The nominees for the 20th Annual Gotham Independent Film Awards were announced today and Winter’s Bone leads the list with three nominations including one for Best Feature, Best Ensemble Performance and Breakthrough Actor for Jennifer Lawrence.
This is something that bodes well for Bone‘s chances to score a Best Picture nomination as the field has started to stack up against it. Last year The Hurt Locker won the Gotham Award for Best Feature and we all know how that turned out. This isn’t to say the Gotham Awards have a major Oscar influence, but for some of these smaller films, The Kids are All Right as well, it helps to remain a part of the conversation as the major studios spend big bucks on more traditional Oscar campaigns.
Winter’s Bone also stands a chance for Oscar nominations for Lawrence as Best Actress and I think John Hawkes has a solid shot at Best Supporting Actor as well as Dale Dickey for Supporting Actress.
Joining Winter’s Bone in the Best Feature category are Black Swan, Blue Valentine, The Kids Are All Right and Let Me In.
Additional awards to be handed out on Monday, November 29 include honorary awards for director Darren Aronofsky, actors Hilary Swank and Robert Duvall, and Focus Features CEO James Schamus.
I have included the complete list of nominees below. The nominees were announced by Elvis Mitchell and you can watch the announcement here.
Best Feature
Best Documentary
- 12th & Delaware
- Inside Job
- The Oath
- Public Speaking
- Sweetgrass
Best Ensemble Performance
- The Kids Are All Right
- Life During Wartime
- Please Give
- Tiny Furniture
- Winter’s Bone
Breakthrough Director
- John Wells for The Company Men
- Kevin Asch for Holy Rollers
- Glenn Ficarra and John Requa for I Love You Phillip Morris
- Tanya Hamilton for Night Catches Us
- Lena Dunham for Tiny Furniture
Breakthrough Actor
- Prince Adu in Prince of Broadway
- Ronald Bronstein in Daddy Longlegs
- Greta Gerwig in Greenberg
- Jennifer Lawrence in Winter’s Bone
- John Ortiz in Jack Goes Boating
Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You
- Kati with an i
- Littlerock
- On Coal River
- Summer Pasture
- The Wolf Knife
You can stay up-to-date with everything awards related throughout the year in my “The Contenders” section.
