One Battle After Another

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One Battle After Another

One Battle After Another has received six nominations for the 35th annual Gotham Film Awards, earning recognition for best film and director Paul Thomas Anderson, but not lead Leonardo DiCaprio.

Benicio del Toro and Teyana Taylor are in the running in the gender-neutral supporting performance category, while newcomer Chase Infiniti earned a nod for Breakthrough Performer.

For the first time, the Gothams has expanded its best feature category from five to 10 slots. Contenders include The Testament Of Ann Lee, Hamnet, If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, Train Dreams, and Sorry, Baby.

Lead performance nominees include Jessie Buckley for Hamnet, Tessa Thompson for Hedda, Lee Byung-hun for No Other Choice, Ehtan Hawke for Blue Moon, Josh O’Connor for The Mastermind, and Rose Byrne for If I Had Legs I’d Kick You.

Directing contenders joining Anderson are Jafar Panahi for It Was An Accident, Kelly Reichardt for The Mastermind, Oliver Laxe for Sirât, and Mary Bronstein for If I Had Legs I’d Kick You. Harris Dickinson earned a nod in the breakthrough director category for Urchin, and Harry Lighton is in contention for adapted screenplay with Pillion.

It Was An Accident competes in the international feature category with Park Chan-wook’s No Other Choice, Richard Linklater’s Nouvelle Vague, Mascha Schilinski’s Sound Of Falling, and Bi Gan’s Resurrection.

Searchlight Pictures’ Is This Thing On? was not completed by the deadline, and A24 did not submit Marty Supreme as Josh Safdie completed the film just prior to its secret screening at New York Film Festival and the company did not want to share links with nominating committees.

The 35th Annual Gotham Film Awards will take place in New York on December 1.

35th Annual Gotham Film Awards nominees

Best Feature

Bugonia (Focus Features)
East Of Wall (Sony Pictures Classics)
Familiar Touch (Music Box Films)
Hamnet (Focus Features)
If I Had Legs I’d Kick You (A24)
Lurker (Mubi)
One Battle After Another (Warner Bros)
Sorry, Baby (A24)
The Testament Of Ann Lee (Searchlight Pictures)
Train Dreams (Netflix)

Outstanding Lead Performance

Jessie Buckley, Hamnet (Focus Features)
Lee Byung-hun, No Other Choice (Neon)
Rose Byrne, If I Had Legs I’d Kick You (A24)
Sopé Dìrísù, My Father’s Shadow (Mubi)
Ethan Hawke, Blue Moon (Sony Pictures Classics)
Jennifer Lawrence, Die My Love (Mubi)
Wagner Moura, The Secret Agent (Neon)
Josh O’Connor, The Mastermind (Mubi)
Amanda Seyfried, The Testament Of Ann Lee (Searchlight Pictures)
Tessa Thompson, Hedda (Orion Pictures/Amazon MGM Studios)

Outstanding Supporting Performance

Benicio Del Toro, One Battle After Another (Warner Bros)
Jacob Elordi, Frankenstein (Netflix)
Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, Sentimental Value (Neon)
Indya Moore, Father Mother Sister Brother (Mubi)
Wunmi Mosaku, Sinners (Warner Bros)
Adam Sandler, Jay Kelly (Netflix)
Andrew Scott, Blue Moon (Sony Pictures Classics)
Alexander Skarsgård, Pillion (A24)
Stellan Skarsgård, Sentimental Value (Neon)
Teyana Taylor, One Battle After Another (Warner Bros)

Best Original screenplay

If I Had Legs I’d Kick You (A24) — Mary Bronstein
It Was Just An Accident (Neon) —Jafar Panahi
The Secret Agent (Neon) —Kleber Mendonça Filho
Sorry, Baby (A24) — Eva Victor
Sound Of Falling (Mubi) —Louise Peter, Mascha Schilinski

Best adapted screenplay

No Other Choice (Neon) —Park Chan-wook, Lee Kyoung-mi, Jahye Lee, Don McKellar
One Battle After Another (Warner Bros) —Paul Thomas Anderson
Pillion (A24) — Harry Lighton
Preparation For The Next Life (Orion Pictures/Amazon MGM Studios) —Martyna Majok
Train Dreams (Netflix) —Clint Bentley, Greg Kwedar

Best Director

Mary Bronstein, If I Had Legs I’d Kick You (A24)
Jafar Panahi, It Was Just An Accident (Neon)
Kelly Reichardt, The Mastermind (Mubi)
Paul Thomas Anderson, One Battle After Another (Warner Bros)
Oliver Laxe, Sirât (Neon)

Best International Feature

It Was Just An Accident (Neon)
No Other Choice (Neon)
Nouvelle Vague (Netflix)
Resurrection (Janus Films)
Sound Of Falling (Mubi)

Best Documentary Feature

2000 Meters To Andriivka (PBS)
BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions (Rich Spirit)
My Undesirable Friends: Part I – Last Air In Moscow (self-distributed)
The Perfect Neighbor (Netflix)
Put Your Soul On Your Hand And Walk (Kino Lorber)

Breakthrough Director

Constance Tsang, Blue Sun Palace (Mubi)
Carson Lund, Eephus (Music Box Films)
Sarah Friedland, Familiar Touch (Music Box Films)
Akinola Davies Jr., My Father’s Shadow (Mubi)
Harris Dickinson, Urchin (1-2 Special)

Breakthrough Performer

A$AP Rocky, Highest 2 Lowest (A24)
Sebiye Behtiyar, Preparation For The Next Life (Orion Pictures/Amazon MGM Studios)
Chase Infiniti, One Battle After Another (Warner Bros. Pictures)
Abou Sangaré, Souleymane’s Story (Kino Lorber)
Tonatiuh, Kiss Of The Spider Woman (Roadside Attractions/Lionsgate/LD Entertainment)

Last season’s winners included A Different Man for best feature, Coloman Domingo for Outstanding Lead Performance with Sing Sing, and Payal Kapadia’s All We Imagine As Light for Best International Feature.

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