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21st Independent Spirit Awards
Date March 4, 2006
Site U.S.
Hosted by Sarah Silverman
Highlights
Best Film Brokeback Mountain
Most awards Brokeback Mountain (2)
Capote (2)
Transamerica (2)
Most nominations The Squid and the Whale (6)
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The 21st Independent Spirit Awards, honoring the best in independent filmmaking for 2005, were announced on March 4, 2006. It was hosted by Sarah Silverman.

Winners and nominees

Ang Lee - 66ème Festival de Venise (Mostra)
Ang Lee, Best Director winner
Philip Seymour Hoffman 2011
Philip Seymour Hoffman, Best Male Lead winner
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Felicity Huffman, Best Female Lead winner
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Matt Dillon, Best Supporting Male winner
Amy Adams in St Helier, Jersey
Amy Adams, Best Supporting Female winner
Best Feature Best Director
Brokeback Mountain
  • Capote
  • Good Night, and Good Luck.
  • The Squid and the Whale
  • The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
 Ang Lee – Brokeback Mountain
  • Gregg Araki – Mysterious Skin
  • Noah Baumbach – The Squid and the Whale
  • George Clooney – Good Night, and Good Luck.
  • Rodrigo García – Nine Lives
Best Male Lead Best Female Lead
Philip Seymour Hoffman – Capote Felicity Huffman – Transamerica
Best Supporting Male Best Supporting Female
Matt Dillon – Crash Amy Adams – Junebug
Best Screenplay Best First 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 and Tom Glynn
 Transamerica – Duncan Tucker
  • The Beautiful Country – Sabina Murray
  • Fixing Frank – Ken Hanes
  • Junebug – Angus MacLachlan
  • Me and You and Everyone We Know – Miranda July
Best First Feature Best Documentary
Crash
  • Lackawanna Blues
  • Me and You and Everyone We Know
  • Thumbsucker
  • Transamerica
 Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
  • Grizzly Man
  • Romántico
  • La Sierra
  • Sir! No Sir!
Best Cinematography Best Foreign Film
Good Night, and Good Luck. – Robert Elswit
  • Capote – Adam Kimmel
  • Keane – John Foster
  • Last Days – Harris Savides
  • The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada – Chris Menges
 Paradise Now • Palestine/Netherlands/Germany/France

Films with multiple nominations and awards

Films that received multiple nominations
Nominations Film
6 The Squid and the Whale
4 Brokeback Mountain
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
Capote
3 Good Night, and Good Luck.
Nine Lives
Transamerica
2 Crash
Junebug
Lackawanna Blues
Me and You and Everyone We Know
The War Within
Films that won multiple awards
Awards Film
2 Brokeback Mountain
Capote
Crash
Transamerica

Special awards

John Cassavetes Award

Conventioneers

  • Brick
  • Jellysmoke
  • The Puffy Chair
  • Room

Truer Than Fiction Award

Occupation: Dreamland

  • Our Brand Is Crisis
  • Romántico
  • Twelve Disciples of Nelson Mandela

Producers Award

Caroline Baron – Capote and Monsoon Wedding

  • Ram Bergman – Brick and Conversations with Other Women
  • Mike S. Ryan – Junebug and Palindromes

Someone to Watch Award

Ian Gamazon and Neill Dela Llana – Cavite

  • Robinson Devor – Police Beat
  • Jay Duplass – The Puffy Chair
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