Gotham Independent Film Awards 2011

The 21st Annual Gotham Independent Film Awards were held on November 28, 2011.^[1]

Winners and nominees

Best Feature

Beginners (TIE)
The Tree of Life (TIE)

• The Descendants
• Meek's Cutoff
• Take Shelter

Best Documentary

Better This World

• Bill Cunningham New York
• Hell and Back Again
• The Interrupters
• The Woodmans

Best Ensemble Performance

Beginners

• The Descendants
• Margin Call
• Martha Marcy May Marlene
• Take Shelter

Best Breakthrough Actor/Actress

Felicity Jones – Like Crazy

• Elizabeth Olsen – Martha Marcy May Marlene
• Harmony Santana – Gun Hill Road
• Shailene Woodley – The Descendants
• Jacob Wysocki – Terri

Best Breakthrough Director

Dee Rees – Pariah

• Mike Cahill – Another Earth
• Sean Durkin – Martha Marcy May Marlene
• Vera Farmiga – Higher Ground
• Evan Glodell – Bellflower

Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You

Scenes of a Crime

• Codependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same
• Green
• The Redemption of General Butt Naked
• Without

Tribute Award

• David Cronenberg
• Gary Oldman
• Tom Rothman
• Charlize Theron

References