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Independent Spirit Awards
Presented Saturday 4th March, 2006

Independent Spirit Awards

   

 

Winners listed first, in bold

Best Feature

Brokeback Mountain (2005) - James Schamus, Diana Ossana
Capote (2005) - Caroline Baron, Michael Ohoven, William Vince
Good Night, and Good Luck. (2005) - Grant Heslov
The Squid and the Whale (2005) - Wes Anderson, Peter Newman, Charlie Corwin, Clara Markowicz
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (2005) - Michael Fitzgerald, Tommy Lee Jones, Luc Besson, Pierre-Ange Le Pogam

Best Female Lead

Felicity Huffman for Transamerica (2005)

Dina Korzun for Forty Shades of Blue (2005)
Laura Linney for The Squid and the Whale (2005)
S. Epatha Merkerson for Lackawanna Blues (2005) (TV)
Cyndi Williams for Room (2005)

Best Male Lead

Philip Seymour Hoffman for Capote (2005)

Jeff Daniels for The Squid and the Whale (2005)
Terrence Howard for Hustle & Flow (2005)
Heath Ledger for Brokeback Mountain (2005)
David Strathairn for Good Night, and Good Luck (2005)

Best Supporting Female

Amy Adams for Junebug (2005)

Maggie Gyllenhaal for Happy Endings (2005)
Allison Janney for Our Very Own (2005)
Michelle Williams for Brokeback Mountain (2005)
Robin Wright Penn for Nine Lives (2005)

Best Supporting Male

Matt Dillon for Crash (2004)

Firdous Bamji for The War Within (2005)
Jesse Eisenberg for The Squid and the Whale (2005)
Barry Pepper for The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (2005)
Jeffrey Wright for Broken Flowers (2005)

Best Director

Ang Lee for Brokeback Mountain (2005)

Gregg Araki for Mysterious Skin (2004)
Noah Baumbach for The Squid and the Whale (2005)
George Clooney for Good Night, and Good Luck. (2005)
Rodrigo García for Nine Lives (2005)

Best Screenplay

Capote (2005) - Dan Futterman

Nine Lives (2005) - Rodrigo García
The Squid and the Whale (2005) - Noah Baumbach
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (2005) - Guillermo Arriaga
The War Within (2005) - Ayad Akhtar, Joseph Castelo, Tom Glynn

Best First Screenplay

Transamerica (2005) - Duncan Tucker

The Beautiful Country (2004) - Sabina Murray
Fixing Frank (2002) - Ken Hanes
Junebug (2005) - Angus MacLachlan
Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005) - Miranda July

Best Cinematography

Good Night, and Good Luck (2005) - Robert Elswit

Capote (2005) - Adam Kimmel
Keane (2004) - John Foster
Last Days (2005) - Harris Savides
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (2005) - Chris Menges

Best First Feature

Crash (2004) - Paul Haggis, Cathy Schulman, Don Cheadle, Bob Yari, Mark R. Harris, Robert Moresco

Lackawanna Blues (2005) (TV) - George C. Wolfe, Halle Berry, Vince Cirrincione, Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Nellie Nugiel, Shelby Stone
Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005) - Miranda July, Gina Kwon
Thumbsucker (2005) - Mike Mills, Anthony Bregman, Bob Stephenson
Transamerica (2005) - Duncan Tucker, Sebastian Dungan, Linda Moran, Rene Bastian

Best Foreign Film

Paradise Now (2005) - Hany Abu-Assad (Palestine/Netherlands/Germany/France)

Gegen die Wand (2004) - Fatih Akin (Germany/Turkey)
Moartea domnului Lazarescu (2005) - Cristi Puiu (Romania)
Temporada de patos (2004) - Fernando Eimbcke (Mexico)
Tony Takitani (2004) - Jun Ichikawa (Japan)

Best Documentary

Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005) - Alex Gibney

Grizzly Man (2005) - Werner Herzog
Romántico (2005) - Mark Becker
Sierra, La (2005) - Scott Dalton, Margarita Martinez
Sir! No Sir! (2005) - David Zeiger

John Cassavetes Award

Conventioneers (2005) - Mora Stephens, Joel Viertel

Brick (2005) - Rian Johnson, Ram Bergman, Mark G. Mathis
Jellysmoke (2005) - Mark Banning, Cliff Charles, Mad Matthewz
The Puffy Chair (2005) - Jay Duplass, Mark Duplass
Room (2005) - Kyle Henry, Jesse Scolaro, Allen Bain, Darren Goldberg

Truer Than Fiction Award

Occupation: Dreamland (2005) - Garrett Scott, Ian Olds

Our Brand Is Crisis (2005) - Rachel Boynton
Romántico (2005) - Mark Becker
Twelve Disciples of Nelson Mandela (2005) - Thomas Allen Harris


 


 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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