{"id":45245,"date":"2018-11-27T13:52:40","date_gmt":"2018-11-27T18:52:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=45245"},"modified":"2018-11-27T13:52:40","modified_gmt":"2018-11-27T18:52:40","slug":"the-rider-wins-top-gotham-awards-prize-first-reformed-and-eight-grade-each-take-home-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2018\/11\/27\/the-rider-wins-top-gotham-awards-prize-first-reformed-and-eight-grade-each-take-home-two\/","title":{"rendered":"THE RIDER Wins Top Gotham Awards Prize; FIRST REFORMED and EIGHT GRADE Each Take Home Two"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/rider-2018.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/rider-2018.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"678\" height=\"340\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-45246\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/rider-2018.jpg 678w, https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/rider-2018-339x170.jpg 339w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The drama <strong>The Rider<\/strong> claimed the top prize at last night&#8217;s IFP Gotham Awards as awards season kicks into high gear. Indie drama <strong>First Reformed<\/strong> (Ethan Hawke for Best Actor and Paul Schrader for Best Screenplay) and coming-of-age comedy <strong>Eighth Grade<\/strong> (Elsie Fisher for Breakthrough Actor and Bo Burnham for Breakthrough Director) took home two awards each.<\/p>\n<p>The popular Mister Rogers documentary <strong>Won&#8217;t You Be My Neighbor?<\/strong> started what some are predicting to be a strong awards run for the film by taking home the Gotham&#8217;s Audience Award. Meanwhile, Best Documentary went to <strong>Hale County This Morning, This Evening<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Between the dual wins for both <strong>First Reformed<\/strong> and <strong>Eighth Grade<\/strong> as well as Toni Collette\u2019s Best Actress win for the horror film <strong>Hereditary<\/strong>, A24 was the big winner among distributors with a total of five trophies.<\/p>\n<p>The Gotham Awards are the first of the award shows in a season that stretches three months all the way to the Academy Awards on February 22. Although it focuses on independent films, the Gotham Awards can be seen as a bellwether for some potential Oscar frontrunners. Recent Academy Award honorees such as <strong>Get Out<\/strong>, <strong>Call Me By Your Name<\/strong> and <strong>Lady Bird<\/strong> started their award season runs with wins at the Gotham Awards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">Awards Season is now in full swing as the first trophies of the year are given out.<\/div>\n<p> <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2018\/11\/27\/the-rider-wins-top-gotham-awards-prize-first-reformed-and-eight-grade-each-take-home-two\/\" title=\"THE RIDER Wins Top Gotham Awards Prize; FIRST REFORMED and EIGHT GRADE Each Take Home Two\">[click for more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45246,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[10136,10134,10133,9882,10347],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-45245","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-eighth-grade","9":"tag-first-reformed","10":"tag-gotham-awards-2018","11":"tag-hereditary","12":"tag-the-rider"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[2],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45245"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=45245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}