INDEPENDENT SPIRIT AWARD NOMINEES
The IFP Los Angeles has announced the nominees for the 2005 Independent Spirit Awards, which will be held in a tent on the beach in Santa Monica on Saturday, February 26.
“Hosted annually on the Saturday before the Oscars, the IFP Independent Spirit Awards is the yin to the Oscars’ yang — a celebration honoring filmmakers of independent vision. Televised in millions of homes and covered internationally, the Independent Spirit Awards program has become the vanguard event in independent film, recognizing the achievements of independent filmmakers and promoting independent film to a wider audience.”
Films vying for Best Feature this year are: Baadasssss! (Producer: Mario Van Peebles), Kinsey, (Producer: Gail Mutrux), Maria Full of Grace (Producer: Paul Mezey), Primer (Producer: Shane Carruth), and Sideways (Producer: Michael London).
The Best First Feature nominees are: Brother to Brother (Director: Rodney Evans; Producers: Rodney Evans, Jim McKay, Isen Robbins, Aimee Schoof), Garden State (Director: Zach Braff; Producers: Pamela Abdy, Gary Gilbert, Dan Halsted, Richard Klubeck), Napoleon Dynamite (Director: Jared Hess; Producers: Jeremy Coon, Sean C. Covel, Chris Wyatt), Saints and Soldiers (Director: Ryan Little; Producers: Adam Abel, Ryan Little), and The Woodsman (Director: Nicole Kassell; Producer: Lee Daniels).
Best Documentary nominees include: Bright Leaves (Director: Ross McElwee), Chisholm ’72: Unbought & Unbossed (Director: Shola Lynch), Hiding and Seeking: Faith and Tolerance After the Holocaust (Directors: Menachem Daum, Oren Rudavsky), Metallica: Some Kind of Monster (Directors: Joe Berlinger, Bruce Sinofsky), and Tarnation, (Director: Jonathan Caouette).
With six nomiations this year, Alexander Paynes’s Sideways leads the pack, closely followed by Maria Full of Grace (five nominations); Primer, Kinsey, Brother to Brother and Mario de la Vega’s undistributed Robbing Peter (with four nominations each); and Baadasssss!, The Woodsman and The Motorcycle Diaries (with three each).
A complete list of nominees can be found at the IFP Web site.
