Payal Kapadia's All We Imagine As Light has added another feather to its cap. The Malyalam-Hindi drama has bagged the Best International Feature trophy at the prestigious Gotham Awards 2024 held at Cipriani Wall Street on Monday night in New York.
Accepting her award, Payal said, “It’s our first fiction narrative feature film, so it is super nice to get this.”
Green Border, Hard Truths, Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell and Vermiglio were the nominees in the category.
Here is the full list of winners at Gotham Awards 2024
Best Feature
A Different Man: Aaron Schimberg, director; Gabriel Mayers, Vanessa McDonnell, Christine Vachon, producers (A24)
Best Documentary Feature
No Other Land: Yuval Abraham, Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Rachel Szor, directors; Fabien Greenberg, Bård Kjøge Rønning, producers (Antipode Films)
Best Director
RaMell Ross, Nickel Boys (Orion Pictures/Amazon MGM Studios)
Best Screenplay
His Three Daughters, Azazel Jacobs (Netflix)
Breakthrough Director
Vera Drew, The People’s Joker (Altered Innocence)
Outstanding Lead Performance
Colman Domingo, Sing Sing (A24)
Outstanding Supporting Performance
Clarence Maclin, Sing Sing (A24)
Breakthrough Performer
Brandon Wilson, Nickel Boys (Orion Pictures/Amazon MGM Studios)
Coming back to All We Imagine As Light, this is not the first laurel for the film. It won top honour at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards (APSA) 2024 on Sunday. APSA wrote on Instagram that All We Imagine As Light received the Jury Grand Prize.
All We Imagine As Light, which had its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in May, became the first ever film from India to win the Grand Prix award.
All We Imagine...stars Divya Prabha, Kani Kusruti and Chhaya Kadam in key roles.
