Gotham Independent Film Award for Breakthrough Series – Long Form

The Gotham Independent Film Award for Breakthrough Series – Long Form is one of the annual Gotham Independent Film Awards and honors series with episodes over 40 minutes.^[1] Until 2019, the award honored a new "continuing or limited series with episodes running 30 minutes or longer".^[2] It was first awarded in 2015.

Gotham Independent Film Award for Breakthrough Series – Long Form
Country	United States
Presented by	The Gotham Film & Media Institute
First award	2015
Currently held by	A Small Light (2023)
Website	awards.thegotham.org

Winners and nominees

2010s

Year	Program	Creator(s)	Network	Ref.
2015	Mr. Robot	Sam Esmail	USA Network	[3][2]
	Jane the Virgin	Jennie Snyder Urman	The CW
	Transparent	Jill Soloway	Amazon
	Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt	Tina Fey and Robert Carlock	Netflix
	Unreal	Marti Noxon and Sarah Gertrude Shapiro	Lifetime
2016	Crazy Ex-Girlfriend	Rachel Bloom and Aline Brosh McKenna	The CW	[4][5]
	The Girlfriend Experience	Lodge Kerrigan and Amy Seimetz	Starz
	Horace and Pete	Louis C.K.	louisck.net
	Marvel's Jessica Jones	Melissa Rosenberg	Netflix
	Master of None	Aziz Ansari and Alan Yang
2017	Atlanta	Donald Glover	FX	[6][7]
	Better Things	Pamela Adlon and Louis C.K.	FX
	Dear White People	Justin Simien	Netflix
	Fleabag	Phoebe Waller-Bridge	Amazon
	Search Party	Sarah-Violet Bliss, Charles Rogers, and Michael Showalter	TBS
2018	Killing Eve	–	BBC America	[8][9]
	Alias Grace	–	Netflix
	Big Mouth	Nick Kroll, Andrew Goldberg, Mark Levin, and Jennifer Flackett
	The End of the F***ing World	–
	Pose	Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk, and Steven Canals	FX
	Sharp Objects	Marti Noxon	HBO
2019	When They See Us	Ava DuVernay	Netflix	[10]
	Chernobyl	Craig Mazin	HBO
	David Makes Man	Tarell Alvin McCraney	OWN
	My Brilliant Friend	Saverio Costanzo	HBO
	Unbelievable	Susannah Grant, Ayelet Waldman, and Michael Chabon	Netflix

2020s

Year	Program	Creator(s)	Network	Ref.
2020	Watchmen	Damon Lindelof	HBO	[11]
	The Great	Tony McNamara	Hulu
	Immigration Nation	–	Netflix
	P-Valley	Katori Hall	Starz
	Unorthodox	Anna Winger and Alexa Karolinski	Netflix
2021	Squid Game	Hwang Dong-hyuk	Netflix	[12][13]
	The Good Lord Bird	Ethan Hawke and Mark Richard	Showtime
	It's a Sin	Russell T Davies	HBO Max
	Small Axe	Steve McQueen	Amazon
	The Underground Railroad	Barry Jenkins and Colson Whitehead
	The White Lotus	Mike White	HBO
2022	Pachinko	Soo Hugh	Apple TV+	[14]
	Severance	Dan Erickson	Apple TV+
	Station Eleven	Patrick Somerville	HBO/HBO Max
	This Is Going to Hurt	Adam Kay	AMC+
	Yellowjackets	Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickerson	Showtime
2023	A Small Light	Tony Phelan and Joan Rater	NatGeo	[15]
	Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire	Rolin Jones	AMC
	Dead Ringers	Alice Birch	Amazon
	The English	Hugo Blick
	The Last of Us	Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann	HBO
	Telemarketers	–