'The Lost Daughter' wins big at 31st Gotham Awards

NEW YORK – Maggie Gyllenhaal's Elena Ferrante adaptation “The Lost Daughter" won 4 Gotham Awards including champion diagnostic movie astatine the 31st Gotham Awards, the yearly New York autarkic movie solemnisation that serves arsenic a boozy kickoff to Oscar season.

Gyllenhaal won breakthrough manager and champion screenplay for her directorial debut, and prima Olivia Colman shared the grant for outstanding pb show with Frankie Faison, “The Killing of Kenneth Chamberlain,” a play based connected the 2011 constabulary shooting successful White Plains, New York. “The Lost Daughter,” a Netflix release, opens successful theaters Dec. 17.

As 1 of the archetypal stops successful the agelong march to the Oscars, Monday evening's Gothams was the archetypal existent effort since the pandemic began to summon each the season's accustomed glitz and pomp. Stars including Kristen Stewart, Tessa Thompson and Dakota Johnson walked the reddish carpet. Inside the crowded banquet hall, attendees were required to supply impervious of vaccination and a antagonistic COVID-19 test. Last year's Gotham Awards (where “Nomadland” won the apical award) was held virtually, with winners accepting awards by Zoom and an online poker level deployed to digitally beryllium guests astatine tables.

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This year, adjacent with the caller find of the omicron variant spooking a movie manufacture inactive trying to rebound from the pandemic, the Gothams got backmost to mean — adjacent portion tweaking traditions.

For the archetypal time, the Gothams were presented without gendered acting categories. While the season's apical grant shows — the Oscars, the Emmys, the Tonys — haven't yet embraced specified a move, the Gothams are portion of a increasing fig of awards bodies, including the Grammys and the MTV Film and TV Awards, to ditch “best actor" and “best actress.”

Several times during Monday night's amusement that was applauded. Ethan Hawke, a co-winner for his show successful the bid “The Good Lord Bird,” said helium ne'er understood the abstracted categories successful the archetypal place.

“True endowment shines done the divisions meant to abstracted us,” said “Billions” histrion Asia Kate Dillon, a presenter, who identifies arsenic nonbinary.

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Other borders seemed to disintegrate astatine the Gothams, erstwhile a much constrictive solemnisation of autarkic film. Among the bid winners was Netflix's “Squid Game,” the pop-culture sensation that has been watched for much than 2 cardinal hours, according to the streaming service. At the Gothams, speeches person often exalted the hard enactment and sometimes lesser-seen rewards of indie film.

“CODA,” the celebrated coming-of-age play astir a proceeding girl successful a deaf family, won respective awards. Troy Kotsur, the seasoned deaf histrion who plays the film's fisherman father, won outstanding supporting performance. Emilia Jones, who stars arsenic the daughter, won breakthrough performer. After an award-winning debut astatine a virtual Sundance Film Festival, the film's awards hopes had seemed to lag somewhat aft a muted streaming debut connected Apple TV+ successful August. But the Gothams gave “CODA” a boost.

"First off, I’m perfectly handless close now,” Kotsur said done motion language, shaking his hands.

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Nominees and winners (except for champion film) are chosen by juries for the Gothams. In a fewer categories, they elected aggregate winners — similar for outstanding pb show wherever Colman and Faison some won from a excavation of 10 nominees.

Other winners included Ryusuke Hamaguchi's intimate epic “Drive My Car” for champion planetary movie and Jonas Poher Rasmussen's “Flee," an animated movie astir an Afghanistan migrant's life, for champion documentary.

But the Gothams besides trot retired a fig of tribute awards, immoderate of them going to a fistful of filmmakers and performers expected to play starring roles passim awards season. Those included honors for Jane Campion, manager of “The Power of the Dog"; Stewart for her show astatine Princess Diana successful “Spencer”; Peter Dinklage for the upcoming “Cyrano”; and the formed of Jeymes Samuel's Black Western “The Harder They Fall.”

Often, the tribute introductions are arsenic melodramatic arsenic the acceptance speeches. “Spencer” manager Pablo Larrain, alongside Julianne Moore, told Stewart that she changed his beingness and called her “a occurrence of cinema.”

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“I consciousness truthful disposable to him,” Stewart said.

Dinklage, introduced with exuberance by Hawke ("If helium was British, he'd beryllium a knight"), stood speech and went “off-podium” for his code because, helium noted, the lectern was excessively precocious for him.

“The podium, not me,” helium said. “Although...”

But Dinklage, who plays Cyrano de Bergerac successful the film, spoke warmly astir his beingness successful movies and his emotion of “you people of weirdos.”

“When it's good, it's not precious,” said Dinklage of acting. “It's work.”

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