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And so we return to another year of fun and shenanigans.

GOTHAM NOMINEES

Best feature
Certain Women
Everybody Wants Some!!
Manchester by the Sea
Moonlight
Paterson

Best actor
Casey Affleck, Manchester by the Sea
Jeff Bridges, Hell or High Water
Adam Driver, Paterson
Joel Edgerton, Loving
Craig Robinson, Morris from America

Best actress
Kate Beckinsale, Love & Friendship
Annette Bening, 20th Century Women
Isabelle Huppert, Elle
Ruth Negga, Loving
Natalie Portman, Jackie

Special jury award
Cast of Moonlight

Best documentary
Cameraperson
I Am Not Your Negro
OJ: Made in America
Tower
Weiner

Bingham Ray breakthrough director
Robert Eggers, The Witch
Anna Rose Holmer, The Fits
Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert, Swiss Army Man
Trey Edward Shults, Krisha
Richard Tanne, Southside With You

Breakthrough actor
Lily Gladstone, Certain Women
Lucas Hedges, Manchester by the Sea
Royalty Hightower, The Fits
Sasha Lane, American Honey
Anya Taylor-Joy, The Witch

Best screenplay
Hell or High Water, Taylor Sheridan
Love & Friendship, Whit Stillman
Manchester by the Sea, Kenneth Lonergan
Moonlight, story by Tarell Alvin McCraney; screenplay by Barry Jenkins
Paterson, Jim Jarmusch

Breakthrough series – longform
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
The Girlfriend Experience
Horace and Pete
Marvel’s Jessica Jones
Master of None

Breakthrough series – shortform
The Gay and Wondrous Life of Caleb Gallo
Her Story
The Movement
Sitting in Bathrooms with Trans People
Surviving

Independent Spirit Award Nominees
BEST FEATURE
“American Honey”
“Chronic”
“Jackie”
“Manchester by the Sea”
“Moonlight”

BEST DIRECTOR
Andrea Arnold, “American Honey”
Barry Jenkins, “Moonlight”
Pablo Larraín, “Jackie”
Jeff Nichols, “Loving”
Kelly Reichardt, “Certain Women”

BEST FIRST FEATURE
“The Childhood of a Leader”
“The Fits”
“Other People”
“Swiss Army Man”
“The Witch”

BEST FEMALE LEAD
Annette Bening, “20th Century Women”
Isabelle Huppert, “Elle”
Sasha Lane, “American Honey”
Ruth Negga, “Loving”
Natalie Portman, “Jackie”

BEST MALE LEAD
Casey Affleck, “Manchester by the Sea”
David Harewood, “Free In Deed”
Viggo Mortensen, “Captain Fantastic”
Jesse Plemons, “Other People"
Tim Roth, "Chronic"

BEST SUPPORTING FEMALE
Edwina Findley, “Free In Deed”
Paulina Garcia, “Little Men”
Lily Gladstone, “Certain Women”
Riley Keough, “American Honey”
Molly Shannon, “Other People”

BEST SUPPORTING MALE
Ralph Fiennes, “A Bigger Splash”
Ben Foster, “Hell or High Water”
Lucas Hedges, “Manchester by the Sea”
Shia LaBeouf, “American Honey”
Craig Robinson, “Morris from America”

BEST SCREENPLAY
“Moonlight”
“Manchester by the Sea”
“20th Century Women”
“Little Men”
“Hell or High Water”

BEST FIRST SCREENPLAY
“The Witch”
“Other People”
“Barry”
“Jean of the Joneses”
“Christine”

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
“Free In Deed”
“The Childhood of a Leader”
“The Eyes of My Mother”
“Moonlight”
“American Honey”

BEST EDITING
“Swiss Army Man”
“Manchester by the Sea”
“Moonlight”
“Hell or High Water”
“Jackie”

ROBERT ALTMAN AWARD – (Given to one film’s director, casting director and ensemble cast)

“Moonlight”
Director: Barry Jenkins
Casting Director: Yesi Ramirez
Ensemble Cast: Mahershala Ali, Patrick Decile, Naomie Harris, Alex Hibbert, André Holland, Jharrel Jerome, Janelle Monáe, Jaden Piner, Trevante Rhodes, Ashton Sanders

JOHN CASSAVETES AWARD – Given to the best feature made for under $500,000. Award given to the writer, director and producer.

“Free In Deed”
“Hunter Gatherer”
“Lovesong”
“Nakom”
“Spa Night”

BEST DOCUMENTARY
“13th”
“Cameraperson”
“I Am Not Your Negro”
“O.J.: Made in America”
“Sonita”
“Under the Sun”

BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM
“Aquarius” (Brazil)
“Chevalier” (Greece)
“My Golden Days” (France)
“Toni Erdmann” (Germany and Romania)
“Under the Shadow” (Iran and U.K.)

Moonlight will probably win most of the awards while Documentary will likely go to O.J.: Made in America (unless the seven-and-a-half hour run time got to some people).

I'm surprised Chronic got in.

I even had to look up Chronic...

Meanwhile, im very keen to see Moonlight and also the 7.5 hour O.J doco, has anyone seen it?

I've had a few chances to see O.J.: Made in America (it was playing in New York while I was there and then a month later, the first part showed on ABC while the rest was on ESPN) but haven't seen it yet. It is on Blu-ray as part of the 30 for 30 series so I may consider a blind buy.

The director of the documentary recently replaced Clint Eastwood on the Richard Jewell biopic that's been in the works the past few years (Jonah Hill will play Jewell, Leonardo DiCaprio was briefly attached, possibly to play Jewell's lawyer). The Jewell story was also covered by 30 for 30 in one of their shorter episodes.

GOTHAM WINNERS

Best Feature: Moonlight
Best Documentary: O.J.: Made in America
Breakthrough Series – Long Form: Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
Best Actress: Isabelle Huppert in Elle
Best Actor: Casey Affleck in Manchester by the Sea
Bingham Ray Breakthrough Director Award: Trey Edward Shults for Krisha
Best Screenplay: Moonlight
Breakthrough Series – Short Form: Her Story
Breakthrough Actor: Anya Taylor-Joy in The Witch

National Board of Review winners:

http://deadline.com/2016/11/nationa-boa ... 201861267/

A lot of it's expected but I'm not getting the Jeff Bridges praise. All he played was a ridiculously racist protagonist that we're supposed to sympathize with for some reason. And I don't know how one could call Creative Control one of the year's ten best independent films (did Amazon pay for that acknowledgement?).

Buscemi wrote:I'm not getting the Jeff Bridges praise. All he played was a ridiculously racist protagonist that we're supposed to sympathize with for some reason

Heck, we didn't see the same film/character/performance.

I get that he's supposed to represent a forgotten time of the lawman but there's no reason to care about him. All he seems to do is spout off racist remarks (if I were his partner, I'd have beaten the shit out of him) and talk about getting the robbers (the characters you actually care about) without actually doing much.

And it was really uncomfortable watching it in the theatre, as a couple would laugh after every one of his slurs.

He's supposed to be a character we have ambivalent feelings towards. He is both nasty AND doing the right thing, to a certain extent. The film goes out of its way to shows the different shades in each character, and make them more than two-dimensional.

numbersix wrote:He's supposed to be a character we have ambivalent feelings towards. He is both nasty AND doing the right thing, to a certain extent. The film goes out of its way to shows the different shades in each character, and make them more than two-dimensional.

Bingo. I have no idea Boosh how reached the conclusion that his character was simply a bigot.

because that's what society as a whole is doing, we see one side of someone on the news, facebook, wherever, and then we label them immediately.

AFI MOVIES OF THE YEAR
Arrival
Fences
Hacksaw Ridge
Hell or High Water
La La Land
Manchester by the Sea
Moonlight
Silence
Sully
Zootopia

Hacksaw Ridge....... Here's a film that seems overrated in the year-end recognition...