Independent Spirit Awards...

[mabel]

Posted: 2/26/05 at 9:26pm

Anyone watching the Independent Spirit Awards on Bravo? They're doing the whole Red Carpet thing now, and the show itself starts at 10.

[melissa errico fan]

Posted: 2/26/05 at 10:11pm

The winner of Best Supporting Male is:

THOMAS HADEN CHURCH! YAY!

[mabel]

Posted: 2/26/05 at 10:17pm

Hooray!!! "It's hard not to cry." Awww.

Superficial sidenote: I miss Peter Sarsgaard's pretty hair!!! I'm not digging the bald look

[melissa errico fan]

Posted: 2/26/05 at 10:19pm

When Virginia Madsen wins, and she will, I'll be dancing all over my apartment.

[melissa errico fan]

Posted: 2/26/05 at 10:23pm

MARIA, FULL OF GRACE wins Best First Screenplay.

[melissa errico fan]

Posted: 2/26/05 at 10:26pm

VIRGINIA MADSEN! YAY! ELATION OVERCOMES ME! I CAN DIE NOW!

[zippyjen]

Posted: 2/26/05 at 10:59pm

I just realized it was on!!!!!! NOO!!!!! DAMN ELLA ENCHANTED!

Posted: 2/27/05 at 1:29am

The IFP Independent Spirit Awards raised a glass to "Sideways" Saturday afternoon with six major awards: best feature, director, screenplay, actor, supporting actress and actor.

The dark, acerbic comedy about two losers on a road trip to the Santa Barbara wine country has received the majority of the 2004 best picture accolades from critics' groups and won the Golden Globe for best comedy or musical. Director Alexander Payne and his writing partner Jim Taylor also picked up the Golden Globe for screenplay and took the Writers Guild Award for best adapted screenplay last week . "Sideways" also is up for five Academy Awards this evening including best picture and director.

Although shut out of the Oscar nominations, "Sideways" star Paul Giamatti won best actor honors as a middle-age wine snob. Fellow castmembers and Oscar contenders in their respective categories Thomas Haden Church picked up supporting actor for his performance as a randy has-been actor and Virginia Madsen received supporting actress as a divorced waitress who takes a shine to Giamatti.

Oscar nominee Catalina Sandino Moreno won best female lead as a young Colombian woman who becomes a drug mule in "Maria Full of Grace." The film also picked up best first screenplay honors for director Joshua Marston.

The bittersweet romantic comedy, "Garden State," written and directed by "Scrubs" star Zach Braff, was named best first feature.

Best debut performance: Rodrigo de la Serna, "The Motorcycle Diaries"

Best cinematography: Eric Gautier, "The Motorcycle Diaries"

Best foreign film: "The Sea Inside"

Best documentary: "Metallica: Some Kind of Monster"

Bravo/American Express Producers Award: Gina Kwon

Turning Leaf Someone to Watch Award: Jem Cohen, director of "Chain"

DirectTV/IFC Truer Than Fiction Award: Zana Briski and Ross Kauffman, directors of "Born Into Brothels" Updated On: 2/27/05 at 01:29 AM

[broadway86]

Posted: 2/27/05 at 4:26pm

I'm happy that Catalina Sandino Moreno and Zach Braff both finally won SOMETHING.

[broadway86]

Posted: 2/27/05 at 4:47pm

I loved "Mean Creek". Who accepted the award?

[melissa errico fan]

Posted: 2/27/05 at 4:50pm

The kid who played George. He's lost a lot of weight.

[broadway86]

Posted: 2/27/05 at 4:53pm

That's wonderful. I know that they were honoring indies that night, but "Mean Creek" was TINY.

[melissa errico fan]

Posted: 2/27/05 at 4:58pm

The director, Jacob Estes, won the John Cassavetes Award for Best Feature made for $500,000 or less.

[melissa errico fan]

Posted: 2/27/05 at 5:02pm

No problem.

[SallyBrown]

Posted: 2/27/05 at 5:04pm

COUGhGerard was thereCOUGH

[VIETgrlTerifa]

Posted: 2/28/05 at 5:10pm

The kid who accepted the award for Mean Creek is Josh Peck. If you were really impressed with him, you should see his show on Nickelodeon called "Drake and Josh." I don't enjoy it too much, but it's a nice show to watch if you got nothing better to do.