I had the pleasure of serving on the Gotham Awards nominating committee this year and think today’s list of nominees reflects what a strong year it was for independent film. Anyone who’s read my blog so far this season will know that I was especially happy to see Blue Valentine and The Kids Are All Right make the cut. But some high-profile awards contenders that were eligible didn’t end up scoring any nominations, among them Get Low, Somewhere, The Tempest, Rabbit Hole, and Never Let Me Go. Since the Gotham nominees are chosen by small groups of journalists, an omission today doesn’t exactly sound the death knell for a film’s overall momentum. I still do think Get Low (and to a lesser extent, Rabbit Hole) have a shot at competing in some major Academy categories. Below are the nominees:
Best Feature
Black Swan
Blue Valentine
The Kids Are All Right
Let Me In
Winter’s Bone
Best Documentary
12th & Delaware
Inside Job
The Oath
Public Speaking
Sweetgrass
Best Ensemble Performance
The Kids Are All Right
Life During Wartime
Please Give
Tiny Furniture
Winter’s Bone
Breakthrough Director
John Wells, The Company Men
Kevin Asch, Holy Rollers
Glenn Ficarra and John Requa, I Love You Phillip Morris
Tanya Hamilton, Night Catches Us
Lena Dunham, Tiny Furniture
Breakthrough Actor
Prince Adu, Prince of Broadway
Ronald Bronstein, Daddy Longlegs
Greta Gerwig, Greenberg
Jennifer Lawrence, Winter’s Bone
John Ortiz, Jack Goes Boating
Happy to see Black Swan included. I haven’t seen it yet, but it’s one of the films I have been most looking forward to all year.
Is Prince Adu a cousin of Prince Ali?
Chloe Moretz had two raved performances this year and no one nominated her for the breakthrough actress? Hall of Shame omission.
I’m so happy that “Let Me In” got nominated for Best Feature, hopefully things like this will garner more attention for this film that has sadly been ignored by the general public.
I do think Chloe Moretz should have been nominated, she was amazing as Abby.
Good to see Winter’s Bone collecting nominations, another excellent film.
Can’t wait for Black Swan.
Where’s Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work?! Best doc of the year.
Man, I was happy to see Let me in on this list. To bad that Chloe Moretz didn’t get a nod for Abby though…I’d love to see Let me in get a Oscar Nomination after it wins it’s Gotham Award for BestFeature