Skenario Terbaik (Independent Spirit Award)



1980an 
 1985: The Trip to Bountiful – Horton Foote
 After Hours – Joseph Minion
 Blood Simple – Joel Coen dan Ethan Coen
 Smooth Talk – Tom Cole
 1986: Platoon – Oliver Stone
 Blue Velvet – David Lynch
 A Great Wall – Peter Wang dan Shirley Sun
 Salvador – Oliver Stone dan Richard Boyle
 Stand by Me – Raynold Gideon dan Bruce A. Evans
 1987: River's Edge – Neal Jimenez
 Anna – Agnieszka Holland
 The Dead – Tony Huston
 Matewan – John Sayles
 Swimming to Cambodia – Spalding Gray
 1988: Stand and Deliver – Ramon Menendez dan Tom Musca
 Five Corners – John Patrick Shanley
 Hairspray – John Waters
 The Moderns – Alan Rudolph dan John Bradshaw
 Patti Rocks – John Jenkins, Karen Landry, David Burton Morris, dan Chris Mulkey
 '1989: Drugstore Cowboy – Gus Van Sant dan Daniel Yost
 84 Charlie Mopic – Patrick Sheane Duncan
 Heathers – Daniel Waters
 Miracle Mile – Steve De Jarnatt
 Mystery Train'' – Jim Jarmusch

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