And the Independent Spirit Award Noms Are...

FIND just announced its 2006 nominees for the Independent Spirit Awards. The ceremony takes place each year in L.A. on the day before the Oscar telecast. We Hawaii folks were lucky enough to catch some of the nominees at the LV Hawaii Int'l Film Fest last month, including true indies "Conventioneers," "Romantico," and "Paradise Now," and "fake" (Indiewood) indies "The Squid and the Whale" and "Brokeback Mountain." You can still catch other Indiewood nominees "Capote" and "Good Night and Good Luck" at the Varsity Theater right now.

>> 2006 Independent Spirit Award Nominations

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