Independent Filmmaker Project - 2006 Gotham Independent Film Awards
Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP)
Gotham Independent Film Awards (16th)
Nominations: October 23, 2006
Awards: November 29, 2006
Below are the nominations & winners for the 16th Annual Gotham Independent Film Awards.
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Best Feature
"The Departed"
(Warner Bros.) Warner Bros., Vertigo, Initial Entertainment Group, Plan B Entertainment, Martin Scorsese, director; Brad Pitt, Brad Grey, Graham King, producers
WINNER
"Half Nelson"
(ThinkFilm) Journeyman Pictures, Ryan Fleck, director; Jamie Patricof, Alex Orlovsky, Lynette Howell, Anna Boden, Rosanne Korenberg, producers
"Little Children"
(New Line Cinema) New Line Cinema, Bona Fide Productions, Standard Film Company Inc., Todd Field, director; Albert Berger, Ron Yerxa, Todd Field, producers
"Marie Antoinette"
(Columbia Pictures/Sony Pictures) Sofia Coppola, director; Ross Katz, Sofia Coppola, producers
"Old Joy"
(Kino International) Film Science, Van Hoy/Knudsen Productions, Washington Square Films, Kelly Reichardt, director; Neil Kopp, Lars Knudsen, Jay Van Hoy, Anish Savjani, producers
Best Documentary
"Deliver Us From Evil"
(Lionsgate Films) Disarming Films, Amy Berg, director; Amy Berg, Frank Donner, Hermas Lassalle, Matthew Cooke, producers
"Following Sean"
(Upstate Films/Shadow Distribution) Timed Exposures, Ralph Arlyck, director; Ralph Arlyck, Malcolm Pullinger, producers
"An Inconvenient Truth"
(Paramount Classics) Participant Productions, Davis Guggenheim, director; Laurie David, Lawrence Bender, Scott Z. Burns, producers
WINNER
"Iraq in Fragments"
(Typecast Films) HBO Films, Daylight Factory, Typecast Pictures, James Longley, director; James Longley, John Sinno, producers
"Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple"
(Seventh Art Releasing) Firelight Media, Stanley Nelson, director/producer
Breakthrough Director
"Man Push Cart"
(Films Philos) Ramin Bahrani
"SherryBaby"
(Big Beach Films) Laurie Collyer
WINNER
"Half Nelson"
(ThinkFilm) Ryan Fleck
"In Between Days"
(Kino) So Yong Kim
"The King"
(ThinkFilm) James Marsh
Breakthrough Actor
Abigail Breslin in "Little Miss Sunshine" (Fox Searchlight)
WINNER
Shareeka Epps in "Half Nelson" (ThinkFilm)
Melinda Page Hamilton in "Sleeping Dogs Lie" (Roadside Attractions/Samuel Goldwyn Films)
WINNER
Rinko Kikuchi in "Babel" (Paramount Vantage)
Channing Tatum in "A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints"
Best Ensemble
WINNER
Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Gael Garcia Bernal, Koji Yakusho, Adriana Barraza, Rinko Kikuchi, Said Tarchani, Boubker Ait El Caid in "Babel" (Paramount Vantage)
Bob Balaban, Jennifer Coolidge, Christopher Guest, John Michael Higgins, Eugene Levy, Jane Lynch, Michael McKean, Catherine O'Hara, Parker Posey, Harry Shearer, Fred Willard in "For Your Consideration"
Greg Kinnear, Toni Collette, Steve Carell, Paul Dano, Abigail Breslin, Alan Arkin in "Little Miss Sunshine" (Fox Searchlight)
Woody Harrelson, Tommy Lee Jones, Garrison Keillor, Kevin Kline, Lindsay Lohan, Virginia Madsen, John C. Reilly, Maya Rudolph, Meryl Streep, Lily Tomlin, L.Q. Jones, Sue Scott, Tim Russell in "A Prairie Home Companion" (Picturehouse)
Sook-Yin Lee, Paul Dawson, Lindsay Beamish, PJ DeBoy, Raphael Barker, Peter Stickles, Jay Brannan, Justin Bond in "Shortbus" (ThinkFilm)
Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You
WINNER
"Choking Man"
Steve Barron, director; Joshua Zeman, Zachary Mortensen, producers
"Colma: The Musical"
Richard Wong, director; Paul Kolsanoff, Richard Wong, Angel Vasquez, producers
"In Between Days"
(Kino) So Yong Kim, director; Bradley Rust Gray, producer
"The Great Happiness Space: Tale of an Osaka Love Thief"
(Mongrel Media) Jake Clennell, director/producer
"Wristcutters: A Love Story"
(Freestyle Releasing LLC) No Matter Pictures, Goran Dukic, director; Adam Sherman, Chris Coen, Tatiana Kelly, Mikal P. Lazarev, producers
Gotham Tributes
WINNER
Alfonso Cuarón, Guillermo del Toro & Alejandro Gonzáles Iñárritu
WINNER
Mark Cuban & Todd Wagner
WINNER
Edward Norton
WINNER
Tim Robbins
WINNER
Kate Winslet
WINNER
Ellen Kuras
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