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If the 2025 Gotham Awards nominations have shown anything, it’s that the recent changes that made more films (with bigger and bigger budgets) eligible for recognition has not changed the awards body’s overall independent spirit.

Yes, awards season frontrunner “One Battle After Another” is this year’s nominations leader, with six nods, but it is quite literally sandwiched between humble Sundance darlings “Lurker” and “Sorry, Baby” on the Best Feature ballot.

This is the first year that Gotham Awards expanded its Best Feature category to 10 nominees, and the third year since the organization got rid of its budget restrictions determining which films are eligible. Often, those constraints are shed with the thought that populism will become a larger factor in what films are nominated.

Consider a film like “Sinners” (another film that would’ve been ineligible a few years ago), which is so far the fifth highest-grossing film in the U.

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