Releasing weeks before the normal start of Oscar precursor season, the Gotham Awards have announced their nominations this year and there’s a lot of films here that haven’t been getting a lot of chatter, but could get a small boost from this. First Cow was the most nominated with three followed by a sextet of films with two nominations apiece.

Award Tallies

(3) First Cow
(2) The Forty-Year-Old Version, I’m Thinking of Ending Things, Miss Juneteenth, The Nest, Nomadland, The Vast of Night

The Awards

Best Feature

The Assistant
First Cow
Never Rarely Sometimes Always
Nomadland
Relic

Best Actor

Riz Ahmed – Sound of Metal
Chadwick Boseman – Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Jude Law – The Nest
John Magaro – First Cow
Jesse Plemons – I’m Thinking of Ending Things

Best Actress

Nicole Beharie – Miss Juneteenth
Jessie Buckley – I’m Thinking of Ending Things
Yuh-Jung Youn – Minari
Carrie Coon – The Nest
Frances McDormand – Nomandland

Best Screenplay

Bad Education
First Cow
The Forty-Year-Old Version
Fourteen
The Vast of Night

Best Documentary

76 Days
City Hall
Our Time Machine
A Thousand Cuts
Time

Best International Feature

Bacurau
Beanpole
Cuties
Identifying Features
Martin Eden
Wolfwalkers

Breakthrough Director Award

Radha Blank – The Forty-Year-Old Version
Carlo Mirabella-Davis – Swallow
Andrew Patterson – The Vast of Night
Channing Godfrey Peoples – Miss Juneteenth
Alex Thompson – Saint Frances

Breakthrough Actor Award

Sidney Flanigan – Never Rarely Sometimes Always
Jasmine Batchelor – The Surrogate
Kelly O’Sullivan – Saint Frances
Orion Lee – First Cow
Kingsley Ben-Adir – One Night in Miami

Gotham Award Data

Year Founded: 1979
First Awards: 1991 (30)