Independent Spirit Awards of 2005

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The 21st Independent Spirit Awards, given by Film Independent on 4 March 2006, will honor the best in film for 2005.

[edit] Winners

• Best Actor:
  • Philip Seymour Hoffman - Capote
• Best Actress:
  • Felicity Huffman - Transamerica
• Best Cinematography:
  • Good Night, and Good Luck. - Robert Elswit
• Best Director:
  • Ang Lee - Brokeback Mountain
• Best Documentary Feature:
  • Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
• Best Film:
  • Brokeback Mountain
• Best First Feature:
  • Crash
• Best Foreign Language Film:
  • Paradise Now, Palestine/Germany/Netherlands/Israel
• Best Screenplay:
  • Capote - Dan Futterman
• Best Screenplay (first):
  • Transamerica - Duncan Tucker
• Best Supporting Actor:
  • Matt Dillon - Crash
• Best Supporting Actress:
  • Amy Adams - Junebug

[edit] Award breakdown

• 2/2: Crash
• 2/3: Transamerica
• 2/4: Brokeback Mountain
• 2/4: Capote
• 1/2: Junebug
• 1/4: Good Night, and Good Luck.

Biggest losers:

• 0/6: The Squid and the Whale
• 0/3: Nine Lives
• 0/2: Lackawanna Blues (TV movie)
• 0/2: Me and You and Everyone We Know
• 0/2: Room

[edit] Nominees

• Best Picture:
  • Capote
  • Good Night, and Good Luck.
  • The Squid and the Whale
  • The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada

• Best First Feature:
  • Lackawanna Blues
  • Cirrincione
  • Me and You and Everyone We Know
  • Thumbsucker
  • Transamerica

• Best Supporting Male:
  • 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 Screenplay:
  • 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 Cinematography:
  • Capote
  • Keane
  • Last Days
  • The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada