21st Independent Spirit Awards

The 21st Independent Spirit Awards, honoring the best in independent filmmaking for 2005, were announced on March 4, 2006. It was hosted by Sarah Silverman.

Nominees and winners

Best Feature

Brokeback Mountain

Best First Feature

Best Director

Ang Lee – Brokeback Mountain

Gregg Araki – Mysterious Skin
Noah Baumbach – The Squid and the Whale
George Clooney – Good Night, and Good Luck.
Rodrigo García – Nine Lives

Best Male Lead

Philip Seymour Hoffman – Capote

Jeff Daniels – The Squid and the Whale
Terrence Howard – Hustle & Flow
Heath Ledger – Brokeback Mountain
David Strathairn – Good Night, and Good Luck.

Best Female Lead

Felicity Huffman – Transamerica

Dina Korzun – Forty Shades of Blue
Laura Linney – The Squid and the Whale
S. Epatha Merkerson – Lackawanna Blues
Cyndi Williams – Room

Best Supporting Male

Matt Dillon – Crash

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

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 Screenplay

Capote – Dan Futterman

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

Best First Screenplay

Transamerica – Duncan Tucker

The Beautiful Country – Sabina Murray
Fixing Frank – Ken Hanes
Junebug – Angus MacLachlan
Me and You and Everyone We Know – Miranda July

Best Cinematography

Good Night, and Good Luck. – Robert Elswit

Capote – Adam Kimmel
Keane – John Foster
Last Days – Harris Savides
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada – Chris Menges

Best Foreign Film

Paradise Now • Palestine/Netherlands/Germany/France

Best Documentary Feature

Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room

Grizzly Man
Romántico
La Sierra
Sir! No Sir!

John Cassavetes Award

Conventioneers

Brick
Jellysmoke
The Puffy Chair
Room

Truer Than Fiction Award

Occupation: Dreamland

Producers Award

Caroline Baron – Capote and Monsoon Wedding

Ram Bergman – Brick and Conversations with Other Women
Mike S. Ryan – Junebug and Palindromes

Someone to Watch Award

Ian Gamazon and Neill Dela Llana – Cavite

Robinson Devor – Police Beat
Jay Duplass – The Puffy Chair

References

"Getting into the Spirit of awards season". Los Angeles Times. 2005-11-30. Retrieved 2012-08-21.
"'Whale' of a day at Spirits". Variety. 2005-11-29. Retrieved 2012-08-21.
"Indie awards show a cowboy Spirit". Variety. 2006-03-04. Retrieved 2012-08-21.
"'Brokeback' named best independent film". USA Today. 2006-03-04. Retrieved 2012-08-21.
""Brokeback," "Capote," "Crash," "Transamerica" Honored With Spirit Awards". indieWire. 2006-03-05. Retrieved 2012-08-21.

External links

2005 Spirit Awards at IMDb

Independent Spirit Awards
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