Last night's Gotham Independent Film Awards took place in New York's Cipriani Downtown and was reportedly buzzing with Oscar contenders. In fact two Academy Award frontrunners went head-to-head in a tight race where Alejandro González Iñárritu’s “Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)” took the Best Feature award, over Richard Linklater’s “Boyhood”. Also a big win for “Birdman” was Michael Keaton who won Best Actor for portraying a washed out actor dying to make a comeback and become relevant again, haunted by his biggest character and alter ego: Birdman.
Both, González Iñárritu and Keaton received their awards with funny speeches. Keaton joked saying, “I’d like to thank the folks of Gotham. It feels awfully good to be back home. I don’t want to toot my own horn, but when’s the last time you saw the Joker or the Penguin causing any problems?” and Iñárritu accepted the Best Feature award by joking, “I guess that this award will just help move forward the conversations that Michael Keaton and I are having with Marvel Studios to make “Birdman 4”.”
Other winners at the 24th Annual Gotham Independent Film Award recipients included: Best Documentary for “CITIZENFOUR”, the Gotham Independent Film Audience Award went to “Boyhood” , Best Actress was for Julianne Moore in “Still Alice ”, Breakthrough Actor: Tessa Thompson in “Dear White People”, Special Jury Award: Steve Carell, Mark Ruffalo, and Channing Tatum—for their ensemble work in "Foxcatcher, the euphoria Calvin Klein Spotlight on Women Filmmakers ‘Live the Dream’ Grant: Chloé Zhao, director, "Songs My Brothers Taught Me", and the Bingham Ray Breakthrough Director award went to Ana Lily Amirpour for “A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night”.
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