# Independent Spirit Award per la miglior sceneggiatura

L'Independent Spirit Award per la miglior sceneggiatura (Independent Spirit Award for Best Screenplay) è un premio cinematografico statunitense assegnato annualmente dal 1986.

## Vincitori e candidati

I vincitori sono indicati in grassetto, a seguire gli altri candidati.

### Anni 1980

* 1986: Horton Foote - In viaggio verso Bountiful (The Trip to Bountiful)
** Joseph Minion - Fuori orario (After Hours)
** Joel Coen e Ethan Coen - Blood Simple - Sangue facile (Blood Simple.)
** Tom Cole - La prima volta (Smooth Talk)
* 1987: Oliver Stone - Platoon
** David Lynch - Velluto blu (Blue Velvet)
** Peter Wang e Shirley Sun - A Great Wall
** Oliver Stone e Rick Boyle - Salvador
** Raynold Gideon e Bruce A. Evans - Stand by Me - Ricordo di un'estate (Stand by Me)
* 1988: Neal Jimenez - I ragazzi del fiume ( River's Edge)
** Agnieszka Holland - Anna
** Tony Huston - The Dead - Gente di Dublino (The Dead)
** John Sayles - Matewan
** Spalding Gray - Swimming to Cambodia
* 1989: Ramón Menéndez - La forza della volontà (Stand and Deliver)
** John Patrick Shanley - Dentro la grande mela (Five Corners)
** John Waters - Grasso è bello (Hairspray)
** John Bradshaw e Alan Rudolph - Moderns (The Moderns)
** David Burton Morris, Chris Mulkey, John Jenkins e Karen Landry - Patti Rocks

### Anni 1990

* 1990: Gus Van Sant e Daniel Yost - Drugstore Cowboy
** Patrick Sheane Duncan - 84C MoPic
** Daniel Waters - Schegge di follia (Heathers)
** Steve De Jarnatt - Soluzione finale (Miracle Mile)
** Jim Jarmusch - Mystery Train - Martedì notte a Memphis (Mystery Train)
* 1991: Charles Burnett - To Sleep with Anger
** John McNaughton e Richard Fire - Henry pioggia di sangue (Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer)
** Whit Stillman - Metropolitan
** Michael Roemer - Tutti contro Harry (The Plot Against Harry)
** Allan Moyle - Pump up the volume - Alza il volume (Pump Up the Volume)
* 1992: Gus Van Sant - Belli e dannati (My Own Private Idaho)
** Joseph B. Vasquez - I migliori del Bronx (Hangin' with the Homeboys)
** Lem Dobbs - Delitti e segreti ( Kafka)
** Floyd Byars e Fritjof Capra - Mindwalk
** Michael Tolkin - Sacrificio fatale (The Rapture)
* 1993: Neal Jimenez - Vita di cristallo (The Waterdance)
** Allison Anders - Gas, Food Lodging
** Paul Schrader - Lo spacciatore (Light Sleeper)
** Keith Gordon - Vicino alla fine (A Midnight Clear)
** Billy Bob Thornton - Qualcuno sta per morire (One False Move)
* 1994: Robert Altman e Frank Barhydt - America oggi (Short Cuts)
** Edwin Baker e Tony Chan - Combination Platter
** Nancy Savoca e Richard Guay - Verso il paradiso (Household Saints)
** Ang Lee, Neil Peng e James Schamus - Il banchetto di nozze (Hsi yen)
** Víctor Núñez - Ruby in Paradiso (Ruby in Paradise)
* 1995: Quentin Tarantino e Roger Avary - Pulp Fiction
** Woody Allen e Douglas McGrath - Pallottole su Broadway (Bullets Over Broadway)
** Randy Sue Coburn e Alan Rudolph - Mrs. Parker e il circolo vizioso (Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle)
** John Dahl e Rick Dahl - Red Rock West
** Hui-Ling Wang, James Schamus e Ang Lee - Mangiare bere uomo donna (Yin shi nan nu)
* 1996: Christopher McQuarrie - I soliti sospetti (The Usual Suspects)
** Mike Figgis - Via da Las Vegas (Leaving Las Vegas)
** Tom DiCillo - Si gira a Manhattan (Living in Oblivion)
** Todd Haynes - Safe
** John Sayles - Il segreto dell'isola di Roan (The Secret of Roan Inish)
* 1997: Joel Coen ed Ethan Coen - Fargo
** Jim Jarmusch - Dead Man
** David O. Russell - Amori e disastri (Flirting with Disaster)
** Nicholas St. John - Fratelli (The Funeral)
** John Sayles - Stella solitaria (Lone Star)
* 1998: Kevin Smith - In cerca di Amy (Chasing Amy)
** Robert Duvall - L'apostolo (The Apostle)
** Paul Schrader - Touch
** Victor Nuñez - L'oro di Ulisse (Ulee's Gold)
** Christopher Guest e Eugene Levy - Sognando Broadway (Waiting for Guffman)
* 1999: Don Roos - The Opposite of Sex - L'esatto contrario del sesso (The Opposite of Sex)
** Paul Schrader - Affliction
** Frank Military - Blind Faith
** Bill Condon - Demoni e dei (Gods and Monsters)
** David Mamet - Il prigioniero (The Spanish Prisoner)

### Anni 2000

* 2000: Alexander Payne e Jim Taylor - Election
** Kevin Smith - Dogma
** Audrey Wells - Guinevere
** Lem Dobbs - L'inglese (The Limey)
** James Merendino - Fuori di cresta (SLC Punk!)
* 2001: Kenneth Lonergan - Conta su di me (You Can Count on Me)
** Mike White - Chuck & Buck
** Valerie Breiman - Love & Sex
** Raymond De Felitta - Two Family House
** Robert Dillon - Waking the Dead
* 2002: Christopher Nolan - Memento
** Henry Bean - The Believer
** Robert Festinger e Todd Field - In the Bedroom
** Milo Addica e Will Rokos - Monster's Ball - L'ombra della vita (Monster's Ball), regia di Marc Forster
** Richard Linklater - Waking Life
* 2003: Mike White - The Good Girl
** Nicole Holofcener - Lovely & Amazing
** Dylan Kidd - Roger Dodger
** Jill Sprecher e Karen Sprecher - Tredici variazioni sul tema (Thirteen Conversations About One Thing)
** Hilary Birmingham e Matt Drake - Tully
* 2004: Sofia Coppola - Lost in Translation - L'amore tradotto (Lost in Translation)
** Shari Springer Berman e Robert Pulcini - American Splendor
** Christopher Guest ed Eugene Levy (e il resto del cast del film) - A Mighty Wind - Amici per la musica (A Mighty Wind)
** Peter Hedges - Schegge di April (Pieces of April)
** Billy Ray - L'inventore di favole (Shattered Glass)
* 2005: Alexander Payne e Jim Taylor - Sideways - In viaggio con Jack (Sideways)
** Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy ed Ethan Hawke - Before Sunset - Prima del tramonto (Before Sunset)
** Tod Williams - The Door in the Floor
** Mario Van Peebles e Dennis Haggerty - How to Get the Man's Foot Outta Your Ass
** Bill Condon - Kinsey
* 2006: Dan Futterman - Truman Capote - A sangue freddo (Capote)
** Rodrigo García - 9 vite da donna (Nine Lives)
** Noah Baumbach - Il calamaro e la balena (The Squid and the Whale)
** Guillermo Arriaga - Le tre sepolture (The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada)
** Ayad Akhtar, Joseph Castelo e Tom Glynn - The War Within
* 2007: Jason Reitman - Thank You for Smoking
** Nicole Holofcener - Friends with Money
** Neil Burger - The Illusionist - L'illusionista (The Illusionist)
** Ron Nyswaner - Il velo dipinto (The Painted Veil)
** Jeff Stanzler - Sorry, Haters
* 2008: Tamara Jenkins - La famiglia Savage (The Savages)
** Ronald Harwood - Lo scafandro e la farfalla (Le scaphandre et le papillon)
** Fred Parnes e Andrew Wagner - Starting Out in the Evening
** Adrienne Shelly - Waitress - Ricette d'amore (Waitress)
** Mike White - Year of the Dog
* 2009: Woody Allen – Vicky Cristina Barcelona
** Anna Boden e Ryan Fleck – Sugar
** Charlie Kaufman – Synecdoche, New York
** Howard A Rodman – Savage Grace
** Christopher Zalla – Sangre de mi sangre

### Anni 2010

* 2010: Scott Neustadter e Michael H. Weber - (500) giorni insieme ((500) Days of Summer)
** Greg Mottola - Adventureland
** Michael Hoffman - The Last Station
** Alessandro Camon e Oren Moverman - Oltre le regole - The Messenger (The Messenger)
** Lee Toland Krieger - The Vicious Kind
* 2011: Stuart Blumberg e Lisa Cholodenko - I ragazzi stanno bene (The Kids Are All Right)
** Debra Granik e Anne Rosellini - Un gelido inverno (Winter's Bone)
** Nicole Holofcener - Please Give
** David Lindsay-Abaire - Rabbit Hole
** Todd Solondz - Perdona e dimentica (Life During Wartime)
* 2012: Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon e Jim Rash - Paradiso amaro (The Descendants)
** Joseph Cedar - Hearat Shulayim
** Michel Hazanavicius - The Artist
** Thomas McCarthy - Mosse vincenti (Win Win)
** Mike Mills - Beginners
* 2013: David O. Russell - Il lato positivo - Silver Linings Playbook (Silver Linings Playbook)
** Wes Anderson e Roman Coppola - Moonrise Kingdom - Una fuga d'amore (Moonrise Kingdom)
** Zoe Kazan - Ruby Sparks
** Martin McDonagh - 7 psicopatici (Seven Psychopaths)
** Ira Sachs - Keep the Lights On
* 2014: John Ridley - 12 anni schiavo (12 Years a Slave)
** Woody Allen - Blue Jasmine
** Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke e Richard Linklater - Before Midnight
** Nicole Holofcener - Enough Said
** Scott Neustadter e Michael H. Weber - The Spectacular Now
* 2015: Dan Gilroy - Lo sciacallo - Nightcrawler (Nightcrawler)
** Scott Alexander e Larry Karaszewski - Big Eyes
** J. C. Chandor - 1981: Indagine a New York (A Most Violent Year)
** Jim Jarmusch - Solo gli amanti sopravvivono (Only Lovers Left Alive)
** Ira Sachs e Mauricio Zacharias - I toni dell'amore - Love Is Strange (Love Is Strange)
* 2016: Tom McCarthy e Josh Singer – Il caso Spotlight (Spotlight)
** Charlie Kaufman – Anomalisa
** Donald Margulies – The End of the Tour - Un viaggio con David Foster Wallace (The End of the Tour)
** Phyllis Nagy – Carol
** S. Craig Zahler – Bone Tomahawk
* 2017: Barry Jenkins – Moonlight
** Kenneth Lonergan – Manchester by the Sea
** Mike Mills – Le donne della mia vita (20th Century Women)
** Ira Sachs e Mauricio Zacharias – Little Men
** Taylor Sheridan – Hell or High Water
* 2018: Greta Gerwig - Lady Bird
** Azazel Jacobs - The Lovers
** Martin McDonagh - Tre manifesti a Ebbing, Missouri (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri)
** Jordan Peele - Scappa - Get Out (Get Out)
** Mike White - Beatriz at Dinner
* 2019: Nicole Holofcener, Jeff Whitty - Copia originale (Can You Ever Forgive Me?)
** Wash Westmoreland, Richard Glatzer, Rebecca Lenkiewicz - Colette
** Tamara Jenkins - Private Life
** Boots Riley - Sorry to Bother You
** Paul Schrader - First Reformed - La creazione a rischio (First Reformed)

### Anni 2020

* 2020: Noah Baumbach - Storia di un matrimonio (Marriage Story)
** Jason Begue e Shawn Snyder - To Dust
** Ronald Bronstein, Josh Safdie e Benny Safdie - Diamanti grezzi (Uncut Gems)
** Chinonye Chukwu - Clemency
** Tarell Alvin McCraney - High Flying Bird
* 2021: Emerald Fennell - Una donna promettente (Promising Young Woman)
** Lee Isaac Chung - Minari
** Eliza Hittman - Mai raramente a volte sempre (Never Rarely Sometimes Always)
** Mike Makowsky - Bad Education
** Alice Wu - L'altra metà (The Half of It)
* 2022: Maggie Gyllenhaal - La figlia oscura (The Lost Daughter)
** Nikole Beckwith - Insieme per davvero (Together Together)
** Janicza Bravo e Jeremy O. Harris - Zola
** Mike Mills - C'mon C'mon
** Todd Stephens - Swan Song