The 2026 Gotham Awards nominations have recognised 42 feature films and 25 performances across 11 categories, with Mahershala Ali, Julianne Moore, Sophie Okonedo, Andrew Garfield and Channing Tatum among the actors shortlisted.
Clarissa, The Invite, All of a Sudden, Tender Loving Care and La Gradiva are among the films featuring prominently in the nominations. The Gotham Audience Award will also return after a six-year absence.
The ceremony is due to take place in New York City on Monday, November 30, 2026.
Outstanding Lead Performance
Mahershala Ali, Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother (Amazon MGM Studios); Gillian Anderson, Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (MUBI); Jeon Do-yeon, Possible Love (Netflix); and John Early, Maddie’s Secret (Magnolia Pictures) are nominated for outstanding lead performance.
The category also includes John Malkovich for Wild Horse Nine (Searchlight Pictures), Ian McKellen for The Christophers (NEON), Julianne Moore for The Debut (A24), Sophie Okonedo for Clarissa (NEON), Andrew Scott for Elsinore (Focus Features) and John Turturro for The Only Living Pickpocket in New York (Sony Pictures Classics).
Outstanding Supporting Performance
The supporting performance nominees are Tom Courtenay, Queen at Sea (Greenwich Entertainment); Esmé Creed-Miles, Sense and Sensibility (Focus Features); Penélope Cruz, The Invite (A24); Adam Driver, Paper Tiger (NEON); and Andrew Garfield, Artificial (NEON).
Skyler Gisondo is recognised for Primetime (A24), alongside Sandra Hüller for Fatherland (MUBI), Kate O’Flynn for Tender Loving Care (Bleecker Street), Tao Okamoto for All of a Sudden (NEON) and Channing Tatum for Josephine (Sumerian Pictures).
Best Feature
The 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.
Breakthrough categories
The breakthrough performer nominees are Adia for Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother (Amazon MGM Studios), India Amarteifio for Clarissa (NEON), Guitarricadelafuente for La Bola Negra (Netflix), Colas Quignard for La Gradiva (1-2 Special) and Mason Reeves for Josephine (Sumerian Pictures).
Breakthrough director recognition goes to Sophy Romvari for Blue Heron (Janus Films), Jordan Firstman for Club Kid (A24), Aleshea Harris for Is God Is (Amazon MGM Studios), Marine Atlan for La Gradiva (1-2 Special), Joel Alfonso Vargas for Mad Bills to Pay (or Destiny, dile que no soy malo) (Oscilloscope Laboratories) and John Early for Maddie’s Secret (Magnolia Pictures).
International and documentary features
The best international feature nominees are All of a Sudden, Ben’Imana, Blue Heron, Everytime, Fatherland, Filipiñana, La Gradiva, Minotaur, Possible Love and Tender Loving Care.
The documentary feature category includes Closure, A Fox Under a Pink Moon, NAZA, Once Upon a Time in Harlem and You Can See Everything.
Directing and screenplay nominees
The best director nominees are Ryusuke Hamaguchi for All of a Sudden (NEON), Sandra Wollner for Everytime (1-2 Special), Andrey Zvyagintsev for Minotaur (MUBI), Jane Schoenbrun for Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (MUBI) and Mike Leigh for Tender Loving Care (Bleecker Street).
In the best original screenplay category, the nominees are Everytime by Sandra Wollner; La Gradiva by Marine Atlan and Anne Brouillet; Possible Love by Lee Chang-dong and Oh Jung-mi; Tender Loving Care by Mike Leigh; and Wild Horse Nine by Martin McDonagh.
The adapted screenplay nominees are All of a Sudden by Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Clarissa by Chuko Esiri, The Invite by Rashida Jones and Will McCormack, Minotaur by Simon Lyashenko and Andrey Zvyagintsev, and Primetime by Ajon Singh.
Gotham Audience Award
The films in contention for the returning Gotham Audience Award are Backrooms, La Bola Negra, The Drama, The Invite, Michael, Obsession, Project Hail Mary and You Can See Everything.
