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Gotham Awards

Gotham Awards
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Awarded for Independent film
Date 1991; 26 years ago (1991)
Location New York City
Country United States
Presented by Independent Filmmaker Project
First awarded 1991; 26 years ago (1991)
Official website gotham.ifp.org

The Gotham Independent Film Awards are American film awards, presented annually to the makers of independent films at a ceremony in New York City, the city first nicknamed "Gotham" by native son Washington Irving, in an issue of Salmagundi, published on November 11, 1807. Part of the Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP), "the largest membership organization in the United States dedicated to independent film" (founded in 1979), the awards were inaugurated in 1991 as a means of showcasing and honoring films made primarily in the northeastern region of the United States.

In 2004, the scope of the awards broadened to include the international film scene, when the number of awards presented increased from six awards – given to films and those involved in making them primarily from the northeastern U.S. film community – to nine awards, including in its broader scope films originating in Los Angeles, California, and international locations as well.

Having outgrown its previous locations in the city's Manhattan borough, for the first time in its history, the 17th Annual Gotham Awards gala occurred outside of that borough, in the city's Brooklyn borough at Steiner Studios, in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, on November 27, 2007, and it was "promoted nationally via a partnership with The New York Times and locally via broadcast on nyctv".

The 15th Annual Gotham Awards were awarded on November 30, 2005.

The 16th Annual Gotham Awards were awarded on November 29, 2006.

The 17th Annual Gotham Awards were awarded on November 27, 2007.

The 18th Annual Gotham Awards were awarded on December 2, 2008.

The 19th Annual Gotham Awards were presented on December 1, 2009.


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