Nominees: the 2006 Independent Spirit Awards

The Independent Spirit Awards (voted on by members of Film Independent and the Independent Feature Project) are to be presented on March 4th, the day before the Academy Awards. IFC will carry the live broadcast.

Nominees:

Best Feature:

• Brokeback Mountain


• Capote


• Good Night, and Good Luck


• The Squid and the Whale


• The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada

Best Female Lead:

• Felicity Huffman, Transamerica


• Dina Korzun, Forty Shades of Blue


• Laura Linney, The Squid and the Whale (image placeholder)


• S. Epatha Merkerson, Lackawanna Blues


• 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:(image placeholder)

• 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 (image placeholder)


• Barry Pepper, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (image placeholder)


• Jeffrey Wright, Broken Flowers

Best Director: (image placeholder)

• Ang Lee, Brokeback Mountain


• George Clooney, Good Night, and Good Luck (image placeholder)


• Gregg Araki, Mysterious Skin


• Rodrigo Garcia, Nine Lives


• Noah Baumbach, The Squid and the Whale

Best Screenplay:

• The War Within


• The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada


• The Squid and the Whale


• Capote


• Nine Lives

Best Cinematography:

• Good Night, and Good Luck


• Keane


• Capote


• The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada


• Last Days

Best Foreign Film:

• The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (Romania)


• Duck Season (Mexico)


• Head-On (Germany/Turkey)


• Paradise Now (Palestine/Netherlands/Germany/France)


• Tony Takitani (Japan)

Best Documentary:

• Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room


• Grizzly Man


• La Sierra


• Romantico


• Sir! No Sir!

Best First Feature:

• Crash


• Lackawanna Blues


• Me and You and Everyone We Know


• Thumbsucker


• Transamerica

Best First Screenplay:

• Fixing Frank


• Me and You and Everyone We Know


• Junebug


• The Beautiful Country


• Transamerica

John Cassavetes Award (Best feature made for under $500,000):

• Brick


• Conventioneers


• Jellysmoke


• The Puffy Chair


• Room

IFC/Acura Someone to Watch Award (To emerging director):

• Ian Gamazon and Neill Dela Llana (Cavite)


• Robinson Devor (Police Beat)


• Jay Duplass (The Puffy Chair)

Truer Than Fiction Award (To emerging documentary director):

• Rachel Boynton ( Our Brand Is Crisis)


• Garrett Scott & Ian Olds (Occupation: Dreamland)


• Mark Becker (Romantico)


• Thomas Allen Harris (Twelve Disciples of Nelson Mandela)

AMC/American Express Producers Award (To emerging producer):

• Caroline Baron (Capote, Monsoon Wedding)


• Ram Bergman (Brick, Conversations with Other Women)


• Mike S. Ryan (Junebug, Palindromes)

I’m always interested to the see the results of the Indys. I can’t comment on many of these films as they have not yet received a nationwide release here in the U.S. But we will talk about them as they are released.