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Nomadland takes top honors at 2021 Gotham Awards: See the full winners list

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Updated on January 12, 2021 01:25AM EST

The Gotham Awards bestowed a bit of quarantine glitz and golden Oscar buzz onto the 2021 awards circuit.

Handed out during a hybrid live-virtual ceremony broadcast Monday night from Cipriani Wall Street in New York City, the Gotham Awards amplified key contenders gunning for spots in the Oscar race. Likely Best Picture nominee Nomadland (directed by Chloé Zhao) took home Best Feature at the Gothams, while potential Oscar acting contenders Riz Ahmed (Sound of Metal) and Nicole Beharie (Miss Juneteenth) took home Best Actor and Best Actress.

As previously announced, presumptive Oscar contender Viola Davis and the late Chadwick Boseman were this year's recipients of the Gotham Awards Tribute prize. The Ma Rainey's Black Bottom costars joined a prestigious group of Tribute honorees, many of whom went on to win or be nominated for acting Oscars, including Laura Dern (Marriage Story), Rachel Weisz (The Favourite), and Gary Oldman (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy).

Though not the most reliable foreteller of Oscar tastes in the film industry, the IFP Gotham Awards typically boost visibility for early contenders in the hunt, alongside critics groups like the New York Film Critics Circle (which already named First Cow the best film of 2020) and the Los Angeles Film Critics Association (which favored Steve McQueen's Small Axe).

This year, several high-profile contenders were ineligible for Gotham Award nods, including multiple Netflix entries (Mank, Da 5 Bloods, and Hillbilly Elegy), while Sophia Loren's return to cinema in the streamer's The Life Ahead was also ineligible for a nomination in the acting categories because it was submitted as an international title.

See the full list of 2021 Gotham Awards winners below.