21st Annual Gotham Film Awards (2011)

Film

Best Feature

	Beginners (TIE)
	The Tree of Life (TIE)
	The Descendants
	Meek's Cutoff
	Take Shelter

Best Ensemble Performance

	Beginners - Keegan Boos, Mary Page Keller, Mélanie Laurent, Kai Lennox, Ewan McGregor, Christopher Plummer, and Goran Višnjić
	The Descendants - Mary Birdsong, Beau Bridges, George Clooney, Robert Forster, Judy Greer, Rob Huebel, Nick Krause, Matthew Lillard, Amara Miller, and Shailene Woodley
	Margin Call - Penn Badgley, Simon Baker, Paul Bettany, Jeremy Irons, Aasif Mandvi, Mary McDonnell, Demi Moore, Zachary Quinto, Kevin Spacey, and Stanley Tucci
	Martha Marcy May Marlene - Christopher Abbott, Brady Corbet, Hugh Dancy, Maria Dizzia, Julia Garner, John Hawkes, Louisa Krause, Elizabeth Olsen, and Sarah Paulson
	Take Shelter - Kathy Baker, Jessica Chastain, LisaGay Hamilton, Robert Longstreet, Ray McKinnon, Katy Mixon, Michael Shannon, Tova Stewart, and Shea Whigham

Best Documentary Feature

	Better This World
	Bill Cunningham New York
	Hell and Back Again
	The Interrupters
	The Woodmans

Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You

	Scenes of a Crime
	Codependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same
	Green
	The Redemption of General Butt Naked
	Without

Breakthrough Director

	Dee Rees - Pariah
	Mike Cahill - Another Earth
	Sean Durkin - Martha Marcy May Marlene
	Vera Farmiga - Higher Ground
	Evan Glodell - Bellflower

Breakthrough Actor

	Felicity Jones - Like Crazy as Anna Gardner
	Elizabeth Olsen - Martha Marcy May Marlene as Martha/Marcy May/"Marlene Lewis"
	Harmony Santana - Gun Hill Road as Vanessa
	Shailene Woodley - The Descendants as Alexandra "Alex" King
	Jacob Wysocki - Terri as Terri Thompson

Audience Award

	Girlfriend
	Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey
	Buck
	The First Grader
	Wild Horse, Wild Ride

Special Awards

Spotlight on Women Filmmakers "Live the Dream" Grant

	Lucy Mulloy - Una Noche
	Jenny Deller - Future Weather
	Rola Nashef - Detroit Unleaded

Gotham Tributes

	David Cronenberg
	Gary Oldman
	Tom Rothman
	Charlize Theron