Awards season officially kicks off with the nominations for the 2018 Gotham Awards, the honors handed out annually by the New York-based Independent Filmmaker Project. Movies and stars nominated there often go on to win major awards, including "Get Out" and "Manchester by the Sea."

"First Reformed," which stars Ethan Hawke as a priest questioning his faith, scored three nominations: Best Actor, Best Feature and Best Screenplay.

Another likely Oscar nominee is "The Favourite," about two women vying for power in the 18th century court of Queen Anne (Olivia Colman). It was nominated for Best Feature and a special jury prize will be awarded to its three stars: Colman, Emma Stone, and Rachel Weisz.

And while horror fans have been debating if Toni Collette's fearless performance in "Hereditary" will get any awards notice, the answer is yes. She's nominated for Best Actress and the film's director, Ari Aster, is in the running for the Bingham Ray Breakthrough Director Award.

Also scoring two nominations each: Indies "Support the Girls," "Eighth Grade, and "Private Life."

Interestingly, Adam Driver, who has more of a supporting role in Spike Lee's "BlacKkKlansman" as a cop wrestling with his Jewish heritage while working undercover with a local chapter of the KKK, has been nominated as Best Actor instead of the film's star, John David Washington. The Gotham Awards do not have a supporting actor or actress category.

Here's the full list of nominees:

Best Feature
"The Favourite" (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
"First Reformed (A24)
"If Beale Street Could Talk" (Annapurna Pictures)
"Madeline’s Madeline" (Oscilloscope Laboratories)
"The Rider" (Sony Pictures Classics)

Best Documentary
"Bisbee ‘17" (4th Row Films)
"Hale County This Morning, This Evening" (The Cinema Guild)
"Minding the Gap" (Hulu & Magnolia Pictures)
"Shirkers" (Netflix)
"Won’t You Be My Neighbor?" (Focus Features)

Best Actor
Adam Driver in "BlacKkKlansman" (Focus Features)
Ben Foster in "Leave No Trace" (Bleecker Street)
Richard E. Grant in "Can You Ever Forgive Me?" (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
Ethan Hawke in "First Reformed" (A24)
Lakeith Stanfield in "Sorry to Bother You" (Annapurna Pictures)

Best Actress*
Glenn Close in "The Wife" (Sony Pictures Classics)
Toni Collette in "Hereditary" (A24)
Kathryn Hahn in "Private Life" (Netflix)
Regina Hall in "Support the Girls" (Magnolia Pictures)
Michelle Pfeiffer in "Where is Kyra?" (Paladin and Great Point Media)
*The 2018 Best Actress nominating committee also voted to award a special Gotham Jury Award to Olivia Colman, Emma Stone, and Rachel Weisz for their ensemble performance in The Favourite. (Fox Searchlight Pictures)

Breakthrough Actor
Yalitza Aparicio in "Roma" (Netflix)
Elsie Fisher in "Eighth Grade" (A24)
Helena Howard in "Madeline’s Madeline" (Oscilloscope Laboratories)
KiKi Layne in "If Beale Street Could Talk" (Annapurna Pictures)
Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie in "Leave No Trace" (Bleecker Street)

Bingham Ray Breakthrough Director Award
Ari Aster for "Hereditary" (A24)
Bo Burnham for "Eighth Grade" (A24)
Jennifer Fox for "The Tale" (HBO)
Crystal Moselle for "Skate Kitchen" (Magnolia Pictures)
Boots Riley for "Sorry to Bother You" (Annapurna Pictures)

Best Screenplay
"The Favourite," Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
"First Reformed," Paul Schrader (A24)
"Private Life," Tamara Jenkins (Netflix)
"Support the Girls", Andrew Bujalski (Magnolia Pictures)
"Thoroughbreds," Cory Finley (Focus Features)

Breakthrough Series – Long Form
"Alias Grace" (Netflix)
"The End of the F***ing World" (Netflix)
"Killing Eve" (BBC America)
"Pose" (FX Networks)
"Sharp Objects" (HBO)

The 26th annual Gotham Awards will be held on November 26 at Cipriani Wall Street in NYC.

[Via Variety]