Nominacje do Gotham Awards. "Boyhood" górą

Pierwsze nominacje podsumowujące mijający rok w kinach zostały ogłoszone. "Boyhood" z czterema nominacjami przewodzi Gotham Independent Film Awards.

Gotham Awards docenia przedstawicieli kina niezależnego. W gronie filmów z największą liczbą nominacji znalazły się także: "Birdman", "Foxcatcher", "Nightcrawler", "Under the Skin" oraz "Dear White People".

"Birdman", "Under the Skin" i "Boyhood" rywalizują o tytuł najlepszego filmu, a nominacje w tej kategorii otrzymały także: "Grand Budapest Hotel" oraz "Love Is Strange".

Nominacje aktorskie otrzymali m.in. Michael Keaton i Ethan Hawke, ale też Bill Hader z pokazywane na American Film Festival "The Skeleton Twins" oraz Miles Teller za "Whiplash" (też na 5. AFF). Specjalne wyróżnienie aktorskie otrzymało trzech wykonawców z "Foxcatcher" (Steve Carell, Mark Ruffalo,  Channing Tatum). Wśród nominowanych najlepszych aktorek znalazła się Patricia Arquette za "Boyhood", ale też m.in. Julianne Moore za "Still Alice" i Scarlett Johansson za "Under the Skin". Czwarta nominacja dla "Boyhood" to uznanie dla aktorskiego odkrycia – Ellara Coltrane'a.

Gotham Awards nie ma raczej ambicji rozpoczynania oscarowego sezonu, bo koncentruje się tylko na nagrodach dla filmów niezależnych i wielu produkcji z głównego nurtu jeszcze nie było okazji ocenić. Warto jednak nadmienić, że w ostatnich latach o Gotham Awards ubiegały się m.in.: Inside Llewyn Davis, The Act of Killing, Moonrise Kingdom, Beasts of the Southern Wild, Beginners, The Tree of Life, Winter’s Bone, The Hurt Locker oraz 12 Years a Slave.

Tegorocznych laureatów nagród poznamy 1 grudnia.

Lista nominowanych (w oryginale)

Best Feature

Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

Alejandro G. Iñárritu, director; Alejandro G. Iñárritu, John Lesher, Arnon Milchan, James W. Skotchdopole, producers (Fox Searchlight Pictures)

Boyhood

Richard Linklater, director; Richard Linklater, Cathleen Sutherland, Jonathan Sehring, John Sloss, producers (IFC Films)

The Grand Budapest Hotel

Wes Anderson, director; Wes Anderson, Scott Rudin, Steven Rales, Jeremy Dawson, producers (Fox Searchlight Pictures)

Love Is Strange

Ira Sachs, director; Lucas Joaquin, Jay Van Hoy, Lars Knudsen, Ira Sachs, Jayne Baron Sherman, producers (Sony Pictures Classics)

Under the Skin

Jonathan Glazer, director; Nick Wechsler, James Wilson, producers (A24 Films)

Best Documentary

Actress

Robert Greene, director; Douglas Tirola, Susan Bedusa, Robert Greene, producers (The Cinema Guild)

CITIZENFOUR

Laura Poitras, director; Laura Poitras, Mathilde Bonnefoy, Dirk Wilutzky, producers (RADiUS, Participant Media, and HBO Documentary Films)

Life Itself

Steve James, director; Zak Piper, Steve James, Garrett Basch, producers (Magnolia Pictures and CNN Films)

Manakamana

Stephanie Spray & Pacho Velez, directors; Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Véréna Paravel, producers (The Cinema Guild)

Point and Shoot

Marshall Curry, director; Marshall Curry, Elizabeth Martin, Matthew Van Dyke, producers (The Orchard and American Documentary / POV)

Bingham Ray Breakthrough Director Award

Ana Lily Amirpour for A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (Kino Lorber)

James Ward Byrkit for Coherence (Oscilloscope Laboratories)

Dan Gilroy for Nightcrawler (Open Road Films)

Eliza Hittman for It Felt Like Love (Variance Films)

Justin Simien for Dear White People (Lionsgate and Roadside Attractions)

Best Actor*

Bill Hader in The Skeleton Twins (Lionsgate and Roadside Attractions)

Ethan Hawke in Boyhood (IFC Films)

Oscar Isaac in A Most Violent Year (A24 Films)

Michael Keaton in Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (Fox Searchlight Pictures)

Miles Teller in Whiplash (Sony Pictures Classics)

*The 2014 Best Actor nominating panel also voted to award a special Gotham Jury Award jointly to Steve Carell, Mark Ruffalo, and Channing Tatum for their ensemble performance in Foxcatcher (Sony Pictures Classics).

Best Actress

Patricia Arquette in Boyhood (IFC Films)

Gugu Mbatha-Raw in Beyond the Lights (Relativity Media)

Julianne Moore in Still Alice (Sony Pictures Classics)

Scarlett Johansson in Under the Skin (A24 Films)

Mia Wasikowska in Tracks (The Weinstein Company)

Breakthrough Actor

Riz Ahmed in Nightcrawler (Open Road Films)

Macon Blair in Blue Ruin (RADiUS)

Ellar Coltrane in Boyhood (IFC Films)

Joey King in Wish I Was Here (Focus Features)

Jenny Slate in Obvious Child (A24 Films)

Tessa Thompson in Dear White People (Lionsgate and Roadside Attractions)

Spotlight on Women Filmmakers "Live the Dream" Grant

For the fourth consecutive year, IFP is proud present the euphoria Calvin Klein Spotlight on Women Filmmakers "Live the Dream" grant, a $25,000 cash award for an alumna of IFP’s Independent Filmmaker Labs. This grant aims to further the careers of emerging women directors by supporting the completion, distribution and audience engagement strategies of their first feature film.

The nominees are:

Garrett Bradley, director, Below Dreams

Claire Carré, director, Embers

Chloé Zhao, director, Songs My Brothers Taught Me