IFP has just announced the nominations for their Gotham Awards, which will be handed out in Brooklyn next month. I’m so happy to see that Craig Zobel’s fantastic Great World of Sound has been nominated in three categories–Best Feature, Breakthrough Director and Breakthrough Actor–the most nominations of any single film this year. Zobel’s feature, which Magnolia released with little fanfare last month, shares the Best Feature category with four, relatively “big” indie-arm titles: The Namesake, I’m Not There, Margot at the Wedding, and Into the Wild.

I’ve privately bitched about the lack of publicity surrounding Sound (even the release date seemed misguided, as it fell right in the middle of the Toronto Film Festival and thus necessarily turned coverage of the movie by bloggers and other indie journalists of limited resources into an afterthought), so I’m hoping these nominations will give Magnolia the impetus to give the film a stronger push. According to the distributor’s website, they’re still planning a slow roll-out to smaller markets through December.

Other Spout favorites to make the cut: Julia Loktev’s Day Night Day Night earned two nominations, for Breakthrough Director and Breakthrough Actor; and Ronnie Bronstein’s Frownland will compete in the Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You race.

As of this writing, IFP hasn’t posted the list of nominees on their website, but you can check out an alphabetical list on nominees, ripped from the press release, after the jump.

2007 Gotham Awards – Alphabetical List of Nominated Films
* August the First — Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You nominee
* Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead – Best Ensemble Cast nominee
* Day Night Day Night — Breakthrough Actor nominee; Breakthrough Director nominee
* The Devil Came on Horseback — Best Documentary nominee
* Frownland — Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You nominee
* Great World of Sound – Best Feature nominee; Breakthrough Actor nominee; Breakthrough Director nominee
* I’m Not There — Best Feature nominee
* Into the Wild – Best Feature nominee; Breakthrough Actor nominee
* Jimmy Carter Man from Plains — Best Documentary nominee
* Juno — Breakthrough Actor nominee
* The Last Winter — Best Ensemble Cast nominee
* Loren Cass — Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You nominee
* Margot at the Wedding — Best Feature nominee; Best Ensemble Cast nominee
* Mississippi Chicken – Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You nominee
* Munyurangabo — Breakthrough Director nominee
* My Kid Could Paint That – Best Documentary nominee
* The Namesake – Best Feature nominee
* Off the Grid: Life on the Mesa — Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You nominee
* Owl and the Sparrow – Breakthrough Director nominee
* The Savages – Best Ensemble Cast nominee
* Seraphim Falls — Breakthrough Director nominee
* Sicko — Best Documentary nominee
* Talk to Me – Best Ensemble Cast nominee
* Taxi to the Dark Side — Best Documentary nominee
* Teeth — Breakthrough Actor nominee