# Independent Spirit de melhor filme

O Prêmio Independent Film Spirit de Melhor Filme é um dos prêmios anuais dos Prêmios Independent Spirit, concedidos aos melhores filmes de cada ano. Foi premiado pela primeira vez em 1985 com o filme de Martin Scorsese, After Hours, sendo o primeiro a receber o prêmio.
Notas:

## Vencedores e nomeados
### 1986-1989

| Ano | Vencedor | Diretor |
| 1986 | After Hours | Martin Scorsese |
| 1987 | Platoon † | Oliver Stone |
| 1988 | River's Edge | Tim Hunter |
| 1989 | Stand and Deliver | Ramon Menendez |

### Anos 1990

| Ano | Vencedor | Diretor |
| 1990 | Sex, Lies, and Videotape | Steven Soderbergh |
| 1991 | The Grifters | Stephen Frears |
| 1992 | Rambling Rose | Martha Coolidge |
| 1993 | The Player | Robert Altman |
| 1994 | Short Cuts | Robert Altman |
| 1995 | Pulp Fiction ‡ | Quentin Tarantino |
| 1996 | Leaving Las Vegas | Mike Figgis |
| 1997 | Fargo ‡ | Joel Coen |
| 1998 | The Apostle | Robert Duvall |
| 1999 | Gods and Monsters | Bill Condon |

### Anos 2000

| Ano | Vencedores e nomeados | Diretor(es) |
| 2000 | Election | Alexander Payne |
| 2000 | Cookie's Fortune | Robert Altman |
| 2000 | The Limey | Steven Soderbergh |
| 2000 | The Straight Story | David Lynch |
| 2000 | Sugar Town | Allison Anders e Kurt Voss |
| 2001 | Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ‡ | Ang Lee |
| 2001 | Before Night Falls | Julian Schnabel |
| 2001 | George Washington | David Gordon Green |
| 2001 | Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai | Jim Jarmusch |
| 2001 | Requiem for a Dream | Darren Aronofsky |
| 2002 | Memento | Christopher Nolan |
| 2002 | Hedwig and the Angry Inch | John Cameron Mitchell |
| 2002 | L.I.E. | Michael Cuesta |
| 2002 | Things Behind the Sun | Allison Anders |
| 2002 | Waking Life | Richard Linklater |
| 2003 | Far from Heaven | Todd Haynes |
| 2003 | The Good Girl | Miguel Arteta |
| 2003 | Lovely & Amazing | Nicole Holofcener |
| 2003 | Secretary | Steven Shainberg |
| 2003 | Tully | Hilary Birmingham |
| 2004 | Lost in Translation ‡ | Sofia Coppola |
| 2004 | American Splendor | Shari Springer Berman e Robert Pulcini |
| 2004 | In America | Jim Sheridan |
| 2004 | Raising Victor Vargas | Peter Sollett |
| 2004 | Shattered Glass | Billy Ray |
| 2005 | Sideways ‡ | Alexander Payne |
| 2005 | Baadasssss! | Mario Van Peebles |
| 2005 | Kinsey | Bill Condon |
| 2005 | Maria Full of Grace | Joshua Marston |
| 2005 | Primer | Shane Carruth |
| 2006 | Brokeback Mountain ‡ | Ang Lee |
| 2006 | Capote ‡ | Bennett Miller |
| 2006 | Good Night, and Good Luck ‡ | George Clooney |
| 2006 | The Squid and the Whale | Noah Baumbach |
| 2006 | The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada | Tommy Lee Jones |
| 2007 | Little Miss Sunshine ‡ | Jonathan Dayton e Valerie Faris |
| 2007 | American Gun | Aric Avelino |
| 2007 | The Dead Girl | Karen Moncrieff |
| 2007 | Half Nelson | Ryan Fleck |
| 2007 | Pan's Labyrinth | Guillermo del Toro |
| 2008 | Juno ‡ | Jason Reitman |
| 2008 | The Diving Bell and the Butterfly | Julian Schnabel |
| 2008 | I'm Not There | Todd Haynes |
| 2008 | A Mighty Heart | Michael Winterbottom |
| 2008 | Paranoid Park | Gus Van Sant |
| 2009 | The Wrestler | Darren Aronofsky |
| 2009 | Ballast | Lance Hammer |
| 2009 | Frozen River | Courtney Hunt |
| 2009 | Rachel Getting Married | Jonathan Demme |
| 2009 | Wendy and Lucy | Kelly Reichardt |

### Anos 2010

| Ano | Vencedores e nomeados | Diretor(es) |
| 2010 | Precious ‡ | Lee Daniels |
| 2010 | (500) Days of Summer | Marc Webb |
| 2010 | Amreeka | Cherien Dabis |
| 2010 | The Last Station | Michael Hoffman |
| 2010 | Sin Nombre | Cary Fukunaga |
| 2011 | Black Swan ‡ | Darren Aronofsky |
| 2011 | 127 Hours ‡ | Danny Boyle |
| 2011 | Greenberg | Noah Baumbach |
| 2011 | The Kids Are All Right ‡ | Lisa Cholodenko |
| 2011 | Winter's Bone ‡ | Debra Granik |
| 2012 | The Artist † | Michel Hazanavicius |
| 2012 | 50/50 | Jonathan Levine |
| 2012 | Beginners | Mike Mills |
| 2012 | The Descendants ‡ | Alexander Payne |
| 2012 | Drive | Nicolas Winding Refn |
| 2012 | Take Shelter | Jeff Nichols |
| 2013 | Silver Linings Playbook ‡ | David O. Russell |
| 2013 | Beasts of the Southern Wild ‡ | Benh Zeitlin |
| 2013 | Bernie | Richard Linklater |
| 2013 | Keep the Lights On | Ira Sachs |
| 2013 | Moonrise Kingdom | Wes Anderson |
| 2014 | 12 Years a Slave † | Steve McQueen |
| 2014 | All Is Lost | J. C. Chandor |
| 2014 | Frances Ha | Noah Baumbach |
| 2014 | Inside Llewyn Davis | Joel Coen e Ethan Coen |
| 2014 | Nebraska ‡ | Alexander Payne |
| 2015 | Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) † | Alejandro G. Iñárritu |
| 2015 | Boyhood ‡ | Richard Linklater |
| 2015 | Love Is Strange | Ira Sachs |
| 2015 | Selma ‡ | Ava DuVernay |
| 2015 | Whiplash ‡ | Damien Chazelle |
| 2016 | Spotlight † | Tom McCarthy |
| 2016 | Anomalisa | Charlie Kaufman e Duke Johnson |
| 2016 | Beasts of No Nation | Cary Joji Fukunaga |
| 2016 | Carol | Todd Haynes |
| 2016 | Tangerine | Sean Baker |
| 2017 | Moonlight † | Barry Jenkins |
| 2017 | American Honey | Andrea Arnold |
| 2017 | Chronic | Michel Franco |
| 2017 | Jackie | Pablo Larraín |
| 2017 | Manchester by the Sea ‡ | Kenneth Lonergan |
| 2018 | Get Out ‡ | Jordan Peele |
| 2018 | Call Me by Your Name ‡ | Luca Guadagnino |
| 2018 | The Florida Project | Sean Baker |
| 2018 | Lady Bird ‡ | Greta Gerwig |
| 2018 | The Rider | Chloé Zhao |
| 2019 | If Beale Street Could Talk | Barry Jenkins |
| 2019 | Eighth Grade | Bo Burnham |
| 2019 | First Reformed | Paul Schrader |
| 2019 | Leave No Trace | Debra Granik |
| 2019 | You Were Never Really Here | Lynne Ramsay |

### Anos 2020

| Ano | Vencedores e nomeados | Diretor(es) |
| 2020 | The Farewell | Lulu Wang |
| 2020 | Clemency | Chinonye Chukwu |
| 2020 | A Hidden Life | Terrence Malick |
| 2020 | Marriage Story ‡ | Noah Baumbach |
| 2020 | Uncut Gems | Josh e Benny Safdie |
| 2021 | Nomadland † | Chloé Zhao |
| 2021 | Minari ‡ | Lee Isaac Chung |
| 2021 | Promising Young Woman ‡ | Emerald Fennell |
| 2021 | Never Rarely Sometimes Always | Eliza Hittman |
| 2021 | First Cow | Kelly Reichardt |
| 2022 | The Lost Daughter ‡ | Maggie Gyllenhaal |
| 2022 | Zola | Janicza Bravo |
| 2022 | The Novice | Lauren Hadaway |
| 2022 | C'mon C'mon | Mike Mills |
| 2022 | Pleasure | Ninja Thyberg |
| 2023 | Everything Everywhere All at Once † | Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert |
| 2023 | Bones and All | Luca Guadagnino |
| 2023 | Tár ‡ | Todd Field |
| 2023 | Women Talking ‡ | Sarah Polley |
| 2023 | Our Father, the Devil | Ellie Foumbi |
| 2024 | Past Lives ‡ | Celine Song |
| 2024 | All of Us Strangers | Andrew Haigh |
| 2024 | American Fiction ‡ | Cord Jefferson |
| 2024 | May December | Todd Haynes |
| 2024 | Passages | Ira Sachs |
| 2024 | We Grown Now | Minhal Baig |
| 2025 | Anora | Sean Baker |
| 2025 | I Saw the TV Glow | Jane Schoenbrun |
| 2025 | Nickel Boys | RaMell Ross |
| 2025 | Sing Sing | Greg Kwedar |
| 2025 | The Substance | Coralie Fargeat |