Gotham Independent Film Award for Best Feature

The Gotham Independent Film Award for Best Feature is one of the annual Gotham Independent Film Awards and was first awarded in 2004 with Alexander Payne's Sideways being the first recipient of the award.

Gotham Independent Film Award for Best Feature
Country	United States
Presented by	The Gotham Film & Media Institute
First award	2004
Currently held by	A Different Man (2024)
Website	awards.thegotham.org

Winners and nominees

2000s

Year	Film	Distributing company(s)	Director(s)	Ref.
2004	Sideways	Fox Searchlight Pictures	Alexander Payne	[1]
	Before Sunset	Warner Independent Pictures	Richard Linklater
	Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind	Focus Features	Michel Gondry
	I Heart Huckabees	Fox Searchlight Pictures	David O. Russell
	Primer	TH!NKFilm	Shane Carruth
2005	Capote	Sony Pictures Classics	Bennett Miller	[2]
	Brokeback Mountain	Focus Features	Ang Lee
	A History of Violence	New Line Cinema	David Cronenberg
	Keane	Magnolia Pictures	Lodge Kerrigan
	Me and You and Everyone We Know	IFC Films	Miranda July
2006	Half Nelson	TH!NKFilm	Ryan Fleck	[3]
	The Departed	Warner Bros.	Martin Scorsese
	Little Children	New Line Cinema	Todd Field
	Marie Antoinette	Columbia Pictures	Sofia Coppola
	Old Joy	Kino International	Kelly Reichardt
2007	Into the Wild	Paramount Vantage	Sean Penn	[4]
	Great World of Sound	Magnolia Pictures	Craig Zobel
	I'm Not There	The Weinstein Company	Todd Haynes
	Margot at the Wedding	Paramount Vantage	Noah Baumbach
	The Namesake	Fox Searchlight Pictures	Mira Nair
2008	Frozen River	Sony Pictures Classics	Courtney Hunt	[5]
	Ballast	Alluvial Film Company	Lance Hammer
	Synecdoche, New York	Sony Pictures Classics	Charlie Kaufman
	The Visitor	Overture Films	Tom McCarthy
	The Wrestler	Fox Searchlight Pictures	Darren Aronofsky
2009	The Hurt Locker	Summit Entertainment	Kathryn Bigelow	[6]
	Amreeka	Virgil Films & Entertainment	Cherien Dabis
	Big Fan	First Independent Pictures	Robert D. Siegel
	The Maid	Elephant Eye Films	Sebastián Silva
	A Serious Man	Focus Features	Joel Coen and Ethan Coen

2010s

Year	Film	Distributing company(s)	Director(s)	Ref.
2010	Winter's Bone	Roadside Attractions	Debra Granik	[7]
	Black Swan	Fox Searchlight Pictures	Darren Aronofsky
	Blue Valentine	The Weinstein Company	Derek Cianfrance
	The Kids Are All Right	Focus Features	Lisa Cholodenko
	Let Me In	Overture Films	Matt Reeves
2011	Beginners	Focus Features	Mike Mills	[8]
	The Tree of Life	Fox Searchlight Pictures	Terrence Malick
	The Descendants	Fox Searchlight Pictures	Alexander Payne
	Meek's Cutoff	Oscilloscope Laboratories	Kelly Reichardt
	Take Shelter	Sony Pictures Classics	Jeff Nichols
2012	Moonrise Kingdom	Focus Features	Wes Anderson	[9] [10]
	Bernie	Millennium Entertainment	Richard Linklater
	The Loneliest Planet	IFC Films	Julia Loktev
	The Master	The Weinstein Company	Paul Thomas Anderson
	Middle of Nowhere	Participant Media	Ava DuVernay
2013	Inside Llewyn Davis	CBS Films	Joel Coen and Ethan Coen	[11]
	12 Years a Slave	Fox Searchlight Pictures	Steve McQueen
	Ain't Them Bodies Saints	IFC Films	David Lowery
	Before Midnight	Sony Pictures Classics	Richard Linklater
	Upstream Color	VHX	Shane Carruth
2014	Birdman	Fox Searchlight Pictures	Alejandro G. Iñárritu	[12]
	Boyhood	IFC Films	Richard Linklater
	The Grand Budapest Hotel	Fox Searchlight Pictures	Wes Anderson
	Love Is Strange	Sony Pictures Classics	Ira Sachs
	Under the Skin	A24	Jonathan Glazer
2015	Spotlight	Open Road Films	Tom McCarthy	[13]
	Carol	StudioCanal / The Weinstein Company	Todd Haynes
	The Diary of a Teenage Girl	Sony Pictures Classics	Marielle Heller
	Heaven Knows What	RADiUS-TWC	Josh Safdie and Benny Safdie
	Tangerine	Magnolia Pictures	Sean Baker
2016	Moonlight	A24	Barry Jenkins	[14]
	Certain Women	IFC Films	Kelly Reichardt
	Everybody Wants Some!!	Paramount Pictures	Richard Linklater
	Manchester by the Sea	Amazon Studios / Roadside Attractions	Kenneth Lonergan
	Paterson	Amazon Studios / Bleecker Street	Jim Jarmusch
2017	Call Me by Your Name	Sony Pictures Classics	Luca Guadagnino	[15]
	The Florida Project	A24	Sean Baker
	Get Out	Universal Pictures/Blumhouse	Jordan Peele
	Good Time	A24	Josh Safdie and Benny Safdie
	I, Tonya	Neon	Craig Gillespie
2018	The Rider	Sony Pictures Classics	Chloé Zhao	[16]
	The Favourite	Fox Searchlight Pictures	Yorgos Lanthimos
	First Reformed	A24	Paul Schrader
	If Beale Street Could Talk	Annapurna Pictures	Barry Jenkins
	Madeline's Madeline	Oscilloscope Laboratories	Josephine Decker
2019	Marriage Story	Netflix	Noah Baumbach	[17]
	The Farewell	A24	Lulu Wang
	Hustlers	STX Entertainment	Lorene Scafaria
	Uncut Gems	A24	Josh Safdie and Benny Safdie
	Waves		Trey Edward Shults

2020s

Year	Film	Distributing company(s)	Director(s)	Ref.
2020	Nomadland	Searchlight Pictures	Chloé Zhao	[18][19]
	The Assistant	Bleecker Street	Kitty Green
	First Cow	A24	Kelly Reichardt
	Never Rarely Sometimes Always	Focus Features	Eliza Hittman
	Relic	IFC Midnight	Natalie Erika James
2021	The Lost Daughter	Netflix	Maggie Gyllenhaal	[20][21]
	The Green Knight	A24	David Lowery
	Passing	Netflix	Rebecca Hall
	Pig	Neon	Michael Sarnoski
	Test Pattern	Kino Lorber	Shatara Michelle Ford
2022	Everything Everywhere All at Once	A24	Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert	[22]
	Aftersun	A24	Charlotte Wells
	The Cathedral	MUBI	Ricky D'Ambrose
	Dos Estaciones	The Cinema Guild	Juan Pablo González
	Tár	Focus Features	Todd Field
2023	Past Lives	A24	Celine Song	[23]
	Passages	MUBI	Ira Sachs
	Reality	HBO Films	Tina Satter
	Showing Up	A24	Kelly Reichardt
	A Thousand and One	Focus Features	A. V. Rockwell
2024	A Different Man	A24	Aaron Schimberg	[24]
	Anora	Neon	Sean Baker
	Babygirl	A24	Halina Reijn
	Challengers	Amazon MGM Studios	Luca Guadagnino
	Nickel Boys	Amazon MGM Studios / Orion Pictures	RaMell Ross

Studios with most wins and nominations (3 or more)

• Fox Searchlight/Searchlight - 12 nominations; 4 wins
• A24 - 15 nominations; 4 wins
• Focus Features - 9 nominations; 2 wins
• Sony Pictures Classics - 9 nominations, 4 wins
• Paramount Vantage/Paramount - 3 nominations; one win
• IFC Films - 6 nominations, no wins
• Amazon Studios - 4 nominations, no wins
• The Weinstein Company - 4 nominations; no wins
• Magnolia Pictures - 3 nominations; no wins
• NEON - 3 nominations; no wins

See also

• Academy Award for Best Picture
• Independent Spirit Award for Best Film