Gotham Independent Film Awards 2006

The 16th Annual Gotham Independent Film Awards, presented by the Independent Filmmaker Project, were held on November 29, 2006 and were hosted by David Cross.^[1][2] The nominees were announced on October 23, 2006.^[3][4]

16th Annual Gotham Independent Film Awards
Date	November 29, 2006 (2006-11-29)
Country	United States
Presented by	Independent Filmmaker Project
Hosted by	David Cross
Highlights
Most wins	Half Nelson (3)
Most nominations	Half Nelson (3)
Best Feature	Half Nelson
Breakthrough Director	Ryan Fleck – Half Nelson
Website	https://gotham.ifp.org
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Winners and nominees

Best Feature Half Nelson The Departed Little Children Marie Antoinette Old Joy	Best Documentary Feature Iraq in Fragments Deliver Us from Evil Following Sean An Inconvenient Truth Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple
Breakthrough Director Ryan Fleck – Half Nelson Ramin Bahrani – Man Push Cart Laurie Collyer – Sherrybaby So Yong Kim – In Between Days James Marsh – The King	Breakthrough Actor Shareeka Epps – Half Nelson as Drey (TIE) Rinko Kikuchi – Babel as Chieko Wataya (TIE) Abigail Breslin – Little Miss Sunshine as Olive Hoover Melinda Page Hamilton – Sleeping Dogs Lie as Amy Channing Tatum – A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints as Young Antonio
Best Ensemble Performance Babel – Boubker Ait El Caid, Adriana Barraza, Gael García Bernal, Cate Blanchett, Rinko Kikuchi, Brad Pitt, Said Tarchani, and Kōji Yakusho For Your Consideration – Bob Balaban, Jennifer Coolidge, Christopher Guest, John Michael Higgins, Eugene Levy, Jane Lynch, Michael McKean, Catherine O'Hara, Parker Posey, Harry Shearer, and Fred Willard Little Miss Sunshine – Alan Arkin, Abigail Breslin, Steve Carell, Toni Collette, Paul Dano, and Greg Kinnear A Prairie Home Companion – Woody Harrelson, Tommy Lee Jones, L. Q. Jones, Garrison Keillor, Kevin Kline, Lindsay Lohan, Virginia Madsen, John C. Reilly, Maya Rudolph, Tim Russell, Sue Scott, Meryl Streep, and Lily Tomlin Shortbus – Raphael Barker, Lindsay Beamish, Jay Brannan, Justin Vivian Bond, Paul Dawson, PJ DeBoy, Sook-Yin Lee, and Peter Stickles	Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You Choking Man Colma: The Musical In Between Days The Great Happiness Space Wristcutters: A Love Story

Gotham Tributes

• Alfonso Cuarón, Guillermo del Toro and Alejandro González Iñárritu
• Mark Cuban and Todd Wagner
• Edward Norton
• Tim Robbins
• Kate Winslet