‘Boyhood’ Scores Four Gotham Award Nominations

Richard Linklater’s acclaimed movie Boyhood has landed four nominations for the 2014 Gotham Independent Film Awards including a Best Feature nod.

The drama, which took the director 12 years to complete and stars Ethan Hawke and Patricia Arquette will compete against Birdman, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Love is Strange and Under The Skin in the top category.

Hawke has also scored a Best Actor nomination for his role in the film, alongside Bill Hader for The Skeleton Twins, A Most Violent Year‘s Oscar Isaac, Michael Keaton for Birdman and Miles Teller for Whiplash, while Arquette is up against Gugu Mbatha-Raw (Beyond the Lights), Julianne Moore (Still Alice), Under the Skin‘s Scarlett Johansson and Mia Wasikowska (Tracks) in the Best Actress category.

Nightcrawler‘s Riz Ahmed, Blue Ruin‘s Macon Blair, Boyhood‘s Ellar Coltrane, Wish I Was Here‘s Joey King, Obvious Child‘s Jenny Slate and Dear White People‘s Tessa Thompson will battle it out for Breakthrough Actor.

The award ceremony will take place at Cipriani Wall Street in New York on December 1. Actress Tilda Swinton and Foxcatcher director Bennett Miller with be honored with special tributes at the event.

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