Maggie Gyllenhaal film wins four awards in Oscar season opener

Maggie Gyllenhaal won the breakthrough director award (Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

Maggie Gyllenhaal’s Elena Ferrante adaptation The Lost Daughter has triumphed in four categories including best feature film at the Gotham Awards, the New York independent film celebration that kicks off Oscar season.

Gyllenhaal won breakthrough director and best screenplay for her directorial debut while its British star Olivia Colman shared the award for outstanding lead performance with Frankie Faison, who appears in The Killing Of Kenneth Chamberlain, a drama based on a 2011 police shooting in White Plains, New York.