Predictions for the 2024 Gotham Awards and New York Film Critics Circle (NYFCC)

The Gotham Awards are tonight, followed by the New York Film Critics Circle (NYFCC) tomorrow. Can we skip to the good part?

Here are my predictions.

Gotham Awards winner predictions

Best Feature
Anora
Alt: Nickel Boys

Best Director
Sean Baker, Anora
Alt: Jane Schoenbrun, I Saw the TV Glow

Outstanding Lead Performance
Mikey Madison, Anora
Alt: Demi Moore, The Substance

Outstanding Supporting Performance
Kieran Culkin, A Real Pain
Alt: Clarence Maclin, Sing Sing

Best Screenplay
His Three Daughters
Alt: Evil Does Not Exist

Breakthrough Director
India Donaldson, Good One
Alt: Alessandra Lacorazza, In the Summers

Best International Feature
All We Imagine as Light
Alt: Hard Truths

Best Documentary Feature
No Other Land
Alt: Dahomey

New York Film Critics Circle (NYFCC)

Best Picture
Nickel Boys
Alt: Anora

Best Director
RaMell Ross, Nickel Boys
Alt: Brady Corbet, The Brutalist

Best Screenplay
Anora
Alt: A Real Pain

Best Actor
Adrien Brody, The Brutalist
Alt: Sebastian Stan, A Different Man and The Apprentice

Best Actress
Demi Moore, The Substance
Alt: Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Hard Truths

Best Supporting Actor
Winner: Adam Pearson, A Different Man
Alt: Yura Borisov, Anora

Best Supporting Actress
Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Nickel Boys
Alt: Ariana Grande, Wicked

Best Animated Film
The Wild Robot
Alt: Memoir of a Snail

Best Foreign Film
All We Imagine as Light
Alt: The Seed of the Sacred Fig

Best Non-Fiction Film
No Other Land
Alt: Daughters

Best Cinematographer
The Brutalist
Alt: Nickel Boys

Best First Film
Janet Planet
Alt: Dìdi

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Erik Anderson is the founder/owner and Editor-in-Chief of AwardsWatch and has always loved all things Oscar, having watched the Academy Awards since he was in single digits; making lists, rankings and predictions throughout the show. This led him down the path to obsessing about awards. Much later, he found himself in film school and the film forums of GoldDerby, and then migrated over to the former Oscarwatch (now AwardsDaily), before breaking off to create AwardsWatch in 2013.

He is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, accredited by the Cannes Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and more, is a member of the International Cinephile Society (ICS), The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (GALECA), Critics Choice Association (CCA), San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle (SFBAFCC) and the International Press Academy. Among his many achieved goals with AwardsWatch, he has given a platform to underrepresented writers and critics and supplied them with access to film festivals and the industry and calls the Bay Area his home where he lives with his husband and son.

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