The nominees for the 2024 Gotham Awards have been unveiled by the Gotham Film & Media Institute, and it fills us with pride to see so many titles have ties to the Sundance Institute.
From dynamic features to gripping documentaries, projects with connections to the Institute pepper eight categories at the Gotham Awards. We are elated to see these storytellers and artists earn the spotlight from The Gotham Film & Media Institute, an organization that values the same things we do; it “celebrates and nurtures independent film” and strives “to elevate original voices and untold stories that propel cultural impact and influence the industry to be more expansive and inclusive.”
See the list of all the Sundance-supported projects nominated for the 34th annual Gotham Awards below, click on our coverage links to learn more, and cheer for them on December 2, as the winners are announced in person at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City at 7 p.m. ET.
Best Feature
A Different Man — 2024 Sundance Film Festival
Best Documentary Feature
No Other Land — Supported by Sundance Institute’s 2021 Documentary Fund and the 2023 Documentary Edit and Story Lab.
Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat — Premiered at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Cinematic Innovation.
Sugarcane — Supported by the 2022 Sundance Documentary Film Grant and 2022 Catalyst Forum and premiered at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Directing Award: U.S. Documentary.
Union — Supported by Sundance Institute’s 2022 Documentary Film Grant and premiered at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for the Art of Change.
Best Director
Jane Schoenbrun, I Saw the TV Glow — 2024 Sundance Film Festival
Best Screenplay
Between the Temples, Nathan Silver, C. Mason Wells — 2024 Sundance Film Festival
Breakthrough Director
Shuchi Talati, Girls Will Be Girls — Premiered at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival, where Preeti Panigrahi won the World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Acting.
India Donaldson, Good One — 2024 Sundance Film Festival
Alessandra Lacorazza, In the Summers — Premiered at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Directing Award: U.S. Dramatic and U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic.
Outstanding Lead Performance
Keith Kupferer in Ghostlight — 2024 Sundance Film Festival
Saoirse Ronan in The Outrun — 2024 Sundance Film Festival
Justice Smith in I Saw the TV Glow — 2024 Sundance Film Festival
Outstanding Supporting Performance
Kieran Culkin in A Real Pain — Premiered at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival, where director Jesse Eisenberg won the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award: U.S. Dramatic.
Brigette Lundy-Paine in I Saw the TV Glow — 2024 Sundance Film Festival
Katy O’Brian in Love Lies Bleeding — 2024 Sundance Film Festival
Adam Pearson in A Different Man — 2024 Sundance Film Festival
Breakthrough Performer
Lily Collias in Good One — 2024 Sundance Film Festival
Maisy Stella in My Old Ass — 2024 Sundance Film Festival
Izaac Wang in Dìdi (弟弟) — Supported by the Sundance Ignite x Adobe Fellowship, Sundance Institute | The Asian American Foundation Fellowship, and the Institute’s Directors and Screenwriters Labs and premiered at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Audience Award: U.S. Dramatic and the U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award: Ensemble.
