Refresh for latest… The 35th annual Gotham Awards is underway in Manhattan, and Deadline is posting the winners live as they are announced. See the list below.

The ceremony at Cipriani Wall Street kicks off movie awards season, as usual, calling out the first set of names and handing out the first crop of trophies.

Jafar Panahi won the first award of the night, Best Original Screenplay for his Cannes Palme d’or winner It Was Only an Accident. It came hours after he was convicted in absentia by Iran and sentenced to one year in prison and two years of probation. “This award belongs to all people who worked for me on this film,” he said onstage through an interpreter. “Id like to dedicate this award to independent filmmakers around the world. … I hope that this dedication will be

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