Gotham Awards 2021
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The Lost Daughter Scores Four Wins at the 2021 Gotham Awards, Including Best Feature
Maggie Gyllenhaal’s directorial debut, The Lost Daughter, adapted from the Elena Ferrante novel, was the big winner at the 2021 Gotham Awards, presented Monday, November 29 at Cipriani Wall Street. The Netflix production, which stars Olivia Colman, Jessie Buckley, Dakota Johnson, Dagmara Domińczyk and Peter Saarsgard, was awarded Best Feature, and Gyllenhaal won Best Screenplay as well as the Bingham Ray Breakthrough Director award. Colman shared the Outstanding Lead Performance Award with The Killing of Kenneth Chamberlain‘s Frankie Faison. Colman and Faison’s wasn’t the only split decision; the Gotham jury also split the Outstanding Performance in a New Series award, […]
by Scott Macaulay on Nov 29, 2021 -
Kathleen Collins to Receive Posthumous Icon Tribute at the 2021 Gotham Awards
The Gotham Film & Media Institute, Filmmaker’s parent organization, announced today that poet, playwright, writer, filmmaker, director, civil rights activist, and educator Kathleen Collins will receive the inaugural Icon Tribute posthumously during the 2021 Gotham Awards Ceremony. Her daughter, Nina Lorez Collins, will accept the inaugural Gotham Icon Tribute on behalf of her mother. The Gotham Icon Tribute was conceived by the Gotham Awards Advisory Committee this year on its thirty-first anniversary to serve as an elevated moment during the awards ceremony to call attention to the boldness, artistry, and impact of a filmmaker from a marginalized community whose work […]
by Filmmaker Staff on Nov 10, 2021 -
Passing, The Lost Daughter, Test Pattern, El Planeta, and Red Rocket Among 2021 Gotham Award Multiple Nominees
The Gotham Film & Media Institute, Filmmaker‘s publisher, announced today the nominees for its upcoming 2021 Gotham Awards. Selected by committees of film and television critics and programmers, Gotham Award nominees have usually included a mix of higher-profile awards season frontrunners as well as critically acclaimed lower-budgeted films from smaller distributors, and this year that’s even more the case. Amazon’s Passing, directed by Rebecca Hall, and Netflix’s The Lost Daughter, directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal, both received multiple nominees, including Best Picture. But also in the Best Picture category, along with an additional Breakthrough Director nomination, is Shatara Michelle Ford’s Test […]
by Scott Macaulay on Oct 21, 2021 -
Jane Campion to Receive Director’s Tribute at the 2021 Gotham Awards
Jane Campion, whose The Power of the Dog is one of the major fall releases, will receive the Director’s Tribute at the 2021 Gotham Awards, The Gotham Film & Media Institute announced today. The first female director to win a Palme d’Or, for her third feature, The Piano, Campion’s films include Sweetie, An Angel at My Table, The Portrait of a Lady, Holy Smoke, In the Cut and Bright Star. She also co-wrote, co-directed and executive produced the two season television mini-series Top of the Lake. Jeffrey Sharp, Executive Director of The Gotham Film & Media Institute, said in a […]
by Filmmaker Staff on Oct 20, 2021
