The Gotham Award nominations have been announced and with them are a number of surprises.
The Gotham Awards are given by the Independent Film Project to the best independent films of the year. This year's best picture nominees include top Oscar contenders The Master and Moonrise Kingdom. The Loneliest Planet, Bernie, and Middle of Nowhere are also nominated for best picture.In the ensemble nominations category Oscar frontrunner Silver Linings Playbook is nominated alongside Your Sister Sister's, Bernie, Moonrise Kingdom, and Saftey Not Guaranteed. Sundance winner Beasts of the Southern Wild boosted its Oscar chances as it was nominated for breakthrough director for Benh Zeitlin and for Breakthrough Actor for Quvenzhane Wallis.
While winning the best picture for the Gotham does not mean a best picture nomination at the Oscars the last few years have seen a number of films (including last year's winner The Tree of Life, Beginners, The Descendants, 2010's winner Winter's Bone, Black Swan and The Kids) all been nominated for the best picture award as well as a number of other Oscar nominations.The breakthrough actor award is also a good indication of Oscar nominations as Catalina Sandino Moreno for Maria Full of Grace (2004), Melissa Leo for Frozen River (2008), Rinko Kikuchi for Babel (2006), and Amy Adams for Junebug (2005) have all won the award and then taken home an Oscar nomination.
The awards will be handed out on November 26.
The Complete list of nominees
Best Feature
§ Bernie (Millennium Entertainment)
§ The Loneliest Planet (Sundance Selects)
§ The Master (The Weinstein Company)
§ Middle of Nowhere (AFFRM and Participant Media)
§ Moonrise Kingdom (Focus Features)
Best Documentary
§ Detropia (Loki Films)
§ How to Survive a Plague (Sundance Selects)
§ Marina Abramović: The Artist is Present (HBO Documentary Films and Music Box Films)
§ Room 237 (IFC Midnight)
§ The Waiting Room (International Film Circuit)
Best Ensemble Performance
§ Bernie
Jack Black, Shirley MacLaine, Matthew McConaughey
§ Moonrise Kingdom
Bruce Willis, Edward Norton, Bill Murray, Frances McDormand, Tilda Swinton, Jared Gilman, Kara Hayward, Jason Schwartzman, Bob Balaban
§ Safety Not Guaranteed
Aubrey Plaza, Mark Duplass, Jake Johnson, Karan Soni, Jenica Bergere, Kristen Bell, Jeff Garlin, Mary Lynn Rajskub
§ Silver Linings Playbook
Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Robert De Niro, Jacki Weaver, Chris Tucker, Anupam Kher
§ Your Sister's Sister
Emily Blunt, Rosemarie Dewitt, Mark Duplass
Breakthrough Director
§ Zal Batmanglij for Sound of My Voice (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
§ Brian M. Cassidy and Melanie Shatzky for Francine (Factory 25 and The Film Sales Company)
§ Jason Cortlund and Julia Halperin for Now, Forager (Argot Pictures)
§ Antonio Méndez Esparza for Aquí y Allá (Here and There) (Torch Films)
§ Benh Zeitlin for Beasts of the Southern Wild (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
Breakthrough Actor
§ Mike Birbiglia in Sleepwalk with Me (IFC Films)
§ Emayatzy Corinealdi in Middle of Nowhere (AFFRM and Participant Media)
§ Thure Lindhardt in Keep the Lights On (Music Box Films)
§ Melanie Lynskey in Hello, I Must Be Going (Oscilloscope Laboratories)
§ Quvenzhané Wallis in Beasts of the Southern Wild (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You
§ Kid-Thing (dir. David Zellner)
§ An Oversimplification of Her Beauty (dir. Terence Nance)
§ Red Flag (dir. Alex Karpovsky)
§ Sun Don't Shine (dir. Amy Seimetz)
Tiger Tail in Blue (dir. Frank V. Ross)
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