A24’s Past Lives, the debut film from director Celine Song, won Best Feature tonight at the 33rd Gotham Awards in Manhattan. Check out the full winners list for one the first ceremonies of the movie-kudos season below.
Past Lives follows two deeply connected childhood friends (Greta Lee and Teo Yoo) who are wrested apart after Nora’s family emigrates from South Korea. Twenty years later, they are reunited for one fateful week as they confront notions of love and destiny. Here is Song’s acceptance speech:
Lily Gladstone took home the Outstanding Lead Performance award — not for Killers of the Flower Moon but for Music Box Films’ The Unknown Country (watch her acceptance speech here) — and Charles Melton won the Supporting prize for Netflix’s May December (speech video here). Both are gender-neutral categories.
Neon’s Anatomy of a Fall picked up the first two trophies of the night — for Best International Feature (speech here) and Best Screenplay, which was penned by Justine Triet and Arthur Harari (speech here).
The Breakthrough Director Award — for which Song also was nominated — went to A.V. Rockwell for Focus Features’ A Thousand and One (speech here). Director Kaouther Ben Hania’s Four Daughters from Kino Lorber then took Best Documentary Feature (speech here).
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The October nominations and late-November ceremony are industry bellwethers, coming at the start of awards season following fall festival buzz.
Coincidentally, Netflix’s Beef took the first two small-screen awards. It won for Breakthrough Series –Under 40 Minutes (speech here) and Outstanding Performance in a New Series, which went to Ali Wong (speech here). She beat out her co-star Steven Yuen and eight others for the gender-neutral prize.
National Geographic’s A Small Light picked up the Gotham for Breakthrough Series – Over 40 Minutes (speech video here).
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The 33rd annual event handed out a new set of awards tonight called Icon & Creator Tributes. They went to Greta Gerwig (Barbie), Bradley Cooper (Maestro), George C. Wolfe (Rustin), Michael Mann (Ferrari), Ben Affleck (Air) and Killers of the Flower Moon. Watch the acceptance speeches below the winners list.
It’s the first Gothams ceremony in a decade with no budget caps for eligibility, leading to a more star-studded event than usual that saw Ryan Gosling with a Supporting Performance nomination for Barbie and Penelope Cruz for Ferrari.
The disappearance of the Gothams’ decade-old budget cap, which most recently had been set at $35 million, is the biggest change. Announcing the shift last summer, the Gotham Film & Media Institute said it was meant “to broaden our reach in terms of recognition and accessibility to the wider community.” Many bigger-budget films opted not to submit, including Oppenheimer, Killers of the Flower Moon, Napoleon and The Color Purple.
Here are the winners at the 2023 Gotham Awards:
Best Feature
Past Lives
Celine Song, director; David Hinojosa, Pamela Koffler, Christine Vachon, producers (A24)
Outstanding Lead Performance
Lily Gladstone
The Unknown Country (Music Box Films)
Outstanding Supporting Performance
Charles Melton
May December (Netflix)
Breakthrough Director Award
A.V. Rockwell
A Thousand and One (Focus Features)
Breakthrough Series – Over 40 minutes
A Small Light
Tony Phelan, Joan Rater, creator; Susanna Fogel, William Harper, Avi Nir, Tony Phelan, Joan Rater, Lisa Roos, Alon Shtruzman, Peter Traugott, executive producers (National Geographic)
Breakthrough Series – Under 40 minutes
Beef
Lee Sung Jin, creator; Ravi Nandan, Alli Reich, Jake Schreier, Ali Wong, Steven Yeun, executive producers (Netflix)
Outstanding Performance in a New Series
Ali Wong
Beef (Netflix)
Best Documentary Feature
Four Daughters
Kaouther Ben Hania, director; Nadim Cheikhrouha, producer (Kino Lorber)
Best International Feature
Anatomy of a Fall
Justine Triet, director; Marie-Ange Luciani, David Thion, producers (Neon)
Best Screenplay
Anatomy of a Fall
Justine Triet, Arthur Harari (Neon)
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