Wes Anderson's sublime "Moonrise Kingdom'' -- ignore my three-star review from May, it really shoulda been four -- received some much-deserved love from last night's Gotham Awards, the first (if otherwise problematic this year) film kudos of the season. "Moonrise'' took top honors in a best feature field over the much-hyped "The Master,'' the underrated "Bernie'' and a couple of micro-budgeted obscurities, "The Loneliest Planet'' and "Middle of Nowhere.''

The Independent Film Project's awards, presented at Cipriani Wall Street, snubbed "Moonrise Kingdom'' -- as well as the much-touted "Silver Linings Playbook'' -- for best ensemble honors in favor of the wan "Your Sister's Sister.'' The awards acknowledged the wonderful "Beast of the Southern Wild'' -- inexplicably bypassed for a best picture nomination -- with a breakthrough director prize for Benh Zeitlin. The film's young star, Quevenzhane Wallis, lost breakthrough actress honors to the equally hard-to-spell Emayatzy Corinedaldi for "Middle of Nowhere.'' The best documentary prize went to David France's "How to Survive a Plague.''

Meanwhile, "Moonrise Kingdom,'' "Beasts of the Southern Wild,'' "Bernie,'' "The Silver Linings Playbook'' and "Keep the Lights On'' received best feature nominations today from Film Independent's Indie Spirit Awards. Variety has the full list of nods .

The next scheduled group to announce their winners is the New York Film Critics Circle, of which Kyle Smith and I are members. That will happen next Monday -- if the Weinstein Co. gets around to schedulding a screening of Quentin Tarantino's "Django Unchained'' in time.