"Capote" was named best feature at the 15th annual Gotham Awards on Wednesday, and Bennett Miller was hailed as breakthrough director for his critically acclaimed biopic about late author Truman Capote.

Kicking off the year-end awards season, the event, staged by the New York-based Independent Feature Project at Pier Sixty at Chelsea Piers, also singled out the gritty wheelchair gladiator film "Murderball" as best documentary.

Director Noah Baumbach's domestic drama "The Squid and the Whale" took the prize for best ensemble cast. The film's lineup includes Jeff Daniels, Laura Linney, Jesse Eisenberg, Owen Kline, William Baldwin and Anna Paquin. The family drama about two divorcing New York intellectuals on Tuesday picked up a leading six nominations for the rival Independent Spirit Awards, including nods for Daniels, Linney and Eisenberg.

Amy Adams won breakthrough actor for her performance as a cheerful Southern wife in Sony Classics' "Junebug," a day after she also received an Independent Spirit nomination. Caveh Zahedi's autobiographical docudrama, "I Am a Sex Addict," took home a prize carrying the title Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You, awarded to a film without theatrical distribution.

Source: People

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