2024 Gotham TV Awards winners list

The first-ever Gotham TV Awards recently took place in New York, Tuesday. Netflix's Baby Reindeer, Paramount+'s Colin from Accounts and Prime Video's Mr. and Mrs. Smith were the big winners, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Richard Gadd accepted the final award, Breakthrough Limited Series, for his biographical comedy drama series Baby Reindeer. In his speech, he spoke about the show's popularity and advice for anyone who's going through a challenging time.

“It's weird that a show as messed up as this has gone on to strike a chord with so many people,” the filmmaker said about the Netflix series.

“I think it speaks to the fact that I think a lot of people in the world are struggling right now. I don't know much in the way of advice, but I do know that nothing lasts forever. So if you are in a rut, just keep going. Persevere, persevere, persevere and I promise you things will get better,” he concluded.

The first Gotham TV Awards at Gotham City

Gadd will have to take his own advice since she's facing two possible lawsuits: one from his real-life stalker due to her depiction in the show and a transgender woman who accused him of impropriety.

Early during the event, Colin from Accounts won two awards, one for Breakthrough Comedy Series and another for Outstanding Performance in a Comedy Series for its star and co-creator Harriet Dyer.

In her acceptance speech, Dyer said she was “overwhelmed” and gave a shout out to her husband, co-star and co-creator Patrick Brammall as the “other half of the this show,” saying that she wouldn't have been able to “do the show without him.” He was unable to attend the awards show because he was back in Australia with their child “because f*** the patriarchy,” she laughingly told the cheering crowd.

Prime Video's Mr. and Mrs. Smith picked up the award for Breakthrough Drama Series with executive producer Anthony Katagas accepting the trophy instead of co-creators Donald Glover and Francesca Sloane.

Zine Tseng, who played the young Ye Wenjie in Netflix's 3 Body Problem, picked up the Outstanding Performance in a Drama Series award. The actress looked truly surprised and even told the audience as well as THR before the awards show started that her “money was on someone else” to win.

In her acceptance speech, she jokingly insisted to the audience that she's “so sober” and that it was a night of firsts for her: first nomination for anything and her first time in New York. She described the city as smelling “like a big gas station and danger and freedom at the same time.”

Ripley's Andrew Scott won Outstanding Performance in a Limited Series, but the trophy was accepted by series creator Steven Zaillian who told the crowd that he wasn't sure where the actor was.

HBO | Max's Jerrod Carmichael Reality Show won the award for Breakthrough Nonfiction Series.

“I want to thank the team for trying to find the truth and make it entertaining,” Carmichael said in his acceptance speech.

To the audience, he congratulated them for being at the event “on network-sponsored travel. Please get as much money from them as you can.”

The Gotham TV Awards also gave out tributes to Law & Order: Special Victim units star Mariska Hargitay, The Crown's creator Peter Morgan and Expats creator Lulu Wang.

Stephanie March presented former co-star and close friend Hargitay the Anniversary Tribute.

Hargitay said, “I get to go to work every day on a show that makes people feel less alone. That's one of the most devastating effects of sexual assault, domestic violence is the isolation.”

She also commended the show for providing a platform to tell the stories of women and survivors “across the spectrum of gender identity.”

“This is a show about treating people who've been harmed with care and with dignity and with compassion and empathy and kindness after they've experienced some of the worst of what we've done to each other,” the actress added.

Lesley Manville, who played Princess Margaret in The Crown, presented Morgan the Creator Tribute.

In his acceptance speech, he described how he met Netflix executives in January 2014, “For once, and I genuinely think the only time, in my career walked into the right room at the right time and actually pitched something people wanted to hear.”

The Crown premiered its sixth and last season late last year.

“Television is just not what television used to be. It's extraordinary. I look at the other shows nominated here tonight — they're all cinema,” he added.

Expats' Sarayu Blue, Ji-young Yoo and Brian Tee presented Wang the Spotlight Tribute.

Wang related the story of how Expats was filmed during the pandemic as her grandmother was on her deathbed.

“The world got to know her through The Farewell but after traveling the world with the film, and after the film completely changed my life, I couldn't even go to say goodbye to her and I never got to thank her,” she said about her grandmother.

The filmmaker added, “There was so much I didn't get a chance to say and Expats became a meditation on grief and the humility of uncertainty.”

The Gotham TV Awards spun off from the Gotham Film & Media Institute's Gotham Awards, an announcement made in April. For the last decade, both TV and film projects were part of one ceremony which typically happens after Thanksgiving. The Gotham announced the nominees last month, with seven categories, and like the Gotham film awards, the one for TV also keep the categories gender-neutral.

Committees made up of critics, journalists, programmers and curators selected the nominees. The winners, on the other hand, were picked by separate juries consisting of actors, directors, editors, producers, writers as well as others who are directly involved in the film and TV industry.

The 1st Gotham TV Awards were presented by Joel Kim Booster and Susie Essman.