Gotham Independent Film Awards Nominations 2015

The Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP) announced the nominees for the 25th edition of the Gotham Independent Film Awards this morning, unofficially kicking off the 2015/2016 awards season. This year, Marielle Hellers’ The Diary Of A Teenage Girl gathered the most nominations, including Best Feature. Read through for the full list of nominees.

Best Feature

Carol
94%

The Diary of a Teenage Girl
95%

Heaven Knows What
89%

Spotlight
97%

Tangerine
96%

Best Documentary

Approaching the Elephant
100%

Cartel Land
89%

Heart of a Dog
96%

Listen to Me Marlon
95%

The Look of Silence
96%

Bingham Ray Breakthrough Director Award

Desiree Akhavan

Appropriate Behavior
97%

Jonas Carpigano

Mediterranea
90%

Marielle Heller

The Diary of a Teenage Girl
95%

John Magary

The Mend
78%

Josh Mond

James White
92%

Best Screenplay

Phyllis Nagy

Carol
94%

Marielle Heller

The Diary of a Teenage Girl
95%

Oren Moverman and Michael Alan Lerner

Love & Mercy
89%

Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer

Spotlight
97%

Noah Baumbach

While We're Young
84%

Best Actor

Christopher Abbott

James White

Kevin Corrigan

Results

Paul Dano

Love & Mercy

Peter Sarsgaard

Experimenter

Michael Shannon

99 Homes

Best Actress

Cate Blanchett

Carol

Blythe Danner

I’ll See You in My Dreams

Brie Larson

Room

Bel Powley

The Diary of a Teenage Girl

Lily Tomlin

Grandma

Kristen Wiig

Welcome to Me

Breakthrough Actor

Rory Culkin

Gabriel

Arielle Holmes

Heaven Knows What

Lola Kirke

Mistress America

Kitana Kiki Rodriguez

Tangerine

Mya Taylor

Tangerine