Gotham Awards 2006
October 24th, 2006 by Andre Soares
16th Gotham Awards - 2006
The 16th Gotham Award nominees were announced on Oct. 23, 2006.
The 16th Gotham Award winners were announced at Pier Sixty at Chelsea Piers, New York City, on Nov. 29, 2006.
Gotham Awards 2006 Nominations - Article
Gotham Awards 2006 Winners - Article
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
Ryan Gosling plays an idealistic drug-addicted teacher in Ryan Fleck’s Half Nelson. The character may sound like an walking, talking oxymoron, but he isn’t — thanks to Gosling’s superb playing and Fleck’s careful handling of the material
Best Feature
The Departed
Martin Scorsese, director; Brad Pitt, Brad Grey, Graham King, producers (Warner Bros.)
* Half Nelson
Ryan Fleck, director; Jamie Patricof, Alex Orlovsky, Lynette Howell, Anna Boden, Rosanne Korenberg, producers (ThinkFilm)
Little Children
Todd Field, director; Albert Berger, Ron Yerxa, Todd Field, producers (New Line Cinema)
Marie Antoinette
Sofia Coppola, director; Ross Katz, Sofia Coppola, producers (Sony Pictures)
Old Joy
Kelly Reichardt, director; Neil Kopp, Lars Knudsen, Jay Van Hoy, Anish Savjani, producers
(Kino International)
Best Documentary
Deliver Us from Evil
Amy Berg, director; Amy Berg, Frank Donner, Hermas Lassalle, Matthew Cooke, producers (Lionsgate)
Following Sean
Ralph Arlyck, director; Ralph Arlyck, Malcolm Pullinger, producers (Upstate Films/Shadow Releasing)
An Inconvenient Truth
Davis Guggenheim, director; Laurie David, Lawrence Bender, Scott Z. Burns, producers
(Paramount Classics & Participant Productions)
* Iraq in Fragments
James Longley, director; James Longley, John Sinno, producers (Typecast Releasing in association with HBO Documentary Films)
Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple
Stanley Nelson, director/producer (Seventh Art Releasing)
Best Ensemble Cast
* Babel
Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Gael Garcia Bernal, Koji Yakusho, Adriana Barraza, Rinko Kikuchi, Said Tarchani, Boubker Ait El Caid (Paramount Vantage)
For Your Consideration
Bob Balaban, Jennifer Coolidge, Christopher Guest, John Michael Higgins, Eugene Levy, Jane Lynch, Michael McKean, Catherine O’Hara, Parker Posey, Harry Shearer, Fred Willard
(Warner Independent Pictures)
Little Miss Sunshine
Greg Kinnear, Toni Collette, Steve Carell, Paul Dano, Abigail Breslin, Alan Arkin
(Fox Searchlight Pictures)
A Prairie Home Companion
Woody Harrelson, Tommy Lee Jones, Garrison Keillor, Kevin Kline, Lindsay Lohan, Virginia Madsen, John C. Reilly, Maya Rudolph, Meryl Streep, Lily Tomlin, L.Q. Jones, Sue Scott, Tim Russell (Picturehouse)
Shortbus
Sook-Yin Lee, Paul Dawson, Lindsay Beamish, PJ DeBoy, Raphael Barker, Peter Stickles, Jay Brannan, Justin Bond (ThinkFilm)
Breakthrough Director
Ramin Bahrani for Man Push Cart (Films Philos)
Laurie Collyer for Sherrybaby (IFC Films)
* Ryan Fleck for Half Nelson (ThinkFilm)
So Yong Kim for In Between Days
James Marsh for The King (ThinkFilm)
Breakthrough Actor (tie)
Abigail Breslin in Little Miss Sunshine (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
* Shareeka Epps in Half Nelson (ThinkFilm)
Melinda Page Hamilton in Sleeping Dogs Lie (Roadside Attractions / Samuel Goldwyn Films)
* Rinko Kikuchi in Babel (Paramount Vantage)
Channing Tatum in A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints (First Look Pictures)
Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You
* Choking Man
Steve Barron, director; Joshua Zeman, Zachary Mortensen, producers
Colma: The Musical
Richard Wong, director; Paul Kolsanoff, Richard Wong, Angel Vasquez, producers
In Between Days
So Yong Kim, director; Bradley Rust Gray, producer
The Great Happiness Space: Tale of an Osaka Love Thief
Jake Clennell, director/producer
Wristcutters: A Love Story
Goran Dukic, director; Adam Sherman, Chris Coen, Tatiana Kelly, Mikal P. Lazarev, producer
Gotham Tribute: Kate Winslet, Edward Norton
World Cinema Tribute: Alfonso Cuarón, Guillermo del Toro, and Alejandro González Iñárritu
Humanitarian Tribute: Tim Robbins
Special Tribute: Todd Wagner and Mark Cuban, partners in Wagner/Cuban Companies
Gotham Awards 2006 Nominations - Article
Gotham Awards 2006 Winners - Article
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