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21st Independent Spirit Awards

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Date
  
4 March 2006

Other ceremonies
  
2005, 2007

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

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Best Feature

Brokeback Mountain

  • Capote
  • Good Night, and Good Luck.
  • The Squid and the Whale
  • The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada

    • Best First Feature

    Crash

  • Lackawanna Blues
  • Me and You and Everyone We Know
  • Thumbsucker
  • Transamerica

    • 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

  • The Death of Mr. Lazarescu • Romania
  • Duck Season • Germany/Turkey
  • Head-On • France
  • Tony Takitani • Japan

    • 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

  • Our Brand Is Crisis
  • Romántico
  • Twelve Disciples of Nelson Mandela

    • 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

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