By Matt Neglia
Tonight, the 27th Gotham Independent Film Awards winners were selected. The awards show streamed on the group’s facebook page and we have the winners listed down below.
​Click below to see who won at the first awards show of the season!
BEST FEATURE
Call Me by Your Name
The Florida Project
Get Out
Good Time
I, Tonya
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BEST DOCUMENTARY
Ex Libris – The New York Public Library
Rat Film
Strong Island
Whose Streets?
The Work
BEST ACTOR
Willem Dafoe – The Florida Project
James Franco – The Disaster Artist
Daniel Kaluuya – Get Out
Robert Pattinson – Good Time
Adam Sandler – The Meyerowitz Stories (New & Selected)
Harry Dean Stanton – Lucky
BEST ACTRESS
Melanie Lynskey – I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore
Haley Lu Richardson – Columbus
Margot Robbie – I, Tonya
Saoirse Ronan – Lady Bird
Lois Smith – Marjorie Prime
BREAKTHROUGH SERIES – LONG FORM
Atlanta
Better Things
Dear White People
Fleabag
Search Party
BINGHAM RAY BREAKTHROUGH DIRECTOR AWARD
Maggie Betts – Novitiate
Greta Gerwig – Lady Bird
Kogonada – Columbus
Jordan Peele – Get Out
Joshua Z Weinstein – Menashe
GOTHAM INDEPENDENT FILM AUDIENCE AWARD – Get Out
BREAKTHROUGH ACTOR
Mary J. Blige – Mudbound
Timoth̩e Chalamet РCall Me by Your Name
Harris Dickinson – Beach Rats
Kelvin Harrison, Jr. – It Comes at Night
Brooklynn Prince – The Florida Project
BREAKTHROUGH SERIES – SHORT FORM
555
Inconceivable
Junior
Let Me Die a Nun
The Strange Eyes of Dr. Myes
BEST SCREENPLAY
The Big Sick
Brad’s Status
Call Me by Your Name
Columbus
Get Out
Lady Bird
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So what do you all think? Does any of this mean anything as we head towards the Oscars? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below.
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