Winter's Bone Wins at Gotham Awards, Plus a Few Curveballs

Winter's Bone made a serious bid to hang on to its Best Picture nomination in Movieline's Oscar Index at last night's Gotham Awards, taking home two awards including Best Feature. On the other hand, Best Documentary winner The Oath probably won't make much Oscar headway, since it wasn't even shortlisted. Check out the full list of winners and a rundown of the upsets in what was actually a fairly unpredictable awards show after the jump.

The consensus was that this year's ceremony was an even more star-studded one than the last with celebrities like Natalie Portman, Bill Murray and Paul Rudd in attendance. Stanley Tucci and Patrica Clarkson made for very classy hosts, and there were a a ton of tributes.

But yes, onto the upsets: Ronald Bronstein took home the Breakthrough Performance award for Daddy Longlegs, beating out Winter's Bone actress Jennifer Lawrence, who was favored to win. Honestly though, Bronstein was phenomenal and I suspect those who saw the film will agree that he was equally deserving. Also, Holy Rollers director Kevin Asch beat out the favored Tiny Furniture director and Judd Apatow protege Lena Dunham for Breakthrough Director.

And audiences voiced complete indifference for recent Waiting For Superman critical takedowns, awarding it the new Festival Genius Award via online voting. Congratulations to all of the winners:

Best Feature

Winter's Bone

Best Documentary

The Oath

Best Ensemble Performance

Winter's Bone

Breakthrough Director

Kevin Asch, Holy Rollers

Breakthrough Actor

Ronald Bronstein, Daddy Longlegs

Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You

Littlerock

Festival Genius Audience Award

Waiting For 'Superman

·Gotham Awards 2010: Minute By Minute [Indiewire]

·Winter's Bone Tops Surprising Gotham Awards [Moviefone]