Adolescence and The Pitt Lead 2025 Gotham TV Awards: Full Winners List

“Adolescence” was the big winner at the Gotham Television Awards, taking home three prizes, including breakthrough limited series, on Monday night.

Seth Rogen’s “The Studio” won breakthrough comedy series, and “The Pitt” won best drama.

The actors, directors, writers and producers feted at the ceremony, hosted at New York’s Cipriani Wall Street, emphasized the need to preserve and protect the entertainment industry amid geopolitical strife and AI fears.

“We love this business,” said Amy Sherman-Palladino, accepting the Creator Tribute alongside her husband Daniel Palladino. “God please help everybody. Let’s make it survive.”

“Let’s keep the arts alive!” shouted an enthusiastic Parker Posey. “Let’s turn this business into entertainment that everyone can love. That old people and young people and even babies laugh at!”

Posey, who was honored with the Legend Tribute, was introduced by her “White Lotus” co-stars Leslie Bibb and Sam Rockwell, who took great joy in imitating her character, Victoria Ratliff with a few much-memed phrases. “Tsunami! Piper, no! Buddhism!” Rockwell and Bibb said in that exaggerated Southern drawl.

“Thank you Mike White for writing this character for me, for believing in a middle-aged woman, and believing in a legend,” Posey said, eliciting big laughs from the audience. “Thank you HBO for believing in a legend!”

Brian Tyree Henry also played to the crowd by involving the sign-language interpreter in his speech accepting the Performer Tribute.

“I want to apologize to the sign interpreter right now, because I’m going to say a lot of things that I just want to see you sign,” Henry said. “Like ‘pussybow,’ ‘SKIMS’ and ‘circumcision.’”

As per usual, Sheryl Lee Ralph brought down the house with an emotional speech honoring Sidney Poitier. The “Abbott Elementary” Emmy winner recalled being directed by Poitier in her first film, “A Piece of the Action.”

“Mr. Poitier looked at me and said, ‘Sheryl Lee Ralph I expect great things from you … I am sorry that the industry doesn’t have more to offer you, because you deserve it.’ He planted a seed in me that represented the great possibility,” Ralph said. “And because I believed in great possibility, I kept at it and never gave up. I kept honing my craft. I kept on keeping on. And I wish that he were here tonight to be able see the seed that he planted in me and how it’s grown.”

Fighting tears, Ralph added, “I have worked, I have endured, I have overcome and I never gave up,” she said. “I kept going because Sidney Poitier believed in me.”

See the winners list below.

Major Category Winners:

• Breakthrough Comedy Series: The Studio (Apple TV+)
• Breakthrough Drama Series: The Pitt (HBO Max)
• Breakthrough Limited Series: Adolescence (Netflix)
• Breakthrough Nonfiction Series: Social Studies (FX/Hulu)

Performance Awards:

• Outstanding Lead Performance in a Comedy Series: Julio Torres, Fantasmas
• Outstanding Lead Performance in a Drama Series: Kathy Bates, Matlock
• Outstanding Lead Performance in a Limited Series: Stephen Graham, Adolescence
• Outstanding Supporting Performance in a Comedy Series: Poorna Jagannathan, Deli Boys
• Outstanding Supporting Performance in a Drama Series: Ben Whishaw, Black Doves
• Outstanding Supporting Performance in a Limited Series: Owen Cooper, Adolescence

Special Honors:

• Outstanding Original Film, Broadcast or Streaming: Pee-Wee as Himself
• Outstanding Performance in an Original Film: Aaron Pierre, Rebel Ridge

Tributes:

• Creator Tribute: Hwang Dong-hyuk (Squid Game), Amy Sherman-Palladino and Daniel Palladino (Étoile)
• Performer Tribute: Brian Tyree Henry (Dope Thief)
• Visionary Tribute: David E. Kelley
• Ensemble Tribute: Elisabeth Moss and the cast of The Handmaid’s Tale
• Sidney Poitier Icon Tribute: Sheryl Lee Ralph
• Legend Tribute: Parker Posey

The ceremony highlighted the evolving landscape of television, honoring both emerging talents and industry veterans.