2011 Gotham Awards Announce Winners

Winners in the film category were announced last night for the 21st Annual Gotham Awards. Surprisingly, the night’s biggest award was a tie with the award for Best Feature going to Beginners and The Tree of Life.

Check out the entire list of nominees and winners below (winners in bold):

Best Feature
Beginners
The Descendants
Meek’s Cutoff
Take Shelter
The Tree of Life

Best Documentary
Better This World
Bill Cunningham New York
Hell and Back Again
The Interrupters
The Woodmans

Best Ensemble Performance
Beginners
The Descendants
Margin Call
Martha Marcy May Marlene
Take Shelter

Breakthrough Director
Mike Cahill, Another Earth
Sean Durkin, Martha Marcy May Marlene
Vera Farmiga, Higher Ground
Evan Glodell, Bellflower
Dee Rees, Pariah

Breakthrough Actor
Felicity Jones, Like Crazy
Elizabeth Olsen, Martha Marcy May Marlene
Harmony Santana, Gun Hill Road
Shailene Woodley, The Descendants
Jacob Wysocki, Terri

Best Film Not Playing At A Theater Near You
Codependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same
Green
The Redemption of General Butt Naked
Scenes of a Crime
Without

Calvin Klein Spotlight on Women Filmmakers ‘Live the Dream’ Grant
($25,000 prize for alumni of IFP’s Independent Filmmaker Labs)
Jenny Deller, Future Weather
Lucy Mulloy, Una Noche
Rola Nashef, Detroit Unleaded

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