The Descendants and Martha Marcy May Marlene lead the list of nominees for the Independent Filmmaker Project’s Gotham Independent Film Awards with four nominations each. Following closely on the heels of The Descendants and Martha Marcy May Marlene are Beginners and Take Shelter with two nominations apiece. The first major awards ceremony of the film season will take place on November 28th at Cipriani Wall Street, honoring independent films worthy of recognition. In all, 24 different films were recognized with nominations.
IFP will also honor Charlize Theron, Gary Oldman, David Cronenberg and Tom Rothman with career tributes during the November 28th awards ceremony.
21st Annual Gotham Independent Film Awards Nominees:
Best Feature
Beginners
The Descendants
Meek’s Cutoff
Take Shelter
The Tree of Life
Best Documentary
Better This World
Bill Cunningham New York
Hell and Back Again
The Interrupters
The Woodmans
Best Ensemble Performance
Beginners
The Descendants
Margin Call
Martha Marcy May Marlene
Take Shelter
Breakthrough Director
Mike Cahill for Another Earth
Sean Durkin for Martha Marcy May Marlene
Vera Farmiga for Higher Ground
Evan Glodell for Bellflower
Dee Rees for Pariah
Breakthrough Actor
Felicity Jones in Like Crazy
Elizabeth Olsen in Martha Marcy May Marlene
Harmony Santana in Gun Hill Road
Shailene Woodley in The Descendants
Jacob Wysocki in Terri
Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You
Codependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same
Green
The Redemption of General Butt Naked
Scenes of a Crime
Without
New this year, IFP is proud present the inaugural euphoria Calvin Klein Spotlight on Women Filmmakers ‘Live the Dream’ grant, a $25,000 cash award for an alumnus of IFP’s Independent Filmmaker Labs. This grant aims to further the careers of emerging women directors by supporting the completion, distribution and audience engagement strategies of their first feature film.
The nominees are:
Jenny Deller, director, Future Weather
Lucy Mulloy, director, Una Noche
Rola Nashef, director, Detroit Unleaded
Source: IFP – October 20, 2011
*IFP is the nation’s oldest and largest organization of independent filmmakers.
