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Wednesday 29 november 2017
Director Jordan Peele accepts the Bingham Ray Breakthrough
director award for "Get Out" at the 27th annual Independent
Film Project's Gotham Awards at Cipriani Wall Street on Mon- best feature film at the first grossed $254 million world- shows previous has gone
day, Nov. 27, 2017, in New York.
PEOPLE/ARTS
Call Me By Your Name,' 'Get
Out' top Gotham Awards
'By JAKE COYLE Billboards Outside Ebb- A special jury prize was
AP Film Writer ing, Missouri," ''Mudbound" awarded to the ensem-
NEW YORK (AP) — The 27th and "The Darkest Hour" as ble cast of Dee Rees' Jim
annual Gotham Awards among the leading favor- Crow epic "Mudbound," a
appeared headed for a ites. Netflix release. One of the
sweep for Jordan Peele's But also among the front- film's cast members, Mary
social thriller "Get Out," runners are Christopher J. Blige, turned out to be
but the sensual coming-of- Nolan's World War II sum- the night's most frequently
age tale "Call Me By Your mer blockbuster "Dunkirk," thanked personality — a
Name" swooped in to take and "Get Out," which has title that at many award
major soiree of Oscar sea- wide for Universal Pictures. to Weinstein. Peele, Chal-
Associated Press son. The Gotham Awards, pre- amet and actor Michael K.
sented by Independent Williams, who was honored
Luca Guadagnino's film Filmmaker Project, also for his commitment to New
about a 17-year-old's first honored with a tribute York, all paid homage to
love in northern Italy also award "Get Out" producer the R&B singer.
scored best breakthrough Jason Blum, the success-
actor for newcomer Timo- ful horror-film producer of The night included tributes
thee Chalamet. The wins, Blumhouse Productions. to Nicole Kidman, Dustin
following the film's box-of- Harvey Weinstein, the dis- Hoffman, Sofia Coppola,
fice success in limited re- graced former co-chair- cinematographer Ed Lach-
lease over the weekend, man of the Weinstein Co., man and Al Gore. The for-
confirmed "Call Me By Your has long been one of New mer vice president, who
Name" — co-starring Armie York's most powerful fig- this year released a sequel
Hammer and scripted by ures in independent film. to his climate change doc-
James Ivory — as one of His absence — and the umentary "An Inconvenient
the year's top indepen- avalanche of sexual mis- Truth," was introduced by
dent film candidates for conduct allegations that Dan Rather. Gore quickly
the Academy Awards. The have followed those made zeroed in on two luminar-
last three best feature win- against the movie mogul ies in the front — Kidman
ners at the Gothams have — was noted occasionally and Reese Witherspoon —
gone on to win best picture Monday but didn't drive whom he called his "Nash-
at the Oscars: the proceedings. In open- ville peeps" before praising
"Moonlight," ''Spotlight" and ing remarks Joana Vicente, their HBO series "Big Little
"Birdman." executive director of IFP, Lies" as "awesome."
"Above all, 'Call Me By Your thanked those who have Kidman accepted her
Name' is about compassion spoken up about sexual award, introduced by With-
and transmission of knowl- harassment in Hollywood erspoon, barefoot and
edge," said Guadagnino, and the journalists who pleading for the ceremony
accepting the award. have told their stories. to loosen up and "get a lit-
But "Get Out" was equally "You are helping us make tle wilder." Noting her age,
triumphant Monday night a better future," Vincente 50, Kidman said she hoped
at the star-studded cere- said. "This room represents the award didn't signify any
mony, held at Cipriani Wall the stories that our society slowing down.
Street in Lower Manhattan. so badly needs to hear." "I feel like I'm only begin-
It came in with a leading Best actress went to Saoirse ning," Kidman said. "Some-
five nominations, including Ronan for her leading per- times these tributes make
best feature, and it left with formance in Greta Gerwig's it seem like it's over, but I
the largest haul. Peele, a "Lady Bird." In more of a sur- hope it's at least in the mid-
comedy veteran but first- prise, James Franco took dle."
time feature filmmaker, home best actor for his per-
won for best screenplay formance as the infamous The night's winners were
and breakthrough director. Tommy Wisau, maker of the consistently multicultural.
The film also took the audi- cult film "The Room," in "The Donald Glover's "Atlanta"
ence award. Disaster Artist." won best long-form TV se-
"It's so important that we ries. Yance Ford's "Strong
support these voices from "As Tommy said at the pre- Island," about his investiga-
the outside," said Peele, miere of his movie, 'This my tion into the 1992 murder of
accepting the screenplay movie. This my life. Be cool,'" his brother, took best docu-
honor. "If you help tell these said Franco. mentary.
stories, they will resonate." Several of the top con- Hollywood's awards season
While early, this year's tenders in each acting heats up considerably this
awards season has been category, including Fran- week with annual awards
especially slanted toward ces McDormand ("Three coming Tuesday from the
independent film, with a Billboards") and Gary Old- National Board of Review,
few notable exceptions. man ("The Darkest Hour"), Thursday from the New York
Analysts consider "Call Me weren't nominated at the Film Critics Circle and Sun-
By Your Name," ''Lady Bird," Gothams, which are select- day from the Los Angeles
''The Florida Project," ''Three ed by a handful of juries. Film Critics Association.q