Film Terbaik (Independent Spirit Award)



Pemenang dan nominee

1980an 
 1985: After Hours (Warner Bros.) – Martin Scorsese
 Blood Simple (Circle Films) – Joel Coen dan 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

 1990an 
 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

2000an

2010an 

Independent Spirit Awards