'First Reformed' and 'The Favourite' Lead the Gotham Award Nominations

Here we go, people. The first awards body of the season has put out its nominations for the year, and though it’s very early and everyone else will start to announce about a month from now, this kinda sorta kicks things off officially. The Gotham Awards are a New York based group of critics and journalists, and function as the precursor to the Independent Spirit Awards, but there are usually some bigger contenders in here too. Glad to see they liked First Reformed a lot- that movie isn’t expected to land much Oscar attention, so it’s good to keep it alive somehow, remind people about it (Ethan Hawke certainly deserves a nomination, in my opinion).

Best Feature
The Favourite
First Reformed
If Beale Street Could Talk
Madeline's Madeline
The Rider

Best Documentary
Bisbee '17
Hale County This Morning, This Evening
Minding the Gap
Shirkers
Won't You Be My Neighbor?

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?

Best Screenplay
The Favourite
First Reformed
Private Life
Support the Girls
Thoroughbreds

Breakthrough Actor
Yalitza Aparicio, Roma
Elsie Fisher, Eighth Grade
Helena Howard, Madeline's Madeline
KiKi Layne, If Beale Street Could Talk
Thomasin McKenzie, Leave No Trace

Breakthrough Director
Ari Aster, Hereditary
Bo Burnham, Eighth Grade
Jennifer Fox, The Tale
Crystal Moselle, Skate Kitchen
Boots Riley, Sorry to Bother You

Special Jury Award for Ensemble Performance
The Favourite: Olivia Colman, Emma Stone and Rachel Weisz

Gotham Tributes
Willem Dafoe
Paul Greengrass
Jon Kamen
Rachel Weisz

Yorgos Lanthimos’ ‘The Favourite’ is expected to be a big Oscar player too