Gotham Independent Film Award for Best Feature

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Gotham Independent Film Award for Best Feature
Country United States
Presented by The Gotham Film & Media Institute
First awarded2004
Currently held by A Different Man (2024)
Website awards.thegotham.org

The Gotham Independent Film Award for Best Feature is one of the annual Gotham Independent Film Awards and was first awarded in 2004 with Alexander Payne's Sideways being the first recipient of the award.

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Winners and nominees

2000s

YearFilmDistributing company(s)Director(s)Ref.
2004 Sideways Fox Searchlight Pictures Alexander Payne [1]
Before Sunset Warner Independent Pictures Richard Linklater
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Focus Features Michel Gondry
I Heart Huckabees Fox Searchlight Pictures David O. Russell
Primer TH!NKFilm Shane Carruth
2005 Capote Sony Pictures Classics Bennett Miller [2]
Brokeback Mountain Focus Features Ang Lee
A History of Violence New Line Cinema David Cronenberg
Keane Magnolia Pictures Lodge Kerrigan
Me and You and Everyone We Know IFC Films Miranda July
2006 Half Nelson TH!NKFilm Ryan Fleck [3]
The Departed Warner Bros. Martin Scorsese
Little Children New Line Cinema Todd Field
Marie Antoinette Columbia Pictures Sofia Coppola
Old Joy Kino International Kelly Reichardt
2007 Into the Wild Paramount Vantage Sean Penn [4]
Great World of Sound Magnolia Pictures Craig Zobel
I'm Not There The Weinstein Company Todd Haynes
Margot at the Wedding Paramount Vantage Noah Baumbach
The Namesake Fox Searchlight Pictures Mira Nair
2008 Frozen River Sony Pictures Classics Courtney Hunt [5]
Ballast Alluvial Film Company Lance Hammer
Synecdoche, New York Sony Pictures Classics Charlie Kaufman
The Visitor Overture Films Tom McCarthy
The Wrestler Fox Searchlight Pictures Darren Aronofsky
2009 The Hurt Locker Summit Entertainment Kathryn Bigelow [6]
Amreeka Virgil Films & Entertainment Cherien Dabis
Big Fan First Independent Pictures Robert D. Siegel
The Maid Elephant Eye Films Sebastián Silva
A Serious Man Focus Features Joel Coen and Ethan Coen

2010s

YearFilmDistributing company(s)Director(s)Ref.
2010 Winter's Bone Roadside Attractions Debra Granik [7]
Black Swan Fox Searchlight Pictures Darren Aronofsky
Blue Valentine The Weinstein Company Derek Cianfrance
The Kids Are All Right Focus Features Lisa Cholodenko
Let Me In Overture Films Matt Reeves
2011 Beginners Focus Features Mike Mills [8]
The Tree of Life Fox Searchlight Pictures Terrence Malick
The Descendants Fox Searchlight Pictures Alexander Payne
Meek's Cutoff Oscilloscope Laboratories Kelly Reichardt
Take Shelter Sony Pictures Classics Jeff Nichols
2012 Moonrise Kingdom Focus Features Wes Anderson [9]
[10]
Bernie Millennium Entertainment Richard Linklater
The Loneliest Planet IFC Films Julia Loktev
The Master The Weinstein Company Paul Thomas Anderson
Middle of Nowhere Participant Media Ava DuVernay
2013 Inside Llewyn Davis CBS Films Joel Coen and Ethan Coen [11]
12 Years a Slave Fox Searchlight Pictures Steve McQueen
Ain't Them Bodies Saints IFC Films David Lowery
Before Midnight Sony Pictures Classics Richard Linklater
Upstream Color VHX Shane Carruth
2014 Birdman Fox Searchlight Pictures Alejandro G. Iñárritu [12]
Boyhood IFC Films Richard Linklater
The Grand Budapest Hotel Fox Searchlight Pictures Wes Anderson
Love Is Strange Sony Pictures Classics Ira Sachs
Under the Skin A24 Jonathan Glazer
2015 Spotlight Open Road Films Tom McCarthy [13]
Carol StudioCanal / The Weinstein Company Todd Haynes
The Diary of a Teenage Girl Sony Pictures Classics Marielle Heller
Heaven Knows What RADiUS-TWC Josh Safdie and Benny Safdie
Tangerine Magnolia Pictures Sean Baker
2016 Moonlight A24 Barry Jenkins [14]
Certain Women IFC Films Kelly Reichardt
Everybody Wants Some!! Paramount Pictures Richard Linklater
Manchester by the Sea Amazon Studios / Roadside Attractions Kenneth Lonergan
Paterson Amazon Studios / Bleecker Street Jim Jarmusch
2017 Call Me by Your Name Sony Pictures Classics Luca Guadagnino [15]
The Florida Project A24 Sean Baker
Get Out Universal Pictures Jordan Peele
Good Time A24 Josh Safdie and Benny Safdie
I, Tonya Neon Craig Gillespie
2018 The Rider Sony Pictures Classics Chloé Zhao [16]
The Favourite Fox Searchlight Pictures Yorgos Lanthimos
First Reformed A24 Paul Schrader
If Beale Street Could Talk Annapurna Pictures Barry Jenkins
Madeline's Madeline Oscilloscope Laboratories Josephine Decker
2019 Marriage Story Netflix Noah Baumbach [17]
The Farewell A24 Lulu Wang
Hustlers STX Entertainment Lorene Scafaria
Uncut Gems A24 Josh Safdie and Benny Safdie
Waves Trey Edward Shults

2020s

YearFilmDistributing company(s)Director(s)Ref.
2020 Nomadland Searchlight Pictures Chloé Zhao [18] [19]
The Assistant Bleecker Street Kitty Green
First Cow A24 Kelly Reichardt
Never Rarely Sometimes Always Focus Features Eliza Hittman
Relic IFC Midnight Natalie Erika James
2021 The Lost Daughter Netflix Maggie Gyllenhaal [20] [21]
The Green Knight A24 David Lowery
Passing Netflix Rebecca Hall
Pig Neon Michael Sarnoski
Test Pattern Kino Lorber Shatara Michelle Ford
2022 Everything Everywhere All at Once A24 Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert [22]
Aftersun A24Charlotte Wells
The Cathedral MUBI Ricky D'Ambrose
Dos Estaciones The Cinema Guild Juan Pablo González
Tár Focus Features Todd Field
2023 Past Lives A24 Celine Song [23]
Passages MUBI Ira Sachs
Reality HBO Films Tina Satter
Showing Up A24 Kelly Reichardt
A Thousand and One Focus Features A. V. Rockwell
2024 A Different Man A24 Aaron Schimberg [24]
Anora Neon Sean Baker
Babygirl A24 Halina Reijn
Challengers Amazon MGM Studios Luca Guadagnino
Nickel Boys Amazon MGM Studios / Orion Pictures RaMell Ross

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