Gotham Award Nominations

The Gotham Award Nominations were just released-- they honor the best in independent filmmaking...what does this mean on terms of Academy Awards or anything else, nothing, not one thing, but usually this organization picks some of the most critically acclaimed, if completely ignored films of the year.

BEST FEATURE

Great World of Sound (Craig Zobel)

I'm Not There (Todd Haynes)

Into the Wild (Sean Penn)

Margot at the Wedding (Noah Baumbach)

The Namesake (Mira Nair)

BEST DOCUMENTARY

The Devil Came on Horseback (Andy Sundberg & Ricki Stern)

Jimmy Carter Man From Plains (Jonathon Demme)

My Kid Could Paint That (Amir Bar-Lev)

Sicko (Michael Moore)
Taxi to the Dark Side (Alex Gibney)

BEST ENSEMBLE CAST

Before the Devil Knows Your Dead

The Last Winter

Margot at the Wedding

The Savages

Talk to Me

BREAKTHROUGH DIRECTOR

Lee Issac Chung (Munyurangabo)

Stephane Gauger (Owl & the Sparrow)

Julia Loktev (Day Night Day Night)

David Von Ancken (Seraphim Falls)

Craig Zobel (Great World of Sound)

BREAKTHROUGH ACTOR

Emile Hirsch (Into the Wild)

Kene Holliday (Great World of Sound)

Ellen Page (Juno)

Jesse Weixler (Teeth)

Luisa Williams (Day Night Day Night)

BEST FILM NOT PLAYING AT A THEATER NEAR YOU

August the First (Lanre Olabisi)

Frownland (Robert Bromstein)

Loren Cass (Chris Fuller)

Mississippi Chicken (John Fiege)

Off the Grid: Life on the Mesa (Jeremy Stulberg & Randy Stulberg)