Gotham Awards 2009: Webcast at Ustream

Catalina Saavedra in The Maid (top); Jeremy Renner in The Hurt Locker (middle); Food, Inc. by Robert Kenner (bottom)

The Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP) has partnered with Ustream to present a live webcast of the 2009 Gotham Awards, which will take place at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City on Monday, November 30, at 8:00pm ET/ 5:00pm  PT.  The show will be streamed live in its entirety on Ustream at http://www.ustream.tv/gothamawards2009. 

Among this year's Gotham Awards nominees are: Amreeka, The Maid, and The Hurt Locker as best feature; Food, Inc. and My Neighbor My Killer as best documentary; Derick Martini (Lymelife) and Robert Siegel (Big Fan) as Breakthrough Director; and Ben Foster (The Messenger), Jeremy Renner (The Hurt Locker), and Catalina Saavedra (The Maid) as Breakthrough Actor.

In addition to the competitive awards, director Kathryn Bigelow, actors Natalie Portman and Stanley Tucci, and producers Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner, will each be presented with a career tribute.  The awards ceremony will be hosted by comedian Kumail Najiani.

Among the Gotham feature and documentary winners and nominees that have gone on to receive wide acclaim elsewhere are Frozen River, Into the Wild, Half Nelson, Iraq in Fragments, Trouble the Water, Capote, Murderball, and Sideways.

Previous Breakthrough Actor recipients include Oscar contenders Melissa Leo (2008), Ellen Page (2007), Rinko Kikuchi (2006), Amy Adams (2005) and Catalina Sandino Moreno (2004). 

As per the Gotham Awards' press release, "in addition to being available on the web, fans can also watch and interact using Ustream’s iPhone Viewing Application or the Ustream Android Viewer, released last week. Both are free applications that enable viewing any Ustream stream, including the Gothams, on 3G or Wifi from the iPhone and Android mobile devices. The applications are available for free download in the iTunes App Store and Android Market. For more information, visit ustream.tv/mobile."