‘A Different Man’ Wins Best Feature at Gotham Awards (Complete Winners List)

When the 34th annual Gotham Awards took place in Cipriani Wall Street in New York City on Monday, December 2, the Oscar race officially began. The Gothams traditionally occupy a spot on the awards calendar as the first major film-centric ceremony of the season, giving fans their first opportunity to see the year’s biggest stars on the red carpet. The event also marks awards watchers’ first chance to gauge the state of the race.

The night’s top prize went to “A Different Man,” Aaron Schimberg’s A24 body transformation comedy that premiered at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival. The film, which stars Sebastian Stan as a facially disfigured actor who undergoes an experimental surgery to boost his career, beat out Oscar frontrunners such as Sean Baker’s “Anora” and Luca Guadagnino’s “Challengers.” The win could boost the award chances of both Schimberg and his stars Stan and Adam Pearson.

Other winners included RaMell Ross’ “Nickel Boys,” which won Best Director as well as Breakthrough Performer for Brandon Wilson, and Greg Kwedar’s “Sing Sing,” which saw stars Clarence Maclin and Colman Domingo win Supporting Performer and Lead Performer, respectively. The entire cast of “Sing Sing” was also honored with a Social Justice Tribute from the Gotham Institute of Film and Media.

The evening also featured tributes to Zendaya, Denis Villeneuve, James Mangold, and Timothée Chalamet.

Keep reading for a complete list of winners from the 34th Gotham Awards.

Best Feature 

“Anora”
Sean Baker, director; Sean Baker, Alex Coco, Samantha Quan, producers (NEON)

“Babygirl”
Halina Reijn, director; David Hinojosa, Julia Oh, Halina Reijn, producers (A24)

“Challengers”
Luca Guadagnino, director; Luca Guadagnino, Rachel O’Connor, Amy Pascal, Zendaya, producers (Amazon MGM Studios)

WINNER “A Different Man”
Aaron Schimberg, director; Gabriel Mayers, Vanessa McDonnell, Christine Vachon, producers (A24)

“Nickel Boys”
RaMell Ross, director; Joslyn Barnes, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, David Levine, producers (Orion Pictures/Amazon MGM Studios)

Best International Feature

WINNER “All We Imagine as Light”
Payal Kapadia, director; Julien Graff, Thomas Hakim, producers (Sideshow and Janus Films)

“Green Border”
Agnieszka Holland, director; Fred Bernstein, Agnieszka Holland, Marcin Wierzchoslawski, producers (Kino Lorber) 

“Hard Truths”
Mike Leigh, director; Georgina Lowe, producer (Bleecker Street)

“Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell”
Thien An Pham, director; Jeremy Chua, Tran Van Thi, producers (Kino Lorber)

“Vermiglio”
Maura Delpero, director; Francesca Andreoli, Maura Delpero, Santiago Fondevila Sance, Leonardo Guerra Seràgnoli, producers (Sideshow and Janus Films)

Best Documentary Feature 

“Dahomey”
Mati Diop, director; Mati Diop, Judith Lou Lévy, Eve Robin, producers (MUBI) 

“Intercepted”
Oksana Karpovych, director; Darya Bassel, Olha Beskhmelnytsina, Rocío B. Fuentes, Giacomo Nudi, Lucie Rego Pauline Tran Van Lieu, producers (Grasshopper Film)

WINNER “No Other Land”
Yuval Abraham, Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Rachel Szor, directors; Fabien Greenberg, Bård Kjøge Rønning, producers (Antipode Films)

“Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat”
Johan Grimonprez, director; Rémi Grellety, Daan Milius, producers (Kino Lorber)

“Sugarcane”
Julian Brave NoiseCat, Emily Kassie, directors; Emily Kassie, Kellen Quinn, producers (National Geographic Documentary Films)

“Union”
Stephen Maing, Brett Story, directors; Samantha Curley, Mars Verrone, producers (Self-Distributed)

Best Director

Payal Kapadia, “All We Imagine as Light” (Sideshow and Janus Films)
Sean Baker, “Anora” (NEON)
Guan Hu, “Black Dog” (The Forge)
Jane Schoenbrun, “I Saw the TV Glow” (A24)
WINNER RaMell Ross, “Nickel Boys” (Orion Pictures/Amazon MGM Studios)

Best Screenplay

“Between the Temples,” Nathan Silver, C. Mason Wells (Sony Pictures Classics)
“Evil Does Not Exist,” Ryûsuke Hamaguchi (Sideshow and Janus Films)
“Femme,” Sam H. Freeman, Ng Choon Ping (Utopia)
WINNER “His Three Daughters,” Azazel Jacobs (Netflix)
“Janet Planet,” Annie Baker (A24)

Breakthrough Director

Shuchi Talati, “Girls Will Be Girls” (Juno Films, Inc)
India Donaldson, “Good One” (Metrograph Pictures)
Alessandra Lacorazza, “In the Summers” (Music Box Films)
WINNER Vera Drew, “The People’s Joker” (Altered Innocence)
Mahdi Fleifel, “To a Land Unknown” (Watermelon Pictures)

Outstanding Lead Performance 

Pamela Anderson, “The Last Showgirl” (Roadside Attractions)
Adrien Brody, “The Brutalist” (A24)
WINNER Colman Domingo, “Sing Sing” (A24)
Marianne Jean-Baptiste, “Hard Truths” (Bleecker Street)
Nicole Kidman, “Babygirl” (A24)
Keith Kupferer, “Ghostlight” (IFC Films)
Mikey Madison, “Anora” (NEON)
Demi Moore, “The Substance” (MUBI)
Saoirse Ronan, “The Outrun” (Sony Pictures Classics)
Justice Smith, “I Saw the TV Glow” (A24)

Outstanding Supporting Performance

Yura Borisov, “Anora” (NEON)
Kieran Culkin, “A Real Pain” (Searchlight Pictures)
Danielle Deadwyler, “The Piano Lesson” (Netflix)
Brigette Lundy-Paine, “I Saw the TV Glow” (A24)
Natasha Lyonne, “His Three Daughters” (Netflix)
WINNER Clarence Maclin, “Sing Sing” (A24)
Katy O’Brian, “Love Lies Bleeding” (A24)
Guy Pearce, “The Brutalist” (A24)
Adam Pearson, “A Different Man” (A24)
Brian Tyree Henry, “The Fire Inside” (Amazon MGM Studios)

Breakthrough Performer

Lily Collias, “Good One” (Metrograph Pictures)
Ryan Destiny, “The Fire Inside” (Amazon MGM Studios)
Maisy Stella, “My Old Ass” (Amazon MGM Studios)
Izaac Wang, “Dìdi” (Focus Features) 
WINNER Brandon Wilson, “Nickel Boys” (Orion Pictures/Amazon MGM Studios)