Gotham Independent Film Awards 2006 Explained

16th Annual Gotham Independent Film Awards
Host:	David Cross
Country:	United States
Presenter:	Independent Filmmaker Project
Most Wins:	Half Nelson (3)
Most Nominations:	Half Nelson (3)
Award1 Type:	Best Feature
Award1 Winner:	Half Nelson
Award2 Type:	Breakthrough Director
Award2 Winner:	Ryan Fleck – Half Nelson
Previous:	15th
Main:	Gotham Awards
Next:	17th

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]}

Winners and nominees

Half Nelson The Departed Little Children Marie Antoinette Old Joy	Iraq in Fragments Deliver Us from Evil Following Sean An Inconvenient Truth
Ryan Fleck – Half Nelson Ramin Bahrani – Man Push Cart Laurie Collyer – Sherrybaby So Yong Kim – In Between Days James Marsh – The King	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
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	Choking Man In Between Days The Great Happiness Space

Gotham Tributes

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

Notes and References

1. News: Zeitchik . Steven . Half Nelson tops Gotham Awards . October 5, 2018 . Variety . November 29, 2006 . December 3, 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20211203103641/https://variety.com/2006/film/awards/half-nelson-tops-gotham-awards-1117954782/ . live .
2. Web site: Full Court Press for Half Nelson. The New York Times. February 18, 2017. November 30, 2006. October 1, 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20191001093705/https://carpetbagger.blogs.nytimes.com/2006/11/30/full-court-press-for-half-nelson/. live.
3. News: IFP Gotham Awards name noms . October 5, 2018 . Variety . October 23, 2006 . December 23, 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20181223193611/https://variety.com/2006/film/awards/ifp-gotham-awards-name-noms-1117952463/ . live .
4. Web site: 2006 Winners and nominees. Gotham Independent Film Awards. November 9, 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170219100430/http://gotham.ifp.org/flash/Timeline/2006.html. February 19, 2017. dead.