21st Independent Spirit Awards

21st Independent Spirit Awards
21st Independent Spirit Awards
Date	March 4, 2006
Site	U.S.
Hosted by	Sarah Silverman
Highlights
Best Film	Brokeback Mountain
Most awards	Brokeback Mountain (2); Capote (2); Transamerica (2)
Most nominations	The Squid and the Whale (6)
	← 20th; Independent Spirit Awards; 22nd →;

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.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]

Winners and nominees

Felicity Huffman, Best Female Lead winner

Best Feature	Best Director
Brokeback Mountain Capote Good Night, and Good Luck. The Squid and the Whale The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada	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	Best Female 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.	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	Best Supporting Female
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	Amy Adams – Junebug Maggie Gyllenhaal – Happy Endings Allison Janney – Our Very Own Michelle Williams – Brokeback Mountain Robin Wright Penn – Nine Lives
Best Screenplay	Best First 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	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 First Feature	Best Documentary
Crash Lackawanna Blues Me and You and Everyone We Know Thumbsucker Transamerica	Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room Grizzly Man Romántico La Sierra Sir! No Sir!
Best Cinematography	Best Foreign Film
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	Paradise Now • Palestine/Netherlands/Germany/France The Death of Mr. Lazarescu • Romania Duck Season • Germany/Turkey Head-On • France Tony Takitani • Japan

Films with multiple nominations and awards

Films that received multiple nominations
Nominations	Film
6	The Squid and the Whale
4	Brokeback Mountain
	The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
	Capote
3	Good Night, and Good Luck.
	Nine Lives
	Transamerica
2	Crash
	Junebug
	Lackawanna Blues
	Me and You and Everyone We Know
	The War Within

Films that won multiple awards
Awards	Film
2	Brokeback Mountain
	Capote
	Crash
	Transamerica

Special awards

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

External links

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.

[1] "Getting into the Spirit of awards season". Los Angeles Times. 2005-11-30. Retrieved 2012-08-21.

[2] "'Whale' of a day at Spirits". Variety. 2005-11-29. Retrieved 2012-08-21.

[3] "Indie awards show a cowboy Spirit". Variety. 2006-03-04. Retrieved 2012-08-21.

[4] "'Brokeback' named best independent film". USA Today. 2006-03-04. Retrieved 2012-08-21.

[5] ""Brokeback," "Capote," "Crash," "Transamerica" Honored With Spirit Awards". indieWire. 2006-03-05. Retrieved 2012-08-21.

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