2025 Gotham Awards Winners Record

Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After One other received Greatest Function on the thirty fifth annual Gotham Awards , which have been handed out tonight in Manhattan. Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi and his Palme d’Or winner It Was Simply An Accident have been the massive winners: The movie received Greatest Worldwide Function, and Panahi took Greatest Director and Unique Screenplay.

See the total winners listing under.

It was Anderson’s first Gotham Award on his fourth profession nomination. He additionally was up for Greatest Director for the pic a couple of group of ex-revolutionaries whose archenemy resurfaces after 16 years. The movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn, Benecio Del Toro and others has crossed the $200 million threshold in worldwide field workplace. It got here in with a document six nominations. “I didn’t anticipate this,” Anderson mentioned. “Thanks very a lot for having fun with this movie, for rewarding this movie. I had a good time making it.”

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Panahi’s prizes got here hours after he was convicted in absentia by Iran and sentenced to at least one yr in jail and two years of probation. “This award belongs to all individuals who labored for me on this movie,” he mentioned onstage by means of an interpreter. “I’d prefer to dedicate this award to unbiased filmmakers around the globe. … I hope that this dedication will probably be thought of a small tribute to all filmmakers who’ve been disadvantaged of the fitting to see and to be seen however proceed to create and to exist.”

A bit later, Panahi was again onstage to just accept the Gotham for Greatest Worldwide Function. It Was Simply an Accident is France’s entry for the Worldwide Function Oscar subsequent yr. Learn Deadline’s evaluation from Cannes right here. And shortly after that he was again once more for Greatest Director.

Organized by the Gotham Movie & Media Institute, the Gothams kicked off film awards season, as traditional, calling out the primary set of names and handing out the primary crop of trophies.

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One other Cannes-debuting pic was the one different double winner Monday night time. Sopé Dìrísù received Excellent Lead Efficiency for My Father’s Shadow after the pic’s Akinola Davies Jr received Breakthrough Director. Davies accepted an absentee Dìrísù. The semi-autobiographical movie — which is the UK’s official Oscar submission for Worldwide Function — tells the story of two younger brothers who discover Lagos with their estranged father (Dìrísù) in the course of the 1993 Nigerian election disaster. Learn our evaluation of the primary movie from Nigeria to play on the Croisette right here and our Cannes Ones to Watch function on Davies right here.

The night’s first appearing award went to Wunmi Mosaku, who performed Hoodoo conjurer and religious chief Annie in Warner Bros’ smash horror pic Sinners. She wasn’t on the ceremony to just accept, so filmmaker Ryan Coogler accepted her statuette. He stepped again on stage with the remainder of the forged of to obtain the Gotham’s Ensemble Tribute. In transferring remarkshe mentioned that whereas he didn’t get a passport till he was 22 and in movie faculty, “I felt like I had traveled, by means of films [and] actors of their performances have been the mode of transportation.”

“I used to be lucky sufficient to get into the movie trade and on this movie I explored a number of the most private issues I’ve ever finished. I went to the American South for the primary time in my life… and the entire world got here to satisfy me.”