Awards season is officially upon us as the IFP Gotham Awards will be announcing their nominations on Thursday, kicking off an extra long season that starts now and goes all the way until the Oscars at the end of April 2021. Buckle up.
The Gotham Awards this year have aligned themselves with the extended eligibility that the Oscars established (February 28, 2021) so what can we expect to see with nominations coming so early and a handful of films still undated and/or unseen? I expect A24’s Minari to play well with the very small nominating committees (usually no more than five or more jury members), as well as Searchlight’s Nomadland, Amazon’s One Night in Miami and Netflix, who dominated the wins here last year, should show up with The 40-Year Old Version and I’m Thinking of Ending Things.
The Independent Filmmaker Project’s 30th IFP Gotham Awards will take place on Monday, January 11, 2021, making them the first ceremony of the awards season. The IFP Gotham Awards is one of the leading honors for independent film and media, providing critical early recognition to groundbreaking independent films and their writers, directors, producers, and actors with ten competitive awards categories. Similar to the Independent Spirit Awards, the Gotham Awards recognize films with budgets under $35M.
They’ve also two television categories: Breakthrough Series (Long Form) and Breakthrough Series (Short Form).
Here are my predictions for the 30th IFP Gotham Awards nominations.
Best Feature
Watch out for: His House (Netflix), I’m Thinking of Ending Things (Netflix), The Nest (IFC Films), Nine Days (Sony Pictures Classics), Kajillionaire (Focus Features), Shirley (NEON)
Best Actor
Watch out for: Jude Law, The Nest; Leslie Odom, One Night in Miami; David Strathairn, Nomadland; Chris Abbott, Black Bear; Jesse Plemmons, I’m Thinking of Ending Things
Best Actress
Watch out for: Carrie Coon, The Nest; Michelle Pfeiffer, French Exit; Jessie Buckley, I’m Thinking of Ending Things; Wunmi Mosaku, His House; Aubrey Plaza, Black Bear; Youn Yuh-jung, Minari
Best Screenplay
Watch out for: The 40-Year Old Version, Kajillionaire, The Nest, On the Rocks, One Night in Miami, Palm Springs
Bingham Ray Breakthrough Director
Watch out for: Max Barbarkow, Palm Springs; Emma Seligman, Shiva Baby
Breakthrough Actor
Watch out for: Orion Lee, First Cow; Cristin Milioti, Palm Springs; Paul Raci, Sound of Metal; Talia Ryder, Never Rarely Sometimes Always; Odessa Young, Shirley
Best Documentary
Watch out for: Crip Camp, Collective, Time, The Way I See It
Breakthrough Series (Over 40 Minutes)
Breakthrough Series (Under 40 Minutes)
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