Gotham Awards: ‘One Battle After Another’ Takes Best Feature; Three Wins For Jafar Panahi – Full List

Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another won Best Feature at the 35th annual Gotham Awards , which were handed out tonight in Manhattan. Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi and his Palme d’Or winner It Was Just An Accident were the big winners: The film won Best International Feature, and Panahi took Best Director and Original Screenplay.

See the full winners list below.

It was Anderson’s first Gotham Award on his fourth career nomination. He also was up for Best Director for the pic about a group of ex-revolutionaries whose archenemy resurfaces after 16 years. The film starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn, Benecio Del Toro and others has crossed the $200 million threshold in worldwide box office. It came in with a record six nominations but no wins until this last. “I didn’t expect this,” Anderson said. “Thank you very much for enjoying this film, for rewarding this film. I had a great time making it.”

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Panahi’s prizes were awarded just hours after he was convicted in absentia by Iran and sentenced to one year in prison and two years of probation. “This award belongs to all people who worked for me on this film,” he said onstage through an interpreter. “I’d like to dedicate this award to independent filmmakers around the world. … I hope that this dedication will be considered a small tribute to all filmmakers who have been deprived of the right to see and to be seen but continue to create and to exist.”

A bit later, he was back onstage to accept the Gotham for Best International Feature. It Was Just an Accident is France’s entry for the International Feature Oscar next year. Read Deadline’s review from Cannes here. And shortly after that he returned again for Best Director.

Organized by the Gotham Film & Media Institute, the Gothams kicked off movie awards season, as usual, calling out the first set of names and handing out the first crop of trophies.

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Another Cannes-debuting pic was the only other double winner Monday night. Sopé Dìrísù won Outstanding Lead Performance for My Father’s Shadow after the pic’s Akinola Davies Jr won Breakthrough Director. Davies accepted an absentee Dìrísù. The semi-autobiographical film — which is the UK’s official Oscar submission for International Feature — tells the story of two young brothers who explore Lagos with their estranged father (Dìrísù) during the 1993 Nigerian election crisis. Read our review of the first film from Nigeria to play on the Croisette here and our Cannes Ones to Watch feature on Davies here.

The evening’s first acting award went to Wunmi Mosaku, who played Hoodoo conjurer and spiritual leader Annie in Warner Bros’ smash horror pic Sinners. She wasn’t at the ceremony so filmmaker Ryan Coogler accepted her statuette.

He stepped back on stage with the rest of the cast to receive the Gotham’s Ensemble Tribute. In moving remarks, he said that while he didn’t have a passport until he was 22 and in film school, “I felt like I had traveled, through movies [and] actors, in their performances, were the mode of transportation.”

“I was fortunate enough to get into the film industry and, in this film, I explored some of the most personal things I’ve ever done. I went to the American South for the first time in my life… and the whole world came to meet me.”