THE BUZZ.Byline: Valerie Kuklenski Let the awards season begin 'Squid and Whale' tops Independent Spirit noms as awards season begins Hollywood's year-end awards season has officially opened with the first nominations by industry peers, Film Independent's 2006 Independent Spirit Awards. ``The Squid and the Whale,'' a family drama starring Jeff Daniels For other persons of this name, see . Jeffrey "Jeff" Warren Daniels (born February 19, 1955) is an American actor, musician and playwright. Biography Early life and Laura Linney, led the field with six nominations, including best feature, best director for Noah Baumbach, and best male and female leads for Daniels and Linney. In the best feature category, it will compete against ``Brokeback Mountain,'' ``Capote,'' ``The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada'' and ``Good Night, and Good Luck.'' Each of those films has four nominations. George Clooney George Timothy Clooney (May 6, 1961) is an American actor, director, producer and screenwriter who gained fame as the lead doctor in the long-running television drama, ER earned a best director nod for ``Good Night,'' as did Ang Lee (``Brokeback Mountain''), Gregg Araki (``Mysterious Skin'') and Rodrigo Garcia (``Nine Lives''). S. Epatha Merkerson, who had to wing her Emmy acceptance speech because her notes were lost in the bodice of her gown, may get another chance as a female lead nominee for ``Lackawanna Blues,'' which played in festivals in addition to its airing on HBO Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBO) A form of oxygen therapy in which the patient breathes oxygen in a pressurized chamber. Mentioned in: Ozone Therapy . Others in that category are Felicity Huffman Felicity Huffman (born December 9, 1962) is an Academy Award nominated American actress. She is well known for her role as Lynette Scavo, the hectic busy Super-Mom on the ABC hit show Desperate Housewives which debuted in 2004, and for which Huffman won an Emmy Award. (``Transamerica''), Dina Korzun Dina Korzun (born Dianna Alexandrovna Korzun on 13 April 1971) is a Russian actress. Korzun was born in Smolensk. She graduated from secondary school and Art school, studied ballet and modern dancing. (``Forty Shades of Blue'') and Cyndi Williams (``Room''). Joining Daniels with nominations for best male lead are Philip Seymour Hoffman For other persons named Philip Hoffman, see Philip Hoffman (disambiguation). Philip Seymour Hoffman (born July 23, 1967) is an Academy Award-winning American actor. Biography Early life Hoffman was born in Fairport, New York to Gordon S. (``Capote''), Terrence Howard (``Hustle & Flow''), Heath Ledger (``Brokeback Mountain'') and David Straithairn (``Good Night, and Good Luck.''). Up for best first feature are ``Crash,'' ``Lackawanna Blues,'' ``Me and You and Everyone We Know,'' ``Thumbsucker'' and ``Transamerica.'' The Independent Spirit Awards will be presented March 4 in a tent on a Santa Monica beach and televised live on 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 tape-delayed on AMC (Advanced Mezzanine Card) See AdvancedTCA. . The complete list of nominations is available at www.dailynews.com. ON THE MUSIC SIDE: Billboard magazine announced its finalists for the 2005 Billboard Music Awards, to be presented Dec. 6 in Las Vegas and telecast on Fox. 50 Cent, Mariah Carey and Green Day are front-runners for the awards, which are given to top artists based on sales, downloads and airplay air·play n. The broadcasting of an audio or audiovisual recording on the air over radio or television. airplay Noun the broadcast performances of a record on radio . 50 Cent is a finalist in eight categories (twice in ringtones), followed by Carey's seven and Green Day's six. They will compete in artist of the year as well as album of the year for 50 Cent's ``The Massacre,'' Carey's ``The Emancipation of Mimi'' and Green Day's ``American Idiot.'' Also up for album of the year honors is Eminem's ``Encore.'' ``American Idol'' winner Kelly Clarkson is the fourth finalist for artist of the year. Rapper LL Cool J will host, and performers include Gwen Stefani and Daddy Yankee with Pharrell. CAPTION(S): 5 photos Photo: (1) ``THE SQUID AND THE WHALE'' (2) LEDGER in ``BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN'' (3) GREEN DAY (4) 50 CENT (5) CAREY |
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