And just like that, the first awards nominations of the season have arrived. Nominees were announced today for the 26th Annual IFP Gotham Independent Film Awards, which are voted on by members of the Independent Filmmaker Project and serve to highlight the best of the best in indie film. Kenneth Lonergan’s masterful grief drama Manchester by the Sea received the most nominations with four in total, including Best Feature, Best Screenplay, Best Actor for Casey Affleck, and Breakthrough Actor for Lucas Hedges. The film is one of the frontrunners in the Oscar race at the moment, and this is likely one of many, many ceremonies in which it makes a big showing.

Also landing big is Moonlight, a stunning coming-of-age story from filmmaker Barry Jenkins that scored nominations for Best Feature, Best Screenplay, and Breakthrough Director and also landed a Special Jury Prize for Best Ensemble with the Best Actor/Actress and Breakthrough Actor nomination panel opting to highlight the film “in which actors at all levels of experience give outstanding performances that speak eloquently to one another both within and across each chapter of the story.” It’s yet another film that you’re going to hear a lot more about as the Oscar season rolls on.

The nominees overall are a swell snapshot of a great 2016 in indie film. I’m happy to see Richard Linklater’s 80s comedy Everybody Wants Some!! scored a Best Feature nod, as well as recognition for ambitious Swiss Army Man directors Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert. Moreover, that Best Actress category is stacked.

Check out the full list of nominees below, which also include TV honors for Marvel’s Jessica Jones.

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Best Feature

Certain Women

Kelly Reichardt, director; Neil Kopp, Vincent Savino, Anish Savjani, producers (IFC Films)

Everybody Wants Some!!

Richard Linklater, director; Megan Ellison, Ginger Sledge, Richard Linklater, producers (Paramount Pictures)

Manchester by the Sea

Kenneth Lonergan, director; Kimberly Steward, Matt Damon, Chris Moore, Lauren Beck, Kevin J. Walsh, producers (Amazon Studios)

Moonlight

Barry Jenkins, director; Adele Romanski, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, producers (A24)

Paterson

Jim Jarmusch, director; Joshua Astrachan, Carter Logan, producers (Amazon Studios)

Best Documentary

Cameraperson

Kirsten Johnson, director; Marilyn Ness, producer (Janus Films)

I Am Not Your Negro

Raoul Peck, director; Rémi Grellety, Raoul Peck, Hébert Peck, producers (Magnolia Pictures)

O.J.: Made in America

Ezra Edelman, director; Caroline Waterlow, Ezra Edelman, Tamara Rosenberg, Nina Krstic, Deirdre Fenton, Erin Leyden, producers (ESPN Films)

Tower

Keith Maitland, director; Keith Maitland, Megan Gilbride, Susan Thomson, producers (Kino Lorber, Independent Lens)

Weiner

Josh Kriegman, Elyse Steinberg, directors and producers (Sundance Selects and Showtime Documentary Films)

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Bingham Ray Breakthrough Director Award

Robert Eggers for The Witch (A24)

Anna Rose Holmer for The Fits (Oscilloscope Laboratories)

Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert for Swiss Army Man (A24)

Trey Edward Shults for Krisha (A24)

Richard Tanne for Southside with You (Roadside Attractions and Miramax)

Best Screenplay

Hell or High Water, Taylor Sheridan (CBS Films)

Love & Friendship, Whit Stillman (Amazon Studios)

Manchester by the Sea, Kenneth Lonergan (Amazon Studios)

Moonlight, Story by Tarell Alvin McCraney; Screenplay by Barry Jenkins (A24)

Paterson, Jim Jarmusch (Amazon Studios)

Best Actor

Casey Affleck in Manchester by the Sea (Amazon Studios)

Jeff Bridges in Hell or High Water (CBS Films)

Adam Driver in Paterson (Amazon Studios)

Joel Edgerton in Loving (Focus Features)

Craig Robinson in Morris from America (A24)

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Best Actress

Kate Beckinsale in Love & Friendship (Amazon Studios)

Annette Bening in 20th Century Women (A24)

Isabelle Huppert in Elle (Sony Pictures Classics)

Ruth Negga in Loving (Focus Features)

Natalie Portman in Jackie (Fox Searchlight Pictures)

Breakthrough Actor

Lily Gladstone in Certain Women (IFC Films)

Lucas Hedges in Manchester by the Sea (Amazon Studios)

Royalty Hightower in The Fits (Oscilloscope Laboratories)

Sasha Lane in American Honey (A24)

Anya Taylor-Joy in The Witch (A24)

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