The 2021 Gotham Award nominations represented serious success for several breakthrough female directors, but their awards, presented last night, represent yet further success for just one. Maggie Gyllenhaal's directorial debut, The Lost Daughter, takes four of the five awards it was up for, including Best Feature, the Bingham Ray Breakthrough Director Award for Gyllenhaal, and Outstanding Lead Performance for star Olivia Colman, tying with The Killing of Kenneth Chamberlain's Frankie Faison. Despite the relative shut-out of almost all other contenders, this is a strong slate of winners from the Gotham voters, and bodes well for a promising awards season for all those honoured.
Best Feature
THE LOST DAUGHTER (Maggie Gyllenhaal, Osnat Handelsman Keren, Talia Kleinhandler and Charles Dorfman)
Outstanding Lead Performance
Olivia Colman (THE LOST DAUGHTER)
Frankie Faison (THE KILLING OF KENNETH CHAMBERLAIN)
Outstanding Supporting Performance
Troy Kotsur (CODA)
Best Screenplay
Maggie Gyllenhaal (THE LOST DAUGHTER)
Best Documentary Feature
FLEE (Jonas Poher Rasmussen, Monica Hellstrom, Signe Byrge Sorensen and Charlotte de la Gournerie)
Best International Feature
DRIVE MY CAR (Hamaguchi Ryusuke and Yamamoto Teruhisa)
Bingham Ray Breakthrough Director Award
Maggie Gyllenhaal (THE LOST DAUGHTER)
Breakthrough Performer Award
Emilia Jones (CODA)
Director's Tribute
Jane Campion
Ensemble Tribute
THE HARDER THEY FALL
Industry Tribute
Eamonn Bowles
Performer Tribute
Peter Dinklage
Kristen Stewart