If the Gotham Awards are any indication, Get Out could dominate the awards cycle—but Call Me by Your Name might ultimately walk away with the top prize. Jordan Peele’s allegorical horror story about race in America won several awards Monday night, including breakthrough director, best screenplay, and the democratic audience award.
But the night’s final prize for best feature went to Call Me by Your Name, Luca Guadagnino’s sumptuous, bighearted romance starring Armie Hammer and Timothée Chalamet.“We started this film many, many years ago—many,” Guadagnino noted before handing the mic to James Ivory, who wrote and produced the film. “I’m not used to winning things,” the legendary multi-hyphenate joked.
Chalamet, the 21-year-old rising star, also picked up the best breakthrough-actor award for his performance in C.M.B.Y.N. An exuberant native New Yorker, he was clearly thrilled to win a Manhattan-based award, using his speech to highlight other famous New Yorkers, including Robert De Niro, Martin Scorsese, and Cardi B. (Jordan Peele liked the speech so much that he also thanked Cardi B during his acceptance speech for audience award.)
While it’s tempting to use them to predict the future of awards season, the Gotham Awards aren’t exactly the best prognosticator. Gotham winners are chosen by a tiny, select group of jurors, whereas ceremonies like the Critics’ Choice Awards and the Oscars are determined by much larger pools. The categories can be a genuinely random medley; the breakthrough-actor award, for example, pitted nominees like Chalamet and Mary J. Blige in the same category. (Chalamet ended up winning, but made sure to mention the Grammy-winning singer not once, but twice in his speech.) Still, the Gotham Awards served as a perfect microcosm of the upcoming season, proving…
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