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IFP Announces Gotham Award Honorees and Nominations
October 24th, 2006 12:10pm EDT Post a comment Add to My News
Independent Feature Project (IFP) just announced the Tributees and Nominees for the 16th Annual Gotham Awards. The Awards will be presented on Wednesday, November 29, at New York's Pier Sixty, Chelsea Piers. The annual Gotham Awards, presented by IFP, celebrate the authentic voices behind and in front of the camera in films made this year.
By recognizing that the best films come from a place that is more firmly rooted in the grasp of filmmakers - and not made by committee - the Gotham Awards salute the innovative American films and filmmakers whose passion and vision make their way on to the screen year after year.
The 2006 Gotham Award Nominees are:
Best Feature
Best Documentary
Deliver Us from Evil
Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple
Best Ensemble Cast
Breakthrough Director
Rahmin Bahrani for Man Push Cart (Films Philos)
Laurie Collyer for Sherrybaby (IFC Films)
Ryan Fleck for Half Nelson (ThinkFilm)
So Yong Kim for In Between Days
James Marsh for The King (ThinkFilm)
Breakthrough Actor
Abigail Breslin in Little Miss Sunshine (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
Shareeka Epps in Half Nelson (ThinkFilm)
Melinda Page Hamilton in Sleeping Dogs Lie (Roadside Attractions / Samuel Goldwyn Films)
Rinko Kikuchi in Babel ( Paramount Vantage)
Channing Tatum in A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints (First Look Pictures)
Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You
Colma: The Musical
In Between Days
The Great Happiness Space: Tale of an Osaka Love Thief
TO RECEIVE GOTHAM TRIBUTES
Kate Winslet ~ Edward Norton
TO RECEIVE WORLD CINEMA TRIBUTE
Alfonso Cuarón ~ Guillermo Del Toro ~ Alejandro González Iñárritu
Selecting the ultimate winners will be five separate juries of peers involved in making films. The winner of the "Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You," will be selected by the editors of IFP's magazine, Filmmaker. Winners of the 2006 Gotham Awards will be announced live at the awards ceremony on Wednesday, November 29.
