Independent Spirit Winners

March 5, 2006 by Liam
Filed under: Awards, Movie News

Oscar weekend means a few things. Of course, the Oscars themselves but also a shitload of parties, the Razzies and the Independent Spirit Awards which were handed out yesterday. Check out the list of nominees and winners (bolded) below:

BEST FEATURE
Brokeback Mountain
Capote
Good Night, And Good Luck
The Squid and the Whale
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada

BEST DIRECTOR
Ang Lee – Brokeback Mountain
George Clooney – Good Night, And Good Luck
Gregg Araki – Mysterious Skin
Rodrigo García – Nine Lives
Noah Baumbach – The Squid and the Whale

BEST FIRST FEATURE
Crash
Lackawanna Blues (TV)
Me and You and Everyone We Know
Thumbsucker
Transamerica

JOHN CASSAVETES AWARD
(Best Feature Made For Under $500,000)
Brick
Conventioneers
Jellysmoke
The Puffy Chair
Room

BEST SCREENPLAY
The War Within – Ayad Akhtar, Joseph Castelo, Tom Glynn
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada – Guillermo Arriaga
The Squid and the Whale – Noah Baumbach
Capote – Dan Futterman
Nine Lives – Rodrigo Garcia

BEST FIRST SCREENPLAY
Fixing Frank – Ken Hanes
Me and You and Everyone We Know – Miranda July
Junebug – Angus MacLachlan
The Beautiful Country – Sabina Murray
Transamerica – Duncan Tucker

BEST FEMALE LEAD
Felicity Huffman – Transamerica
Dina Korzun – Forty Shades of Blue
Laura Linney – The Squid and the Whale
S. Epatha Merkerson – Lackawanna Blues (TV)
Cyndi Williams – Room

BEST MALE LEAD
Jeff Daniels – The Squid and the Whale
Philip Seymour Hoffman – Capote
Terrence Howard – Hustle & Flow
Heath Ledger – Brokeback Mountain
David Strathairn – Good Night, And Good Luck

BEST SUPPORTING FEMALE
Amy Adams – Junebug
Maggie Gyllenhaal – Happy Endings
Allison Janney – Our Very Own
Michelle Williams – Brokeback Mountain
Robin Wright Penn – Nine Lives

BEST SUPPORTING MALE
Firdous Bamji – The War Within
Matt Dillon – Crash
Jesse Eisenberg – The Squid and the Whale
Barry Pepper – The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
Jeffrey Wright – Broken Flowers

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Good Night, And Good Luck – Robert Elswit
Keane – John Foster
Capote – Adam Kimmel
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada – Chris Menges
Last Days – Harris Savides

BEST DOCUMENTARY
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room – Alex Gibney
Grizzly Man – Werner Herzog
La Sierra – Scott Dalton, Margarita Martinez
Romantico – Mark Becker
Sir! No Sir! – David Zeiger

BEST FOREIGN FILM
The Death of Mr. Lazarescu – Cristi Puiu (Romania)
Duck Season – Fernando Eimbcke (Mexico)
Head On – Fatih Akin (Germany/Turkey)
Paradise Now – Hany Abu-Assad (Palestine/Netherlands/Germany/France)
Tony Takitani – Jun Ichikawa (Japan)