2006 Spirit Picks



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2006 Independent Spirit Awards
Nominations will be awarded on
Saturday March 4th.

What are the Independent Spirit Awards?

Best Feature

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

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Best 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

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Best First Feature (Director)

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

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John Cassavettes Award
(Best Feature Made for Under $500,000)

	Brick
	Conventioneers
	Jellysmoke
	The Puffy Chair
	Room

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Best Screenplay

	Akhtar, Castelo, & Glynn, The War Within
	Guillermo Arriaga, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
	Noah Baumbach, The Squid and the Whale
	Dan Futterman, Capote
	Rodrigo Garcia, Nine Lives

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Best First Screenplay

	Kenneth Hanes, Fixing Frank
	Miranda July, Me and You and Everyone We Know
	Angus MacLachlan, Junebug
	Sabina Murray, The Beautiful Country
	Duncan Tucker, Transamerica

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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

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Best Male Lead

	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

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Best Supporting Female

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

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Best Supporting Male

	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

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Best Cinematographer

	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

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Best Foreign Film

	The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (Romania)
	Duck Season (Mexico)
	Head-On (Germany/Turkey)
	Paradise Now (Palestine)
	Tony Takitani (Japan)

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Best Documentary

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

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Someone to Watch Award

	Ian Gamazon and Neill Dela Llana, director of "Cavite"
	Robinson Devor, director of "Police Beat"
	Jay Duplass, director of "The Puffy Chair"

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Truer Than Fiction Award

	Rachel Boynton for "Our Brand is Crisis"
	Garrett Scott & Ian Olds for "Occupation: Dreamland"
	Mark Becker for "Romantico"
	Thomas Allen Harris for "Twelve Disciples of Nelson Mandela"

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Producers Award

	Caroline Baron, producer of CAPOTE and MONSOON WEDDING
	Ram Bergman, producer of "Brick" and "Conversations with Other Women”
	Mike S. Ryan, producer of JUNEBUG and PALINDROMES

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