, Keegan Boos)
The Descendants - (George Clooney, Shailene Woodley, Beau Bridges, Robert Forster, Judy Greer, Matthew Lillard, Nick Krause, Amara Miller, Mary Birdsong, Rob Huebel)
Margin Call - (Kevin Spacey, Paul Bettany, Jeremy Irons, Zachary Quinto, Penn Badgley, Simon Baker, Mary McDonnell, Demi Moore, Stanley Tucci, Aasif Mandvi)
Martha Marcy May Marlene - (Elizabeth Olsen, Christopher Abbott, Brady Corbet, Hugh Dancy, Maria Dizzia, Julia Garner, John Hawkes, Louisa Krause, Sarah Paulson)
Take Shelter - (Michael Shannon, Jessica Chastain, Tova Stewart, Shea Whigham, Katy Mixon, Kathy Baker, Ray McKinnon, Lisagay Hamilton, Robert Longstreet)

Spotlight on Women Filmmakers: Live the Dream Grant
Lucy Mulloy (Una Noche)
Jenny Deller (Future Weather)
Rola Nashef (Detroit Unleaded)

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