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Sunday, October 30, 2011

2011 Gotham Awards

The nominees for this year's Gotham Awards have been announced. For those who do not know, the Gotham Awards are based in, voted on, and celebrate the independent film hub of New York. The group started giving out their awards in 1991, and in their past, have honored films such as Sideways, Half Nelson, Into the Wild, The Hurt Locker, and Winter's Bone, and bestowed honors upon filmmakers such as Darren Aronofsky, John Cameron Mitchell, and Ryan Fleck, among many others.

Here are this year's nominees...and now updated with winners!

BEST FEATURE
Beginners (tie)
The Descendants
Meek's Cutoff
Take Shelter
The Tree of Life (tie)

BEST DOCUMENTARY
Better This World
Bill Cummingham New York
Hell and Back Again
The Interrupters
The Woodmans

BEST BREAKTHROUGH DIRECTOR
Mike Cahill -- "Another Earth"
Sean Durkin -- "Martha Marcy May Marlene"
Vera Farmiga -- "Higher Ground"
Evan Glodell -- "Bellflower"
Dee Rees -- "Pariah"

BEST BREAKTHROUGH ACTOR
Felicity Jones -- "Like Crazy"
Elizabeth Olsen -- "Martha Marcy May Marlene"
Harmony Santana -- "Gun Hill Road"
Shailene Woodley -- "The Descendents"
Jacob Wysocki -- "Terri"

BEST ENSEMBLE PERFORMANCE
Beginners
The Descendents
Margin Call
Martha Marcy May Marlene
Take Shelter

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
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