2006 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Screenplay Winner and Nominees

Capote

Dan Futterman

In 1959, Truman Capote learns of the murder of a Kansas family and decides to write a book about the case. While researching for his novel In Cold Blood, Capote forms a relationship with one of the killers, Perry Smith, who is on death row.

Nine Lives

Rodrigo García

The Squid and the Whale

Noah Baumbach

The War Within

Ayad Akhtar

Three Burials

Guillermo Arriaga