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2018 Gotham Award Nominations: ‘The Favourite’, ‘First Reformed’ Get Off to Early Start

October 18, 2018 Kevin Jacobsen Oscars 0

The 2018 Gotham Award nominations were announced early Thursday, continuing this week’s big start to award season. The Gotham Awards, handed out by the Independent Filmmaker Project, reward the best in indie films from the past year. They do not share voters with the Academy Awards, but they often help independent films get the kind of traction to contend for the biggest prize in movies, as seen by some of last year’s nominees, Call Me by Your Name, Get Out, Lady Bird, The Florida Project, The Big Sick and Mudbound.

Among this year’s nominees, The Favourite and First Reformed lead with three nominations, followed by Eighth Grade, Hereditary, If Beale Street Could Talk, Madeline’s Madeline, Leave No Trace, Private Life, Sorry to Bother You and Support the Girls at two. The Gotham Awards will take place Monday, Nov. 26 in New York City, and will be streamed live.

Here’s the full list of Gotham Award nominations for 2018:

Best Feature

  • THE FAVOURITE – Yorgos Lanthimos, director; Ceci Dempsey, Ed Guiney, Lee Magiday, Yorgos Lanthimos, producers
  • FIRST REFORMED – Paul Schrader, director; Jack Binder, Greg Clark, Victoria Hill, Gary Hamilton, Deepak Sikka, Christine Vachon, David Hinojosa, Frank Murray, producers
  • IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK – Barry Jenkins, director; Adele Romanski, Sara Murphy, Barry Jenkins, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Megan Ellison, producers
  • MADELINE’S MADELINE – Josephine Decker, director; Krista Parris, Elizabeth Rao, producers
  • THE RIDER – Chloé Zhao, director; Bert Hamelinck, Sacha Ben Harroche, Mollye Asher, Chloé Zhao, producers

Best Actor

  • Adam Driver – BLACKKKLANSMAN
  • Ben Foster – LEAVE NO TRACE
  • Richard E. Grant – CAN YOU EVER FORGIVE ME?
  • Ethan Hawke – FIRST REFORMED
  • LaKeith Stanfield – SORRY TO BOTHER YOU

Best Actress

  • Glenn Close – THE WIFE
  • Toni Collette – HEREDITARY
  • Kathryn Hahn – PRIVATE LIFE
  • Regina Hall – SUPPORT THE GIRLS
  • Michelle Pfeiffer – WHERE IS KYRA?

Breakthrough Actor

  • Yalitza Aparicio – ROMA
  • Elsie Fisher – EIGHTH GRADE
  • Helena Howard – MADELINE’S MADELINE
  • Kiki Layne – IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK
  • Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie – LEAVE NO TRACE

Bingham Ray Breakthrough Director Award

  • Ari Aster for HEREDITARY
  • Bo Burnham for EIGHTH GRADE
  • Jennifer Fox for THE TALE
  • Crystal Moselle for SKATE KITCHEN
  • Boots Riley for SORRY TO BOTHER YOU

Best Screenplay

  • THE FAVOURITE – Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara
  • FIRST REFORMED – Paul Schrader
  • PRIVATE LIFE – Tamara Jenkins
  • SUPPORT THE GIRLS – Andrew Bujalski
  • THOROUGHBREDS – Cory Finley

Best Documentary

  • BISBEE ‘17 – Robert Greene, producer; Douglas Tirola, Susan Bedusa, Bennett Elliott, producers
  • HALE COUNTY THIS MORNING, THIS EVENING – RaMell Ross, director; RaMell Ross, Joslyn Barnes, Su Kim, producers
  • MINDING THE GAP – Bing Liu, director; Diane Quon, Bing Liu, producers
  • SHIRKERS – Sandi Tan, director; Sandi Tan, Jessica Levin, Maya Rudolph, producers
  • WON’T YOU BE MY NEIGHBOR? – Morgan Neville, director; Morgan Neville, Caryn Capotosto, Nicholas Ma, producers

Special Jury Award – Ensemble Performance

  • THE FAVOURITE – Olivia Colman, Emma Stone and Rachel Weisz

Breakthrough Series – Long Form

  • ALIAS GRACE – Sarah Polley, Mary Harron, Noreen Halpern, executive producers
  • BIG MOUTH – Nick Kroll, Andrew Goldberg, Jennifer Flackett, Mark Levin, creators; Nick Kroll, Andrew Goldberg, Mark Levin & Jennifer Flackett, executive producers
  • THE END OF THE F***ING WORLD – Andy Baker, Murray Ferguson, Petra Fried, Ed MacDonald, Dominic Buchanan, Jonathan Entwistle, executive producers
  • KILLING EVE – Sally Woodward Gentle, Lee Morris, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, executive producers
  • POSE – Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk, Steven Canals, creators; Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk, Nina Jacobson, Brad Simpson, Alexis Martin Woodall, Sherry Marsh, executive producers
  • SHARP OBJECTS – Marti Noxon, creator; Marti Noxon, Jason Blum, Gillian Flynn, Amy Adams, Jean-Marc Vallée, Nathan Ross, Gregg Fienberg, Charles Layton, Marci Wiseman, Jessica Rhoades, executive producers

Breakthrough Series – Short Form

  • 195 LEWIS – Chanelle Aponte Pearson and Rae Leone Allen, creators
  • CLEANER DAZE – Tess Sweet and Daniel Gambelin, creators
  • DISTANCE – Alex Dobrenko, creator
  • THE F WORD – Nicole Opper, creator
  • SHE’S THE TICKET – Nadia Hallgren, creator