# Gotham Independent Film Award for Best Feature

The Gotham Independent Film Award for Best Feature is one of the annual Gotham Independent Film Awards and was first awarded in 2004 with Alexander Payne's Sideways being the first recipient of the award.

## Winners and nominees
### 2000s

| Year | Film | Distributing company(s) | Director(s) |
| 2004 | Sideways | Fox Searchlight Pictures | Alexander Payne |
| 2004 | Before Sunset | Warner Independent Pictures | Richard Linklater |
| 2004 | Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind | Focus Features | Michel Gondry |
| 2004 | I Heart Huckabees | Fox Searchlight Pictures | David O. Russell |
| 2004 | Primer | TH!NKFilm | Shane Carruth |
| 2005 | Capote | Sony Pictures Classics | Bennett Miller |
| 2005 | Brokeback Mountain | Focus Features | Ang Lee |
| 2005 | A History of Violence | New Line Cinema | David Cronenberg |
| 2005 | Keane | Magnolia Pictures | Lodge Kerrigan |
| 2005 | Me and You and Everyone We Know | IFC Films | Miranda July |
| 2006 | Half Nelson | TH!NKFilm | Ryan Fleck |
| 2006 | The Departed | Warner Bros. | Martin Scorsese |
| 2006 | Little Children | New Line Cinema | Todd Field |
| 2006 | Marie Antoinette | Columbia Pictures | Sofia Coppola |
| 2006 | Old Joy | Kino International | Kelly Reichardt |
| 2007 | Into the Wild | Paramount Vantage | Sean Penn |
| 2007 | Great World of Sound | Magnolia Pictures | Craig Zobel |
| 2007 | I'm Not There | The Weinstein Company | Todd Haynes |
| 2007 | Margot at the Wedding | Paramount Vantage | Noah Baumbach |
| 2007 | The Namesake | Fox Searchlight Pictures | Mira Nair |
| 2008 | Frozen River | Sony Pictures Classics | Courtney Hunt |
| 2008 | Ballast | Alluvial Film Company | Lance Hammer |
| 2008 | Synecdoche, New York | Sony Pictures Classics | Charlie Kaufman |
| 2008 | The Visitor | Overture Films | Tom McCarthy |
| 2008 | The Wrestler | Fox Searchlight Pictures | Darren Aronofsky |
| 2009 | The Hurt Locker | Summit Entertainment | Kathryn Bigelow |
| 2009 | Amreeka | Virgil Films & Entertainment | Cherien Dabis |
| 2009 | Big Fan | First Independent Pictures | Robert D. Siegel |
| 2009 | The Maid | Elephant Eye Films | Sebastián Silva |
| 2009 | A Serious Man | Focus Features | Joel Coen and Ethan Coen |

### 2010s

| Year | Film | Distributing company(s) | Director(s) | Ref. |
| 2010 | Winter's Bone | Roadside Attractions | Debra Granik | |
| 2010 | Black Swan | Fox Searchlight Pictures | Darren Aronofsky | |
| 2010 | Blue Valentine | The Weinstein Company | Derek Cianfrance | |
| 2010 | The Kids Are All Right | Focus Features | Lisa Cholodenko | |
| 2010 | Let Me In | Overture Films | Matt Reeves | |
| 2011 | Beginners | Focus Features | Mike Mills | |
| 2011 | The Tree of Life | Fox Searchlight Pictures | Terrence Malick | |
| 2011 | The Descendants | Fox Searchlight Pictures | Alexander Payne | |
| 2011 | Meek's Cutoff | Oscilloscope Laboratories | Kelly Reichardt | |
| 2011 | Take Shelter | Sony Pictures Classics | Jeff Nichols | |
| 2012 | Moonrise Kingdom | Focus Features | Wes Anderson | [9] [10] |
| 2012 | Bernie | Millennium Entertainment | Richard Linklater | [9] [10] |
| 2012 | The Loneliest Planet | IFC Films | Julia Loktev | [9] [10] |
| 2012 | The Master | The Weinstein Company | Paul Thomas Anderson | [9] [10] |
| 2012 | Middle of Nowhere | Participant Media | Ava DuVernay | [9] [10] |
| 2013 | Inside Llewyn Davis | CBS Films | Joel Coen and Ethan Coen | |
| 2013 | 12 Years a Slave | Fox Searchlight Pictures | Steve McQueen | |
| 2013 | Ain't Them Bodies Saints | IFC Films | David Lowery | |
| 2013 | Before Midnight | Sony Pictures Classics | Richard Linklater | |
| 2013 | Upstream Color | VHX | Shane Carruth | |
| 2014 | Birdman | Fox Searchlight Pictures | Alejandro G. Iñárritu | |
| 2014 | Boyhood | IFC Films | Richard Linklater | |
| 2014 | The Grand Budapest Hotel | Fox Searchlight Pictures | Wes Anderson | |
| 2014 | Love Is Strange | Sony Pictures Classics | Ira Sachs | |
| 2014 | Under the Skin | A24 | Jonathan Glazer | |
| 2015 | Spotlight | Open Road Films | Tom McCarthy | |
| 2015 | Carol | StudioCanal / The Weinstein Company | Todd Haynes | |
| 2015 | The Diary of a Teenage Girl | Sony Pictures Classics | Marielle Heller | |
| 2015 | Heaven Knows What | RADiUS-TWC | Josh Safdie and Benny Safdie | |
| 2015 | Tangerine | Magnolia Pictures | Sean Baker | |
| 2016 | Moonlight | A24 | Barry Jenkins | |
| 2016 | Certain Women | IFC Films | Kelly Reichardt | |
| 2016 | Everybody Wants Some!! | Paramount Pictures | Richard Linklater | |
| 2016 | Manchester by the Sea | Amazon Studios / Roadside Attractions | Kenneth Lonergan | |
| 2016 | Paterson | Amazon Studios / Bleecker Street | Jim Jarmusch | |
| 2017 | Call Me by Your Name | Sony Pictures Classics | Luca Guadagnino | |
| 2017 | The Florida Project | A24 | Sean Baker | |
| 2017 | Get Out | Universal Pictures | Jordan Peele | |
| 2017 | Good Time | A24 | Josh Safdie and Benny Safdie | |
| 2017 | I, Tonya | Neon | Craig Gillespie | |
| 2018 | The Rider | Sony Pictures Classics | Chloé Zhao | |
| 2018 | The Favourite | Fox Searchlight Pictures | Yorgos Lanthimos | |
| 2018 | First Reformed | A24 | Paul Schrader | |
| 2018 | If Beale Street Could Talk | Annapurna Pictures | Barry Jenkins | |
| 2018 | Madeline's Madeline | Oscilloscope Laboratories | Josephine Decker | |
| 2019 | Marriage Story | Netflix | Noah Baumbach | |
| 2019 | The Farewell | A24 | Lulu Wang | |
| 2019 | Hustlers | STX Entertainment | Lorene Scafaria | |
| 2019 | Uncut Gems | A24 | Josh Safdie and Benny Safdie | |
| 2019 | Waves | A24 | Trey Edward Shults | |

### 2020s

| Year | Film | Distributing company(s) | Director(s) |
| 2020 | Nomadland | Searchlight Pictures | Chloé Zhao |
| 2020 | The Assistant | Bleecker Street | Kitty Green |
| 2020 | First Cow | A24 | Kelly Reichardt |
| 2020 | Never Rarely Sometimes Always | Focus Features | Eliza Hittman |
| 2020 | Relic | IFC Midnight | Natalie Erika James |
| 2021 | The Lost Daughter | Netflix | Maggie Gyllenhaal |
| 2021 | The Green Knight | A24 | David Lowery |
| 2021 | Passing | Netflix | Rebecca Hall |
| 2021 | Pig | Neon | Michael Sarnoski |
| 2021 | Test Pattern | Kino Lorber | Shatara Michelle Ford |
| 2022 | Everything Everywhere All at Once | A24 | Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert |
| 2022 | Aftersun | A24 | Charlotte Wells |
| 2022 | The Cathedral | MUBI | Ricky D'Ambrose |
| 2022 | Dos Estaciones | The Cinema Guild | Juan Pablo González |
| 2022 | Tár | Focus Features | Todd Field |
| 2023 | Past Lives | A24 | Celine Song |
| 2023 | Passages | MUBI | Ira Sachs |
| 2023 | Reality | HBO Films | Tina Satter |
| 2023 | Showing Up | A24 | Kelly Reichardt |
| 2023 | A Thousand and One | Focus Features | A. V. Rockwell |
| 2024 | A Different Man | A24 | Aaron Schimberg |
| 2024 | Anora | Neon | Sean Baker |
| 2024 | Babygirl | A24 | Halina Reijn |
| 2024 | Challengers | Amazon MGM Studios | Luca Guadagnino |
| 2024 | Nickel Boys | Amazon MGM Studios / Orion Pictures | RaMell Ross |