The nominees are here for the 36th Annual Gotham Film Awards, taking place in New York City on November 30, 2026. Several movies made by and featuring LGBTQ+ talent, as well as queer characters and storylines, were nominated.
List below.
La Gradiva (4 nominations)
Best International Feature
Breakthrough Director - Marine Atlan
Best Original Screenplay - Marine Atlan and Anne Brouillet
Breakthrough Performer - Colas Quignard
The coming-of-age drama centers on teenagers visiting Pompeii (the ancient Roman city frozen in time) and follows a student as he navigates complicated friendship and attraction to another boy.
Clarissa (4 nominations)
Best Feature
Best Adapted Screenplay - Chuko Esiri
Outstanding Lead Performance - Sophie Okonedo
Breakthrough Performer - India Amarteifio
The title character’s unresolved feelings for a friend, Sally, are explored in the film, which adapts Virginia Woolf’s 1925 novel Mrs Dalloway.
The Invite (4 nominations)
Best Feature
Best Adapted Screenplay - Rashida Jones and Will McCormack
Outstanding Supporting Performance - Penélope Cruz
Gotham Audience Award
Directed by Olivia Wilde, The Invite tackles nonmonogamy. One of the four main characters, Piña, is a bisexual woman played by Penélope Cruz.
Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (3 nominations)
Best Feature
Best Director - Jane Schoenbrun
Outstanding Lead Performance - Gillian Anderson
From filmmaker Jane Schoenbrun, the film portrays the surreal dynamics and queer relationship between characters played by Hannah Einbinder and Gillian Anderson.
Club Kid (2 nominations)
Best Feature
Breakthrough Director - Jordan Firstman
Jordan Firstman’s filmmaking debut Club Kid follows a gay NYC nightlife promoter who finds out he has a 10-year-old child.
Fatherland (2 nominations)
Best International Feature
Outstanding Supporting Performance - Sandra Hüller
This biographical drama about the Mann family includes queer storylines surrounding Erika Mann, played by Sandra Hüller.
La Bola Negra (2 nominations)
Breakthrough Performer - Guitarricadelafuente
Gotham Audience Award
Three generations of queer men in Spain have their stories told in La Bola Negra, by filmmakers Los Javis, featuring the debut acting performance of Guitarricadelafuente — now nominated for a Gotham Award.
Maddie’s Secret (2 nominations)
Breakthrough Director - John Early
Outstanding Lead Performance - John Early
John Early gets two nominations for directing and starring in Maddie's Secret, a film about a food influencer who hides an eating disorder.
Dreams in Nightmares (1 nomination)
Best Feature
A film about chosen family that follows a group of queer Black friends in the Midwest.
Elsinore (1 nomination)
Outstanding Lead Performance - Andrew Scott
Andrew Scott plays Ian Charleson in this biopic about the legendary actor.
Mouse (1 nomination)
Best Feature
Set in 2002, the movie explores queer identity and grief embodied in a teenage girl.