Good Night, And Good Luck
Independent Spirit Awards Nominees
This year, Noah Baumbach’s The Squid and the Whale leads the pack with seven nominations including lead actor (Jeff Daniels), lead actress (Laura Linney), writer and director nods for Baumbach, and the coveted best feature award. The film, in small release since early November, tells the story of a divorcing couple with two preteen sons in 1986 Brooklyn. Linney and fellow actor Mark Ruffalo announced the nominees at a luncheon held earlier this week. Of the festivities, Linney said one of the highlights is “being able to run up to the director of the movie that you saw that you loved and be able to go ‘Oh my God, you’re amazing.’ That’s important--and very nice.”
Ang Lee’s “gay cowboy” picture Brokeback Mountain became the second most-nominated film with nods for best director, best lead actor (Heath Ledger), and best supporting actress (Michelle Williams).
Best feature nods also went to Capote, Good Night and Good Luck, and The Three Burials of the Melquiades Estrada. George Clooney picked up a best director nomination for Good Night, and Good Luck along with Gregg Araki for Mysterious Skin and Rodrigo Garcia for Nine Lives.
A flat race for best lead actress allowed nominations for Linney, Felicity Huffman for Transamerica, Dina Korzun for Forty Shades of Blue, Cyndi Williams for Room, and S. Epatha Merkerson for Lackawanna Blues (for which she won an Emmy earlier this year).
More competitive is the best actor lead category with Phillip Seymour Hoffman as true crime writer Truman Capote in Capote, Terrence Howard for the gangster-turned-rapper flick Hustle and Flow, and David Strathairn as Robert Murrow in Good Night, And Good Luck.
“It’s terrific for awareness of these kinds of films, so audiences can be aware of this sort of genre” Linney said of the ceremony to come. The awards telecast will likely be broadcasted from Santa Monica, CA on cable TV’s “Bravo” network on March 4, 2005. Check local listings for more information.
Stay tuned for updates.
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