2006 Independent Spirit Awards
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This Saturday, the day before the Oscars, the 20th Annual Independent Spirit Awards take place. The nominees... BEST FEATURE Brokeback Mountain Capote Good Night, And Good Luck The Squid & the Whale The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada BEST DIRECTOR Gregg Araki, Mysterious Skin Noah Baumbach, The Squid & the Whale George Clooney, Good Night, And Good Luck Rodrigo García, Nine Lives Ang Lee, Brokeback Mountain BEST ACTOR Jeff Daniels, The Squid & the Whale Philip Seymour Hoffman, Capote Terrence Howard, Hustle & Flow Heath Ledger, Brokeback Mountain David Strathairn, Good NIght, And Good Luck BEST ACTRESS Felicity Huffman, Transamerica Laura Linney, The Squid & the Whale Dina Korzun, Forty Shades of Blue S. Epatha Merkerson, "Lackawanna Blues" Cyndi Williams, Room BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR Firdous Bamji, The War Within Matt Dillon, Crash Jesse Eisenberg, The Squid & the Whale Barry Pepper, The Thre Burials of Melquiades Estrada Jeffrey Wright, Broken Flowers SUPPORTING ACTRESS Amy Adams, Junebug Maggie Gyllenhaal, Happy Endings Allison Janney, On Our Very Own Robin Wright Penn, Nine Lives Michelle Williams, Brokeback Mountain 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 & Tom Glynn BEST DOCUMENTARY Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room Grizzly Man Romántico La Sierra Sir! No Sir! BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FEATURE The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (Romania) Duck Season (Mexico) Head-On (Turkey) Paradise Now (Palestine) Tony Takitani (Japan) BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY Capote, Adam Kimmel Good Night, And Good Luck, Robert Elswit Keane, John Foster Last Days, Harris Savides The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, Chris Menges BEST FIRST FEATURE Crash, Paul Haggis "Lackawanna Blues", George Wolfe Me and You and Everyone We Know, Miranda July Thumbsucker, Mike Mills Transamerica, Duncan Tucker BEST FIRST SCREENPLAY The Beautiful Country, Sabina Murray Fixing Frank, Ken Hanes Junebug, Angus MacLachlan Me and You and Everyone We Know, Miranda July Transamerica, Duncan Tucker JOHN CASSAVETES AWARD* Brick Conventioneers Jellysmoke The Puffy Chair Room *Given to the writer, director and producer for the best feature made for under $500,000.00 The Awards show starts at 2:00pm Pacific and is aired live on IFC (The Independent Film Channel). The event is rebroadcast at 9:00pm Pacific. The host of this year's awards is Sarah Silverman. |
Originally Posted by Holden Pike
The Awards show starts at 2:00pm Pacific and is aired live on IFC (The Independent Film Channel). The event is rebroadcast at 9:00pm Pacific. The host of this year's awards is Sarah Silverman.
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Originally Posted by Aniko
Thanks for posting all of this Holden. The Awards show is also on tonight on AMC at 10:00pm (Est).
And though the line has been getting more and more blurred as to what an "independent" movie even means anymore, the Spirit Awards have never mirrored the Oscars down the line in so many categories. There has been lots of work nominated for both in the past to be sure, and some of the Spirit winners have even gone on to win Oscars the next day. There have been five acting performances that have won Oscas and Spirits, all women: Geraldine Page in The Trip to Bountiful, Dianne Wiest in Bullets Over Broadway, Frances McDormand in Fargo, Hilary Swank in Boys Don't Cry and Charlize Theron in Monster. Felicity Huffman, Amy Adams and Michelle Wiliams can do it again this year, and Pihilp Seymour Hoffman, Terrence Howard, Heath Ledger, David Strathairn and Matt Dillon all have the opportunity to be the first men to win both. There have been five winners of Best Screenplay at the Spirits who also won the Oscar: Pulp Fiction, The Usual Suspects, Fargo, Lost in Translation and Sideways. The only Director and Picture to have also won the Oscar was Oliver Stone and Platoon back in 1987 (the second year of the Spirits). Will Ang Lee and Brokeback Mountain repeat that feat? Will one or the other or even both voting bodies pick upsets in some kind of Brokeback backlash after it has won so many of the major awards leading up to this weekend? Stay tuned... |
The winners at the Independent Spirit Awards...
BEST FEATURE Brokeback Mountain BEST DIRECTOR Ang Lee, Brokeback Mountain BEST ACTOR Philip Seymour Hoffman, Capote BEST ACTRESS Felicity Huffman, Transamerica BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR Matt Dillon, Crash SUPPORTING ACTRESS Amy Adams, Junebug BEST SCREENPLAY Capote, Dan Futterman BEST DOCUMENTARY Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FEATURE Paradise Now (Palestine) BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY Good Night, And Good Luck, Robert Elswit BEST FIRST FEATURE Crash, Paul Haggis BEST FIRST SCREENPLAY Transamerica, Duncan Tucker |
And to follow up here, Philip Seymour Hoffman becomes only the seventh performer (and first man) to win both the Oscar and the Spirit, and Ang Lee only the second person to win both awards for directing.
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Originally Posted by Holden Pike
Yeah, but they won't have to bleep out the swearing or insert commercials on IFC. It's usually a very fun and funny show.
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Originally Posted by Twain
Speaking of swearing, I really enjoyed Felicity Huffman's story about the grip. :D
Sarah Silverman was very good, and because of the looser atmosphere much more relaxed and able to be herself than Jon was. Stewart was good, I enjoyed the show and I hope they ask him back, but it wasn't a home run. A solid double stretched into a triple on a throwing error maybe. |
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