The Gothams 34th Film Awards Winners
(L-R) Vanessa McDonnell, Aaron Schimberg, Adam Pearson, Gabriel Mayers, Sebastian Stan and Mike Marino attend the Gothams 34th Annual Film Awards (Photo by Cindy Ord/Getty Images for The Gotham Film & Media Institute )

Aaron Schimberg’s A Different Man was crowned Best Feature at the 34th The Gothams awards held tonight in New York City. Best International Feature went to Payal Kapadia’s All We Imagine as Light and the Palestinian film No Other Land directed by Yuval Abraham, Basel Adra, Rachel Szor, Hamdan Ballal won for Best Documentary Feature.

RaMell Ross won Best Director was for Nickel Boys; and Vera Drew won Breakthrough Director for The People’s Joker.

Sing Sing directed by Greg Kwedar won performance honors, including Outstanding Lead Performance for Colman Domingo and Outstanding Supporting Performance for Clarence Maclin. The winner for Breakthrough Performer was Brandon Wilson in Nickel Boys.

Additionally, Zendaya received the Spotlight Tribute for her performance as Tashi Donaldson in the Luca Guadagnino-directed film Challengers. Timothée Chalamet and James Mangold received the Visionary Tribute for their groundbreaking collaboration on A Complete Unknown, the upcoming Bob Dylan biopic. Angelina Jolie received the Performer Tribute for her rendition of the legendary opera singer Maria Callas in Pablo Larrain’s upcoming film Maria. Franklin Leonard and his company, the Black List, the platform dedicated to nurturing written storytelling and empowering writers to maximize their professional potential, received The Gotham Anniversary Tribute. Denis Villeneuve received The Gotham Director Tribute for his remarkable world-building and storytelling prowess in Dune: Part Two. The cast of The Piano Lesson, which includes Samuel L. Jackson, John David Washington, Ray Fisher, Danielle Deadwyler, Michael Potts, Corey Hawkins, and Erykah Badu, received the Ensemble Tribute for their captivating chemistry and artistry.

The Gotham also announced the winners of its sixth annual Focus Features & JetBlue Student Short Film Showcase Ethan Herisse and KiKi Layne. The five winning filmmakers were Nicole Chi (Los Mosquitos, The University of Texas at Austin), a Costa Rican-Chinese writer, director, and producer; Reem Jubran (Don’t Be Long, Little Bird, University of California, Los Angeles), a Palestinian filmmaker and artist based in California; Sujin Jung (Cocoon, Loyola Marymount University) is an LA-based writer-director originally from Gyeonggi-do province, Korea; Calleen Koh (My Wonderful Life, California Institute of the Arts), a Singaporean BAFTA-nominated animation filmmaker, writer, and artist; and Eva Steinmetz (Marina, Temple University) is a Philadelphia-based theater director, filmmaker, and educator, creating new works that straddle the ordinary and extraordinary.

The winners of the the 34th edition of The Gothams are:

For Best Feature, presented by Jessica Chastain
A Different Man
Directed by Aaron Schimberg
Produced by Gabriel Mayers, Vanessa McDonnell, Christine Vachon
Released by A24

For Best International Feature, presented by Guy Pearce and Saoirse Ronan
All We Imagine as Light
Directed by Payal Kapadia
Produced by Julien Graff, Thomas Hakim
Released by Sideshow and Janus Films

For Best Documentary Feature, presented by Misty Copeland and Ryan Destiny
No Other Land
Directed by Yuval Abraham, Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Rachel Szor
Produced by Fabien Greenberg, Bård Kjøge Rønning
Self Distributed

For Best Director, presented by Chloë Sevigny and Sebastian Stan
RaMell Ross for Nickel Boys
Released by Orion Pictures/Amazon MGM Studios

For Best Screenplay, presented by Aubrey Plaza and Maisy Stella
Azazel Jacobs for His Three Daughters
Released by Netflix

For Breakthrough Director, presented by Adrien Brody and Rachel Brosnahan
Vera Drew for The People’s Joker
Released by Altered Innocence

For Outstanding Lead Performance, presented by Emily Mortimer and Shailene Woodley
Colman Domingo in Sing Sing
Released by A24

For Outstanding Supporting Performance, presented by Zoey Deutch and Bella Ramsey
Clarence Maclin in Sing Sing
Released byA24

For Breakthrough Performer, presented by Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor and Anthony Ramos
Brandon Wilson in Nickel Boys
Orion Pictures/Amazon MGM Studios

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