Breakthrough Actor

2008 Gotham Independent Film Award - Breakthrough Actor WinnerFrozen RiverMelissa LeoA mom looks for another source of income, when her husband leaves with the money meant for the new mobile home. A nearby Indian territory stretches across the border to Canada with a drivable frozen river between. Smugling?Amazon2008 Gotham Independent Film Award - Breakthrough Actor NomineesAugust EveningPedro CastanedaAmazonBallastMicheal J. Smith Sr.AmazonChop ShopAlejandro PolancoAmazonRachel Getting MarriedRosemarie DeWittAmazonVicky Cristina BarcelonaRebecca HallAmazon

1998 Gotham Independent Film Award - Breakthrough Actor WinnerSlamSonja SohnSlam tells the story of Ray Joshua, an original, gifted young MC trapped in a war-zone housing project known as Dodge City. Unable to find a job, Ray copes with the despair and poverty of ...Amazon1998 Gotham Independent Film Award - Breakthrough Actor NomineesLawn DogsSam RockwellAmazonNiagara, NiagaraRobin TunneyAmazonSix Ways to SundayNorman ReedusAmazon

1999 Gotham Independent Film Award - Breakthrough Actor WinnerHappinessDylan BakerThe lives of several individuals intertwine as they go about their lives in their own unique ways, engaging in acts society as a whole might find disturbing in a desperate search for human connection.Amazon1999 Gotham Independent Film Award - Breakthrough Actor NomineesTumbleweedsJanet McTeerA woman and her daughter have been constantly moving from town to town for years, but their newest home might be different from all the others.Amazon1999 Gotham Independent Film Award - Breakthrough Actor Nominees

2000 Gotham Independent Film Award - Breakthrough Actor WinnerGirlfightMichelle RodriguezDiana, without her father knowing it, trains as a boxer and achieves impressive success, blazing new trails for female boxers.Amazon

2001 Gotham Independent Film Award - Breakthrough Actor WinnerStranger InsideYolonda RossA mother daughter reunion set in the harsh reality of a women's correctional facilityAmazon

2002 Gotham Independent Film Award - Breakthrough Actor WinnerSecretaryMaggie GyllenhaalA young woman, recently released from a mental hospital, gets a job as a secretary to a demanding lawyer, where their employer-employee relationship turns into a sexual, sadomasochistic one.Amazon

2003 Gotham Independent Film Award - Breakthrough Actor WinnerSoldier's GirlLee PaceThe true story of the price a young soldier paid for falling in love with a transsexual night-club performer.Amazon2003 Gotham Independent Film Award - Breakthrough Actor NomineesAll the Real GirlsPaul SchneiderAmazonRaising Victor VargasJudy MarteAmazonRaising Victor VargasVictor RasukAmazonRoger DodgerJesse EisenbergAmazonThe Station AgentBobby CannavaleAmazon

2004 Gotham Independent Film Award - Breakthrough Actor WinnerMaria Full of GraceCatalina Sandino MorenoA pregnant Colombian teenager becomes a drug mule to make some desperately needed money for her family.Amazon2004 Gotham Independent Film Award - Breakthrough Actor NomineesA Home at the End of the WorldDallas RobertsAmazonBrother to BrotherAnthony MackieAmazonEveryday PeopleAmazonThe WoodsmanYasiin BeyAmazon

2005 Gotham Independent Film Award - Breakthrough Actor WinnerJunebugAmy AdamsA dealer in "outsider" art travels from Chicago to North Carolina to meet her new in-laws, challenging the equilibrium of this middle class Southern home.Amazon2005 Gotham Independent Film Award - Breakthrough Actor NomineesHustle & FlowTerrence HowardAmazonKeaneDamian LewisAmazonMysterious SkinJoseph Gordon-LevittAmazonThe Ballad of Jack and RoseCamilla BelleAmazon

2006 Gotham Independent Film Award - Breakthrough Actor WinnerBabelRinko KikuchiTragedy strikes a married couple on vacation in the Moroccan desert, touching off an interlocking story involving four different families.AmazonHalf NelsonShareeka EppsAn inner-city junior high school teacher with a drug habit forms an unlikely friendship with one of his students after she discovers his secret.Amazon2006 Gotham Independent Film Award - Breakthrough Actor NomineesA Guide to Recognizing Your SaintsChanning TatumAmazonLittle Miss SunshineAbigail BreslinAmazonSleeping Dogs LieMelinda Page HamiltonAmazon