The strikes are over, the stars are out and about, and we finally have our first major awards event of the season!
I’m Rebecca Ford, and this week the Gotham Awards officially kicked off awards season with a star-studded show on Monday night. Big names like Leonardo DiCaprio, Margot Robbie, Bradley Cooper, and Julianne Moore all attended, but the biggest winners of the night were the rising stars that took home awards. Lily Gladstone won the award for lead performer (the Gotham Awards have genderless categories) for her role in Morrisa Maltz’s indie The Unknown Country, but there’s no denying that it felt like a win for her lead role in Killers of the Flower Moon. Apple didn’t submit the film to the Gothams (while the awards show did away with its budget caps this year, some studios still chose not to submit their bigger-budget fare), but a win for Gladstone is still a win for Killers. In another major boost, Charles Melton, the breakout of May December, won the supporting-performer award, among some very tough competition.
Those wins alone felt very significant for both of them, with their eventual Oscar categories (lead actress for Gladstone and supporting actor for Melton) stacked with stiff competition. But then, just a couple of days later, they both won at the New York Film Critics Circle Awards. Gladstone won for best actress (this time for Killers of the Flower Moon) while Melton won supporting actor. And Martin Scorsese’s epic also took the top prize, best film—just as The Irishman did a few years ago. Now, the NYFCC rarely picks an eventual best-picture winner for best film (their recent picks have included Tár, Drive My Car, and First Cow), but the group is capable of giving on-the-bubble titles or performers some fresh momentum at a very key moment.
There’s no denying that Gladstone and Melton are zooming their way to the front of the leaderboards after these double wins in one week. And both their films also really benefited from a lot of love from the NYFCC (May December also won for screenplay). What other titles got boosts? Oppenheimertook home two awards, for director for Christopher Nolan and cinematography for Hoyte van Hoytema. Plus, Da’Vine Joy Randolph won her first NYFCC award for her incredible supporting work in The Holdovers.
Finally, A24’s Past Lives won best feature at the Gotham Awards Monday, and also picked up the best-first-film award from the NYFCC. Neither of those wins come as a huge surprise, but they do put Celine Song’s film—which debuted way back at Sundance—back on the radar in a key way.
Next week, we’ll find out what the Independent Spirit Awards have to say about all this, with their nominations set to be revealed on December 5. I’d bet that Past Lives and May December will once again have reason to celebrate.
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