A 'SIDEWAYS' GLANCE HIGHLY TOUTED COMEDY WINS 6 SPIRIT AWARDS.Byline: Fred Shuster Staff Writer SANTA MONICA Santa Monica (săn`tə mŏn`ĭkə), city (1990 pop. 86,905), Los Angeles co., S Calif., on Santa Monica Bay; inc. 1886. Tourism and retailing are important, and the city has motion-picture, biotechnology, and software industries. - The bawdy bawd·y adj. bawd·i·er, bawd·i·est 1. Humorously coarse; risqué. 2. Vulgar; lewd. bawd  i·ly adv. comedy ``Sideways'' won a
caseload case·load n. The number of cases handled in a given period, as by an attorney or by a clinic or social services agency. caseload Noun of trophies Saturday at the Independent Spirit Awards, which honors indie films on the eve On the Eve (Накануне in Russian) is the third novel by famous Russian writer Ivan Turgenev, best known for his short stories and the novel Fathers and Sons. of the Oscars. The hit wine movie won all six of its leading nominations, including best feature, director, male lead (Paul Giamatti), supporting male (Thomas Haden Church), supporting female (Virginia Madsen) and screenplay. ``I'm very surprised,'' said Giamatti, one of the few ``Sideways'' principals not nominated at tonight's Academy Awards. ``I'm really not very spirited or independent, but it's nice to be surrounded by folks who are.'' Other winners at the 20th annual ceremony, which took place after cocktails and lunch in a candy-striped tent on the beach in Santa Monica, were ``Maria Full of Grace,'' ``The Motorcycle Diaries'' and ``Mean Creek.'' The Spirit Awards, televised on the IFC (Internet Foundation Classes) A class library from Netscape that provides an application framework and graphical user interface (GUI) routines for Java programmers. IFC was later made part of the Java Foundation Classes (JFC). See JFC, AFC and AWT. See also ICF. and Bravo channels, present 15 trophies, plus three filmmaker grants. On the other hand, the movie academy will hand out two dozen Oscars, with ``The Aviator'' in the lead with 11 nominations. ``Sideways'' has five. Referring to the film's relatively low budget, ``Sideways'' director Alexander Payne told Saturday's gathering that the picture's unexpected success could serve as an example: ``There can be a decent-sized audience for smaller films.'' Along with the six ``Sideways'' wins, ``Garden State'' was named best first feature; ``Metallica: Some Kind of Monster'' got the documentary prize; and Spain's Oscar-nominated ``The Sea Inside'' won for foreign film. ``Maria Full of Grace'' won for female lead (Oscar-nominated Catalina Sandino Moreno Catalina Sandino Moreno (born April 19 1981) is an Academy Award-nominated Colombian actress. Sandino was born in Bogotá, Colombia to a pathologist mother. Before becoming an actress, she studied advertising at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá. ) and best first screenplay. ``The Motorcycle Diaries'' took debut performance (Rodrigo De La Serna) and cinematography cinematography: see motion picture photography. cinematography Art and technology of motion-picture photography. It involves the composition of a scene, lighting of the set and actors, choice of cameras, camera angle, and integration of special . In the filmmaker grants, Oscar-nominated ``Born Into Brothels'' received the Truer Than Fiction prize of $20,000. Director Jem Cohen cohen or kohen (Hebrew: “priest”) Jewish priest descended from Zadok (a descendant of Aaron), priest at the First Temple of Jerusalem. The biblical priesthood was hereditary and male. and producer Gina Kwon each received unrestricted grants for the same amount. But the afternoon belonged to ``Sideways.'' Presenter Robin Williams joked that the cast had ``gone through five cases of Chardonnay'' during the ceremony, and a parody song was dedicated to the film. Quipped Williams: `` 'Sideways' - the way the country's going.'' Madsen, though, plainly thrilled with her supporting female statuette, summed it up. While it's nice to win, she said, ``everyone who comes here, comes in triumph.'' Fred Shuster, (818) 713-3676 fred.shuster(at)dailynews.com CAPTION(S): 5 photos Photo: (1 -- 2 ) Catalina Sandino Moreno, left, accepts the award for best female lead for ``Maria Full of Grace'' at the IFP (1) (Intelligent Forms Processing) Using advanced techniques to scan documents and determine their data content. See ICR. (2) (Integer Factorization Problem) The difficulty of finding prime numbers in an encryption key. Independent Spirit Awards on Saturday. Paul Giamatti, right, smiles upon receiving the award for best male lead for ``Sideways.'' Chris Pizzello/Associated Press (3) Director Alexander Payne hefts one of the six awards that his film ``Sideways'' won at the Independent Spirit Awards. (4 -- 5) Actress Salma Hayek, above, arrives at the awards show. At left, actress Kate Bosworth walks the blue carpet at Saturday's awards show. |
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