All Of Us Strangers by Andrew Haigh led the Gotham Awards Nominations today, with some love for Celine Song’s Past Lives and a Best Performance nod to Ryan Gosling for Barbie after the indie-centric Awards removed a longstanding budget cap on eligibility, an opening for big-budget studio and streamer fare to submit for consideration.
All Of Us Strangers was nominated for Best International Feature, Best Screenplay and Outstanding Lead and Supporting Performances for Andrew Scott and Claire Foy.
Past Lives was nominated for Best Feature, Breakthrough Director, and Outstanding Lead Performance by Greta Lee. The disappearance of the decade-old budget cap, which had been set most recently at $35 million, is the biggest change this year.
The Gotham Film & Media Institute, announcing the shift last summer, said it was meant “to broaden our reach in terms of recognition and accessibility to the wider community.” However, the list was still pretty indie and a number of high profile films did not submit, among them Killers of the Flower Moon, Napoleon and The Color Purple.
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