Gothams. Winners.

"Courtney Hunt's Frozen River took best feature at the 18th annual Gotham Independent Film Awards Tuesday night in New York, while Tia Lessin and Carl Deal's Trouble the Water won best documentary during the ceremony held at Cipriani Wall Street in downtown Manhattan," reports Brian Brooks. "Frozen River's Melissa Leo also won the Gothams' breakthrough actor award."

Updated through 12/4.

Also at indieWIRE, Peter Knegt: "Last night at the Director's Guild Theater in New York City, Entertainment Weekly critic Lisa Schwarzbaum sat down with the six nominees of the Gotham Awards breakthrough actor category: Pedro Castaneda from August Evening, Rosemarie DeWitt from Rachel Getting Married, Rebecca Hall from Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Melissa Leo from Frozen River, Alejandro Polanco from Chop Shop and Micheal J Smith, Sr from Ballast. indieWIRE was taking notes."

Updates: Bilge Ebiri reports on the evening for Vulture.

Online viewing tip: the Carpetbagger talks about being there.

Update, 12/4: Online viewing tips. FilmCatcher gathers its interviews with several nominees.

Posted by dwhudson at December 3, 2008 12:14 AM