A Different Man won best feature at the 2024 Gotham Awards, while Nickel Boys and Sing Sing each won two awards at the star-studded ceremony at New York’s Cipriani Wall Street on Monday night.
In best feature, Anora and A Different Man faced off against Babygirl, Challengers and Nickel Boys.
Sing Sing won in both the lead and supporting performance categories, with Colman Domingo winning the lead award and Clarence Maclin winning best supporting performance.
Speaking about Sing Sing, Domingo said it was “made with the independent spirit that guided every step in the making of it, from script development, to prep to production to post to this stage.
Everyone on Sing Sing has ownership of Sing Sing.
The 2024 Gotham Awards saw a star-studded ceremony at New York’s Cipriani Wall Street on Monday night, where Nickel Boys and Sing Sing each took home two awards, while A Different Man took home the best feature honor.
When Aaron Schimberg, the director of A Different Man, accepted the top honor, he acknowledged that he had not prepared a speech and said he was “totally stunned” by the victory.
Given the other nominees, I believed it would be hubris to even think about writing a speech. Schimberg then thanked the Gothams and the film’s crew, which included Sebastian Stan and Adam Pearson, before saying, “I’m going to wing this.”. I apologize for not having a better speech prepared. In all honesty, I didn’t think this was possible. “”.
Sean Baker’s Palme d’Or-winning Anora had four nominations going into the ceremony, including best feature, but the movie didn’t win anything.
In the best feature, Babygirl, Challengers, and Nickel Boys were pitted against Anora and A Different Man. In total, Nickel Boys was nominated for three awards; the other two categories were for breakthrough performer (Brandon Wilson) and best director (RaMell Ross).
Presenter and Nickel Boys co-star Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor was visibly shocked when she revealed that Wilson had won, while Ross had won best director. Wilson acknowledged that he didn’t anticipate being on stage, but he pointed out that he took off his shoes because Ellis-Taylor wasn’t wearing any either.
Colman Domingo took home the lead award, while Clarence Maclin took home the best supporting performance honor. Sing Sing won both the lead and supporting performance categories.
The three-time nominee I Saw the TV Glow, the double nominees Hard Truths and The Fire Inside, and Babygirl, who, like Different Man, entered the evening as a two-award contender, all left empty-handed.
The Gotham Awards have honored artists in gender-neutral categories since 2021.
The Gotham recently separated the TV categories into a separate ceremony that takes place in June, so this year was the first time in a number of years that they weren’t presented during the fall awards show.
The Gothams also presented tributes to the following individuals and films in addition to the competitive awards: Angelina Jolie received the Performer Tribute for Maria; Zendaya received the Spotlight Tribute for Challengers; Denis Villeneuve received the Director Tribute for Dune: Part Two; Timothée Chalamet and James Mangold received the Visionary Tribute for A Complete Unknown; and The Piano Lesson received the Ensemble Tribute.
When Jolie received her award from Maria director Pablo Larraín, the actress mentioned that it would have been Maria Callas’ 101st birthday. Highlighting the value of those early encounters, Jolie also thanked her mother for introducing her to the arts, saying, “Art is a way we come together to know each other, to laugh with each other, and to understand each other.”. It is for this reason that art education in our schools is so crucial, and it is alarming that many of those programs are being cut. “”.
Josh O’Connor gave it to his Challengers co-star Zendaya, Radhika Jones gave it to Franklin Leonard, and Domingo gave it to Sing Sing. Villeneuve was also praised by Jake Gyllenhaal, and Zendaya later took the stage again to pay tribute to him. Oscar Isaac presented Chalamet and Mangold with their honor for A Complete Unknown, while Zoë Kravitz presented the honor for The Piano Lesson.
Domingo discussed Sing Sing, stating that it was “made with the independent spirit that guided every step in the making of it, from script development to prep to production to post to this stage.”. Because of the way we have worked together, it is impossible to distinguish between the work of one person and that of another. Our guiding principle was to ensure that each individual felt valued, acknowledged, and that their contributions were acknowledged. “.”.
To applause from the audience, he then emphasized the movie’s strategy of paying all employees the same salary and ensuring equity, including the director, the star, and the crew.
Speaking about this strategy, Domingo stated, “We hope [this approach] will be a light in the darkness of our industry and help find new paths to help create independent film and ensure that everyone feels seen and equitable for everyone.”. Sing Sing is owned by everyone on Sing Sing. We all benefit when the movie is a success. We really succeeded together. “”.
The world’s soul is hurting, and I don’t have to tell you that,” he added. We wanted to tell a story about people finding light in the dark, about men discovering tenderness in the keys to reviving their humanity while performing Shakespeare or playing theater games and discovering fragments of their souls buried beneath the debris of their situation. “.”.
“We’re living proof that no matter where you start, you should always be able to dream of where you could go and be,” said Sing Sing actor Sean “Dino” Johnson, the recipient of the Gotham Awards. “”.
O’Connor acknowledged that he was “unable to provide strategic insight into how Zendaya transformed into the movie star we witness today,” despite praising her “shape-shifting versatility and dubious skills with a racket.”. “”.
“She’s truly alive to whoever she’s playing opposite,” he told his co-star. She listens and reacts as it happens. She pushes you to match her intensity and presents the unexpected. “.”.
When Zendaya took the stage, she argued that O’Connor had praised her excessively.
I’m going to return you. “We detest complimenting one another,” she remarked. She clarified that, like her Challengers character Tashi, she is passionate about her work, which she claimed would not be possible without the people she collaborates with.
She began by saying, “Thank you to everyone who makes moviemaking possible. Without all of them, none of this is possible.”. “”.
Zendaya also expressed gratitude to MGM, the Challengers’ studio, “for ensuring that this film was screened in theaters.”. Maintaining the cinematic experience is crucial. “.”.
Returning to pay tribute to Villeneuve, Zendaya joked, “I’m back,” before calling her Dune director a “generous visionary.”. “.”.
She claimed that every Denis Villeneuve movie is an engrossing story based on incredibly relatable tales. Dennis gives each of us the impression that we are his only concern. “.”.
Following a showcase of Villeneuve’s work, Gyllenhaal took the stage to pay tribute to his “brilliant friend,” with whom he has been close since they collaborated on the 2014 movie Enemy. Villeneuve’s application of the same methodology to the “bigger canvases” of the Dune films was commended by him.
Gyllenhaal also praised Villeneuve’s paradoxical personality, describing him as an “artist with a fundamentally optimistic outlook who’s not afraid of the dark.”. To put it simply, he is a unicorn. A Canadian unicorn with talent and beauty. “”.
Villeneuve, who accepted his honor, recalled meeting Martin Scorsese just before he was set to make his first Hollywood movies and that Scorsese advised him to “stay intact.”. “.”.
“He intended to safeguard that flame because I was entering a system that can occasionally be unforgiving to artists,” Villeneuve stated. Citing his agent Maha Dakhil, Legendary’s Mary Parent, and his wife Tanya Lapointe, he then expressed gratitude to particular “guardian angels” who prevented the light from going out.
As he presented their honor to Chalamet and Mangold, Isaac recalled being on the Dune set when he heard that Chalamet was starting a movie about Dylan and thought it “sounded like a really bad idea.”. The “kid who had just started learning the guitar” approached Dylan’s songs “as if he was remembering something he’d always known,” according to Josh Brolin, Stephen McKinley Henderson, and them after they heard him perform “Girl from the North Country.”. “”.
Chalamet later admitted that he became emotional when Isaac praised him, saying that he had “tried to shape [himself] after” Isaac.
Committees of journalists, film curators, festival programmers, and critics chose the nominees for the Gotham Awards.
Winners of the awards were chosen by independent juries composed of writers, directors, actors, producers, editors, and other people who work directly on filmmaking.
The Oscar winners Everything Everywhere All at Once, CODA, Nomadland, Marriage Story, American Factory, Moonlight, Spotlight, and Birdman are among the recent Gotham Award winners.
Below is a full list of the Gotham Awards winners for this year.
Best feature.
Ana.
Producers Sean Baker, Alex Coco, and Samantha Quan (NEON); director Sean Baker.
The babygirl.
Director Halina Reijn, producers Julia Oh and David Hinojosa (A24).
opponents.
Director Luca Guadagnino; producers (Amazon MGM Studios) Luca Guadagnino, Rachel O’Connor, Amy Pascal, and Zendaya.
A Different Man.
Producers Gabriel Mayers, Vanessa McDonnell, and Christine Vachon (A24); director Aaron Schimberg (WINNER).
The Nickel Boys.
Director RaMell Ross and producers Joslyn Barnes, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, and David Levine (Orion Pictures/Amazon MGM Studios) are involved.
The best feature from abroad.
Light is all we imagine.
Director Payal Kapadia; producers Julien Graff and Thomas Hakim (Janus Films and Sideshow) (WINNER).
The Green Border.
Director: Agnieszka Holland; producers: Marcin Wierzchoslawski, Fred Bernstein, and Agnieszka Holland (Kino Lorber).
Hard realities.
Director Mike Leigh and producer Georgina Lowe (Bleecker Street).
beneath the shell of the yellow cocoon.
Producers Jeremy Chua and Tran Van Thi, along with director Thien An Pham (Kino Lorber).
Vermiglio.
Francesca Andreoli, Maura Delpero, Santiago Fondevila Sance, and Leonardo Guerra Seràgnoli are producers (Sideshow and Janus Films); Maura Delpero is the director.
Top Documentary Aspect.
The Dahomey.
Mati Diop is the director, and Eve Robin, Judith Lou Lévy, and Mati Diop are the producers (MUBI).
intercepted.
Darya Bassel, Olha Beskhmelnytsina, Rocío B., and director Oksana Karpovych. Producing the film Grasshopper are Fuentes, Giacomo Nudi, Lucie Rego, and Pauline Tran Van Lieu.
No Other Land.
Directors Rachel Szor, Hamdan Ballal, Basel Adra, and Yuval Abraham; producers Fabien Greenberg and Bård Kjøge Rønning (Antipode Films) (WINNER).
A coup d’état’s soundtrack.
Director Johan Grimonprez; producers Daan Milius and Rémi Grellety (Kino Lorber).
sugarcane.
Emily Kassie, Kellen Quinn, and Julian Brave NoiseCat are producers and directors of National Geographic documentaries.
joining forces.
Samantha Curley and Mars Verrone are producers (Self-Distributed); Brett Story and Stephen Maing are directors.
Top Director.
Payal Kapadia, Janus Films and Sideshow, All We Imagine as Light.
Anora (NEON), Sean Baker.
Guan Hu, The Forge’s Black Dog.
I Saw the TV Glow, Jane Schoenbrun (A24).
Winner: Nickel Boys, RaMell Ross (Orion Pictures/Amazon MGM Studios).
greatest screenplay.
Nathan Silver, Between the Temples, C. Mason Wells (Classics from Sony Pictures).
Ryûsuke Hamaguchi (Sideshow and Janus Films) argues that evil does not exist.
femme, Sam H. (Utopia) Freeman, Ng Choon Ping.
Netflix winner Azazel Jacobs, who has three daughters.
Annie Baker, Janet Planet (A24).
The breakthrough director.
(Juno Films, Inc.) Girls Will Be Girls, Shuchi Talati.
India Donaldson (Metrograph Pictures), Good One.
Music Box Films, “In the Summers,” by Alessandra Lacorazza.
Winner: Vera Drew, The People’s Joker (Altered Innocence).
To a Land Unknown (Watermelon Pictures), Mahdi Fleifel.
exceptional performance as the lead.
Roadside Attractions: Pamela Anderson, The Last Showgirl.
The Brutalist: Adrien Brody (A24).
Sing Sing, Colman Domingo (A24) (WINNER).
Hard Truths, by Marianne Jean-Baptiste (Bleecker Street).
A24’s Nicole Kidman, Babygirl.
IFC Films’ Ghostlight, directed by Keith Kupferer.
Anora, Mikey Madison (NEON).
Demi Moore, The Substance (MUBI).
Outrun (Sony Pictures Classics), starring Saoirse Ronan.
The TV Glow I Saw (A24) by Justice Smith.
Outstanding Performance in Support.
Anora (NEON), Yura Borisov.
A Real Pain, Kieran Culkin (Searchlight Pictures).
The Piano Lesson by Danielle Deadwyler, available on Netflix.
I Saw the TV Glow, Brigette Lundy-Paine (A24).
Three Daughters of Natasha Lyonne (Netflix).
Sing Sing (A24), Clarence Maclin (WINNER).
Love Lies Bleeding by Katy O’Brian (A24).
The Brutalist, by Guy Pearce (A24).
An Other Man, Adam Pearson (A24).
The Fire Inside by Brian Tyree Henry (Amazon MGM Studios).
performer who breaks through.
Lily Collias, “Good One” (Metrograph Pictures).
The Fire Inside, (Amazon MGM Studios), Ryan Destiny.
Amazon MGM Studios’ Maisy Stella, My Old Ass.
Dìdi Izaac Wang (Focus Features).
Nickel Boys (Orion Pictures/Amazon MGM Studios), Brandon Wilson (WINNER).
On December, this story was first published. 2 at 4:19 p.m. m.
