21st Independent Spirit Awards (2006)

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
	Gregg Araki - Mysterious Skin
	Noah Baumbach - The Squid and the Whale
	George Clooney - Good Night, and Good Luck.
	Rodrigo García - Nine Lives

Best Male Lead

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

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 Supporting Male

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

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 Screenplay

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

Best Cinematography

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

Best Foreign Film

	Paradise Now • Palestine/Netherlands/Germany/France
	The Death of Mr. Lazarescu • Romania
	Duck Season • Germany/Turkey
	Head-On • France
	Tony Takitani • Japan

Best Documentary

	Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
	Grizzly Man
	Romántico
	La Sierra
	Sir! No Sir!

Best First Feature

	Crash
	Lackawanna Blues
	Me and You and Everyone We Know
	Thumbsucker
	Transamerica

Best First Screenplay

	Transamerica - Duncan Tucker
	The Beautiful Country - Sabina Murray
	Fixing Frank - Ken Hanes
	Junebug - Angus MacLachlan
	Me and You and Everyone We Know - Miranda July