18th Independent Spirit Awards

[1][2][3][4][5] Additionally, this ceremony is notable for when presenter Brittany Murphy seemingly bungled the reading of the winner for Best Debut Performance.

[6] In reference to her acting ability, legendary film critic Roger Ebert wrote: As for Brittany Murphy, for me, it goes back to the 2003 Independent Spirit Awards [where] Murphy was assigned to present one of the awards.

This she turned into an opportunity for screwball improvisational comedy, by pretending she could not follow this sequence, not even after the audience shouted instructions and the stage manager came to whisper in her ear not once but twice.

[7]Suspiciously, video footage of the entire ceremony is absent from online resources despite prior and subsequent ceremonies being made available in their entirety officially on Film Independent's YouTube account.

[8] Personal Velocity: Three Portraits Jennifer Dworkin – Love & Diane Effie Brown – Real Women Have Curves and Stranger Inside Przemysław Reut – Paradox Lake