# Someone to Watch Award

Il Someone to Watch Award è un premio cinematografico statunitense assegnato annualmente dal 1996 nell'ambito degli Independent Spirit Awards a filmmakers indipendenti di eccezionale talento che non hanno ancora ricevuto i meritati riconoscimenti.

## Vincitori e candidati

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

### Anni 1990

* 1996: Christopher Münch
** Tim McCann
** Jennifer Montgomery
** Kelly Reichardt
** Rafal Zielinski
* 1997: Larry Fessenden - Habit
** Joe Brewster
** Chris Smith
* 1998: Scott Saunders - The Headhunter's Sister
** Tim Blake Nelson - Eye of God
** Erin Dignam - Prove d'accusa (Loved)
* 1999: David D. Williams - Thirteen
** Lynn Hershman-Leeson - Conceiving Ada
** Tony Barbieri - One
** Eric Tretbar - Snow

### Anni 2000

* 2000: Cauleen Smith - Drylongso
** Lisanne Skyler - Getting to Know You
** Dan Clark - The Item
** Julian Goldberger - Trans
* 2001: Marc Forster - Everything Put Together (Tutto sommato) (Everything Put Together)
** Mia Trachinger - Bunny
** Dan McCormack - Other Voices
* 2002: Debra Eisenstadt - Daydream Believer
** Michael Gilio - Kwik Stop
** DeMane Davis e Khari Streeter - Lift
** David Maquiling - Too Much Sleep
* 2003: Przemyslaw Reut - Paradox Lake
** Eitan Gorlin - The Holy Land
** Eric Eason - Manito
* 2004: Andrew Bujalski - Funny Ha Ha
** Ryan Eslinger - Madness and Genius
** Ben Coccio - Zero Day
* 2005: Jem Cohen - Chain
** Bryan Poyser - Dear Pillow
** Jennifer Reeves - The Time We Killed
* 2006: Ian Gamazon e Neill Dela Llana - Cavite
** Robinson Devor - Police Beat
** Jay Duplass - The Puffy Chair
* 2007: Julia Loktev - Day Night Day Night
** Richard Wong - Colma: The Musical
** So Yong Kim - In Between Days
* 2008: Ramin Bahrani - Chop Shop
** Ronald Bronstein - Frownland
** Lee Isaac Chung - Munyurangabo
* 2009: Lynn Shelton - My Effortless Brilliance
** Barry Jenkins - Medicine for Melancholy
** Nina Paley - Sita Sings the Blues

### Anni 2010

* 2010: Kyle Patrick Alvarez - Easier with Practice
** Asiel Norton - Redland
** Tariq Tapa - Zero Bridge
* 2011: Mike Ott - Littlerock
** Hossein Keshavarz - Dog Sweat
** Laurel Nakadate - The Wolf Knife
* 2012: Mark Jackson - Without
** Simon Arthur - Silver Tongues
** Nicholas Ozeki - Mamitas
* 2013: Adam Leon - Gimme the Loot
** David Fenster - Pincus
** Rebecca Thomas - Electrick Children
* 2014: Shaka King - Newlyweeds
** Aaron Douglas Johnston - My Sister's Quinceañera
** Madeline Olnek - The Foxy Merkins
* 2015: Rania Attieh e Daniel Garcia - H.
** Ana Lily Amirpour - A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
** Chris Eska - The Retrieval
* 2016: Felix Thompson – King Jack
** Robert Machoian – God Bless the Child
** Chloé Zhao – Songs My Brothers Taught Me
* 2017: Anna Rose Holmer – The Fits
** Andrew Ahn – Spa Night
** Claire Carré – Embers
** Ingrid Jungermann – Women Who Kill
* 2018: Gook, regia di Justin Chon
** Dayveon, regia di Amman Abbasi
** Super Dark Times, regia di Kevin Phillips
* 2019: Alex Moratto - Socrates
** Ioana Uricaru - Lemonade
** Jeremiah Zagar - Quando eravamo fratelli (We the Animals)

### Anni 2020

* 2020: Rashaad Ernesto Green - Premature
** Ash Mayfair - The Third Wife
** Joe Talbot - The Last Black Man in San Francisco