Gotham Award / Best Film

The Gotham Awards in the category Best Film (Best Feature) has been awarded since of 2004.

In 2009 and 2014–2016, the award-winning film matched the Oscar winner in the Best Picture category .

The films listed below are given with their German distribution title (if given), followed by the English original title and the name of the director in brackets in italics. The English original title is not mentioned if the German and English film titles are identical. The winners are highlighted first.

2000s

2004

Sideways - Director: Alexander Payne

• Before Sunset - Director: Richard Linklater
• Forget Me Not! ( Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind ) - Director: Michel Gondry
• I Heart Huckabees - Director: David O. Russell
• Primer - Directed by Shane Carruth

2005

Capote - Directed by Bennett Miller

• Brokeback Mountain - Director: Ang Lee
• A History of Violence - Director: David Cronenberg
• Keane - Director: Lodge H. Kerrigan
• Me and You and Everyone We Know (Me and You and Everyone We Know) - Director: Miranda July

2006

Half Nelson - Director: Ryan Fleck

• Departed - The Departed ( The Departed ) - Director: Martin Scorsese
• Little Children - Directed by Todd Field
• Marie Antoinette - Director: Sofia Coppola
• Old Joy - Director: Kelly Reichardt

2007

Into the Wild ( Into the Wild ) - Director: Sean Penn

• Great World of Sound - Director: Craig Zobel
• I'm Not There - Directed by Todd Haynes
• Margot and the Wedding ( Margot at the Wedding ) - Director: Noah Baumbach
• Namesake - Two Worlds, One Journey - Director: Mira Nair

2008

Frozen River - Director: Courtney Hunt

• Ballast - Director: Lance Hammer
• Synecdoche, New York - Director: Charlie Kaufman
• A Summer in New York - The Visitor - Director: Tom McCarthy
• The Wrestler - Fame, Love, Pain - Director: Darren Aronofsky

2009

Deadly Command - The Hurt Locker ( The Hurt Locker ) - Director: Kathryn Bigelow

• Amreeka - Director: Cherien Dabis
• Big Fan - Director: Robert D. Siegel
• La Nana - The Pearl ( La nana ) - Director: Sebastián Silva
• A Serious Man - Directed by Ethan and Joel Coen

2010s

2010

Winter's Bone - Director: Debra Granik

• Black Swan - Director: Darren Aronofsky
• Blue Valentine - Director: Derek Cianfrance
• The Kids Are All Right - Director: Lisa Cholodenko
• Let Me In - Director: Matt Reeves

2011

Beginners - Director: Mike Mills
The Tree of Life - Director: Terrence Malick

• The Descendants - Family and Other Affairs - Director: Alexander Payne
• Meek's Cutoff - Director: Kelly Reichardt
• Take Shelter - Directed by Jeff Nichols

2012

Moonrise Kingdom - Director: Wes Anderson

• Bernie - Corpses pave his way (Bernie) - Director: Richard Linklater
• The Loneliest Planet - Director: Julia Loktev
• The Master - Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
• Middle of Nowhere - Director: Ava DuVernay

2013

Inside Llewyn Davis - Directed by Ethan and Joel Coen

• 12 Years a Slave - Director: Steve McQueen
• Before Midnight - Director: Richard Linklater
• The Saints Ain't Them Bodies Saints - Directed by David Lowery
• Upstream Color - Director: Shane Carruth

2014

Birdman or ( The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) - Director: Alejandro González Iñárritu

• Boyhood - Director: Richard Linklater
• Grand Budapest Hotel (The Grand Budapest Hotel) - Director: Wes Anderson
• Love goes strange ways (Love Is Strange) - Director: Ira Sachs
• Under the Skin - Director: Jonathan Glazer

2015

Spotlight - Directed by Tom McCarthy

• Carol - Directed by Todd Haynes
• The Diary of a Teenage Girl - Director: Marielle Heller
• Heaven Knows What - Directed by Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie
• Tangerine - Director: Sean Baker

2016

Moonlight - Director: Barry Jenkins

• Certain Women - Director: Kelly Reichardt
• Everybody Wants Some !! - Director: Richard Linklater
• Manchester by the Sea - Director: Kenneth Lonergan
• Paterson - Director: Jim Jarmusch

2017

Call Me by Your Name - Director: Luca Guadagnino

• The Florida Project - Director: Sean Baker
• Get Out - Directed by Jordan Peele
• Good Time - Directed by Benny and Josh Safdie
• I, Tonya - Director: Craig Gillespie

2018

The Rider - Director: Chloé Zhao

• The Favorite - Intrigue and Madness (The Favorite) - Director: Yorgos Lanthimos
• First Reformed - Director: Paul Schrader
• If Beale Street Could Talk - Director: Barry Jenkins
• Madeline's Madeline - Director: Josephine Decker

2019

Marriage Story - Director: Noah Baumbach

• The Farewell - Director: Lulu Wang
• Hustlers - Director: Lorene Scafaria
• The Black Diamond (Uncut Gems) - Director: Benny and Josh Safdie
• Waves - Director: Trey Edward Shults