Gotham Independent Film Awards 2001

The 11th Annual Gotham Independent Film Awards, presented by the Independent Filmmaker Project, were held on October 1, 2001 and were hosted by Andy Dick.^[1][2] At the ceremony, Robert De Niro was honored with a Career Tribute, Edet Belzberg received the Anthony Radziwell Documentary Achievement Award and Uma Thurman was awarded the Actor Award.^[3][4][5] For the first and only time an Independent Vision Award was given out in memory of William J. Nisselson, longtime manager of the post-production studio Sound One Studios in New York who died in 2001 at the age of 56.^[6]

11th Annual Gotham Independent Film Awards
Date	October 1, 2001 (2001-10-01)
Country	United States
Presented by	Independent Filmmaker Project
Hosted by	Andy Dick
Highlights
Breakthrough Director	Henry Bean – The Believer John Cameron Mitchell – Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Website	https://gotham.ifp.org
← 10th · Gotham Awards · 12th →

Winners and nominees

Breakthrough Actor

• Yolonda Ross – Stranger Inside

Breakthrough Director (Open Palm Award)

• Henry Bean – The Believer (TIE)
• John Cameron Mitchell – Hedwig and the Angry Inch (TIE)
  • Michael Cuesta – L.I.E.
  • Daniel Minahan – Series 7: The Contenders
  • Randy Redroad – The Doe Boy
  • David Wain – Wet Hot American Summer

Anthony Radziwell Documentary Achievement Award

• Edet Belzberg for Children Underground

Actor Award

• Uma Thurman

Independent Vision Award

• In Memory of William J. Nisselson

Career Tribute

• Robert De Niro