2021 Gotham Awards Winners Announced
by Gotham on December 1, 2021 in Uncategorized
The winners of the 2021 Gotham Awards were presented on Monday, November 29 in a live ceremony streamed from Cipriani Wall Street in New York City. Winning Best Feature and three additional awards was The Lost Daughter, director and screenwriter, Maggie Gyllenhaal’s, assured screen adaptation of Elena Ferrante’s novel about a solitary vacationing professor and mother of two grown daughters whose encounters with a different young mother provoke haunting memories of her own past. Gyllenhaal also scored two additional individual awards for Best Screenplay and the Bingham Ray Breakthrough Director award given to a director for their first fiction feature film. For her performance as Leda, the complex central character of The Lost Daughter, Olivia Colman received the Outstanding Lead Performance award.
For his brilliantly varied and devastating performance in The Killing of Kenneth Chamberlain, an Outstanding Lead Performance award was also given to Frankie Faison. The series is based on the true story of the resulting tragedy when police were sent to check on an elderly veteran with physical and mental health issues after his medical alert link was accidentally triggered.
Receiving the Breakthrough Performer award was Emilia Jones for her sensitive–and musical –lead role as a child of Deaf parents torn between her responsibility to her family and the possibility of a future of her own in CODA. Actor Troy Katsur also won the Outstanding Supporting Performance award for playing her funny, opinionated dad who is fearful of losing her but yearning to connect and understand her.
Additional competitive awards presented included Best Documentary Feature to Flee, directed by Jonas Poher Rasmussen; Best International Feature to Drive My Car, directed by Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, and Breakthrough Series awards for new television series to Squid Game, Reservation Dogs, and the inaugural Breakthrough Nonfiction Series award to Philly D.A.
Finally, in the first year for Gotham Awards for acting for television, Outstanding Performance in a New Series awards were given to Thuso Mbedu in The Underground Railroad and Ethan Hawke in The Good Lord Bird.
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