Spirit Awards 2006
2006 Spirit Awards
Film Independent’s 2006 Spirit Award winners: Santa Monica on March 4, 2006
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
Brokeback Mountain won two top awards – Best Film and Best Director (Ang Lee) at the Independent Film Spirit (IFS) awards ceremony earlier today. Curiously, the gay ranch-hand melodrama failed to garner a Best Screenplay nod. The winner in that category was Dan Futterman for Capote, the critically acclaimed semi-biopic – it focuses on one section of author Truman Capote’s life – that also won Philip Seymour Hoffman the Best Actor award.
Felicity Huffman was chosen the Best Actress for her delightful pre-op transsexual in Transamerica, while Matt Dillon and Amy Adams took home the acting awards in the supporting categories for, respectively, Crash and Junebug.
Crash, which has been overhyped as a potential upset winner at the Academy Awards ceremony tomorrow (some people have been struggling awful hard to add suspense to this year’s utterly predictable Oscar winners*), won every single Independent Film Spirit award for which it had been nominated. That makes it a total of two wins.
Besides Dillon’s award, Crash also won as Best First Film. The recent hype surely didn’t hurt the film’s chances to win, especially considering that IFS voters hadn’t even deemed Paul Haggis‘ simple-minded racial drama worthy of a Best Film, Best Director, or Best Screenplay nod.
Despite calls for boycotts from those who apparently haven’t seen the anti-terrorism film, Hany-Abu Assad’s Paradise Now won the Best Foreign-Language Film Award.
* Addendum: The overhypers were right and I was sadly – I didn’t care for Crash – wrong.
BEST FEATURE (Award given to the producer)
* Brokeback Mountain Producers: Diana Ossana and James Schamus
Capote Producers: Caroline Baron, William Vince, Michael Ohoven
Good Night and Good Luck. Producer: Grant Heslov
The Squid and the Whale Producers: Wes Anderson, Peter Newman, Charles Corwin, Clara Markowicz
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada Producers: Michael Fitzgerald, Tommy Lee Jones, Luc Besson, Pierre-Ange Le Pogan
BEST DIRECTOR
* ANG LEE Brokeback Mountain
GEORGE CLOONEY Good Night and Good Luck.
GREGG ARAKI Mysterious Skin
RODRIGO GARCÍA Nine Lives
NOAH BAUMBACH The Squid and the Whale
BEST FOREIGN FILM (Award given to the director)
Moartea domnului Lazarescu / The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (Romania) Director: Cristi Puiu
Temporada de patos / Duck Season (Mexico) Director: Fernando Eimbcke
Gegen die Wand / Head-On (Germany/Turkey) Director: Fatih Akin
* Paradise Now (Palestine/Netherlands/Germany/France) Director: Hany Abu-Assad
Tony Takitani (Japan) Director: Jun Ichikawa
BEST FIRST FEATURE (Award given to the director and producer)
* Crash Director: Paul Haggis Producers: Cathy Schulman, Don Cheadle, Bob Yari, Mark R. Harris, Bobby Moresco, Paul Haggis
Lackawanna Blues Director: George C. Wolfe Producer: Nellie Nugiel
Me and You and Everyone We Know Director: Miranda July
Producer: Gina Kwon
Thumbsucker Director: Mike Mills Producers: Anthony Bregman
and Bob Stephenson
Transamerica Director: Duncan Tucker Producers: Sebastian Dungan, Linda Moran, Rene Bastian
BEST DOCUMENTARY (Award given to the director)
* Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room Director: Alex Gibney
Grizzly Man Director: Werner Herzog
La Sierra Directors: Scott Dalton & Margarita Martinez
Romántico Directors: Mark Becker
Sir! No Sir! Director: David Zeiger
JOHN CASSAVETES AWARD
(Given to the best feature made for under $500,000; Award given to the writer, director, and producer)
Brick Director/Writer: Rian Johnson Producers: Ram Bergman, Mark G. Mathis
* Conventioneers Director: Mora Stephens Producer: Joel Viertel
Writer: Mora Stephens and Joel Viertel
Jellysmoke Director/Writer/Producer: Mark Banning
The Puffy Chair Director: Jay Duplass Producer: Mark Duplass
Writers: Mark Duplass and Jay Duplass
Room Director/Writer: Kyle Henry Producers: Jesse Scolaro, Allen Bain, Darren Goldberg
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.
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 FEMALE
* AMY ADAMS Junebug
MAGGIE GYLLENHAAL Happy Endings
ALLISON JANNEY Our Very Own
MICHELLE WILLIAMS Brokeback Mountain
ROBIN WRIGHT PENN Nine Lives
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
BEST SCREENPLAY
AYAD AKHTAR, JOSEPH CASTELO, TOM GLYNN The War Within
GUILLERMO ARRIAGA The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
NOAH BAUMBACH The Squid and the Whale
* DAN FUTTERMAN Capote
RODRIGO GARCÍA Nine Lives
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
BEST 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
TRUER THAN FICTION AWARD
* Occupation: Dreamland - Garrett Scott, Ian Olds
Our Brand Is Crisis – Rachel Boynton
Romántico – Mark Becker
Twelve Disciples of Nelson Mandela – Thomas Allen Harris
SOMEONE TO WATCH AWARD
* Cavite - Ian Gamazon, Neill Dela Llana
Police Beat – Robinson Devor
The Puffy Chair – Jay Duplass
PRODUCER AWARD
* Caroline Baron, Capote, Monsoon Wedding
Ram Bergman, Brick, Conversations with Other Women
Mike S. Ryan, Junebug, Palindromes
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