The winners are:

Best Features

• Sideways

• Alexander Payne for Sideways

• Catalina Sandino Moreno in for Maria Full of Grace

• Paul Giamatti in Sideways

• Thomas Haden Church in Sideways

• Virginia Madsen in Sideways

• Sideways

• Garden State

• Maria Full of Grace

• Rodrigo de la Serna in The Motorcycle Diaries

• The Motorcycle Diaries

• The Sea Inside - Spain

• Metallica: Some Kind of Monster

• Mean Creek

• Jem Cohen - director of Chain

• Born Into Brothels

• Gina Kwon - The Good Girl & Me, You and Everyone We Know

• Sideways sweeps all six categories it was nominated it. Obviously that’s the biggest story of the night. Hopefully it can do half as well at the Oscars tomorrow.
• Three other films took home multiple awards with Maria Full of Grace, Mean Creek and The Motorcycle Diaries each taking home two awards.
• One of Mean Creek's two awards was a special distinction award for best ensemble cast, perhaps next year it will be a regular category.
• Filmmaker awards will be handed out February 26th to directors Mike Leigh and Michael Moore, actor Don Cheadle, Dan Talbot and the creative team behind Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

Source: Independent Spirit Awards
Date posted: 2005-02-26