Tree of Life, Beginners Lead Gotham Award Winners

IFP handed out its 21st annual Gotham Awards tonight 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

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