The last-but-one awards show: Independent Spirit
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Here are a few reasons that the 2006 Independent
Spirit Awards rocked:- A song about each best feature nominee, including one sung by Macy Gray with the backing of an all-Capote band.
- Casual dress, including lots of nice, broken-in jeans, and refreshingly less made-up ladies.
- Swearing. Lots and lots of swearing.
- Shockingly frequent mentions of brilliant, largely overlooked films like The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada and The Squid and the Whale.
- Garrett Scott's Occupation: Dreamland won, which resulted in a classy, sad speech by co-director
Ian Olds.
- All the same goddamn movies and people won:
Brokeback
Mountain, Ang Lee, Philip Seymour Hoffman (whose speech, about how much fun he's had
hanging out with his fellow nominees over the course of the awards season, was pretty darn wonderful), yadda yadda
usual suspects cakes. It was like watching a drunker, less formal Oscars, about 36 hours early.
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3-04-2006 @ 9:00PM
John Miller said...
The Independent Spirit Awards do indeed rock! 1000 times better than the Oscars (zzzzzzzzzzzzzz.). It was great to see Philip Seymour Hoffman win. But, of course, I thought he should have won for "Twister" back in '96!
The funny thing about the awards is that they repeat on AMC, edited! Boy, some editor is working OVERTIME to get this puppy ready for family-friendly viewers!
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