The IFP Gotham Awards will be held on November 30th at Cipriani in New York City. The 19th annual awards ceremony celebrates the best of Independent film and will present special awards to Natalie Portman, Kathryn Bigelow and Stanley Tucci. Here is an overview of the nominees and jurors. Congrats to everyone!!!
Gotham Independent Film Awards – 2009
The Independent Filmmaker Project has announced the line-up of jurors determining the recipients of the 19th Annual Gotham Independent Film Awards. The awards ceremony will be held at Cipriani Wall Street on Monday, November 30. As previously announced, career tributes will be presented as part of the ceremony to actors Natalie Portman and Stanley Tucci, filmmaker Kathryn Bigelow and producer/executives Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner, Co-Chairman of Working Title Films. The awards ceremony will be hosted by comedian Kumail Nanjiani.
Newly confirmed award presenters include actors Patricia Clarkson, Rosie Perez and Sam Rockwell and writer/director Richard LaGravenese. They are joining the previously announced line-up of presenters including: Shohreh Aghdashloo, Ellen Burstyn, Joel and Ethan Coen, Willem Dafoe, Anthony Mackie, Oliver Platt, Jim Sheridan, Brooke Shields and Meryl Streep.
For Best Feature, jurors include: Actress Shohreh Aghdashloo (House of Sand and Fog, “House of Saddam”); filmmaker Julie Taymor (Frida, Across the Universe), filmmaker William Friedkin (The French Connection, The Exorcist), producer Wendy Finerman (Forrest Gump, The Devil Wears Prada) and Police co-founder and film composer Stewart Copeland (Rumble Fish, Wall Street).
For Best Documentary, jurors include: Filmmaker Edet Belzberg (Children Underground, The Recruiter), filmmaker Brett Morgen (On the Ropes, Chicago 10), editor Sabine Hoffman (Private Lives of Pippa Lee, Twelve Disciples of Nelson Mandela), filmmaking duo Albert and Allen Hughes (Menace II Society, upcoming The Book of Eli), and filmmaker Julia Reichert (Seeing Red, A Lion in the House).
For Breakthrough Director, jurors include: Actor William H. Macy (Fargo, Magnolia), filmmaker Marc Forster (Monster’s Ball, Quantum of Solace), actress Rosie Perez (Do the Right Thing, Fearless), producer Heather Rae (Frozen River, Trudell), director of photography Matthew Libatique (Requiem for a Dream, Inside Man), editor Christopher Tellefsen (The People vs Larry Flynt, Analyze This).
For Breakthrough Actor, jurors include: Actress Ellen Burstyn (Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, Requiem for a Dream), actress Melonie Diaz (Raising Victor Vargas, A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints), former bassist for the Lemonheads and filmmaker Jesse Peretz (The Chateau, First Love Last Rites), actor Oliver Platt (Bullworth, Frost/Nixon), and filmmaker David O. Russell (Three Kings, I Heart Huckabees).
For Best Ensemble Performance, jurors include: Actor Dylan Baker (Happiness, The Laramie Project), actor America Ferrera (“Ugly Betty,” Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants), screenwriter and filmmaker Richard LaGravenese (The Fisher King, P.S. I Love You), model/actor/author Brooke Shields (“Lipstick Jungle,” “Suddenly Susan”), and producer Susan Stover (High Art, The Business of Strangers).
Nominees and recipient of the Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You are determined by the editors of Filmmaker magazine, an IFP publication and a curator from the Museum of Modern Art’s Department of Film. [source]
The nominees for the 19th Annual Gotham Independent Film Awards
Best Feature
Amreeka
Cherien Dabis, director; Christina Piovesan, Paul Barkin, producers (National Geographic Entertainment)Big Fan
Robert Siegel, director; Jean Kouremetis, Elan Bogarin, producers (First Independent Pictures)The Hurt Locker
Kathryn Bigelow, director; Kathryn Bigelow, Mark Boal, Nicolas Chartier, Greg Shapiro, producers (Summit Entertainment)The Maid
Sebastian Silva, director; Gregorio Gonzàles, producer (Elephant Eye Films)A Serious Man
Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, directors/producers (Focus Features)Best Documentary
Food, Inc.
Robert Kenner, director; Robert Kenner, Elise Pearlstein, producers (Magnolia Pictures)Good Hair
Jeff Stilson, director; Chris Rock, Kevin O’Donnell, Nelson George Jenny Hunter, producers (Liddell Entertainment and Roadside Attractions in association with HBO Films)My Neighbor My Killer
Anne Aghion, director/producer (Gacaca Productions)Paradise
Michael Almereyda, director; Michael Almereyda, Laurie Butler, producers (Post Factory Films)Tyson
James Toback, director; James Toback, Damon Bingham, producers (Sony Pictures Classics)Best Ensemble Performance
Adventureland
Jesse Eisenberg, Kristen Stewart, Martin Starr, Kristen Wiig, Bill Hader, Ryan Reynolds, Margarita Levieva (Miramax Films)Cold Souls
Paul Giamatti, Dina Korzun, Emily Watson, Katheryn Winnick, David Strathairn (Samuel Goldwyn Films)The Hurt Locker
Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Brian Geraghty, Ralph Fiennes, Guy Pearce, David Morse, Evangeline Lilly (Summit Entertainment)A Serious Man
Michael Stuhlbarg, Richard Kind, Fred Melamed (Focus Features)Sugar
Algenis Perez Soto, Rayniel Rufino, Michael Gaston, Andre Holland, Ann Whitney, Richard Bull, Ellary Porterfield, Jaime Tirelli (Sony Pictures Classics)Breakthrough Director
Cruz Angeles for Don’t Let Me Drown
Frazer Bradshaw for Everything Strange and New
Noah Buschel for The Missing Person (Strand Releasing)
Derick Martini for Lymelife (Screen Media Films)
Robert Siegel for Big Fan (First Independent Pictures)Breakthrough Actor
Ben Foster in The Messenger (Oscilloscope Laboratories)
Patton Oswalt in Big Fan (First Independent Pictures)
Jeremy Renner in The Hurt Locker (Summit Entertainment)
Catalina Saavedra in The Maid (Elephant Eye Films)
Souléymane Sy Savané in Goodbye Solo (Roadside Attractions)Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You
Everything Strange and New
Frazer Bradshaw, director; Laura Techera Francia, A.D. Liano, producersGuy and Madeline on a Park Bench
Damien Chazelle, director; Jasmine McGlade, producerOctober Country
Michael Palmieri and Donal Mosher, directors/producersYou Wont Miss Me
Ry Russo-Young, director/producerZero Bridge
Tariq Tapa, director; Tariq Tapa, Josée Lajoie, Hilal Ahmed Langoo, producersThe nominating committees for the 19th Annual Gotham Independent Film Award announced above are as follows:
Nominating Committee for Best Feature and Best Ensemble Performance:
Rajendra Roy, The Celeste Bartos Chief Curator of Film, Museum of Modern Art
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Film Critic, Entertainment Weekly
Dana Stevens, Film Critic, Slate.com
Kenneth Turan, Film Critic, Los Angeles TimesNominating Committee for Breakthrough Director and Breakthrough Actor:
Florence Almozini, Program Director, BAMCinématek
Justin Chang, Film Critic, Variety
Rob Nelson, Film Critic, Minnesota PostNominating Committee for Best Documentary:
Livia Bloom, Film Curator and editor of Errol Morris: Interviews (University of Mississippi Press)
David Courier, Programmer, Sundance Film Festival
Tom Hall, Director of Programming, Sarasota Film Festival; Artistic Director, Newport International Film Festival; Writer, The Back Row Manifesto (http://blogs,indiewire.com/twhalliii/)
Ronnie Scheib, Film Critic, VarietyNominating Committee for Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You:
Joshua Siegel, Associate Curator, Department of Film and Media, Museum of Modern Art;
and members of the editorial staff of Filmmaker Magazine: Scott Macaulay (Editor-in-Chief), Jason Guerrasio, Brandon Harris, Ray Pride, Alicia Van Couvering2009 Gotham Independent Film Awards – Alphabetical List of Nominated Films
Adventureland
Best Ensemble Performance nomineeAmreeka
Best Feature nomineeBig Fan
Best Feature nominee
Breakthrough Actor nominee
Breakthrough Director nomineeCold Souls
Best Ensemble Performance nomineeDon’t Let Me Drown
Breakthrough Director nomineeEverything Strange and New
Breakthrough Director nominee
Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You nomineeFood, Inc.
Best Documentary nomineeGood Hair
Best Documentary nomineeGoodbye Solo
Breakthrough Actor nomineeGuy and Madeline on a Park Bench
Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You nomineeThe Hurt Locker
Best Feature nominee
Best Ensemble Performance nominee
Breakthrough Actor nomineeLymelife
Breakthrough Director nomineeThe Maid
Best Feature nominee
Breakthrough Actor nomineeThe Messenger
Breakthrough Actor nomineeThe Missing Person
Breakthrough Director nomineeMy Neighbor My Killer
Best Documentary nomineeOctober Country
Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You nomineeParadise
Best Documentary nomineeA Serious Man
Best Feature nominee
Best Ensemble Performance nomineeSugar
Best Ensemble Performance nomineeTyson
Best Documentary nomineeYou Wont Miss Me
Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You nomineeZero Bridge
Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You nomineeThe Premiere sponsor of the 2009 Gotham Independent Film Awards is The New York Times. The awards will be promoted nationally in an eight-page special advertising section in The New York Times on Monday, November 30th. Stella Artois is a presenting sponsor.
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