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PATRICK GOMEZ: The Gotham Awards aren’t always necessarily the biggest litmus test for what’s going to do well at the Academy Awards, but it does give maybe some smaller films. It raises their profile, which which can help them if they were kind of on the bubble in terms of consideration.
KATIE RIFE: Oh, absolutely. I would put the Gotham Awards in the same category as the Independent Spirit Awards, which serves a similar purpose like you were talking about. I’m going to be honest: Some people have some very complicated equations and formulas, like, “Well, if it wins a SAG and then two Writers’ Guilds, then it’s a shoo in.” And I honestly don’t understand how the math of all that works. I was a liberal arts major through and through. But I think that you are correct in that I think it’s a combination of these kind of awards and the Guild Awards because a lot of the people voting in the Guild Awards, end up voting in the Oscars. And so, if you kind of combine those
There were two ties, in the categories of best screenplay and best documentary.
In an unusual time, the 2021 Gotham Awards presented an unconventional live and virtual hybrid event from New York on Monday night.
With Jeffrey Sharp, the executive director of Gotham Awards presenting organization, the Gotham Film and Media Institute, formerly known as IFP, in person along with a handful of presenters at a largely empty Cipriani Wall Street, and winners joining the show via live video, the 30th annual Gotham Awards honored a diverse group of projects and figures in independent film.
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Nomadland won two awards best feature and the audience award. Zhao, in particular, thanked the film festivals from the past year.