Your guess is as good as mine, but I did dig Hurt Locker, but these are the 2009 nominees for the 19th annual Gotham Awards–to be awarded on November 30th. From their site, The Gotham awards “honors the filmmaking community, expands the audience for independent films, and supports the work that IFP does behind the scenes throughout the year to bring such films to fruition.”
Best Feature
Amreeka
Big Fan
The Hurt Locker
The Maid
A Serious Man
Best Documentary
Food, Inc.
Good Hair
My Neighbor My Killer
Paradise
Tyson
Best Ensemble Performance
Adventureland
Cold Souls
The Hurt Locker
A Serious Man
Sugar
Breakthrough Director
Cruz Angeles for Don’t Let Me Drown
Frazer Bradshaw for Everything Strange and New
Noah Buschel for The Missing Person
Derick Martini for Lymelife
Robert Siegel for Big Fan
Breakthrough Actor
Ben Foster in The Messenger
Patton Oswalt in Big Fan
Jeremy Renner in The Hurt Locker
Catalina Saavedra in The Maid
Soulémane Sy Savané in Goodbye Solo
Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You
Everything Strange and New
Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench
October Country
You Won’t Miss Me
Zero Bridge
