The first real bellwether of the 2025 awards season has arrived. The nominee for the 34th Gotham Awards have been revealed, and it was quite a good morning for NEON, A24, and Amazon MGM Studios, in particular. And, in not a surprise, Sean Baker‘s Palme d’Or winning “Anora” led all nominees with four nominations including Best Feature, Best Director (Baker), Outstanding Lead Performance (Mikey Madison), and Supporting Performance (Yura Burisov).
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RaMell Ross’s “Nickel Boys” was not far behind with nominations for Best Feature, Best Director, and Breakthrough Performer (Brandon Wilson). “I Saw The TV Glow” also earned three noms but missed out on Best Feature. Jane Schoenbrun’s Sundance sensation landed Best Director, Lead Performance (Justice Smith) and Supporting Performance (Brigette Lundy-Paine) nods.
Outstanding Lead Performance nominees included many potential Oscar nominees including Madison, Nicole Kidman (“Babygirl”), Adrian Brody (“The Brutalist”), Marianne Jean-Baptiste (“Hard Truths”), Keith Kupper (“Ghostlight”), Justice Smith (“I Saw The TV Glow”), Pamela Anderson (“The Last Showgirl”), Saoirse Ronan (“The Outrun”), Colman Domingo (“Sing Sing”), and Demi Moore (“The Substance”).
Supporting Performance nominees included Burisov (“Anora”), Adam Pearson (“A Different Man”), Brian Tyree Henry (“The Fire Inside”), Natasha Lyonne (“His Three Daughters”), Brigette Lundy-Paine (“I Saw The TV Glow”), Kieran Culkin (“A Real Pain”), Katy O’Brien (“Love Lies Bleeding”), Clarence Maclin (“Sing Sing”), and Danielle Deadwyler (“The Piano Lesson”).
A number of films did not submit this year for a variety of reasons including “Gladiator II,” “A Complete Unknown,” “Wicked,” and “Nosferatu.”
Selected by multiple juries of critics and industry figures, this year’s complete list of nominees is as follows:
Best Feature 
Anora
Sean Baker, director; Sean Baker, Alex Coco, Samantha Quan, producers (NEON)
Babygirl
Halina Reijn, director; David Hinojosa, Julia Oh, Halina Reijn, producers (A24)
Challengers
Luca Guadagnino, director; Luca Guadagnino, Rachel O’Connor, Amy Pascal, Zendaya, producers (Amazon MGM Studios)
A Different Man
Aaron Schimberg, director; Gabriel Mayers, Vanessa McDonnell, Christine Vachon, producers (A24)
Nickel Boys
RaMell Ross, director; Joslyn Barnes, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, David Levine, producers (Orion Pictures/Amazon MGM Studios)
Best International Feature
All We Imagine as Light
Payal Kapadia, director; Julien Graff, Thomas Hakim, producers (Sideshow and Janus Films)
Green Border
Agnieszka Holland, director; Fred Bernstein, Agnieszka Holland, Marcin Wierzchoslawski, producers (Kino Lorber) 
Hard Truths
Mike Leigh, director; Georgina Lowe, producer (Bleecker Street)
Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell
Thien An Pham, director; Jeremy Chua, Tran Van Thi, producers (Kino Lorber)
Vermiglio
Maura Delpero, director; Francesca Andreoli, Maura Delpero, Santiago Fondevila Sance, Leonardo Guerra Seràgnoli, producers (Sideshow and Janus Films)
Best Documentary Feature 
Dahomey
Mati Diop, director; Mati Diop, Judith Lou Lévy, Eve Robin, producers (MUBI) 
Intercepted
Oksana Karpovych, director; Darya Bassel, Olha Beskhmelnytsina, Rocío B. Fuentes, Giacomo Nudi, Lucie Rego Pauline Tran Van Lieu, producers (Grasshopper Film)
No Other Land
Yuval Abraham, Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Rachel Szor, directors; Fabien Greenberg, Bård Kjøge Rønning, producers (Antipode Films)
Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat
Johan Grimonprez, director; Rémi Grellety, Daan Milius, producers (Kino Lorber)
Sugarcane
Julian Brave NoiseCat, Emily Kassie, directors; Emily Kassie, Kellen Quinn, producers (National Geographic Documentary Films)
Union
Stephen Maing, Brett Story, directors; Samantha Curley, Mars Verrone, producers (Self-Distributed)
Best Director
Payal Kapadia, All We Imagine as Light (Sideshow and Janus Films)
Sean Baker, Anora (NEON)Guan Hu, Black Dog (The Forge)
Jane Schoenbrun, I Saw the TV Glow (A24)
RaMell Ross, Nickel Boys (Orion Pictures/Amazon MGM Studios)
Best Screenplay
Between the Temples, Nathan Silver, C. Mason Wells (Sony Pictures Classics)
Evil Does Not Exist, Ryûsuke Hamaguchi (Sideshow and Janus Films)
Femme, Sam H. Freeman, Ng Choon Ping (Utopia)
His Three Daughters, Azazel Jacobs (Netflix)
Janet Planet, Annie Baker (A24)
Breakthrough Director
Shuchi Talati, Girls Will Be Girls (Juno Films, Inc)
India Donaldson, Good One (Metrograph Pictures)
Alessandra Lacorazza, In the Summers (Music Box Films)
Vera Drew, The People’s Joker (Altered Innocence)
Mahdi Fleifel, To a Land Unknown (Watermelon Pictures)
Outstanding Lead Performance 
Pamela Anderson, The Last Showgirl (Roadside Attractions)
Adrien Brody, The Brutalist (A24)
Colman Domingo, Sing Sing (A24)
Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Hard Truths (Bleecker Street)
Nicole Kidman, Babygirl (A24)
Keith Kupferer, Ghostlight (IFC Films)
Mikey Madison, Anora (NEON)
Demi Moore, The Substance (MUBI)
Saoirse Ronan, Outrun (Sony Pictures Classics)
Justice Smith, I Saw the TV Glow (A24)
Outstanding Supporting Performance
Yura Borisov, Anora (NEON)
Kieran Culkin, A Real Pain (Searchlight Pictures)
Danielle Deadwyler, The Piano Lesson (Netflix)
Brigette Lundy-Paine, I Saw the TV Glow (A24)
Natasha Lyonne, His Three Daughters (Netflix)
Clarence Maclin, Sing Sing (A24)
Katy O’Brian, Love Lies Bleeding (A24)
Guy Pearce, The Brutalist (A24)
Adam Pearson, A Different Man (A24)
Brian Tyree Henry, The Fire Inside (Amazon MGM Studios)
Breakthrough Performer
Lily Collias, Good One (Metrograph Pictures)
Ryan Destiny, The Fire Inside (Amazon MGM Studios)
Maisy Stella, My Old Ass (Amazon MGM Studios)
Izaac Wang, Dìdi Y(Focus Features) 
Brandon Wilson, Nickel Boys (Orion Pictures/Amazon MGM Studios)
Earlier this month, the Gothams announced that Black List founder Franklin Leonard will receive the Gotham Anniversary Tribute, an honor created to “recognize the major milestones and storied commitments of entertainment’s most influential individuals.” The Black List is celebrating its 20th Anniversary in 2025. Denis Villeneuve will also receive The Director Tribute for his body of work including “Dune: Part II” while the cast of Netflix’s “The Piano Lesson,” Samuel L. Jackson, John David Washington, Ray Fisher, Danielle Deadwyler, Michael Potts, Corey Hawkins, and Erykah Badu, will be handed The Gotham Ensemble tribute.

The 34th Gotham Awards will take place live and in person on Monday, December 2 at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City.