It’s no real surprise to see Boyhood topping the this morning’s Gotham Independent Film Awards nominations with four. The film is likely to lead the Spirit Award nominations as well. It will be the year’s most highly touted independent feature, make several top ten lists and probably earn plenty of Oscar nominations if not a few wins. It’s also no surprise to see Birdman get a couple noms. In fact, the only nomination I find particularly interesting here is the nomination for Oscar Isaac for his role in J.C. Chandor‘s A Most Violent Year. Primarily because critics have yet to see it and because the nomination committee clearly enjoyed Nightcrawler, but saw fit to nominate Isaac for A Most Violent Year, but not Jake Gyllenhaal for Nightcrawler.
It’s also a little disappointing to see Tom Hardy might end up being ignored even for independent awards for his performance in Locke, but hey, that’s an error of omission I’ll be taking care of during my own end of year awards.
This year’s Gotham Awards will take place on December 1, check out the list of full nominees below. [Fandor]
BEST FEATURE
- The Grand Budapest Hotel
- Under the Skin
- Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
- Boyhood
- Love Is Strange
BEST DOCUMENTARY
- Point and Shoot
- Actress
- Life Itself
- Citizenfour
- Manakamana
BINGHAM RAY BREAKTHROUGH DIRECTOR AWARD
- Ana Lily Amirpour (A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night)
- James Ward Byrkit (Coherence)
- Dan Gilroy (Nightcrawler)
- Eliza Hittman (It Felt Like Love)
- Justin Simien (Dear White People)
BEST ACTOR
- Bill Hader (The Skeleton Twins)
- Ethan Hawke (Boyhood)
- Oscar Isaac (A Most Violent Year)
- Michael Keaton (Birdman)
- Miles Teller (Whiplash)
The 2014 Best Actor nominating panel has also voted to award a special Gotham Jury Award jointly to Steve Carell, Mark Ruffalo and Channing Tatum for their ensemble performance in Foxcatcher.
BEST ACTRESS
- Patricia Arquette (Boyhood)
- Gugu Mbatha-Raw (Beyond the Lights)
- Julianne Moore (Still Alice)
- Scarlett Johansson (Under the Skin)
- Mia Wasikowska (Tracks)
BREAKTHROUGH ACTOR
- Riz Ahmed (Nightcrawler)
- Macon Blair (Blue Ruin)
- Ellar Coltrane (Boyhood)
- Joey King (Wish I Was Here)
- Jenny Slate (Obvious Child)
- Tessa Thompson (Dear White People)
