Gotham Independent Film Awards Nominees

Receiving three nominations each were Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker
(Best Feature, Breakthrough Actor and Best Ensemble Performance) and
Robert Siegel’s Big Fan (Best Feature, Breakthrough Actor and Breakthrough Director)

Everything Strange and New, The Maid and A Serious Man each received two nominations

The nominees for the 19th Annual Gotham Independent Film Awards are listed below.

Best Feature

• Amreeka – Cherien Dabis, director (National Geographic Entertainment)
• Big Fan – Robert Siegel, director (First Independent Pictures)
• The Hurt Locker – Kathryn Bigelow, director (Summit Entertainment)
• The Maid – Sebastian Silva, director (Elephant Eye Films)
• A Serious Man – Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, directors (Focus Features)

Best Documentary

• Food, Inc. – Robert Kenner, director (Magnolia Pictures)
• Good Hair – Jeff Stilson, director (Liddell Entertainment and Roadside Attractions in association with HBO Films)
• My Neighbor My Killer – Anne Aghion, director/producer (Gacaca Productions)
• Paradise – Michael Almereyda, director (Post Factory Films)
• Tyson – James Toback, director (Sony Pictures Classics)

Best Ensemble Performance

• Adventureland – Jesse Eisenberg, Kristen Stewart, Martin Starr, Kristen Wiig, Bill Hader, Ryan Reynolds (Miramax Films)
• Cold Souls – Paul Giamatti, Dina Korzun, Emily Watson, Katheryn Winnick, David Strathairn (Samuel Goldwyn Films)
• The Hurt Locker – Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Brian Geraghty, Ralph Fiennes, Guy Pearce, David Morse, Evangeline Lilly (Summit Entertainment)
• A Serious Man – Michael Stuhlbarg, Richard Kind, Fred Melamed (Focus Features)
• Sugar – Algenis Perez Soto, Rayniel Rufino, Michael Gaston, Andre Holland, Ann Whitney, Richard Bull, Ellary Porterfield, Jaime Tirelli (Sony Pictures Classics)

Breakthrough Director

• Cruz Angeles for Don‚Äôt Let Me Drown
• Frazer Bradshaw for Everything Strange and New
• Noah Buschel for The Missing Person (Strand Releasing)
• Derick Martini for Lymelife (Screen Media Films)
• Robert Siegel for Big Fan (First Independent Pictures)

Breakthrough Actor

• Ben Foster in The Messenger (Oscilloscope Laboratories)
• Patton Oswalt in Big Fan (First Independent Pictures)
• Jeremy Renner in The Hurt Locker (Summit Entertainment)
• Catalina Saavedra in The Maid (Elephant Eye Films)
• Soul√©mane Sy Savan√© in Goodbye Solo (Roadside Attractions)

Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You

• Everything Strange and New – Frazer Bradshaw, director; Laura Techera Francia, A.D. Liano, producers
• Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench – Damien Chazelle, director; Jasmine McGlade, producer
• October Country – Michael Palmieri and Donal Mosher, directors/producers
• You Won‚Äôt Miss Me – Ry Russo-Young, director/producer
• Zero Bridge – Tariq Tapa, director; Tariq Tapa, Jos√©e Lajoie, Hilal Ahmed Langoo, producers

The Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP), the nation’s oldest and largest organization of independent filmmakers announced today the nominees for the 19th Annual Gotham Independent Film Awards. A total of 23 films were nominated across six competitive categories for Best Feature, Best Documentary, Breakthrough Director, Breakthrough Actor, Best Ensemble Performance and Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You.

IFP’s 19th Annual Gotham Independent Film Awards ceremony will be held on Monday, November 30 at Cipriani Wall Street. In addition to the competitive awards, director Kathryn Bigelow, actors Natalie Portman and Stanley Tucci, and producers Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner, will each be presented with a career tribute.