Focus Features has a big night at the Gothams 2012

 IFP handed out its 21st annual Gotham Awards in New York, honoring Mike Mills’s Beginners and Terrence Malick’s The Tree of LIfe among the laureled Class of 2011. Like Crazy actress Felicity Jones and Pariah director Dee Rees showed strongly as well; read on for the complete list of winners:


Best Feature presented
A Tie between:
BEGINNERS
Directed by Mike Mills
Produced by Leslie Urdang, Dean Vanech, Miranda de Pencier, Jay Van Hoy, Lars
Knudsen
Released by Focus Features


TREE OF LIFE
Directed by Terrence Malick
Produced by Sarah Green, Bill Pohlad, Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner, Grant Hill
Released by Fox Searchlight


Best Documentary
BETTER THIS WORLD
Directed and produced by Katie Galloway and Kelly Duane de la Vega
Produced by Mike Nicholson


Breakthrough Director Award
DEE REES
Writer and director of Pariah
Released by Focus Features


Breakthrough Actor Award
FELICITY JONES
Actor in Like Crazy
Released by Paramount Vantage
The Breakthrough Actor Jury included: Chris Eyre, Melissa Leo, Anne Rosellini, Ira Sachs
and Jeffrey Wright


Best Ensemble Performance Award
Ewan McGregor, Christopher Plummer, Melanie Laurent, Goran Visnjic, Kai Lennox,
Mary Page Keller, Keegan Boos
in BEGINNERS
Released by Focus Features


Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You Award
SCENES OF A CRIME
Blue Hadaegh & Grover Babcock, Directors and Producers


Gotham Independent Film Audience Award
GIRLFRIEND
Justin Lerner, Director
Produced by Jerad Anderson, Kristina Lauren Anderson, Justin Lerner, Shaun O’Banion


euphoria Calvin Klein Spotlight on Women Filmmakers ‘Live the Dream’ grant
LUCY MULLOY
for upcoming film UNA NOCHE