DAILY NEWS: Spirit Award Nominations
by indieWIRE
The 16th Annual IFP/West Independent Spirit Awards Nominations
BEST FEATURE
(Award given to the Producer. Executive Producers are not listed)
"Before Night Falls"
Producer: Jon Kilik"Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon"
Producers: Bill Kong, Hsu Li Kong, Ang Lee "George Washington"
Producers: David Gordon Green, Sacha W. Mueller, Lisa Muskat"Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai"
Producers: Jim Jarmusch & Richard
Guay"Requiem for a Dream"
Producers: Eric Watson & Palmer West
BEST DIRECTOR
Ang Lee, "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon"Christopher Guest, "Best in Show"Darren Aronofsky, "Requiem for A Dream"Julian Schnabel, "Before Night Falls"Miguel Arteta, "Chuck & Buck"BEST SCREENPLAY
Valerie Breiman, "Love & Sex"Raymond De Felitta, "Two Family House"Robert Dillon, "Waking the Dead"Kenneth Lonergan, "You Can Count On Me"Mike White, "Chuck & Buck"BEST FIRST FEATURE
(Award given to the Director & Producer, Executive Producers are not listed)
"Boiler Room"
Director: Ben Younger
Producers: Suzanne Todd & Jennifer Todd "Girlfight"
Director: Karyn Kusama
Producers: Maggie Renzi, Sarah Green, & Martha Griffin "Love & Basketball"
Director: Gina Prince-Bythewood
Producers: Spike Lee & Sam Kitt "The Visit"
Director/Producer: Jordan Walker-Pearlman "You Can Count On Me"
Director: Kenneth Lonergan
Producers: John N. Hart & Jeffrey Sharp
BEST FIRST SCREENPLAY
David Gordon Green, "George Washington"Ross Klavan & Michael McGruther, "Tigerland"Gina Prince-Bythewood, "Love & Basketball"Jordan Walker-Pearlman, "The Visit"Ben Younger, "Boiler Room"
BEST FEATURE - Under $500,000
(Award given to Writer, Director & Producer. Executive Producers are not listed)
"Bunny"
Writer/Director: Mia Trachinger
Producers: Rebecca Sonnenshine & Mia Trachinger "Chuck & Buck"
Director: Miguel Arteta
Producer: Matthew Greenfield
Writer: Mike White "Everything Put Together"
Director: Marc Forster
Producer: Sean Furst
Writers: Adam Forgash, Catherine Lloyd Burns & Marc Forster "Groove"
Writer/Director: Greg Harrison
Producer: Danielle Renfrew "Our Song"
Writer/Director: Jim McKay
Producers: Jim McKay, Paul S. Mezey, Diana E. Williams
BEST DEBUT PERFORMANCE
(Actors making their first appearance in a feature film)
Rory Culkin, "You Can Count On Me"Michelle Rodriguez, "Girlfight"Emmy Rossum, "Songcatcher"Mike White, "Chuck & Buck"Ensemble Cast of George Washington:
Candace Evanofski
Curtis Cotton, III
Damian Jewan
Donald Holden
Rachael Handy
BEST FEMALE LEAD
Joan Allen, "The Contender"Ellen Burstyn, "Requiem for a Dream"Sanaa Lathan, "Love & Basketball"Laura Linney, "You Can Count On Me" Kelly MacDonald, "Two Family House"
BEST SUPPORTING FEMALE
Pat Carroll, "Songcatcher"Jennifer Connelly, "Requiem For A Dream"Marcia Gay Harden, "Pollock"Lupe Ontiveros, "Chuck & Buck"
Zhang Ziyi, "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon"
BEST MALE LEAD
Javier Bardem, "Before Night Falls" Adrien Brody, "Restaurant" Billy Crudup, "Jesus' Son" Hill Harper, "The Visit" Mark Ruffalo, "You Can Count On Me"
BEST SUPPORTING MALE
Willem Dafoe, "Shadow of the Vampire"
Cole Hauser, "Tigerland" Gary Oldman, "The Contender" Giovanni Ribisi, "The Gift" Billy Dee Williams, "The Visit"
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHER
Lou Bogue, "Shadow of the Vampire" John De Borman, "Hamlet" Matthew Libatique, "Requiem for a Dream" Tim Orr, "George Washington" Xavier Perez Grobet & Guillermo Rosas, "Before Night Falls"
BEST FOREIGN FILM
(Award given to the Director. Executive Producers are not listed)
"Dancer in the Dark," Director: Lars Von Trier"In the Mood for Love," Director: Wong Kar-wai "The Terrorist," Director: Santosh Sivan "A Time for Drunken Horses," Director: Bahman Ghobadi "The War Zone," Director: Tim Roth BEST DOCUMENTARY
(Award Given to Director)
"Dark Days", Marc Singer
"The Eyes of Tammy Faye", Randy Barbato & Fenton Bailey
"Long Night's Journey Into Day", Frances Reid & Deborah Hoffmann
"Paragraph 175", Rob Epstein & Jeffrey Friedman
"Sound and Fury", Josh AronsonFINALISTS FOR MOVADO SOMEONE TO WATCH AWARD
Marc Forster, "Everything Put Together"
Dan McCormack, "Other Voices"
Mia Trachinger, "Bunny"FINALISTS FOR DirectTV/IFC TRUER THAN FICTION AWARD
Vincent Fremont and Shelly Dunn Fremont, "Pie in the Sky: The
Brigid Berlin Story"
David Shapiro and Laurie Gwen Shapiro, "Keep the River on the
Right: A Modern Cannibal Tale"
James Ronald Whitney, "Just, Melvin"
Jem Cohen and Peter Sillen, "Benjamin Smoke"FINALISTS FOR MOTOROLA PRODUCERS AWARD
Jim McKay, "American Movie" and "Our Song"
Paul S. Mezey, "The Ballad of Ramblin Jack" and "Spring
Forward"
Tim Perell, "Louis and Frank" and "Myth of Fingerprints"
Diana E. Williams, "Love Machine" and "Our Song"
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