21st Independent Spirit Awards

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.

Nominees and winners

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

External links

• 2005 Spirit Awards at IMDb