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A Wild Night in Gotham
Even the Alaskan wilderness isn't remote enough to escape award season.
Into the Wild, Sean Penn's long-gestating dramatization of the true-life adventures and untimely death of society-shunner Chris McCandless, was named Best Feature at the 17th annual Gotham Awards, which are handed out by the New York-based Independent Film Project.
Emile Hirsch, who shed 40 pounds—reportedly a quarter of his body weight—to play McCandless toward the end of the character's 24-year-old life, accepted the award on behalf of Penn.
"Before I got this role I was sitting on my couch 35 pounds overweight with a shaved head, so thank you," the 22-year-old Los Angeles native told the audience Tuesday at Steiner Studios in Brooklyn.
Two films shared the wealth for Best Ensemble Cast—Kasi Lemmons' biopic Talk to Me, starring Don Cheadle as deejay Ralph Waldo "Petey" Greene; and Sidney Lumet's new thriller, Before the Devil Knows You're Dead, a pointedly bleak look at what happens when two brothers (Philip Seymour Hoffman and Ethan Hawke) decide that robbing their parents' jewelry store will be a pain-free way to score some much-needed cash.
Michael Moore's Sicko, in which the Academy Award winner employs his typically provocative methods to stick a fork in the U.S. healthcare industry, was named Best Documentary—a promising start to what's sure to be a spin-tastic pre-Oscar season for the Weinstein Co.
Craig Zobel took home the Breakthrough Director prize for his feature debut Great World of Sound, an American Idol-meets-A Mighty Wind comedy about a record company talent scout who travels around the country getting real-life people, who think that the actors are real scouts, to audition.
The Breakthrough Actor award went to Ellen Page, who plays a pregnant teenager with a lot of planning to do in Jason Reitman's latest effort, Juno.
Ronald Bronstein's door-to-door salesman comedy Frownland took home the glass-is-half-full award, otherwise known as Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You—which, perhaps, will change in the near future thanks to the positive recognition.
Honorary awards were handed out to Oscar nominee Javier Bardem, who's currently tearing up the screen as the oddly-coiffed psychopath Anton Chigurh in No Country for Old Men; critic Roger Ebert; director Mira Nair; IFC Entertainment president Jonathan Sehring; production designer Mark Friedberg; and NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who will have a cameo in the upcoming Sex and the City movie, for their contributions to independent cinema.
"When we didn't know if Roger was going to be here the next day, we got a bunch of movies, independent movies but also studio movies, I'm not going to lie," Chaz Ebert said on behalf of her husband, who is battling thyroid cancer. He accompanied her to the podium but was unable to speak.
"I know how much this man loves movies—he's still like a kid when he goes into a movie theater," she said.
Uma Thurman, Laura Linney, Keri Russell, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Josh Brolin—all of whom have taken pay-cuts now and again in order to exercise their craft in an indie fashion—were among the A-listers in attendance.
The 17th annual Gotham Film Awards will be televised Dec. 8 on the Documentary Channel.
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