Gotham Independent Film Awards 2011

The 21st Annual Gotham Independent Film Awards were presented on November 28, 2011.

Winners and nominees

Best Feature

Beginners (tie)
The Tree of Life (tie)

• The Descendants
• Meek's Cutoff
• Take Shelter

Best Ensemble Performance

Beginners

• The Descendants
• Margin Call
• Martha Marcy May Marlene
• Take Shelter

Best Breakthrough Actor/Actress

Felicity Jones - Like Crazy

• Elizabeth Olsen - Martha Marcy May Marlene
• Harmony Santana - Gun Hill Road
• Shailene Woodley - The Descendants
• Jacob Wysocki - Terri

Best Breakthrough Director

Dee Rees - Pariah

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

Best Documentary

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

Tribute Award

• David Cronenberg
• Gary Oldman
• Tom Rothman
• Charlize Theron