The Gotham Awards gave A24’s darkly comedic psychological thriller A Totally different Man its Greatest Characteristic award Monday in New York, with the ceremony as typical kicking off the film awards season.
A Totally different Man, written and directed by Aaron Schimberg, stars Sebastian Stan as Edward, an aspiring actor who undergoes a radical medical process to drastically remodel his look. His new dream face shortly turns right into a nightmare as he loses out on the function he was born to play and turns into obsessive about reclaiming what was misplaced. Renate Reinsve and Adam Pearson additionally star.
The indie hit theaters in September.
A24 had evening tonight, as its Sing Sing gained a pair of actor awards this night on the ceremony at Cipriani Wall Road: Colman Domingo for Excellent Lead Performer, and Clarence Maclin for Supporting Performer. The movie was additionally honored earlier within the ceremony with the Gothams’ Social Justice Tribute.
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One other double winner was Orion Photos/Amazon MGM Studios’ Nickel Boys, whose helmer RaMell Ross gained the inaugural Greatest Director award for his adaptation of the Colson Whitehead novel. Certainly one of his movie’s two younger leads, Brandon Wilson, gained the Breakthrough Efficiency honor.
Organized by the Gotham Movie & Media Institute, this 12 months’s Gothams noticed Sean Baker and Neon’s Cannes Palme d’Or winner Anora are available main the sphere with 4 nominations together with for Greatest Characteristic alongside A24’s Babygirl and A Totally different Man, Nickel Boys and Amazon MGM’s Challengers.
Final 12 months, A24’s Previous Lives gained within the class on its technique to an Oscar Greatest Image nom.
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Additionally tonight, the Greatest Documentary Characteristic went to Antipode Movies’ No Different Land, the vérité-style characteristic made by a Palestinian-Israeli collective of 4 administrators over the course of 5 years. It offers a harrowing account of the destruction skilled by Masafer Yatta, a gaggle of Palestinian villages within the southern West Financial institution, through the Israel-Hamas conflict.
As well as, Sideshow and Janus’ All We Think about as Gentle, the narrative characteristic debut of Payal Kapadia, was named Greatest Worldwide Movie, whereas Azazel Jacobs’ script for Netflix’s His Three Daughters was named Greatest Screenplay. Vera Drew gained Breakthrough Director for the zany superhero parody The Folks’s Joker.
Along with Sing Sing, tribute honors included The Piano Lesson (Ensemble Tribute), Dune: Half Two‘s Denis Villeneuve (Director Tribute), Franklin Leonard and the Black Checklist (Anniversary Tribute), Maria star Angelina Jolie (Performer Tribute), A Full Unknown‘s Timothée Chalamet and James Mangold (Visionary Tribute) and Challengers star Zendaya (Highlight Tribute).
Right here’s the entire winners checklist.
Greatest Image
A Totally different Man (A24)
Aaron Schimberg, director; Gabriel Mayers, Vanessa McDonnell, Christine Vachon, producers
Excellent Lead Efficiency
Colman Domingo
Sing Sing (A24)
Excellent Supporting Efficiency
Clarence Maclin
Sing Sing (A24)
Breakthrough Performer
Brandon Wilson
Nickel Boys (Orion Photos/Amazon MGM Studios)
Greatest Director
RaMell Ross
Nickel Boys (Orion Photos/Amazon MGM Studios)
Breakthrough Director
Vera Drew
The Folks’s Joker (Altered Innocence)
Greatest Documentary Characteristic
No Different Land (Antipode Movies)
Yuval Abraham, Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Rachel Szor, administrators; Fabien Greenberg, Bård Kjøge Rønning, producers
Greatest Worldwide Characteristic
All We Think about as Gentle (Sideshow and Janus Movies)
Payal Kapadia, director; Julien Graff, Thomas Hakim, producers
Greatest Screenplay
Azazel Jacobs
His Three Daughters (Netflix)
