Gotham Independent Film Awards 2005

The 15th Annual Gotham Independent Film Awards, presented by the Independent Filmmaker Project, were held on November 30, 2005 and were hosted by Kyra Sedgwick.^[1][2] The nominees were announced on October 25, 2005.^[3][4][5][6]

15th Annual Gotham Independent Film Awards
Date	November 30, 2005 (2005-11-30)
Country	United States
Presented by	Independent Filmmaker Project
Hosted by	Kyra Sedgwick
Highlights
Most wins	Capote (2)
Most nominations	Brokeback Mountain, Capote, Junebug, Keane, and Me and You and Everyone We Know (2)
Best Feature	Capote
Breakthrough Director	Bennett Miller – Capote
Website	https://gotham.ifp.org
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Winners and nominees

Best Feature Capote Brokeback Mountain A History of Violence Keane Me and You and Everyone We Know	Best Documentary Feature Murderball Ballets Russes Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room Grizzly Man William Eggleston in the Real World
Breakthrough Director Bennett Miller – Capote Miranda July – Me and You and Everyone We Know Phil Morrison – Junebug Andrew Wagner – The Talent Given Us Alice Wu – Saving Face	Breakthrough Actor Amy Adams – Junebug as Ashley Johnsten Camilla Belle – The Ballad of Jack and Rose as Rose Slavin Joseph Gordon-Levitt – Mysterious Skin as Neil McCormick Terrence Howard – Hustle & Flow as DJay Damian Lewis – Keane as William Keane
Best Ensemble Performance The Squid and the Whale – William Baldwin, Jeff Daniels, Jesse Eisenberg, Owen Kline, Laura Linney, and Anna Paquin Brokeback Mountain – Linda Cardellini, Anna Faris, Jake Gyllenhaal, Anne Hathaway, Heath Ledger, Randy Quaid, and Michelle Williams Crash – Chris "Ludacris" Bridges, Sandra Bullock, Don Cheadle, Matt Dillon, Jennifer Esposito, William Fichtner, Brendan Fraser, Nona Gaye, Terrence Howard, Thandie Newton, Michael Peña, Ryan Phillippe, and Larenz Tate Good Night, and Good Luck – Patricia Clarkson, George Clooney, Jeff Daniels, Robert Downey Jr., Frank Langella, and David Strathairn Nine Lives – Kathy Baker, Amy Brenneman, Elpidia Carrillo, Glenn Close, Stephen Dillane, Dakota Fanning, William Fichtner, Lisa Gay Hamilton, Jason Isaacs, Joe Mantegna, Ian McShane, Molly Parker, Mary Kay Place, Sydney Tamiia Poitier, Aidan Quinn, Miguel Sandoval, Amanda Seyfried, Sissy Spacek, and Robin Wright Penn	Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You I Am a Sex Addict Al otro lado In a Nutshell: A Portrait of Elizabeth Tashjian Police Beat Sir! No Sir!

Special awards

Celebrate New York Award

• Mad Hot Ballroom

Gotham Tributes

• Matt Dillon
• Jim Jarmusch