Tree of Life, Beginners Lead Gotham Award Winners

IFP handed out its 21st annual Gotham Awards tonight in NY, honoring Mike Mills’s Beginners and Terrence Malick’s The Tree of LIfe among the laureled Class of 2011. Like Crazy actress Felicity Jones and Pariah director Dee Rees showed strongly as well; read on for the complete list of winners. Best Feature presented A Tie between: BEGINNERS Directed by Mike Mills Produced by Leslie Urdang, Dean Vanech, Miranda de Pencier, Jay Van Hoy, Lars Knudsen Released by Focus Features TREE OF LIFE Directed by Terrence Malick Produced by Sarah Green, Bill Pohlad, Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner, Grant Hill Released by Fox Searchlight Best Documentary BETTER THIS WORLD Directed and produced by Katie Galloway and Kelly Duane de la Vega Produced by Mike Nicholson Breakthrough Director Award DEE REES Writer and director of Pariah Released by Focus Features Breakthrough Actor Award FELICITY JONES Actor in Like Crazy Released by Paramount Vantage The Breakthrough Actor Jury included: Chris Eyre, Melissa Leo, Anne Rosellini, Ira Sachs and Jeffrey Wright Best Ensemble Performance Award Ewan McGregor, Christopher Plummer, Melanie Laurent, Goran Visnjic, Kai Lennox, Mary Page Keller, Keegan Boos in BEGINNERS Released by Focus Features Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You Award SCENES OF A CRIME Blue Hadaegh & Grover Babcock, Directors and Producers Gotham Independent Film Audience Award GIRLFRIEND Justin Lerner, Director Produced by Jerad Anderson, Kristina Lauren Anderson, Justin Lerner, Shaun O’Banion euphoria Calvin Klein Spotlight on Women Filmmakers ‘Live the Dream’ grant LUCY MULLOY for upcoming lm UNA NOCHE ###