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Independent Filmmaker Project - 2011 Gotham Independent Film Awards

Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP)
Gotham Independent Film Awards (21st)
Nominations: October 20, 2011
Awards: November 28, 2011

Below are the nominations & winners for the 21st Annual Gotham Independent Film Awards.

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Best Feature
WINNER "Beginners" (Focus Features) Parts & Labor, Mike Mills, director; Leslie Urdang, Dean Vanech, Miranda de Pencier, Jay Van Hoy, Lars Knudsen, producers
"The Descendants" (Fox Searchlight Pictures) Little Blair, Dune, Ad Hominem Enterprises, Ingenious Film Partners, Alexander Payne, director; Jim Burke, Alexander Payne, Jim Taylor, producers
"Meek's Cutoff" (Oscilloscope Pictures) Kelly Reichardt, director; Neil Kopp, Anish Savjani, Elizabeth Cuthrell, David Urrutia, producers
"Take Shelter" (Sony Pictures Classics) Strange Matter Films, Jeff Nichols, director; Tyler Davidson, Sophia Lin, producers
WINNER "The Tree of Life" (Fox Searchlight Pictures) Cottonwood Pictures, Terrence Malick, director; Sarah Green, Bill Pohlad, Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner, Grant Hill, producers

Best Documentary
WINNER "Better This World" Katie Galloway and Kelly Duane de la Vega, directors; Katie Galloway, Kelly Duane de la Vega, Mike Nicholson, producers
"Bill Cunningham New York" (Zeitgeist Films) Richard Press, director; Philip Gefter, producer
"Hell and Back Again" (Docurama Films) Danfung Dennis, director; Mike Lerner, Martin Herring, producers
"The Interrupters" (Cinema Guild) Steve James, director; Alex Kotlowitz, Steve James, producers
"The Woodmans" C. Scott Willis, director; Neil Barrett, Jeff Werner, C. Scott Willis, producers

Breakthrough Director
"Another Earth" (Fox Searchlight Pictures) Mike Cahill
"Martha Marcy May Marlene" (Fox Searchlight Pictures) Sean Durkin
"Higher Ground" (Sony Pictures Classics) Vera Farmiga
"Bellflower" (Oscilloscope Pictures) Evan Glodell
WINNER "Pariah" (Focus Features) Dee Rees

Breakthrough Actor
WINNER Felicity Jones in "Like Crazy" (Paramount Vantage)
Elizabeth Olsen in "Martha Marcy May Marlene" (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
Harmony Santana in "Gun Hill Road" (Motion Film Group)
Shailene Woodley in "The Descendants" (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
Jacob Wysocki in "Terri" (ATO Pictures)

Best Ensemble
WINNER Ewan McGregor, Christopher Plummer, Mélanie Laurent, Goran Visnjic, Kai Lennox, Mary Page Keller, Keegan Boos in "Beginners" (Focus Features)
George Clooney, Shailene Woodley, Beau Bridges, Robert Forster, Judy Greer, Matthew Lillard, Nick Krause, Amara Miller, Mary Birdsong, Rob Huebel in "The Descendants" (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
Kevin Spacey, Paul Bettany, Jeremy Irons, Zachary Quinto, Penn Badgley, Simon Baker, Mary McDonnell, Demi Moore, Stanley Tucci, Aasif Mandvi in "Margin Call" (Roadside Attractions)
Elizabeth Olsen, Christopher Abbott, Brady Corbet, Hugh Dancy, Maria Dizzia, Julia Garner, John Hawkes, Louisa Krause, Sarah Paulson in "Martha Marcy May Marlene" (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
Michael Shannon, Jessica Chastain, Tova Stewart, Shea Whigham, Katy Mixon, Kathy Baker, Ray McKinnon, Lisagay Hamilton, Robert Longstreet in "Take Shelter" (Sony Pictures Classics)

Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You
"Codependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same" Madeleine Olnek, director; Laura Terruso, Madeleine Olnek, producers
"Green" Sophia Takal, director; Lawrence Michael Levine, producer
"The Redemption of General Butt Naked" Eric Strauss, Daniele Anastasion, directors and producers
WINNER "Scenes of a Crime" Blue Hadaegh & Grover Babcock, directors and producers
"Without" Mark Jackson, director; Mark Jackson, Jessica Dimmock, Michael Requa, Jaime Keeling, producers

Audience Award
"Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey" Constance Marks, director; Constance Marks, James J. Miller, Corinne LaPook, producers
"Buck" (IFC Films) Cindy Meehl, director; Julie Goldman, producer
"The First Grader" (National Geographic) Justin Chadwick, director; Richard Harding, Sam Feuer, David M. Thompson, producers
WINNER "Girlfriend" Justin Lerner, director; Jerad Anderson, Kristina Lauren Anderson, Shaun O’Banion, Justin Lerner, producers
"Wild Horse, Wild Ride" Alex Dawson and Greg Gricus, directors/producers

Live the Dream Grant
Jenny Deller, director for "Future Weather"
WINNER Lucy Mulloy, director for "Una Noche"
Rola Nashef, director for "Detroit Unleaded"

Gotham Tributes
WINNER David Cronenberg
WINNER Gary Oldman
WINNER Tom Rothman
WINNER Charlize Theron

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