“Past Lives,” the elegiac drama about a young Korean immigrant and the path not taken, won best feature as the 33rd annual Gotham Awards were handed out Monday night in New York.
“The beginning of my speech was edited, cut out, I didn’t know about it,” he told the audience at Cipriani Wall Street.
“And I want to read it.” He went on to note that “history isn’t history anymore, truth is not truth, even facts are being replaced by alternative facts.”But the evening largely stayed focused on the films themselves, like “Past Lives,” from Celine Song.
It stars Greta Lee as a married writer in New York who reconnects with her childhood sweetheart from South Korea.
Outstanding lead performance went to Lily Gladstone but not for “Killers of the Flower Moon,” her big-budget breakthrough.
Persons:
Robert De Niro, “, ”, Celine Song, Greta Lee, Lily Gladstone
Organizations:
Gotham, Trump
Locations:
Korean, New York, South Korea