{"id":325477,"date":"2025-12-02T05:35:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T05:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/325477\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T05:35:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T05:35:08","slug":"2025-gotham-awards-winners-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/325477\/","title":{"rendered":"2025 Gotham Awards Winners List"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tPaul Thomas Anderson\u2019s One Battle After Another won Best Feature at the 35th annual Gotham Awards<\/a> , which were handed out tonight in Manhattan. Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi and his Palme d\u2019Or winner It Was Just An Accident were the big winners: The film won Best International Feature, and Panahi took Best Director and Original Screenplay. <\/p>\n

\n\tSee the full winners list below.<\/p>\n

\n\tIt was Anderson\u2019s first Gotham Award on his fourth career nomination. He also was up for Best Director for the pic about a\u00a0group of ex-revolutionaries whose archenemy resurfaces after 16 years. The film starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn, Benecio Del Toro and others has crossed the $200 million threshold in worldwide box office. It came in with a record six nominations but no wins until this last. \u201cI didn\u2019t expect this,\u201d Anderson said. \u201cThank you very much for enjoying this film, for rewarding this film. I had a great time making it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tRELATED: Iran\u2019s Jafar Panahi Dedicates Gotham Award To Filmmakers \u201cDeprived Of The Right To See And Be Seen\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tPanahi\u2019s prizes were awarded just hours after he was convicted in absentia by Iran<\/a> and sentenced to one year in prison and two years of probation. \u201cThis award belongs to all people who worked for me on this film,\u201d he said onstage through an interpreter. \u201cI\u2019d like to dedicate this award to independent filmmakers around the world. \u2026 I hope that this dedication will be considered a small tribute to all filmmakers who have been deprived of the right to see and to be seen but continue to create and to exist.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tA bit later, he was back onstage to accept the Gotham for Best International Feature. It Was Just an Accident is France\u2019s entry for the International Feature Oscar<\/a> next year. Read Deadline\u2019s review from Cannes here<\/a>. And shortly after that he returned again for Best Director.<\/p>\n

\n\tOrganized by the Gotham Film & Media Institute, the Gothams kicked off movie awards season, as usual, calling out the first set of names and handing out the first crop of trophies.<\/p>\n

\n\tRELATED: Oscars 2026 International Feature Film Submissions By Country<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tAnother Cannes-debuting pic was the only other double winner Monday night. Sop\u00e9 D\u00ecr\u00eds\u00f9 won Outstanding Lead Performance for My Father\u2019s Shadow after the pic\u2019s Akinola Davies Jr won Breakthrough Director. Davies accepted an absentee D\u00ecr\u00eds\u00f9. The semi-autobiographical film \u2014 which is the UK\u2019s official Oscar submission for International Feature \u2014 tells the story of two young brothers who explore Lagos with their estranged father (D\u00ecr\u00eds\u00f9) during the 1993 Nigerian election crisis. Read our review of the first film from Nigeria to play on the Croisette here<\/a> and our Cannes Ones to Watch feature on Davies here<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe evening\u2019s first acting award went to Wunmi Mosaku, who played Hoodoo conjurer and spiritual leader Annie in Warner Bros\u2019 smash horror pic Sinners. She wasn\u2019t at the ceremony so filmmaker Ryan Coogler accepted her statuette. <\/p>\n

\n\tHe stepped back on stage with the rest of the cast to receive the Gotham\u2019s Ensemble Tribute. In moving remarks, he said that while he didn\u2019t have a passport until he was 22 and in film school, \u201cI felt like I had traveled, through movies [and] actors, in their performances, were the mode of transportation.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI was fortunate enough to get into the film industry and, in this film, I explored some of the most personal things I\u2019ve ever done. I went to the American South for the first time in my life\u2026 and the whole world came to meet me.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tPillion writer-director Harry Pillion took Best Adapted Screenplay \u2014 a first-time Gothams category \u2014 for the gay biker drama, which A24 picked up<\/a> months ahead of its Cannes Film Festival premiere. Over the weekend, the pic won Best Film<\/a> at the British Independent Film Awards. Read Deadline\u2019s review here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tMy Undesirable Friends: Part I \u2013 Last Air in Moscow won the Gotham for Best Documentary Feature. Last month the pic about independent journalists being declared \u201cforeign agents\u201d by Vladimir Putin\u2019s regime won the Indie Film Site Network Advocate Award,<\/a> beating several top Oscar contenders.<\/p>\n

\n\tAbou Sangar\u00e9 won the Breakthrough Performance prize for his role in Souleymane\u2019s Story from Kino Lorber, yet another film that played at Cannes. The pic starring Sangar\u00e9 as a Guinean immigrant\u00a0struggling to stay afloat in Paris won the Jury Prize at the Un Certain Regard sidebar. <\/p>\n

\n\tRELATED: 2025-26 Awards Season Calendar: Dates For Oscars, Grammys, Guilds & More<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tTribute awards previously announced<\/a> were presented to Luca Guadagnino and Julia Roberts (Visionary Tribute for After The Hunt); Noah Baumbach (Director Tribute for Jay Kelly); the cast of Sinners (Ensemble Tribute); Guillermo del Toro, Oscar Isaac & Jacob Elordi (Vanguard Tribute for Frankenstein); Tessa Thompson (Spotlight Tribute for Hedda); Kate Hudson and Hugh Jackman (Musical Tribute for Song Sung Blue); and Jeremy Allen White and Scott Cooper (Cultural Icon Tribute for Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere).<\/p>\n

\n\tDel Toro slamme<\/a>d<\/a> AI,<\/a> as he defended films \u201cwillfully made by humans, for humans.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAdam Sandler, no surprise, provided comic relief as he and Emily Mortimer introduced Baumbach. \u201cI remember seeing The Squid And The Whale for the first time and I immediately called my agent and said, \u201cCome on, f*ck, Billy Baldwin got the role of the tennis coach? I could have done that. I play f*cking tennis buddy. Do you know me at all motherf*ckers? So sorry, keep going Emily.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAnd Julia Roberts and Luca Guadagnino had a bit about her being his interpreter for the evening \u2014 he spoke a bit in English and she translated into Italian. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe Gothams expanded its Best Feature category this year to include 10 nominees, up from five. Some 40 features and 25 performances in 10 categories were nominated. It\u2019s generally an indie-focused event although the organization removed budget caps to qualify in 2023, allowing bigger studio films into the mix.<\/p>\n

\n\tHere are the winners at the 2025 Gotham Awards:<\/p>\n

\n\tBest Feature
One Battle After Another: Paul Thomas Anderson, Sara Murphy, Adam Somner, producers (Warner Bros. Pictures)<\/p>\n

\n\tBest Director
Jafar Panahi, It Was Just an Accident (Neon)<\/p>\n

\n\tOutstanding Lead Performance
Sop\u00e9 D\u00ecr\u00eds\u00f9, My Father\u2019s Shadow (Mubi)<\/p>\n

\n\tOutstanding Supporting Performance
Wunmi Mosaku, Sinners (Warner Bros. Pictures)<\/p>\n

\n\tBreakthrough Performer
Abou Sangar\u00e9, Souleymane\u2019s Story (Kino Lorber)<\/p>\n

\n\tBest Documentary Feature
My Undesirable Friends: Part I \u2013 Last Air in Moscow: Julia Loktev, director; Julia Loktev, producer (self-distributed)<\/p>\n

\n\tBreakthrough Director
Akinola Davies Jr., My Father\u2019s Shadow (Mubi)<\/p>\n

\n\tBest International Feature
It Was Just an Accident: Philippe Martin, Jafar Panahi, producers (Neon)<\/p>\n

\n\tBest Adapted Screenplay
Pillion, Harry Lighton (A24)<\/p>\n

\n\tBest Original Screenplay
It Was Just an Accident, Jafar Panahi (Neon)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paul Thomas Anderson\u2019s One Battle After Another won Best Feature at the 35th annual Gotham Awards , which…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325478,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[96360,88,139142],"class_list":["post-325477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-awardsnews","tag-entertainment","tag-gotham-awards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}