Awards Season Watch: Gotham Film Awards Set for November 30 HotFlick

The 36th Gotham Film Awards are the next major date on this season’s independent film calendar. The Gotham Film & Media Institute will hold the ceremony on November 30, 2026, in New York City. Five films go in tied for the most nominations, with four each.

The Gotham Calendar: Nominations to Ceremony

The institute announced the nominees on October 27, 2026. The five films tied for the lead are Arie and Chuko Esiri’s Clarissa, Olivia Wilde’s The Invite, Hamaguchi Ryusuke’s All of a Sudden, Marine Atlan’s La Gradiva, and Mike Leigh’s Tender Loving Care.

Only two of those five are up for the top prize. Clarissa and The Invite made the cut for best feature, a category now 11 nominees deep. The other three are nominated for best international feature.

Film	Director(s)	Nominations include
All of a Sudden	Ryusuke Hamaguchi	Best Director, Best International Feature, Outstanding Supporting Performance (Tao Okamoto)
Clarissa	Arie Esiri, Chuko Esiri	Best Feature
La Gradiva	Marine Atlan	Breakthrough Director, Best International Feature
The Invite	Olivia Wilde	Best Feature, Gotham Audience Award, Outstanding Supporting Performance (Penélope Cruz)
Tender Loving Care	Mike Leigh	Best Director, Best International Feature, Outstanding Supporting Performance (Kate O’Flynn)

Best Feature and Best Director Nominees

The 11 best feature nominees are Clarissa, Club Kid, The Debut, Dreams in Nightmares, The Invite, Josephine, Mouse, Paper Tiger, Primetime, Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma and Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother.

The five best director nominees are Ryusuke Hamaguchi for All of a Sudden, Sandra Wollner for Everytime, Andrey Zvyagintsev for Minotaur, Jane Schoenbrun for Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma and Mike Leigh for Tender Loving Care.

The 10 nominees for best international feature are All of a Sudden, Ben’Imana, Blue Heron, Everytime, Fatherland, Filipiñana, La Gradiva, Minotaur, Possible Love, Tender Loving Care.

Breakthrough, Performance and Audience Categories

The six breakthrough director nominees are Sophy Romvari for Blue Heron, Jordan Firstman for Club Kid, Aleshea Harris for Is God Is, Marine Atlan for La Gradiva, Joel Alfonso Vargas for Mad Bills to Pay (or Destiny, dile que no soy malo) and John Early for Maddie’s Secret.

Ten actors are nominated for outstanding supporting performance:

Tom Courtenay, Queen at Sea
Esmé Creed-Miles, Sense and Sensibility
Penélope Cruz, The Invite
Adam Driver, Paper Tiger
Andrew Garfield, Artificial
Skyler Gisondo, Primetime
Sandra Hüller, Fatherland
Kate O’Flynn, Tender Loving Care
Tao Okamoto, All of a Sudden
Channing Tatum, Josephine

This year’s lineup also brings back the Audience Award. The nominees are Backrooms, La Bola Negra, The Drama, The Invite, Michael, Obsession, Project Hail Mary and You Can See Everything.

Names With More Than One Nomination

Several films have more than one nomination. Primetime, for example, is up for best feature and for Skyler Gisondo’s supporting performance.

Oppenheim is nominated in two categories with two different films. Primetime is up for best feature, and You Can See Everything, which he co-directed with Nathan Fielder, landed in best documentary feature. John Early has nominations for both directing and starring in Maddie’s Secret.

Last year, One Battle After Another led the Gotham nominations and won best feature. It went on to win the Best Picture Oscar.

FAQ

– When and where are the 2026 Gotham Film Awards?

The ceremony is on November 30, 2026, in New York City. The Gotham Film & Media Institute presents the awards.

– Which films have the most nominations?

All of a Sudden, Clarissa, La Gradiva, The Invite and Tender Loving Care have four each. Of those five, only Clarissa and The Invite are nominated for best feature.