Here are the nominees and winners for the Independent Spirit Awards for the best films of 2005.

Best Feature:

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

Best Director:

• Ang Lee for Brokeback Mountain WINNER!
• George Clooney for Good Night, and Good Luck.
• Gregg Araki for Mysterious Skin
• Rodrigo Garcia for Nine Lives
• Noah Baumbach for The Squid and the Whale

Best Screenplay:

• Ayad Akhtar, Joseph Castelo, and Tom Glynn for The War Within
• Guillermo Arriaga for The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
• Noah Baumbach for The Squid and the Whale
• Dan Futterman for Capote WINNER!
• Rodrigo Garcia for Nine Lives

Best First Feature:

• Paul Haggis for Crash WINNER!
• George C. Wolfe for Lackawanna Blues
• Miranda July for Me and You and Everyone We Know
• Mike Mills for Thumbsucker
• Duncan Tucker for Transamerica

Best First Screenplay:

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

John Cassavetes Award:

(Given to the best feature made for under $500,000.)

• Brick
• Conventioneers WINNER!
• Jellysmoke
• The Puffy Chair

Best Supporting Female:

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

Best Supporting Male:

• Firdous Bamji in The War Within
• Matt Dillon in Crash WINNER!
• Jesse Eisenberg in The Squid and the Whale
• Barry Pepper in The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
• Jeffrey Wright in Broken Flowers

Best Female Lead:

• Felicity Huffman in Transamerica WINNER!
• Dina Korzun in Forty Shades of Blue
• Laura Linney in The Squid and the Whale
• S. Epatha Merkerson in Lackawanna Blues
• Cindi Williams in Room

Best Male Lead:

• Jeff Daniels in The Squid and the Whale
• Philip Seymour Hoffman in Capote WINNER!
• Terrence Howard in Hustle and Flow
• Heath Ledger in Brokeback Mountain
• David Strathairn in Good Night, and Good Luck.

Best Cinematography:

• Robert Elswit for Good Night, and Good Luck. WINNER!
• John Foster for Keane
• Adam Kimmel for Capote
• Chris Menges for The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
• Harris Savides for Last Days

Best Foreign Film:

• The Death of Mr. Lazarescu [Romania]
• Duck Season [Mexico]
• Head-On [Germany]
• Paradise Now [Palestine] WINNER!
• Tony Takitani [Japan]

Best Documentary:

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

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