De jaarlijkse prijzenregen

Deze vind ik zelf wel leuk, ze richten zich op independent films dus niet één-op-één met de Oscars te vergelijken, maar toch aardig.

Independent Spirit Award nominaties

Feature:
Brokeback Mountain, Capote, Good Night, and Good Luck, The Suid and the Whale, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada

John Cassavetes Award - Feature (Under $500,000):
Brick, Conventioneers, Jellysmoke, The Puffy Chair, Room

Director:
Ang Lee - Brokeback Mountain, George Clooney - Good Night, and Good Luck, Gregg Araki - Mysterious Skin, Rodrigo Garcia - Nine Lives, Noah Baumbach - The Squid and the Whale

Actor:
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

Actress:
Felicity Huffman - Transamerica, Dina Korzun - Forty Shades of Blue, Laura Linney - The Squid and the Whale, S. Epatha Merkerson - Lackawanna Blues, Cyndi Williams - Room

Supp. Actor:
Firdous Bamji - The War Within, Matt Dillon - Crash, Jesse Eisenberg - The Squid and the Whale, Barry Pepper - The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, Jeffrey Wright - Broken Flowers

Supp. Actress:
Amy Adams - Junebug, Maggie Gyllenhaal - Happy Endings, Allison Janney - Our Very Own, Michelle Williams - Brokeback Mountain, Robin Wright Penn - Nine Lives

Foreign Film:
The Death of Mr. Lazarescu - Roemenië, Duck Season - Mexico, Gegen die Wand - Duitsland/Turkije, Paradise Now - Palestina/Nederland/Duitsland/Frankrijk, Tony Takitani - Japan

Cinematography:
Robert Elswit - Good Night, and Good Luck, John Foster - Keane, Adam Kimmel - Capote, Chris Menges - The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, Harris Savides - Last Days

First Feature:
Paul Haggis - Crash, George C. Wolfe - Lackawanna Blues, Miranda July - Me and You and Everyone We Know, Mike Mills - Thumbsucker, Duncan Tucker - Transamerica

First Screenplay:
Fixing Frank, Me and You and Everyone We Know, Junebug, The Beautiful Country, Transamerica

Producers Award:
Caroline Baron - Capote & Monsoon Wedding, Ram Bergman - Brick & Conversations with Other Women, Mike S. Ryan - Junebug & Palindromes

Documentary:
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, Grizzly Man, La Sierra, Romantico, Sir! No Sir!