Gotham Award Winners

Beginners and The Tree of Life win big at the Gotham Awards.

Best Feature

• Beginners-WINNER
• The Descendants
• Meek's Cutoff
• Take Shelter
• The Tree of Life-WINNER

Best Documentary

• Better This World-WINNER
• Bill Cunningham New York
• Hell and Back Again
• The Interrupters
• The Woodmans

Best Ensemble Performance

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

Breakthrough Director

• Mike Cahill for Another Earth
• Sean Durkin for Martha Marcy May Marlene
• Vera Farmiga for Higher Ground
• Evan Glodell for Bellflower
• Dee Rees for Pariah-WINNER

Breakthrough Actor

• Felicity Jones in Like Crazy-WINNER
• Elizabeth Olsen in Martha Marcy May Marlene
• Harmony Santana in Gun Hill Road
• Shailene Woodley in The Descendants
• Jacob Wysocki in Terri

Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You

• Codependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same
• Green
• The Redemption of General Butt Naked
• Scenes of a Crime-WINNER
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