Wes Anderson's
Moonrise Kingdom won Best Feature at the 22nd
Gotham Independent Film Awards held on Monday night, while
Benh Zeitlin's
Beasts of the Southern Wild picked up two awards including the Breakthrough Director prize and the inaugural Bingham Ray award.
Anderson who is prepping his next production did not attend the awards, so Bob Balaban took to the stage with fellow actors saying that if ‘Wes Anderson asks you to be in a movie…just be in it.'
Zeitlin said he hopes more people gets the kind of ‘freedom' he had to make his film which won Sundance earlier this year as well as the Camera d'Or in Cannes.
The film which captures the ACT-UP movement and the push to get antivirals through government roadblocks, How to Survive a Plague, won Best Documentary.
The biggest shock of the night was the fact that The Master lost in the Best Feature category to Moonrise Kingdom and Silver Linings Playbook lost in the Best Ensemble Performance category to Your Sisters Sister.
Besides, career achievement honors were given to actress
Marion Cotillard, actor/writer
Matt Damon, director
David O. Russell and producer Jeff Skoll.
Hit the jump for the full list via
THR.
Best Feature
MOONRISE KINGDOM
• Directed by Wes Anderson
• Produced by Wes Anderson, Scott Rudin, Steven Rales, Jeremy Dawson
• Released by Focus Features
Best Documentary
HOW TO SURVIVE A PLAGUE
• Directed and produced by David France
• Produced by Howard Gertler
• Released by IFC Films
Best Ensemble Performance
Emily Blunt,
Rosemarie DeWitt and
Mark Duplass in YOUR SISTER'S SISTER
• Released by IFC Films
Breakthrough Actor
EMAYATZY CORINEALDI in MIDDLE OF NOWHERE
• Released by AFFRM and Participant Media
Breakthrough Director
BENH ZEITLIN for BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD
• Released by Fox Searchlight Pictures
Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You
AN OVERSIMPLIFICATION OF HER BEAUTY
• Directed and produced by Terence Nance
• Produced by Andrew Corkin and James Bartlett
Audience Award
ARTIFACT
• Directed by Bartholomew Cubbins
• Produced by
Jared Leto and Emma Ludbrook
Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom won Best Feature at the 22nd Gotham Independent Film Awards held on Monday night, while Benh Zeitlin's Beasts of the Southern Wild picked up two awards including the Breakthrough Director prize and the inaugural Bingham Ray award.
Anderson who is prepping his next production did not attend the awards, so Bob Balaban took to the stage with fellow actors saying that if ‘Wes Anderson asks you to be in a movie…just be in it.'
Zeitlin said he hopes more people gets the kind of ‘freedom' he had to make his film which won Sundance earlier this year as well as the Camera d'Or in Cannes.
The film which captures the ACT-UP movement and the push to get antivirals through government roadblocks, How to Survive a Plague, won Best Documentary.
The biggest shock of the night was the fact that The Master lost in the Best Feature category to Moonrise Kingdom and Silver Linings Playbook lost in the Best Ensemble Performance category to Your Sisters Sister.
Besides, career achievement honors were given to actress Marion Cotillard, actor/writer Matt Damon, director David O. Russell and producer Jeff Skoll.
Hit the jump for the full list via THR.
Best Feature
MOONRISE KINGDOM
• Directed by Wes Anderson
• Produced by Wes Anderson, Scott Rudin, Steven Rales, Jeremy Dawson
• Released by Focus Features
Best Documentary
HOW TO SURVIVE A PLAGUE
• Directed and produced by David France
• Produced by Howard Gertler
• Released by IFC Films
Best Ensemble Performance
Emily Blunt, Rosemarie DeWitt and Mark Duplass in YOUR SISTER'S SISTER
• Released by IFC Films
Breakthrough Actor
EMAYATZY CORINEALDI in MIDDLE OF NOWHERE
• Released by AFFRM and Participant Media
Breakthrough Director
BENH ZEITLIN for BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD
• Released by Fox Searchlight Pictures
Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You
AN OVERSIMPLIFICATION OF HER BEAUTY
• Directed and produced by Terence Nance
• Produced by Andrew Corkin and James Bartlett
Audience Award
ARTIFACT
• Directed by Bartholomew Cubbins
• Produced by Jared Leto and Emma Ludbrook
