A Different Man gained finest characteristic on the 2024 Gotham Awards, whereas Nickel Boys and Sing Sing every gained two awards on the star-studded ceremony at New York’s Cipriani Wall Street on Monday evening.
A Different Man director Aaron Schimberg, accepting the highest prize, stated he was “completely surprised” by the win and admitted he hadn’t ready a speech.
“I assumed it could be, contemplating the opposite nominees, hubris to even think about making ready a speech. So I’m going to wing this,” Schimberg stated earlier than thanking the Gothams and the staff behind the movie, together with stars Sebastian Stan and Adam Pearson. “I’m sorry I actually didn’t put together a greater speech. I actually didn’t see this as a chance.”
Going into the ceremony, Sean Baker’s Palme d’Or-winning Anora led with 4 nominations, together with for finest characteristic, however the movie went residence empty-handed.
In finest characteristic, Anora and A Different Man confronted off towards Babygirl, Challengers and Nickel Boys. Nickel Boys was up for 3 awards in whole, with the extra nominations coming within the classes of finest director (RaMell Ross) and breakthrough performer (Brandon Wilson).
Ross gained finest director and Wilson gained breakthrough performer, with Nickel Boys co-star and presenter Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor audibly shocked as she introduced that Wilson had gained. Taking the stage, Wilson admitted he didn’t anticipate to be up there however famous he eliminated his sneakers as a result of Ellis-Taylor additionally wasn’t carrying sneakers.
Sing Sing gained in each the lead and supporting efficiency classes, with Colman Domingo profitable the lead award and Clarence Maclin profitable finest supporting efficiency.
Babygirl, which like Different Man, went into the evening up for 2 awards, additionally went residence empty-handed as did three-time nominee I Saw the TV Glow and double nominees Hard Truths and The Fire Inside.
Since 2021, the Gotham Awards has acknowledged performers in gender-neutral classes.
This 12 months, although, marked the primary time in a number of years wherein TV classes weren’t introduced in the course of the fall awards present, as The Gotham lately broke these out right into a separate TV awards ceremony, which takes place in June.
In addition to the aggressive awards, the Gothams additionally honored the next individuals and movies with tributes: The Piano Lesson acquired the Ensemble Tribute; Franklin Leonard and the Black List acquired the Anniversary Tribute; Angelina Jolie acquired the Performer Tribute for Maria; Zendaya acquired the Spotlight Tribute for Challengers; Sing Sing acquired the Social Justice Tribute; Denis Villeneuve acquired he Director Tribute for Dune: Part Two; Timothée Chalamet and James Mangold had been honored with the Visionary Tribute for A Complete Unknown.
Maria director Pablo Larraín was readily available to current Jolie along with her award, and the star famous that the day would have been Maria Callas’ one hundred and first birthday. Jolie additionally paid tribute to her mom for introducing her to the humanities, emphasizing the significance of these early experiences: “Art is a approach we come collectively to know one another, to snigger with one another and to grasp one another,” she stated. “It’s why it’s so necessary that artwork is taught in our faculties and so regarding that lots of these applications are being lowered.”
Domingo introduced Sing Sing with its honor, Radhika Jones introduced to Franklin Leonard, and Josh O’Connor introduced to his Challengers co-star Zendaya. Zendaya later returned to the stage to honor Villeneuve, who was additionally lauded by Jake Gyllenhaal. Zoë Kravitz introduced The Piano Lesson with its honor, and Oscar Isaac introduced Chalamet and Mangold with their honor for A Complete Unknown.
Speaking about Sing Sing, Domingo stated it was “made with the impartial spirit that guided each step within the making of it, from script growth, to prep to manufacturing to submit to this stage. We have collaborated collectively in a approach the place we can’t inform the place one particular person’s work ends and one other particular person’s begins. Our precept all through was to ensure that each single particular person felt seen, revered and their work was honored.”
He then highlighted, to cheers from the viewers, the movie’s strategy to paying everybody who works on the movie, from crew members to the director to the star, the identical wage and ensuring all of them acquired fairness.
Of this tactic, Domingo stated, “we hope [this approach] might be a light-weight within the darkness of our trade and assist discover new paths to assist create impartial movie and make sure that everybody feels seen and equitable for everybody. Everyone on Sing Sing has possession of Sing Sing. When the movie succeeds all of us succeed. We really made it collectively.”
He continued, “I don’t should inform you that the soul of the world is aching. We needed to supply a narrative of human beings discovering gentle within the darkness, males discovering tenderness within the keys to enlivening their humanity as they play theater video games or carry out Shakespeare and located items of their soul trapped below the rubble of their circumstances.”
Accepting the Gotham Awards honor, Sing Sing actor Sean “Dino” Johnson, stated, “We’re dwelling proof that irrespective of the place you begin you need to at all times have the ability to dream of the place you can go and be.”
While O’Connor praised Zendaya’s “shape-shifting versatility and doubtful abilities with a racket,” he admitted he was “unable to supply strategic perception into how Zendaya remodeled into the film star we witness in the present day.”
Still he stated of his co-star, “She’s really alive to whoever she’s taking part in reverse. She listens and responds within the second. She presents the surprising and challenges you to satisfy her depth.”
Taking the stage, Zendaya insisted that O’Connor had given her an excessive amount of reward.
“I’m going to get you again. We hate giving one another compliments,” she stated. She defined that like her Challengers character Tashi, she loves what she does for a dwelling, a ardour that she stated was not doable with out the individuals she will get to work with.
“Without all of them none of that is doable,” she stated earlier than later including, “Thank you to everybody who makes moviemaking doable.”
Zendaya additionally thanked Challengers‘ studio MGM “for ensuring this film was seen in theaters. It’s so necessary we preserve the moviegoing expertise alive.”
Returning to honor Villeneuve, Zendaya quipped “I’m again,” earlier than praising her Dune director as a “beneficiant visionary.”
“A Denis Villeneuve movie is at all times a charming story grounded in very very human tales,” she stated. “Denis makes every certainly one of us really feel like we’re his singular focus.”
After a spotlight reel of Villeneuve’s work, Gyllenhaal took the stage to honor his “good buddy,” with whom he’s been shut since they labored collectively on the 2014 movie Enemy. He praised Villeneuve for bringing the identical strategy to the “greater canvases” of the Dune motion pictures.
And celebrating Villeneuve’s contradictory nature, Gyllenhaal known as him an “artist with a basically optimistic outlook who’s not afraid of the darkish. In brief, he’s a unicorn. A wonderful, gifted, Canadian unicorn.”
Accepting his honor, Villeneuve recalled assembly with Martin Scorsese as he was about to make his first Hollywood movies, explaining that Scorsese’s recommendation was to “keep intact.”
“He meant to guard that flame as I used to be going right into a system that may typically be harsh on artists,” Villeneuve stated. He then thanked particular “guardian angels” who helped preserve the sunshine from going out, citing his agent Maha Dakhil, Legendary’s Mary Parent and his spouse Tanya Lapointe.
Presenting Chalamet and Mangold with their honor, Isaac recalled being on the set of Dune and listening to that Chalamet was embarking on a movie about Dylan and pondering that it “appears like a very unhealthy concept.” But then he, Josh Brolin and Stephen McKinley Henderson heard him play “Girl from the North Country,” saying that the “child who had simply began studying the guitar” approached Dylan’s songs “as if he was remembering one thing he’d at all times identified.”
Chalamet later revealed that Isaac’s reward prompted him to get emotional, as he defined that he had “tried to form [himself] after” Isaac.
The Gotham Awards nominees had been chosen by committees of critics, journalists, competition programmers and movie curators.
Separate juries of writers, administrators, actors, producers, editors and others straight concerned in making movies decided the ultimate award recipients.
Recent Gotham Awards winners have included Oscar winners Everything Everywhere All at Once, CODA, Nomadland, Marriage Story, American Factory, Moonlight, Spotlight and Birdman.
An entire checklist of this 12 months’s Gotham Awards winners follows.
Best Feature
Anora
Sean Baker, director; Sean Baker, Alex Coco, Samantha Quan, producers (NEON)
Babygirl
Halina Reijn, director; David Hinojosa, Julia Oh, Halina Reijn, producers (A24)
Challengers
Luca Guadagnino, director; Luca Guadagnino, Rachel O’Connor, Amy Pascal, Zendaya, producers (Amazon MGM Studios)
A Different Man
Aaron Schimberg, director; Gabriel Mayers, Vanessa McDonnell, Christine Vachon, producers (A24) (WINNER)
Nickel Boys
RaMell Ross, director; Joslyn Barnes, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, David Levine, producers (Orion Pictures/Amazon MGM Studios)
Best International Feature
All We Imagine as Light
Payal Kapadia, director; Julien Graff, Thomas Hakim, producers (Sideshow and Janus Films) (WINNER)
Green Border
Agnieszka Holland, director; Fred Bernstein, Agnieszka Holland, Marcin Wierzchoslawski, producers (Kino Lorber)
Hard Truths
Mike Leigh, director; Georgina Lowe, producer (Bleecker Street)
Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell
Thien An Pham, director; Jeremy Chua, Tran Van Thi, producers (Kino Lorber)
Vermiglio
Maura Delpero, director; Francesca Andreoli, Maura Delpero, Santiago Fondevila Sance, Leonardo Guerra Seràgnoli, producers (Sideshow and Janus Films)
Best Documentary Feature
Dahomey
Mati Diop, director; Mati Diop, Judith Lou Lévy, Eve Robin, producers (MUBI)
Intercepted
Oksana Karpovych, director; Darya Bassel, Olha Beskhmelnytsina, Rocío B. Fuentes, Giacomo Nudi, Lucie Rego Pauline Tran Van Lieu, producers (Grasshopper Film)
No Other Land
Yuval Abraham, Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Rachel Szor, administrators; Fabien Greenberg, Bård Kjøge Rønning, producers (Antipode Films) (WINNER)
Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat
Johan Grimonprez, director; Rémi Grellety, Daan Milius, producers (Kino Lorber)
Sugarcane
Julian Brave NoiseCat, Emily Kassie, administrators; Emily Kassie, Kellen Quinn, producers (National Geographic Documentary Films)
Union
Stephen Maing, Brett Story, administrators; Samantha Curley, Mars Verrone, producers (Self-Distributed)
Best Director
Payal Kapadia, All We Imagine as Light (Sideshow and Janus Films)
Sean Baker, Anora (NEON)
Guan Hu, Black Dog (The Forge)
Jane Schoenbrun, I Saw the TV Glow (A24)
RaMell Ross, Nickel Boys (Orion Pictures/Amazon MGM Studios) (WINNER)
Best Screenplay
Between the Temples, Nathan Silver, C. Mason Wells (Sony Pictures Classics)
Evil Does Not Exist, Ryûsuke Hamaguchi (Sideshow and Janus Films)
Femme, Sam H. Freeman, Ng Choon Ping (Utopia)
His Three Daughters, Azazel Jacobs (Netflix) (WINNER)
Janet Planet, Annie Baker (A24)
Breakthrough Director
Shuchi Talati, Girls Will Be Girls (Juno Films, Inc)
India Donaldson, Good One (Metrograph Pictures)
Alessandra Lacorazza, In the Summers (Music Box Films)
Vera Drew, The People’s Joker (Altered Innocence) (WINNER)
Mahdi Fleifel, To a Land Unknown (Watermelon Pictures)
Outstanding Lead Performance
Pamela Anderson, The Last Showgirl (Roadside Attractions)
Adrien Brody, The Brutalist (A24)
Colman Domingo, Sing Sing (A24) (WINNER)
Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Hard Truths (Bleecker Street)
Nicole Kidman, Babygirl (A24)
Keith Kupferer, Ghostlight (IFC Films)
Mikey Madison, Anora (NEON)
Demi Moore, The Substance (MUBI)
Saoirse Ronan, Outrun (Sony Pictures Classics)
Justice Smith, I Saw the TV Glow (A24)
Outstanding Supporting Performance
Yura Borisov, Anora (NEON)
Kieran Culkin, A Real Pain (Searchlight Pictures)
Danielle Deadwyler, The Piano Lesson (Netflix)
Brigette Lundy-Paine, I Saw the TV Glow (A24)
Natasha Lyonne, His Three Daughters (Netflix)
Clarence Maclin, Sing Sing (A24) (WINNER)
Katy O’Brian, Love Lies Bleeding (A24)
Guy Pearce, The Brutalist (A24)
Adam Pearson, A Different Man (A24)
Brian Tyree Henry, The Fire Inside (Amazon MGM Studios)
Breakthrough Performer
Lily Collias, Good One (Metrograph Pictures)
Ryan Destiny, The Fire Inside (Amazon MGM Studios)
Maisy Stella, My Old Ass (Amazon MGM Studios)
Izaac Wang, Dìdi (Focus Features)
Brandon Wilson, Nickel Boys (Orion Pictures/Amazon MGM Studios) (WINNER)
This story was first revealed on Dec. 2 at 4:19 p.m.
