‘Boyhood’ Leads Gotham Film Nominations
— October 23, 2014 0 2By CARA BUCKLEY | ArtsBeat/The New York Times
The clock is ticking down to the beginning of the months-long bacchanal of wooing, jockeying and spending known as the Hollywood awards season, and on Thursday one of the kickoff events, the Gotham Independent Film Awards, announced its nominees for best actors, directors and films.
True to the event’s insouciant spirit – the Independent Filmmaker Project is host of the event, with the awards selected by a group of industry insiders, writers and critics – the array of nominations was broad. Best feature contenders included Richard Linklater’s 12-year coming-of-age project, “Boyhood”; Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s tale of celebrity redemption, “Birdman”; Wes Anderson’s candy-coated “Grand Budapest Hotel”; Ira Sachs’s “Love Is Strange,” about an aging gay couple, and Jonathan Glazer’s “Under the Skin,” about a man-hunting alien who looks like Scarlett Johansson but really is (spoiler alert) just a mass of black goo.
Richard Linklater and the cast of Boyhood | Reference:TATM (TONIGHT AT THE MOVIES)
Films up for best documentary Award include Laura Poitras’ “Citizenfour,” about the whistleblower Edward J. Snowden, and “Life Itself,” about the beloved film critic Roger Ebert.
A full list of the nominees are here.
Overall, Mr. Linklater’s “Boyhood” garnered the most nods, picking up three other nominations: best actress, for Patricia Arquette; best actor, for Ethan Hawke and best breakthrough performance, for Ellar Coltrane, who grows up before the audience’s eyes.
Ellar Coltrane, left, and Ethan Hawke in “Boyhood.” Matt Lankes/IFC Films
Other films that drew multiple nominations include “Birdman,” with Michael Keaton up for best actor; “Under the Skin” for Ms. Johansson’s performance; “Dear White People,” which pokes a sharpened stick at political correctness and lousy race relations and earned best director and best breakthrough actor nods; and “Nightcrawler,” which stars Jake Gyllenhaal as a super creepy crime-stalking videographer, and received nominations for best director and best breakthrough actor, for Riz Ahmed.
The awards will be doled on Dec. 1 at Cipriani Wall Street.
Reference: ArtsBeat/The New York Times By CARA BUCKLEY
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