The 32nd annual Gotham Awards, held in New York City on Monday, honored this year’s independent films and breakthrough TV series with a bit of shine. This early entry in the awards-season calendar specifically honors films with a budget under $35 million. That means the nominees in the Best Feature category includes movies such as Tár, Aftersun, and Everything Everywhere All at Once, which are expected to be major awards contenders, while celebrating films like Dos Estaciones and The Cathedral. The Gotham Awards also differ from many other awards ceremonies in that they have removed gendered performance categories, opting for one list of ten performers of all genders rather than the previous two gendered categories with five nominees each. Ke Huy Quan won Outstanding Supporting Performance for his role in Everything Everywhere All at Once, which won Best Feature. That made the A24 multiverse movie the only double winner of the night. In the noncompetitive section of the evening, both Adam Sandler and Michelle Williams received Performer Tributes during the ceremony, and the cast of Fire Island received the Ensemble Tribute. Below, the winners of the 2022 Gotham Awards.
Best Feature
Aftersun
Charlotte Wells, director; Adele Romanski, Amy Jackson, Barry Jenkins, and Mark Ceryak, producers (A24)
The Cathedral
Ricky D’Ambrose, director; Graham Swon, producer (Mubi)
Dos Estaciones
Juan Pablo González, director; Ilana Coleman, Jamie Gonçalves, Bruna Haddad, and Makena Buchanan, producers (Cinema Guild)
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, directors; Joe Russo, Anthony Russo, Mike Larocca, Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert, and Jonathan Wang, producers (A24)
Tár
Todd Field, director; Alexandra Milchan, Scott Lambert, and Todd Field, producers (Focus Features)
Best Documentary Feature
All That Breathes
Shaunak Sen, director; Aman Mann, Shaunak Sen, Teddy Leifer producers (A Sideshow & Submarine Deluxe Release in Association with HBO Documentary Films)
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
Laura Poitras, director; Howard Gertler, John Lyons, Nan Goldin, Yoni Golijov, and Laura Poitras, producers (Neon)
I Didn’t See You There
Reid Davenport, director; Keith Wilson, producer (RePort Media)
The Territory
Alex Pritz, director; Alex Pritz, Darren Aronofsky, Sigrid Dyekjær, Will N. Miller, Gabriel Uchida, and Lizzie Gillett, producers (National Geographic Documentary Films)
What We Leave Behind
Iliana Sosa, director; Emma D. Miller, Isidore Bethel, and Iliana Sosa, producers (Array)
Best International Feature
Athena
Romain Gavras, director; Romain Gavras, Charles-Marie Anthonioz, Mourad Belkeddar, Jean Duhamel, Nicolas Lhermitte, and Ladj Ly, producers (Netflix)
The Banshees of Inisherin
Martin McDonagh, director; Graham Broadbent, Peter Czernin, and Martin McDonagh, producers (Searchlight Pictures)
Corsage
Marie Kreutzer, director; Alexander Glehr, Johanna Scherz, Bernard Michaux, Jonas Dornbach, Janine Jackowski, Maren Ade, and Jean-Christophe Reymond, producers (IFC Films)
Decision to Leave
Park Chan-wook, director and producer (Mubi)
Happening
Audrey Diwan, director; Edouard Weil, Alice Girard producers (IFC Films)
Saint Omer
Alice Diop, director; Toufik Ayadi and Christophe Barral, producers (Super, Ltd.)
Bingham Ray Breakthrough Director Award
Charlotte Wells for Aftersun (A24)
Owen Kline for Funny Pages (A24)
Elegance Bratton for The Inspection (A24)
Antoneta Alamat Kusijanovic for Murina (Kino Lorber)
Beth de Araújo for Soft & Quiet (Momentum Pictures/eOne)
Jane Schoenbrun for We’re All Going to the World’s Fair (Utopia)
Best Screenplay
After Yang, Kogonada (A24)
Armageddon Time, James Gray (Focus Features)
Catherine Called Birdy, Lena Dunham, based upon the book by Karen Cushman (Amazon Studios)
Tár, Todd Field (Focus Features)
Women Talking, Sarah Polley, based upon the book by Miriam Toews (United Artists Releasing / Orion Pictures)
Outstanding Lead Performance
Cate Blanchett in Tár (Focus Features)
Danielle Deadwyler in Till (United Artists Releasing/Orion Pictures)
Dale Dickey in A Love Song (Bleecker Street)
Colin Farrell in After Yang (A24)
Brendan Fraser in The Whale (A24)
Paul Mescal in Aftersun (A24)
Thandiwe Newton in God’s Country (IFC Films)
Aubrey Plaza in Emily the Criminal (Roadside Attractions and Vertical Entertainment)
Taylor Russell in Bones and All (United Artists Releasing/Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures)
Michelle Yeoh in Everything Everywhere All at Once (A24)
Outstanding Supporting Performance
Jessie Buckley in Women Talking (United Artists Releasing/Orion Pictures)
Raúl Castillo in The Inspection (A24)
Hong Chau in The Whale (A24)
Brian Tyree Henry in Causeway (Apple TV+)
Nina Hoss in Tár (Focus Features)
Noémie Merlant in Tár (Focus Features)
Ke Huy Quan in Everything Everywhere All at Once (A24)
Mark Rylance in Bones and All (United Artists Releasing/Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures)
Gabrielle Union in The Inspection (A24)
Ben Whishaw in Women Talking (United Artists Releasing/Orion Pictures)
Breakthrough Performer
Anna Cobb in We’re All Going to the World’s Fair (Utopia)
Frankie Corio in Aftersun (A24)
Anna Diop in Nanny (Amazon Studios and Blumhouse)
Gracija Filipović in Murina (Kino Lorber)
Kali Reis in Catch the Fair One (IFC Films)
Breakthrough Series — Short Format (under 40 minutes)
Abbott Elementary, Quinta Brunson, creator; Quinta Brunson, Justin Halpern, Patrick Schumacker, and Randall Einhorn, executive producers (ABC)
As We See It, Jason Katims, creator; Jason Katims, Jeni Mulein, Dana Idisis, Yuval Shafferman, Udi Segal, Amit Gitelzon, Shlomit Arvis, and Danna Stern, executive producers (Prime Video)
Mo, Mohammed Amer and Ramy Youssef, creators; Mohammed Amer, Ramy Youssef, Ravi Nandan, Hallie Sekoff, Solvan “Slick†Naim, Harris Danow, and Luvh Rakhe, executive producers (Netflix)
Rap Sh!t, Issa Rae, creator; Issa Rae, Syreeta Singleton, Montrel McKay, Deniese Davis, Dave Becky, and Jonathan Berry, executive producers (HBO Max)
Somebody Somewhere, Hannah Bos and Paul Thureen, creators; Bridget Everett, Carolyn Strauss, Mark Duplass, Jay Duplass, Mel Eslyn, Hannah Bos, Paul Thureen, Patricia Breen, and Tyler Romary, executive producers (HBO Max)
Breakthrough Series — Long Format (over 40 minutes)
Pachinko, Soo Hugh, creator; Soo Hugh, Michael Ellenberg, Lindsey Springer, Theresa Kang-Lowe, Richard Middleton, Kogonada, and Justin Chon, executive producers (Apple TV+)
Severance, Dan Erickson, creator; Ben Stiller, Nicholas Weinstock, Jackie Cohn, Mark Friedman, Dan Erickson, Andrew Colville, Chris Black, and John Cameron, executive producers (Apple TV+)
Station Eleven, Patrick Somerville, creator; Patrick Somerville, Jessica Rhoades, Scott Steindorff, Dylan Russell, Scott Delman, Jeremy Podeswa, Hiro Murai, and Nate Matteson, executive producers (HBO Max)
This Is Going to Hurt, Adam Kay, creator; Naomi De Pear, James Farrell, Jane Featherstone, Adam Kay, and Ben Whishaw, executive producers (AMC+ in association with BBC)
Yellowjackets, Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickerson, creators; Jonathan Lisco, Ashley Lyle, Bart Nickerson, Drew Comins, and Karyn Kusama, executive producers (Showtime)
Outstanding Performance in a New Series
Bilal Baig in Sort Of (HBO Max)
Ayo Edebiri in The Bear (FX)
Janelle James in Abbott Elementary (ABC)
Minha Kim in Pachinko (Apple TV+)
Matilda Lawler in Station Eleven (HBO Max)
Britt Lower in Severance (Apple TV+)
Melanie Lynskey in Yellowjackets (SHOWTIME)
Zahn McClarnon in Dark Winds (AMC & AMC+)
Sue Ann Pien in As We See It (Prime Video)
Ben Whishaw in This Is Going to Hurt (AMC+ in association with BBC)
Breakthrough Nonfiction Series
The Andy Warhol Diaries, Alexis Martin Woodall, Scott Robertson, Andrew Rossi, Stanley Buchthal, Josh Braun, and Ryan Murphy, executive producers; Maya E. Rudolph, producer; Andrew Rossi, director (Netflix)
The Last Movie Stars, Martin Scorsese, Amy Entelis, and Courtney Sexton, executive producers; Adam Gibbs, Ryan Hawke, Emily Wachtel, and Lisa Long Adler, producers; Ethan Hawke, director (HBO Max)
Mind Over Murder, Nanfu Wang, creator and director; Marc Smerling, Nanfu Wang, Max Heckman, Chad Mumm, Mark W. Olsen, Nancy Abraham, Lisa Heller, and Sara Rodriguez, executive producers (HBO Max)
The Rehearsal, Nathan Fielder, creator and director; Nathan Fielder, Dave Paige, Dan McManus, and Christie Smith, executive producers (HBO Max)
We Need to Talk About Cosby, W. Kamau Bell, creator and director; W. Kamau Bell, Andrew Fried, Katie A. King, Vinnie Malhotra, Dane Lillegard, Sarina Roma, Jordan Wynn, executive producers (Showtime)
Performer Tributes
Adam Sandler
Michelle Williams
Ensemble Tribute
Fire Island
Filmmaker Tribute
Gina Prince-Bythewood
Industry Tribute
Peter Kujawski and Jason Cassidy of Focus Features
Icon Tribute
Sidney Poitier
Gotham Impact Salute
Venice Film Festival