# Independent Spirit a la millor primera pel·lícula

L'Independent Spirit a la millor primera pel·lícula (en anglès Independent Spirit Award for Best First Feature) és el Premi Independent Spirit que es concedeix anualment a la millor pel·lícula debut.

## Guanyadors i nominats

La pel·lícula guanyadora de cada any es mostra sobre fons blau:

### Dècada del 1980

| Any | Títol | Direcció / Producció |
| 1986 | She's Gotta Have It | Spike Lee, director i productor |
| 1986 | Belizaire the Cajun | Glen Pitre / Allan L. Durand |
| 1986 | A Great Wall | Peter Wang, director |
| 1986 | Hoosiers | David Anspaugh / John Daly, Carter DeHaven, Derek Gibson i Angelo Pizzo |
| 1986 | True Stories | David Byrne / Gary Kurfirst |
| 1987 | Dirty Dancing | Emile Ardolino / Linda Gottlieb |
| 1987 | Anna | Yurek Bogayevicz / Zanne Devine |
| 1987 | Hollywood Shuffle | Robert Townsend, director i productor / Carl Craig |
| 1987 | Siesta | Mary Lambert / Gary Kurfirst |
| 1987 | Waiting for the Moon | Jill Godmilow / Sandra Schulberg |
| 1988 | Mystic Pizza | Donald Petrie / Mark Levinson i Scott M. Rosenfelt |
| 1988 | Border Radio | Allison Anders, Dean Lent i Kurt Voss / Marcus DeLeon |
| 1988 | The Chocolate War | Keith Gordon / Jonathan D. Krane |
| 1988 | The Prince of Pennsylvania | Ron Nyswaner / Jonathan D. Krane |
| 1988 | The Wash | Michael Toshiyuki Uno / Calvin Skaggs |
| 1989 | Heathers | Michael Lehmann / Denise Di Novi |
| 1989 | 84C MoPic | Patrick Sheane Duncan / Michael Nolan |
| 1989 | Powwow Highway | Jonathan Wacks / Jan Wieringa |
| 1989 | Sidewalk Stories | Charles Lane / Howard M. Brickner |
| 1989 | Talking to Strangers | Rob Tregenza / J.K. Eareckson |

### Dècada del 1990

| Any | Títol | Direcció / Producció |
| 1990 | Metropolitan | Whit Stillman, director i productor |
| 1990 | House Party | Reginald Hudlin / Warrington Hudlin |
| 1990 | Lightning Over Braddock | Tony Buba, director i productor |
| 1990 | The Natural History of Parking Lots | Everett Lewis / Aziz Ghazal |
| 1990 | Twister | Michael Almereyda / Wieland Schulz-Keil |
| 1991 | Straight Out of Brooklyn | Matty Rich, director i productor |
| 1991 | Chameleon Street | Wendell B. Harris Jr., director i productor |
| 1991 | Poison | Todd Haynes / Christine Vachon |
| 1991 | The Rapture | Michael Tolkin / Karen Koch, Nancy Tenenbaum i Nick Wechsler |
| 1991 | Slacker | Richard Linklater, director i productor |
| 1992 | The Waterdance | Neal Jimenez i Michael Steinberg / Gale Anne Hurd, Marie Cantin i Guy Riedel |
| 1992 | Laws of Gravity | Nick Gomez / Bob Gosse i Larry Meistrich |
| 1992 | My New Gun | Stacy Cochran / Michael Flynn |
| 1992 | Reservoir Dogs | Quentin Tarantino / Lawrence Bender |
| 1992 | Swoon | Tom Kalin / Christine Vachon |
| 1993 | El mariachi | Robert Rodriguez, director i productor / Carlos Gallardo |
| 1993 | American Heart | Martin Bell / Jeff Bridges i Rosilyn Heller |
| 1993 | Combination Platter | Tony Chan, director i productor / Judy Moy |
| 1993 | Mac | John Turturro / Brenda Goodman i Nancy Tenenbaum |
| 1993 | Menace II Society | Allen i Albert Hughes / Darin Scott |
| 1994 | Spanking the Monkey | David O. Russell / Dean Silvers |
| 1994 | Clean, Shaven | Lodge Kerrigan, director i productor |
| 1994 | Clerks | Kevin Smith, director i productor / Scott Mosier |
| 1994 | I Like It Like That | Darnell Martin / Lane Janger |
| 1994 | Suture | David Siegel i Scott McGehee, directors i productors / Michele Petin |
| 1995 | The Brothers McMullen | Edward Burns / Dick Fisher |
| 1995 | Kids | Larry Clark / Cary Woods |
| 1995 | Little Odessa | James Gray / Paul Webster |
| 1995 | Picture Bride | Kayo Hatta / Diane Mei Lin Mark i Lisa Onodera |
| 1995 | River of Grass | Kelly Reichardt, director |
| 1996 | Sling Blade | Billy Bob Thornton / David L. Bushell i Brandon Rosser |
| 1996 | Big Night | Campbell Scott i Stanley Tucci / Jonathan Filley |
| 1996 | Jo vaig disparar a l'Andy Warhol | Mary Harron / Tom Kalin i Christine Vachon |
| 1996 | Manny & Lo | Lisa Krueger / Marlen Hecht i Dean Silvers |
| 1996 | Trees Lounge | Steve Buscemi / Chris Hanley i Brad Wyman |
| 1997 | Eve's bayou (L'estany de l'Eva) | Kasi Lemmons / Caldecot Chubb i Samuel L. Jackson |
| 1997 | The Bible and Gun Club | Daniel J. Harris, director i productor |
| 1997 | Hard Eight | Paul Thomas Anderson / Robert Jones i John S. Lyons |
| 1997 | In the Company of Men | Neil LaBute / Mark Archer i Stephen Pevner |
| 1997 | Star Maps | Miguel Arteta / Matthew Greenfield |
| 1998 | El contrari del sexe | Don Roos / David Kirkpatrick i Michael Besman |
| 1998 | Buffalo '66 | Vincent Gallo / Chris Hanley |
| 1998 | High Art | Lisa Cholodenko / Dolly Hall, Jeffrey Levy-Hinte i Susan A. Stover |
| 1998 | Pi | Darren Aronofsky / Eric Watson |
| 1998 | Slums of Beverly Hills | Tamara Jenkins / Michael Nozik i Stan Wlodkowski |
| 1999 | Being John Malkovich | Spike Jonze / Michael Stipe, Sandy Stern, Steve Golin i Vincent Landay |
| 1999 | Boys Don't Cry | Kimberly Peirce / Jeffrey Sharp, John Hart, Eva Kolodner i Christine Vachon |
| 1999 | Three Seasons | Tony Bui / Jason Kliot i Joana Vicente |
| 1999 | Twin Falls Idaho | Michael Polish / Marshall Persinger, Rena Ronson i Steven J. Wolfe |
| 1999 | Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Girl | Joan Chen, director i productor / Wai-Chung Chan |

### Dècada del 2000

NOTA: A partir de l'any 2000, les pel·lícules nominades es van restringir a aquelles amb un pressupost superior als 500.000$. El premi Independent Spirit John Cassavetes va començar a premiar les primeres pel·lícules que tenien un pressupost inferior o igual als 500.000$.
| Any | Títol | Direcció / Producció |
| 2000 | You Can Count on Me | Kenneth Lonergan / John Hart, Jeffrey Sharp, Barbara De Fina i Larry Meistrich |
| 2000 | Boiler Room | Ben Younger / Jennifer Todd i Suzanne Todd |
| 2000 | Girlfight | Karyn Kusama / Maggie Renzi, Sarah Green i Martha Griffin. |
| 2000 | Love & Basketball | Gina Prince-Bythewood / Spike Lee i Sam Kitt |
| 2000 | The Visit | Jordan Walker-Pearlman, director i productor |
| 2001 | In the Bedroom | Todd Field, director |
| 2001 | The Anniversary Party | Alan Cumming i Jennifer Jason Leigh, directors |
| 2001 | El creient | Henry Bean, director |
| 2001 | Donnie Darko | Richard Kelly, director |
| 2001 | Ghost World | Terry Zwigoff, director |
| 2002 | La perillosa vida dels Altar Boys | Peter Care, director |
| 2002 | Interview with the Assassin | Neil Burger, director |
| 2002 | Manito | Eric Eason, director |
| 2002 | Paid in Full | Charles Stone III, director |
| 2002 | Roger Dodger | Dylan Kidd, director |
| 2003 | Monster | Patty Jenkins / Mark Damon, Donald Kushner, Clark Peterson, Charlize Theron i Brad Wyman |
| 2003 | Bomb the System | Adam Bhala Lough / Ben Rekhi i Sol Tryon |
| 2003 | House of Sand and Fog | Vadim Perelman, director i productor / Michael London |
| 2003 | Quattro Noza | Joey Curtis / Fredric King |
| 2003 | Thirteen | Catherine Hardwicke / Jeffrey Levy-Hinte i Michael London |
| 2004 | Garden State | Zach Braff / Pamela Abdy, Gary Gilbert, Dan Halsted i Richard Klubeck |
| 2004 | Brother to Brother | Rodney Evans, director i productor / Jim McKay, Isen Robbins i Aimee Schoof |
| 2004 | Napoleon Dynamite | Jared Hess / Jeremy Coon, Sean Covel i Chris Wyatt |
| 2004 | Saints and Soldiers | Ryan Little, director i productor / Adam Abel |
| 2004 | The Woodsman | Nicole Kassell / Lee Daniels |
| 2005 | Crash | Paul Haggis, director i productor / Cathy Schulman, Don Cheadle, Bob Yari, Mark R. Harris i Bobby Moresco |
| 2005 | Lackawanna Blues | George C. Wolfe / Halle Berry, Vince Cirrincione, Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Nellie Nugiel i Shelby Stone |
| 2005 | Me and You and Everyone We Know | Miranda July / Gina Kwon |
| 2005 | Thumbsucker | Mike Mills / Anthony Bregman i Bob Stephenson |
| 2005 | Transamerica | Duncan Tucker / Sebastian Dungan, Linda Moran i Rene Bastian |
| 2006 | Sweet Land | Ali Selim / Alan Cumming i James Bigham |
| 2006 | Day Night Day Night | Julia Loktev / Melanie Judd id Jessica Levin |
| 2006 | Man Push Cart | Ramin Bahrani / Pradip Ghosh i Bedford T. Bentley |
| 2006 | The Motel | Michael Kang / Matthew Greenfield, Miguel Arteta, Gina Kwon i Karin Chien |
| 2006 | Wristcutters: A Love Story | Goran Dukić / Adam Sherman, Chris Coen, Tatiana Kelly i Mikal P. Lazarev |
| 2007 | The Lookout | Scott Frank / Roger Birnbaum, Gary Barber, Laurence Mark i Walter F. Parkes |
| 2007 | 2 Days in Paris | Julie Delpy / Christophe Mazodier i Thierry Potok |
| 2007 | Great World of Sound | Craig Zobel, director i productor / Melissa Palmer, David Gordon Green id Richard A. Wright |
| 2007 | Rocket Science | Jeffrey Blitz / Effie Brown i Sean Welch |
| 2007 | Vanaja | Rajnesh Domalpalli / Latha R. Domalapalli |
| 2008 | Synecdoche, New York | Charlie Kaufman, director i productor / Anthony Bregman, Spike Jonze i Sidney Kimmel |
| 2008 | Afterschool | Antonio Campos / T. Sean Durkin i Josh Mond |
| 2008 | Medicine for Melancholy | Barry Jenkins / Justin Barber |
| 2008 | Sangre de Mi Sangre | Christopher Zalla / Per Melita i Ben Odell |
| 2008 | Sleep Dealer | Alex Rivera / Anthony Bregman |
| 2009 | Crazy Heart | Scott Cooper, director i productor / Robert Duvall, Rob Carliner, Judy Cairo i T-Bone Burnett |
| 2009 | Easier with Practice | Kyle Patrick Alvarez / Cookie Carosella |
| 2009 | The Messenger | Oren Moverman / Mark Gordon, Lawrence Inglee i Zach Miller |
| 2009 | Paranormal Activity | Oren Peli, director i productor / Jason Blum |
| 2009 | A Single Man | Tom Ford, director i productor / Chris Weitz, Andrew Miano i Robert Salerno |

### Dècada del 2010

| Any | Títol | Direcció / Producció |
| 2010 | Get Low | Aaron Schneider / Dean Zanuck i David Gundlach |
| 2010 | Everything Strange and New | Frazer Bradshaw / Laura Techera Francia i A.D. Liano |
| 2010 | The Last Exorcism | Daniel Stamm / Eric Newman, Eli Roth, Marc Abraham i Thomas A. Bliss |
| 2010 | Night Catches Us | Tanya Hamilton / Ronald Simon, Sean Costello i Jason Orans |
| 2010 | Tiny Furniture | Lena Dunham / Kyle Martin i Alicia Van Couvering |
| 2011 | Margin Call | J.C. Chandor / Joe Jenckes, Robert Ogden Barnum, Corey Moosa, Michael Benaroya, Neal Dodson i Zachary Quinto |
| 2011 | Another Earth | Mike Cahill / Hunter Gray, Mike Cahill, Brit Marling i Nicholas Shumaker |
| 2011 | In the Family | Patrick Wang / Patrick Wang, Andrew van den Houten i Robert Tonino |
| 2011 | Martha Marcy May Marlene | Sean Durkin / Josh Mond, Antonio Campos, Chris Maybach i Patrick Cunningham |
| 2011 | Natural Selection | Robbie Pickering / Brion Hambell i Paul Jensen |
| 2012 | Els avantatges de ser un marginat | Stephen Chbosky, director |
| 2012 | Fill the Void | Rama Burshtein, director |
| 2012 | Gimme the Loot | Adam Leon, director |
| 2012 | Safety Not Guaranteed | Colin Trevorrow, director |
| 2012 | Sound of My Voice | Zal Batmanglij, director |
| 2013 | Blue Caprice | Alexandre Moors, director |
| 2013 | Concussion | Stacie Passon, director |
| 2013 | Fruitvale Station | Ryan Coogler, director |
| 2013 | Una noche | Lucy Mulloy, director |
| 2013 | Wadjda | Haifaa al-Mansour, director |

### Dècada del 2020

| Any | Títol | Direcció / Producció |
| 2020 | Sound of Metal | Darius Marder / Bert Hamelinck, Sacha Ben Harroche, Bill Benz i Kathy Benz |
| 2020 | The 40-Year-Old Version | Radha Blank / Lena Waithe, Jordan Fudge, Radha Blank, Inuka Bacote-Capiga, Jennifer Semler i Rishi Rajani |
| 2020 | I Carry You With Me | Heidi Ewing / Heidi Ewing, Mynette Louie, Gabriela Maire i Edher Campos |
| 2020 | Miss Juneteenth | Channing Godfrey Peoples / Toby Halbrooks, Tim Headington, Jeanie Igoe, James M. Johnston, Theresa Page i Neil Creque Williams |
| 2020 | Nine Days | Edson Oda / Jason Michael Berman, Mette-Marie Kongsved, Matthew Linder, Laura Tunstall i Datari Turner |
| 2021 | 7 Days | Roshan Sethi / Liz Cardenas, Mel Eslyn |
| 2021 | Holler | Nicole Riegel / Adam Cobb, Rachel Gould, Katie McNeill, Jamie Patricof i Christy Spitzer Thornton |
| 2021 | Queen of Glory | Nana Mensah / Baff Akoto, Anya Migdal, Kelley Robins Hicks i Jamund Washington |
| 2021 | Test Pattern | Shatara Michelle Ford / Pin-Chun Liu i Yu-Hao Su |
| 2021 | Wild Indian | Lyle Mitchell Corbine Jr. / Thomas Mahoney, Lyle Mitchell Corbine, Jr. i Eric Tavitian |
| 2022 | Aftersun | Charlotte Wells / Mark Ceryak, Amy Jackson, Barry Jenkins, Adele Romanski |
| 2022 | Emily the Criminal | John Patton Ford / Tyler Davidson, Aubrey Plaza, Drew Sykes |
| 2022 | The Inspection | Elegance Bratton / Effie T. Brown, Chester Algernal Gordon |
| 2022 | Murina | Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović / Danijel Pek, Rodrigo Teixeira |
| 2022 | Palm Trees and Power Lines | Jamie Dack /Leah Chen Baker |

## Enllaços externs

* Pàgina web dels Independent Spirit (anglès)