‘Call Me By Your Name’ Takes Home Top Prize at the Gotham Awards

The Gotham Independent Films Awards were handed out on Monday Nov 27 at Cipriani Wall Street in New York.

The night’s top honor, Best Feature, went to Luca Guadagnino’s romance Call Me By Your Name, but Jordan Peele’s Get Out nearly won the night, taking home 3 awards, the most of any film.

The night also awarded the year’s two young standouts with CMBYN‘s Timothée Chalamet taking home Breakthrough Actor and Lady Bird‘s Saoirse Ronan leaving with Best Actress.

The Gotham Awards officially marks the kick off of awards season, and as of now in the indie movie realm, it looks to be a race between CMBYN and Get Out, with the likes of Good Time, The Florida Project, and Lady Bird not following far behind.

See the full list of winners below:

Best Feature

Call Me By Your Name – WINNER
The Florida Project
Get Out
Good Time
I, Tonya

Best Documentary

Strong Island – WINNER
Ex Libris
Rat Film
Whose Streets?
The Work

Bingham Ray Breakthrough Director Award

Jordan Peele, Get Out – WINNER
Maggie Betts, Novitiate
Greta Gerwig, Lady Bird
Kogonada, Columbus
Joshua Z Weinstein, Menashe

Best Screenplay

Get Out, Jordan Peele – WINNER
The Big Sick, Emily V. Gordan and Kumail Nanjiani
Brad’s Status, Mike White
Columbus, Kogonada
Lady Bird, Greta Gerwig

Best Actor

James Franco, The Disaster Artist – WINNER
Willem Dafoe, The Florida Project
Daniel Kaluuya, Get Out
Adam Sandler, The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
Harry Dean Stanton, Lucky

Best Actress

Saoirse Ronan, Lady Bird – WINNER
Haley Lu Richardson, Colombus
Margot Robbie, I, Tonya
Lois Smith, Marjorie Prime

** The 2017 best actor/best actress nominating committee also voted to award a special Gotham Jury Award for ensemble performance to Mudbound. The award will go to actors Carey Mulligan, Garrett Hedlund, Jason Clarke, Jason Mitchell, Mary J. Blige, Rob Morgan, and Jonathan Banks.

Breakthrough Actor

Timothée Chalamet, Call Me By Your Name – WINNER
Mary J. Blige, Mudbound
Harris Dickinson, Beach Rats
Kelvin Harrison Jr.,  It Comes at Night
Brooklynn Prince, The Florida Project

Audience Award

Get Out – WINNER
Call Me by Your Name
Columbus
Ex Libris – The New York Public Library
The Florida Project
Good Time
I, Tonya
Lady Bird
Menashe
Novitiate
Rat Film
Strong Island
Whose Streets?
The Work