Gotham Independent Film Audience Award
CountryUnited States
Presented byIndependent Filmmaker Project
First awarded2010
Last awarded2020

The Gotham Independent Film Audience Award was one of the annual Gotham Independent Film Awards awarded between 2010 and 2020. The winner was determined via an online vote, in earlier years by the independent film community and film fans (2010–2013),[1][2][3] and later by members of the Independent Filmmaker Project (2014–2020).[4][5]

Nomination eligibility

From 2010 to 2013, the five nominees were selected in a first round of online voting from American films that had won an audience award at an American or Canadian film festival in the previous year.[6][1][7][8] Beginning in 2014, the nominees were the films nominated for Best Feature, Best Documentary, and Breakthrough Director.[4][5] In 2020, the nominees for the newly created award for Best International Feature were also nominated for this award.[9]

Winners and nominees

2010s

Year Film Director(s) Ref.
2010 Waiting for "Superman" Davis Guggenheim [10]
9000 Needles Doug Dearth
Brotherhood Will Canon
Winter's Bone Debra Granik
White Irish Drinkers John Gray
2011 Girlfriend Justin Lerner [11][2]
Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey Constance Marks
Buck Cindy Meehl
The First Grader Justin Chadwick
Wild Horse, Wild Ride Alex Dawson and Greg Gricus
2012 Artifact Jared Leto [12][13]
Beasts of the Southern Wild Benh Zeitlin
Burn Tom Putnam and Brenna Sanchez
The Invisible War Kirby Dick
Once in a Lullaby: The PS 22 Chorus Story Jonathan Kalafer
2013 Jake Shimabukuro: Life on Four Strings Tadashi Nakamura [14][15]
12 Years a Slave Steve McQueen
Best Kept Secret Samantha Buck
Don't Stop Believin': Everyman's Journey Ramona Diaz
Fruitvale Station Ryan Coogler
2014 Boyhood Richard Linklater [16][4]
Actress Robert Greene
Birdman Alejandro G. Iñárritu
Citizenfour Laura Poitras
Coherence James Ward Byrkit
Dear White People Justin Simien
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night Ana Lily Amirpour
The Grand Budapest Hotel Wes Anderson
It Felt Like Love Eliza Hittman
Life Itself Steve James
Love Is Strange Ira Sachs
Manakamana Stephanie Spray and Pacho Velez
Nightcrawler Dan Gilroy
Point and Shoot Marshall Curry
Under the Skin Jonathan Glazer
2015 Tangerine Sean Baker [17][5]
Approaching the Elephant Amanda Wilder
Appropriate Behavior Desiree Akhavan
Carol Todd Haynes
Cartel Land Matthew Heineman
The Diary of a Teenage Girl Marielle Heller
Heart of a Dog Laurie Anderson
Heaven Knows What Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie
Listen to Me Marlon Stevan Riley
The Look of Silence Joshua Oppenheimer
The Mend John Magary
Mediterranea Jonas Carpignano
Spotlight Tom McCarthy
James White Josh Mond
2016 Moonlight Barry Jenkins [18][19]
Cameraperson Kirsten Johnson
Certain Women Kelly Reichardt
Everybody Wants Some!! Richard Linklater
The Fits Anna Rose Holmer
I Am Not Your Negro Raoul Peck
Krisha Trey Edward Shults
Manchester by the Sea Kenneth Lonergan
O.J.: Made in America Ezra Edelman
Paterson Jim Jarmusch
Southside with You Richard Tanne
Swiss Army Man Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert
Tower Keith Maitland
Weiner Josh Kriegman and Elyse Steinberg
The Witch Robert Eggers
2017 Get Out Jordan Peele [20][21]
Call Me by Your Name Luca Guadagnino
Columbus Kogonada
Ex Libris: The New York Public Library Frederick Wiseman
The Florida Project Sean Baker
Good Time Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie
I, Tonya Craig Gillespie
Lady Bird Greta Gerwig
Menashe Joshua Z Weinstein
Novitiate Maggie Betts
Rat Film Theo Anthony
Strong Island Yance Ford
Whose Streets? Sabaah Folayan and Damon Davis
The Work Jairus McLeary and Gethin Aldous
2018 Won't You Be My Neighbor? Morgan Neville [22]
Bisbee '17 Robert Greene
Eighth Grade Bo Burnham
The Favourite Yorgos Lanthimos
First Reformed Paul Schrader
Hale County This Morning, This Evening RaMell Ross
Hereditary Ari Aster
If Beale Street Could Talk Barry Jenkins
Madeline's Madeline Josephine Decker
Minding the Gap Bing Liu
The Rider Chloé Zhao
Shirkers Sandi Tan
Skate Kitchen Crystal Moselle
Sorry to Bother You Boots Riley
The Tale Jennifer Fox
2019 Marriage Story Noah Baumbach [23]
American Factory Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert
Apollo 11 Todd Douglas Miller
Booksmart Olivia Wilde
Burning Cane Phillip Youmans
Diane Kent Jones
The Edge of Democracy Petra Costa
The Farewell Lulu Wang
Hustlers Lorene Scafaria
The Last Black Man in San Francisco Joe Talbot
Midnight Traveler Hassan Fazili
The Mustang Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre
One Child Nation Nanfu Wang and Jialing Zhang
Uncut Gems Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie
Waves Trey Edward Shults

2020s

Year Film Director(s) Ref.
2020 Nomadland Chloé Zhao [24][9]
76 Days Hao Wu, Weixi Chen and Anonymous
The Assistant Kitty Green
Bacurau Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles
Beanpole Kantemir Balagov
City Hall Frederick Wiseman
Cuties Maïmouna Doucouré
First Cow Kelly Reichardt
The Forty-Year-Old Version Radha Blank
Identifying Features Fernanda Valadez
Martin Eden Pietro Marcello
Miss Juneteenth Channing Godfrey Peoples
Never Rarely Sometimes Always Eliza Hittman
Our Time Machine Yang Sun and S. Leo Chiang
Relic Natalie Erika James
Saint Frances Alex Thompson
Swallow Carlo Mirabella-Davis
A Thousand Cuts Ramona Diaz
Time Garrett Bradley
The Vast of Night Andrew Patterson
Wolfwalkers Tomm Moore and Ross Stewart

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