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‘Boyhood’ earns four Gotham Independent Film Award nominations

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Richard Linklater’s acclaimed drama “Boyhood” dominated the 24th Gotham Independent Film Award nominations Thursday, earning four nods in the first event of the movie awards season. “Boyhood” received nominations for film, actor Ethan Hawke, actress Patricia Arquette and breakthrough actor for Ellar Coltrane.

The lead actor nominating panel also voted to award a special Gotham Jury Award jointly to Steve Carell, Mark Ruffalo and Channing Tatum for their ensemble performance in “Foxcatcher.”

Other nominations announced Thursday:

Feature: Besides “Boyhood,” the nominees are “Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)”; “The Grand Budapest Hotel”; “Love Is Strange”; and “Under the Skin.”

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Documentary: “Actress,” “Citizenfour,” “Life Itself,” “Manakama” and “Point and Shoot.”

Actor: Vying with Hawke are Bill Hader in “The Skeleton Twins”; Oscar Isaac in “A Most Violent Year”; Michael Keaton in “Birdman”; and Miles Teller in “Whiplash.”

Actress: Joining Arquette are Gugu Mbatha-Raw in “Beyond the Lights”: Julianne Moore in “Still Alice”; Scarlett Johansson in “Under the Skin”; and Mia Wasikowska in “Tracks.”

Bingham Ray breakthrough director: Ana Lily Amirpour for “A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night”; James Ward Byrkit for “Coherence”; Dan Gilroy for “Nightcrawler”; Eliza Hittman for “It Felt Like Love”; and Justin Simien for “Dear White People.”

Breakthrough Actor: Competing with Coltrane are Riz Ahmed in “Nightcrawler”; Macon Blair in “Blue Ruin”; Joey King in “Wish I Were Here”; Jenny Slate in “Obvious Child”; and Tessa Thompson in “Dear White People.”

Gotham Independent Film Audience Award: Nominees are comprised of the 15 nominated films in the best feature, documentary and Bingham Ray breakthrough director categories.

For the fourth year, the IFP is also presenting the Calvin Klein Spotlight on Women Filmmakers “Live the Dream” grant, a $25,000 cash award for an alumna of the IFP’s Independent Filmmaker Labs. This year’s nominees are Garrett Bradley for “Below Dreams”; Claire Carre for “Embers” and Chloe Zhao for “Songs My Brother Taught Me.”

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It was previously announced that actress Tilda Swinton and “Foxcatcher” director Bennett Miller would receive Gotham Award Tributes, while Netflix’s Ted Sarandos is this year’s recipient of the Industry Tribute honor.

The awards are sponsored by the Independent Film Project. The winners will be announced at the awards ceremony Dec. 1 at the Cipriani Wall Street.

Twitter: @mymackie

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