Independent Spirit Award for Best Film

The Independent Spirit Award for Best Film (or Best Feature) is one of the annual Independent Spirit Awards.

Winners and nominees

1980s

• 1985: After Hours (Warner Bros.) - Martin Scorsese
  • Blood Simple (Universal) - Joel and Ethan Coen
  • Smooth Talk
  • The Trip to Bountiful
• 1986: Platoon (Orion) - Oliver Stone
  • Blue Velvet - David Lynch
  • Down by Law
  • On Valentine's Day
  • Salvador - Oliver Stone
  • Stand by Me (Columbia) - Rob Reiner
• 1987: River's Edge (Island Pictures) - Tim Hunter
  • The Big Easy
  • The Dead - John Huston
  • Matewan
  • Swimming to Cambodia - Jonathan Demme
  • Tough Guys Don't Dance (Cannon) - Norman Mailer
• 1988: Stand and Deliver (Warner Bros.) - Ramon Menendez
  • Hairspray (New Line Cinema) - John Waters
  • Patti Rocks
  • The Thin Blue Line
  • Torch Song Trilogy (New Line Cinema)
• 1989: sex, lies, and videotape (Miramax) - Steven Soderbergh
  • Drugstore Cowboy - Gus Van Sant
  • Heat and Sunlight
  • Mystery Train
  • True Love

1990s

• 1990: The Grifters (Miramax) - Stephen Frears
  • Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
  • The Plot Against Harry
  • Pump Up the Volume (New Line Cinema)
  • To Sleep with Anger
• 1991: Rambling Rose - Martha Coolidge
  • City of Hope
  • Hangin' with the Homeboys
  • Homicide
  • My Own Private Idaho (Fine Line Features) - Gus Van Sant
• 1992: The Player (Fine Line Features) - Robert Altman
  • Bad Lieutenant - Abel Ferrara
  • Gas Food Lodging
  • Mississippi Masala
  • One False Move - Carl Franklin
• 1993: Short Cuts (Fine Line Features) - Robert Altman
  • Equinox
  • Much Ado About Nothing (Samuel Goldwyn Company) - Kenneth Branagh
  • Ruby in Paradise
  • The Wedding Banquet
• 1994: Pulp Fiction (Miramax) - Quentin Tarantino
  • Bullets Over Broadway (Miramax) - Woody Allen
  • Eat Drink Man Woman
  • Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (Fine Line Features)
  • Wes Craven's New Nightmare (New Line Cinema) - Wes Craven
• 1995: Leaving Las Vegas (United Artists) - Mike Figgis
  • The Addiction
  • Living in Oblivion
  • Safe
  • The Secret of Roan Inish (Sony Pictures Classics) - John Sayles
• 1996: Fargo (PolyGram) - Joel Coen
  • Dead Man (Miramax) - Jim Jarmusch
  • The Funeral
  • Lone Star (Columbia / Castle Rock) - John Sayles
  • Welcome to the Dollhouse (Sony Pictures Classics)
• 1997: The Apostle (October Films) - Robert Duvall
  • Chasing Amy (Miramax) - Kevin Smith
  • Loved
  • Ulee's Gold (Orion)
  • Waiting for Guffman (Columbia / Castle Rock) - Christopher Guest
• 1998: Gods and Monsters - Bill Condon
  • Affliction - Paul Schrader
  • Claire Dolan
  • A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries
  • Velvet Goldmine
• 1999: Election (Paramount) - Alexander Payne
  • Cookie's Fortune (October Films) - Robert Altman
  • The Limey - Steven Soderbergh
  • The Straight Story (Disney) - David Lynch
  • Sugar Town

2000s

• 2000: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Sony Pictures Classics) - Ang Lee
  • Before Night Falls - Julian Schnabel
  • George Washington
  • Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
  • Requiem for a Dream (Artisan) - Darren Aronofsky
• 2001: Memento - Christopher Nolan
  • Hedwig and the Angry Inch - John Cameron Mitchell
  • L.I.E.
  • Things Behind the Sun
  • Waking Life
• 2002: Far from Heaven - Todd Haynes
  • The Good Girl
  • Lovely & Amazing
  • Secretary
  • Tully
• 2003: Lost in Translation (Focus Features) - Sofia Coppola
  • American Splendor
  • In America (Fox Searchlight) - Jim Sheridan
  • Raising Victor Vargas
  • Shattered Glass
• 2004: Sideways (Fox Searchlight) - Alexander Payne
  • Baadasssss!
  • Kinsey (Fox Searchlight) - Bill Condon
  • Maria Full of Grace
  • Primer
• 2005: Brokeback Mountain (Focus Features) - Ang Lee
  • Capote (Sony Pictures Classics) - Bennett Miller
  • Good Night, and Good Luck (Warner Independent) - George Clooney
  • The Squid and the Whale
  • The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
• 2006: Little Miss Sunshine (Fox Searchlight) - Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris
  • American Gun
  • The Dead Girl
  • Half Nelson
  • Pan's Labyrinth - Guillermo Del Toro
• 2007: Juno (Fox Searchlight) - Jason Reitman
  • The Diving Bell and the Butterfly - Julian Schnabel
  • I'm Not There - Todd Haynes
  • A Mighty Heart
  • Paranoid Park
• 2008: The Wrestler (Fox Searchlight) - Darren Aronofsky
  • Ballast
  • Frozen River - Courtney Hunt
  • Rachel Getting Married - Jonathan Demme
  • Wendy and Lucy
• 2009: Precious (Lions Gate) - Lee Daniels
  • (500) Days of Summer (Fox Searchlight) - Marc Webb
  • Amreeka
  • The Last Station
  • Sin Nombre

2010s

• 2010: Black Swan (Fox Searchlight) - Darren Aronofsky
  • 127 Hours
  • Greenberg
  • The Kids Are All Right
  • Winter's Bone
• 2011: The Artist (The Weinstein Company) - Michel Hazanavicius
  • 50/50
  • Beginners
  • The Descendants
  • Drive
  • Take Shelter

External links

• Full list of all Nominees and Winners