This is the thread where we discuss matters pertaining to the detrius that accompanies the "End of the Year in Cinema" -- 2026

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Thank you, Alfred!

Apart from festival prizes, the Gotham Award nominations are always first on the awards calendar. They were announced last week, with the following idiosyncratic nominees for Best Feature:

Clarissa
Club Kid
The Debut
Dreams in Nightmares
The Invite
Josephine
Mouse
Paper Tiger
Primetime
Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma
Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother

Of the nominees I've seen, I loved The Invite and was cooler on Camp Miasma and Primetime (though I admired their directors' vision). I had a ticket to see Clarissa at the Chicago Int'l Film Festival, but it was on a weeknight and I was too tired to go. Going to see Mouse tomorrow night.

Won't post the other categories, but you can see them on Wiki:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gotham_Independent_Film_Awards_2026

Clarissa and Teenage Sex are terrific. Club Kid is so Not My Thing. I can't wait to watch Paper Tiger -- James Gray is my favorite American writer-director. I missed it at last week's MFF Gems b/c Halloween.