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Gothams Nominate 'All of a Sudden,' 'Clarissa,' 'La Gradiva,' 'The Invite,' and 'Tender Loving Care'
Confirmed
In Short: Marine Atlan’s Cannes winner La Gradiva, her first feature, received nominations for International Feature, Breakthrough Director, Original Screenplay, and Breakthrough Performer for Colas Quignard.
The Gotham Film & Media Institute announced today the nominations for the 36th edition of The Gothams, singling out 42 feature films and 25 performances in 11 award categories. Five films—All of a Sudden, Clarissa, La Gradiva, The Invite, and Tender Loving Care—lead the nominations with four each.
Jeffrey Sharp, executive director of The Gotham Film & Media Institute, said, “It’s a pleasure to announce this year’s nominees. It has been a remarkable year for film, with audiences turning out in theaters for bold, distinctive work from first-time filmmakers and established artists alike.”
Marine Atlan’s Cannes winner La Gradiva, her first feature, received nominations for International Feature, Breakthrough Director, Original Screenplay, and Breakthrough Performer for Colas Quignard. Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s All of a Sudden, a three-hour drama about the friendship between a French woman and a Japanese woman at an elder care facility, earned nominations for Best International Feature, Best Director, Adapted Screenplay, and Supporting Performance for Tao Okamoto.
Olivia Wilde’s The Invite, an English-language remake of the 2020 Spanish film The People Upstairs, is nominated for Best Feature, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Supporting Performance for Penélope Cruz. The film is also in contention for the Audience Award.
The Gotham Awards ceremony will take place on November 30 in New York City. The Gothams have expanded their eligibility criteria in recent years, removing the $35 million budget cap on submissions and focusing on films with strong opening-weekend per-theater averages.
Among the lead performance nominees are Andrew Scott for Elsinore, Jeon Do-yeon for Possible Love, John Malkovich for Wild Horse Nine, Mahershala Ali for Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother, Julianne Moore for The Debut, and Sophie Okonedo for Clarissa. Supporting Performance nominees include Tom Courtenay for Queen at Sea, Esmé Creed-Miles for Sense and Sensibility, and Adam Driver for Paper Tiger.
The Gothams have also recognized performers in gender-neutral categories since 2021. This year’s Audience Award nominees include Backrooms, La Bola Negra, The Drama, The Invite, Michael, Obsession, Project Hail Mary, and You Can See Everything.
The nominees were selected by committees of critics, journalists, festival programmers, and film curators. The Gotham Awards aim to elevate independent film and celebrate the creative community that has been at the heart of the Gothams for more than three decades.
Background
La Gradiva is a 2026 coming-of-age drama film directed by Marine Atlan in her feature film directorial debut, co-written with Anne Brouillet. A co-production of France and Italy, it stars Antonia Buresi alongside newcomers Colas Quignard, Mitia Capellier-Audat, and Suzanne Gerin, and follows a French high school class as they travel to Pompeii shortly before their graduation.
The Invite is a 2026 American sex comedy drama film directed by Olivia Wilde from a screenplay by Will McCormack and Rashida Jones. It is an English-language remake of the 2020 Spanish film The People Upstairs (Sentimental) by Cesc Gay.
What's confirmed
- The Gotham Film & Media Institute announced today the nominations for the 36th edition of The Gothams, singling out 42 feature films and 25 performances in 11 award categories, with All of a Sudden, Clarissa, La Gradiva, The Invite, and Tender Loving Care leading the way with four nominations each.
- Marine Atlan’s first feature, Cannes winner La Gradiva, landed noms for International Feature, Breakthrough Director, Original Screenplay and Breakthrough Performer for Colas Quignard.
- Supporting Performance nominees are Berlin winner Tom Courtenay for Queen at Sea, Esmé Creed-Miles for Sense and Sensibility, Penélope Cruz for The Invite, Adam Driver for Paper Tiger, Andrew Garfield for Artificial, Skyler Gisondo for Primetime, Sandra Hüller for Fatherland, Kate O’Flynn for Tender Loving Care, Tao Okamoto for All of a Sudden, and Channing Tatum for Josephine.
- This year’s nominees were curated from films submitted to The Gothams for consideration, measured by opening-weekend per-theater average against the highest-rated and most-watched films of 2026, as reported in box office tracking and on Letterboxd.
- “This year’s nominations, alongside our Tributes and the return of the Audience Award, reflect that abundance and celebrate the creative community that has been at the heart of The Gothams for more than three decades.” The Gotham Awards aim to elevate independent film and it does spread the wealth among smaller films and distributors.
- Rapaport, Robina Riccitiello, Marina Stabile, Channing Tatum, Crystine Zhang, producers (Sumerian Pictures) “Mouse” Kelly O’Sullivan, Alex Thompson, directors; Bonnie Comley, Pierce Cravens, Steven A.
- They join Clarissa, Club Kid, Dreams in Nightmares, Josephine, Mouse, Primetime and Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother.
- In addition to best feature and the Audience Award, The Invite is up for best adapted screenplay (Rashida Jones, Will McCormack) and best supporting performance (Penélope Cruz).
- In addition to best feature, Tender Loving Care is up for best director and original screenplay (Mike Leigh) and best supporting performance (Kate O’Flynn).
What's still developing
- Originally established to celebrate independent films with small budgets (like the Spirit Awards), the Gothams have recently lifted the budget restraint for submissions but some studios still choose to not submit here, like Universal, whose last two Christopher Nolan films, The Odyssey this year and 2023’s Best Picture Oscar winner Oppenheimer, were not on the lists.
- Behind the camera, the Best Director nominees are Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Sandra Wollner, Andrey Zvyagintsev, Jane Schoenbrun and Mike Leigh.
- New distributor 1-2 Special had eight noms for Everytime, La Gradiva and Closure.
- T he Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth wasn’t submitted for consideration before the Gotham’s deadline.