2006 Indie Spirit Award Nominations

BEST FEATURE:
"Brokeback Mountain"
"Capote"
"Good Night, and Good Luck"
"The Squid and the Whale"
"The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada"

BEST DIRECTOR:
Ang Lee - "Brokeback Mountain"
George Clooney - "Good Night, and Good Luck"
Gregg Araki - "Mysterious Skin"
Rodrigo Garcia - "Nine Lives"
Noah Baumbach - "The Squid and the Whale"

BEST SCREENPLAY:
"The War Within" - Writers: Ayad Akhtar, Joseph Castelo, Tom Glynn
"The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada" - Writer: Guillermo Arriaga
"The Squid and the Whale" - Writer: Noah Baumbach
"Capote" - Writer: Dan Futterman
"Nine Lives" - Writer: Rodrigo Garcia

BEST FIRST FEATURE:
"Crash" - Director: Paul Haggis, Producers: Cathy Schulman, Don Cheadle, Bob Yari, Mark R Harris, Bobby Moresco, Paul Haggis
"Lackawanna Blues" - Director: George C Wolfe, Producer: Nellie Nugiel
"Me and You and Everyone We Know" - Director: Miranda July, Producer: Gina Kwon
"Thumbsucker" - Director: Mike Mills, Producers: Anthony Bregman, Bob Stephenson
"Transamerica" - Director: Duncan Tucker, Producers: Rene Bastian, Sebastian Dungan, Linda Moran

BEST FIRST SCREENPLAY:
"Fixing Frank" - Writer: Kenneth Hanes
"Me and You and Everyone We Know" - Writer: Miranda July
"Junebug" - Writer: Angus MacLachlan
"The Beautiful Country" - Writer: Sabina Murray
"Transamerica" - Writer: Duncan Tucker

JOHN CASSAVETES AWARD: (Given to the best feature made for under $500,000)
"Brick"
"Conventioneers"
"Jellysmoke"
"The Puffy Chair"

BEST SUPPORTING FEMALE:
Amy Adams - "Junebug"
Maggie Gyllenhaal - "Happy Endings"
Allison Janney - "Our Very Own"
Michelle Williams - "Brokeback Mountain"
Robin Wright Penn - "Nine Lives"

BEST SUPPORTING MALE:
Firdous Bamji - "The War Within"
Matt Dillon - "Crash"
Jesse Eisenberg - "The Squid and the Whale"
Barry Pepper - "The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada"
Jeffrey Wright - "Broken Flowers"

BEST FEMALE LEAD:
Felicity Huffman - "Transamerica"
Dina Korzun - "Forty Shades of Blue"
Laura Linney - "The Squid and the Whale"
S Epatha Merkerson - "Lackawanna Blues"
Cyndi Williams- "Room"

BEST MALE LEAD:
Jeff Daniels - "The Squid and the Whale"
Philip Seymour Hoffman - "Capote"
Terrence Howard - "Hustle and Flow"
Heath Ledger - "Brokeback Mountain"
David Strathairn - "Good Night, and Good Luck"

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY:
"Good Night, and Good Luck" - Robert Elswit
"Keane" - John Foster
"Capote" - Adam Kimmel
"The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada" - Chris Menges
"Last Days" - Harris Savides

BEST FOREIGN FILM:
"The Death of Mr Lazarescu" - Romania, Director: Cristi Puiu
"Duck Season" - Mexico, Director: Fernando Eimbcke
"Head On" – Germany/Turkey, Director: Fatih Akin
"Paradise Now" - Palestine/Netherlands/Germany/France, Director: Hany Abu-Assad
"Tony Takitani" – Japan, Director: Jun Ichikawa

BEST DOCUMENTARY:
"Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room" - Director: Alex Gibney
"Grizzly Man" - Director: Werner Herzog
"La Sierra" - Directors: Scott Dalton and Margarita Martinez
"Romantico" - Director: Mark Becker
"Sir! No Sir!" - Director: David Zeiger