‘Descendants’ and ‘Martha Marcy’ Help Fox Searchlight Lead the Gotham Independent Film Award Nominations

Best Feature

  • Beginners
  • The Descendants
  • Meek’s Cutoff
  • Take Shelter
  • The Tree of Life

Best Documentary

  • Better This World
  • Bill Cunningham New York
  • Hell and Back Again
  • The Interrupters
  • The Woodmans

Best Ensemble Performance

  • Beginners

    Ewan McGregor, Christopher Plummer, Mélanie Laurent, Goran Visnjic, Kai Lennox, Mary Page Keller, Keegan Boos
  • The Descendants

    George Clooney, Shailene Woodley, Beau Bridges, Robert Forster, Judy Greer, Matthew Lillard, Nick Krause, Amara Miller, Mary Birdsong, Rob Huebel
  • Margin Call

    Kevin Spacey, Paul Bettany, Jeremy Irons, Zachary Quinto, Penn Badgley, Simon Baker, Mary McDonnell, Demi Moore, Stanley Tucci, Aasif Mandvi
  • Martha Marcy May Marlene

    Elizabeth Olsen, Christopher Abbott, Brady Corbet, Hugh Dancy, Maria Dizzia, Julia Garner, John Hawkes, Louisa Krause, Sarah Paulson
  • Take Shelter

    Michael Shannon, Jessica Chastain, Tova Stewart, Shea Whigham, Katy Mixon, Kathy Baker, Ray McKinnon, Lisagay Hamilton, Robert Longstreet

Breakthrough Director

  • Mike Cahill for Another Earth
  • Sean Durkin for Martha Marcy May Marlene
  • Vera Farmiga for Higher Ground
  • Evan Glodell for Bellflower
  • Dee Rees for Pariah

Breakthrough Actor

  • Felicity Jones in Like Crazy
  • Elizabeth Olsen in Martha Marcy May Marlene
  • Harmony Santana in Gun Hill Road
  • Shailene Woodley in The Descendants
  • Jacob Wysocki in Terri

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
  • Without

Nominees for the Calvin Klein Spotlight on Women Filmmakers ‘Live the Dream’ Grant

  • Jenny Deller, director, Future Weather
  • Lucy Mulloy, director, Una Noche
  • Rola Nashef, director, Detroit Unleashed

Thanks to indieWire for help with this report.

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