The Gotham Independent Film Award for Best Feature is one of the annual Gotham Independent Film Awards and was first awarded in 2004 with Alexander Payne's Sideways being the first recipient of the award.
Winners and nominees
2000s YearFilmDistributing company(s)Director(s) 2004 Sideways Fox Searchlight Pictures Alexander Payne Before Sunset Warner Independent Pictures Richard Linklater Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Focus Features Michel Gondry I Heart Huckabees Fox Searchlight Pictures David O. Russell Primer TH!NKFilm Shane Carruth 2005 Capote Sony Pictures Classics Bennett Miller Brokeback Mountain Focus Features Ang Lee A History of Violence New Line Cinema David Cronenberg Keane Magnolia Pictures Lodge Kerrigan Me and You and Everyone We Know IFC Films Miranda July 2006 Half Nelson TH!NKFilm Ryan Fleck The Departed Warner Bros. Martin Scorsese Little Children New Line Cinema Todd Field Marie Antoinette Columbia Pictures Sofia Coppola Old Joy Kino International Kelly Reichardt 2007 Into the Wild Paramount Vantage Sean Penn Great World of Sound Magnolia Pictures Craig Zobel I'm Not There The Weinstein Company Todd Haynes Margot at the Wedding Paramount Vantage Noah Baumbach The Namesake Fox Searchlight Pictures Mira Nair 2008 Frozen River Sony Pictures Classics Courtney Hunt Ballast Alluvial Film Company Lance Hammer Synecdoche, New York Sony Pictures Classics Charlie Kaufman The Visitor Overture Films Tom McCarthy The Wrestler Fox Searchlight Pictures Darren Aronofsky 2009 The Hurt Locker Summit Entertainment Kathryn Bigelow Amreeka Virgil Films & Entertainment Cherien Dabis Big Fan First Independent Pictures Robert D. Siegel The Maid Elephant Eye Films Sebastián Silva A Serious Man Focus Features Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
2010s YearFilmDistributing company(s)Director(s) 2010 Winter's Bone | style="background:#B0C4DE" | Roadside Attractions| style="background:#B0C4DE" | Debra Granik| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"| |- | Black Swan || Fox Searchlight Pictures || Darren Aronofsky |- | Blue Valentine || The Weinstein Company || Derek Cianfrance |- | The Kids Are All Right || Focus Features || Lisa Cholodenko |- | Let Me In || Overture Films || Matt Reeves |- ! rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" | 2011 | style="background:#B0C4DE" | Beginners | style="background:#B0C4DE" | Focus Features| style="background:#B0C4DE" | Mike Mills| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"| |- | style="background:#B0C4DE" | The Tree of Life | style="background:#B0C4DE" | Fox Searchlight Pictures| style="background:#B0C4DE" | Terrence Malick|- | The Descendants || Fox Searchlight Pictures || Alexander Payne |- | Meek's Cutoff || Oscilloscope Laboratories || Kelly Reichardt |- | Take Shelter || Sony Pictures Classics || Jeff Nichols |- ! rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" | 2012 | style="background:#B0C4DE" | Moonrise Kingdom | style="background:#B0C4DE" | Focus Features| style="background:#B0C4DE" | Wes Anderson| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"| |- | Bernie || Millennium Entertainment || Richard Linklater |- | The Loneliest Planet || IFC Films || Julia Loktev |- | The Master || The Weinstein Company || Paul Thomas Anderson |- | Middle of Nowhere || Participant Media || Ava DuVernay |- ! rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" | 2013 | style="background:#B0C4DE" | Inside Llewyn Davis | style="background:#B0C4DE" | CBS Films| style="background:#B0C4DE" | Joel Coen and Ethan Coen| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"| |- | 12 Years a Slave || Fox Searchlight Pictures || Steve McQueen |- | Ain't Them Bodies Saints || IFC Films || David Lowery |- | Before Midnight || Sony Pictures Classics || Richard Linklater |- | Upstream Color || VHX || Shane Carruth |- ! rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" | 2014 | style="background:#B0C4DE" | Birdman | style="background:#B0C4DE" | Fox Searchlight Pictures| style="background:#B0C4DE" | Alejandro G. Iñárritu| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"| |- | Boyhood || IFC Films || Richard Linklater |- | The Grand Budapest Hotel || Fox Searchlight Pictures || Wes Anderson |- | Love Is Strange || Sony Pictures Classics || Ira Sachs |- | Under the Skin || A24 || Jonathan Glazer |- ! rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" | 2015 | style="background:#B0C4DE" | Spotlight | style="background:#B0C4DE" | Open Road Films| style="background:#B0C4DE" | Tom McCarthy| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"| |- | Carol || StudioCanal / The Weinstein Company || Todd Haynes |- | The Diary of a Teenage Girl || Sony Pictures Classics || Marielle Heller |- | Heaven Knows What || RADiUS-TWC || Josh Safdie and Benny Safdie |- | Tangerine || Magnolia Pictures || Sean Baker |- ! rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" | 2016 | style="background:#B0C4DE" | Moonlight | style="background:#B0C4DE" | A24| style="background:#B0C4DE" | Barry Jenkins| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"| |- | Certain Women || IFC Films || Kelly Reichardt |- | Everybody Wants Some!! || Paramount Pictures || Richard Linklater |- | Manchester by the Sea || Amazon Studios / Roadside Attractions || Kenneth Lonergan |- | Paterson || Amazon Studios / Bleecker Street || Jim Jarmusch |- ! rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" | 2017 | style="background:#B0C4DE" | Call Me by Your Name | style="background:#B0C4DE" | Sony Pictures Classics| style="background:#B0C4DE" | Luca Guadagnino| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"| |- | The Florida Project || A24 || Sean Baker |- | Get Out || Universal Pictures/Blumhouse || Jordan Peele |- | Good Time || A24 || Josh Safdie and Benny Safdie |- | I, Tonya || Neon || Craig Gillespie |- ! rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" | 2018 | style="background:#B0C4DE" | The Rider | style="background:#B0C4DE" | Sony Pictures Classics| style="background:#B0C4DE" | Chloé Zhao| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"| |- | The Favourite || Fox Searchlight Pictures || Yorgos Lanthimos |- | First Reformed || A24 || Paul Schrader |- | If Beale Street Could Talk || Annapurna Pictures || Barry Jenkins |- | Madeline's Madeline || Oscilloscope Laboratories || Josephine Decker |- ! rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" | 2019 | style="background:#B0C4DE" | Marriage Story Netflix Noah Baumbach The Farewell A24 Lulu Wang Hustlers STX Entertainment Lorene Scafaria Uncut Gems A24 Josh Safdie and Benny Safdie Waves Trey Edward Shults
2020s YearFilmDistributing company(s)Director(s) 2020 Nomadland Searchlight Pictures Chloé Zhao The Assistant Bleecker Street Kitty Green First Cow A24 Kelly Reichardt Never Rarely Sometimes Always Focus Features Eliza Hittman Relic IFC Midnight Natalie Erika James 2021 The Lost Daughter Netflix Maggie Gyllenhaal The Green Knight A24 David Lowery Passing Netflix Rebecca Hall Pig Neon Michael Sarnoski Test Pattern Kino Lorber Shatara Michelle Ford 2022 Everything Everywhere All at Once A24 Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert Aftersun A24 Charlotte Wells The Cathedral MUBI Ricky D'Ambrose Dos Estaciones The Cinema Guild Juan Pablo González Tár Focus Features Todd Field 2023 Past Lives A24 Celine Song Passages MUBI Ira Sachs Reality HBO Films Tina Satter Showing Up A24 Kelly Reichardt A Thousand and One Focus Features A. V. Rockwell 2024 A Different Man A24 Aaron Schimberg Anora Neon Sean Baker Babygirl A24 Halina Reijn Challengers Amazon MGM Studios Luca Guadagnino Nickel Boys Amazon MGM Studios / Orion Pictures RaMell Ross 2025 One Battle After Another Warner Bros. Paul Thomas Anderson Bugonia Focus Features Yorgos Lanthimos East of Wall Sony Pictures Classics Kate Beecroft Familiar Touch Music Box Films Sarah Friedland Hamnet Focus Features Chloé Zhao If I Had Legs I'd Kick You A24 Mary Bronstein Lurker MUBI Alex Russell Sorry, Baby A24 Eva Victor The Testament of Ann Lee Searchlight Pictures Mona Fastvold Train Dreams Netflix Clint Bentley
Studios with most wins and nominations (3 or more) A24 - 17 nominations; 4 wins Fox Searchlight/Searchlight - 13 nominations; 4 wins Focus Features - 11 nominations; 2 wins Sony Pictures Classics - 10 nominations, 4 wins IFC Films - 6 nominations, no wins Netflix - 4 nominations, 2 wins Amazon Studios/Amazon MGM Studios - 4 nominations, no wins The Weinstein Company - 4 nominations; no wins Paramount Vantage/Paramount - 3 nominations; 1 win Warner Bros/Warner Independent Pictures - 3 nominations, 1 win Magnolia Pictures - 3 nominations; no wins MUBI - 3 nominations; no wins NEON - 3 nominations; no wins
See also Academy Award for Best Picture Independent Spirit Award for Best Film
References
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