16th Independent Spirit Awards

Nominees and winners

Best Feature

• Before Night Falls
• George Washington
• Requiem for a Dream

  Best First Feature

• Boiler Room
• Girlfight
• Love & Basketball
• The Visit

  Best Director

• Darren Aronofsky - Requiem for a Dream
• Miguel Arteta - Chuck & Buck
• Christopher Guest - Best in Show
• Julian Schnabel - Before Night Falls

  Best Male Lead

• Adrien Brody - Restaurant
• Billy Crudup - Jesus' Son
• Hill Harper - The Visit
• Mark Ruffalo - You Can Count On Me

  Best Female Lead

• Joan Allen - The Contender
• Sanaa Lathan - Love & Basketball
• Laura Linney - You Can Count On Me
• Kelly Macdonald - Two Family House

  Best Supporting Male

• Cole Hauser - Tigerland
• Gary Oldman - The Contender
• Giovanni Ribisi - The Gift
• Billy Dee Williams - The Visit

  Best Supporting Female

• Pat Carroll - Songcatcher
• Jennifer Connelly - Requiem for a Dream
• Marcia Gay Harden - Pollock
• Lupe Ontiveros - Chuck & Buck

  Best Screenplay

• Chuck & Buck - Mike White
• Love & Sex - Valerie Breiman
• Two Family House - Raymond De Felitta
• Waking the Dead - Robert Dillon

  Best First Screenplay

• Boiler Room - Ben Younger
• George Washington - David Gordon Green
• Tigerland - Ross Klavan and Michael McGruther
• The Visit - Jordan Walker-Pearlman

  Best Cinematography

• Before Night Falls - Xavier Pérez Grobet and Guillermo Rosas
• George Washington - Tim Orr
• Hamlet - John de Borman
• Shadow of the Vampire - Lou Bogue

  Best Foreign Film

• In the Mood for Love • Hong Kong/France
• The Terrorist • India
• A Time for Drunken Horses • Iran
• The War Zone • UK

  Best Documentary

• The Eyes of Tammy Faye
• Long Night's Journey into Day
• Paragraph 175
• Sound and Fury

  Best Debut Performance

• Curtis Cotton III, Candace Evanofski, Rachael Handy, Donald Holden and Damian Jewan Lee - George Washington
• Rory Culkin - You Can Count On Me
• Emmy Rossum - Songcatcher
• Mike White - Chuck & Buck

  Best Feature Under $500,000

• Bunny
• Everything Put Together
• Groove
• Our Song

  Truer Than Fiction Award

• Benjamin Smoke
• Just, Melvin: Just Evil
• Pie in the Sky: The Brigid Berlin Story

  Producers Award

• Jim McKay - American Movie and Our Song
• Tim Perell - Louis & Frank and The Myth of Fingerprints
• Diana E. Williams - The Love Machine and Our Song

  Someone to Watch Award

• Dan McCormack - Other Voices
• Mia Trachinger - Bunny

  Films with multiple wins

• Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon-3
• Requiem for a Dream-2
• You Can Count on Me-2

  Films with multiple nominations

• Requiem for a Dream-5
• Before Night Falls-4
• George Washington-4
• Chuck & Buck-3
• Love & Basketball-3
• Our Song-3
• You Can Count on Me-3
• Girlfight-2
• Songcatcher-2