Awards Season 2K23 kicked off tonight with the 33rd Annual GOTHAM AWARDS. Presented by our friends at the film education nonprofit The Gotham Film & Media Institute, the Gotham Awards honored the best films of the year at Cipriani Wall Street in New York (and streamed live on YouTube). We were there — joined at the SAGindie table by actors Morena Baccarin, Grantham Coleman, Boyd Holbrook, Havana Rose Liu, Ben McKenzie, and Marcus Scribner, and filmmaker Emma Seligman. Thanks to our tablemates for joining us and for the Gotham for hosting – be sure to check out the full list of award-winners below!
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2023 Gotham Awards Nominees & Winners:
Best Feature
Best International Feature
Best Documentary
Outstanding Lead Performance
- Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor (Origin)
- Lily Gladstone (The Unknown Country) – WINNER
- Greta Lee (Past Lives)
- Franz Rogowski (Passages)
- Babetida Sadjo (Our Father, the Devil)
- Andrew Scott (All of Us Strangers)
- Cailee Spaeny (Priscilla)
- Teyana Taylor (A Thousand and One)
- Michelle Williams (Showing Up)
- Jeffrey Wright (American Fiction)
Outstanding Supporting Performance
- Juliette Binoche (The Taste of Things)
- Penélope Cruz (Ferrari)
- Jamie Foxx (They Cloned Tyrone)
- Claire Foy (All of Us Strangers)
- Ryan Gosling (Barbie)
- Glenn Howerton (BlackBerry)
- Sandra Hüller (The Zone of Interest)
- Rachel McAdams (Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.)
- Charles Melton (May December) – WINNER
- Da’Vine Joy Randolph (The Holdovers)
Breakthrough Director Award
- Michelle Garza Cervera (Huesera)
- Raven Jackson (All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt)
- Georgia Oakley (Blue Jean)
- A.V. Rockwell (A Thousand and One) – WINNER
- Celine Song (Past Lives)
Best Screenplay
- Samy Burch (May December)
- Jonathan Glazer (The Zone of Interest)
- Andrew Haigh (All of Us Strangers)
- Cristian Mungiu (R.M.N.)
- Justine Triet & Arthur Harari (Anatomy of a Fall) – WINNER
Breakthrough Series – Over 40 Minutes
- Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire
- Dead Ringers
- The English
- The Last of Us
- A Small Light – WINNER
- Telemarketers
Breakthrough Series – Under 40 Minutes
Outstanding Performance in a New Series
- Jacob Anderson (Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire)
- Dominique Fishback (Swarm)
- Jharrel Jerome (I’m a Virgo)
- Natasha Lyonne (Poker Face)
- Bel Powley (A Small Light)
- Bella Ramsey (The Last of Us)
- Chaske Spencer (The English)
- Rachel Weisz (Dead Ringers)
- Ali Wong (Beef) – WINNER
- Steven Yeun (Beef)
Visionary Icon & Creator Tribute
Cultural Icon & Creator Tribute
Global Icon & Creator Tribute
Historical Icon & Creator Tribute
Cultural Icon & Creator Tribute for Social Justice
Cultural Icon & Creator Tribute for Innovation
Focus Features & JetBlue Student Short Film Showcase
- Kevin Haefelin (The Fuse, Columbia University)
- Xinjing Lao (Xiaohui and His Cows, New York University)
- Sisa Quispe (Urpi: Her Last Wish, City College of New York)
- James Ross (Don’t Blink, Florida State University)
- Mel Sangyi Zhao (Return to Youth, California Institute of the Arts)
CONGRATS TO ALL THE 2023 GOTHAM AWARD WINNERS!
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