Nick Kroll handled the hosting duties for the 2013 Gotham Film Independent Awards held in New York on December 2nd and honoring the best movies and performances of the year. One of the first awards shows of the season, the Gotham Awards shine the spotlight on independent films and filmmakers and this year included tributes to writer/director Richard Linklater and Lee Daniels’ The Butler star Forest Whitaker, as well as a posthumous tribute to actor James Gandolfini.
2013 Gotham Independent Film Awards Nominees and Winners
Best Feature
12 Years a Slave
Ain’t Them Bodies Saints
Before Midnight
Upstream Color
Winner: Inside Llewyn Davis
Best Documentary
The Crash Reel
First Cousin Once Removed
Let the Fire Burn
Our Nixon
Winner: The Act of Killing
Bingham Ray Breakthrough Director Award
Adam Leon for Gimme the Loot
Alexandre Moors for Blue Caprice
Stacie Passon for Concussion
Amy Seimetz for Sun Don’t Shine
Winner: Ryan Coogler for Fruitvale Station
Best Actor
Chiwetel Ejiofor in 12 Years a Slave
Oscar Isaac in Inside Llewyn Davis
Robert Redford in All Is Lost
Isaiah Washington in Blue Caprice
Winner: Matthew McConaughey in Dallas Buyers Club
Best Actress
Cate Blanchett in Blue Jasmine
Scarlett Johansson in Don Jon
Amy Seimetz in Upstream Color
Shailene Woodley in The Spectacular Now
Winner: Brie Larson in Short Term 12
Breakthrough Actor
Dane DeHaan in Kill Your Darlings
Kathryn Hahn in Afternoon Delight
Lupita Nyong’o in 12 Years a Slave
Robin Weigert in Concussion
Winner: Michael B. Jordan in Fruitvale Station
Gotham Independent Film Audience Award
12 Years a Slave
Best Kept Secret
Don’t Stop Believin’: Everyman’s Journey
Fruitvale Station
Winner: Jake Shimabukuro: Life on Four Strings
-Posted by Rebecca Murray
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