“Past Lives” has been named the best film of 2023 at the 33rd annual Gotham Awards, which took place on Monday night at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City.
Celine Song’s gentle drama won in a category whose other nominees were Ira Sachs’ “Passages,” Tina Satter’s “Reality,” Kelly Reichardt’s “Showing Up” and A.V. Rockwell’s “A Thousand and One.”
The most charged moment of the night came when Robert De Niro, introducing the award for “Killers of the Flower Moon,” realized that a highly political section of his speech had been cut from the teleprompter. After showing a film clip honoring “Killers,” he pulled out his phone and read lines highly critical of Donald Trump and the education system in Florida, then said he should thank the Gotham Awards and Apple (the company that released the film) but he didn’t feel like it after they tried to cut his speech.
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