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 
TahunPemenangPerusahaan distribusiSutradara2000 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ‡ Sony Pictures Classics Ang LeeBefore Night Falls  Fine Line Features  Julian SchnabelGeorge Washington  ContentFilm International  David Gordon GreenGhost Dog: The Way of the Samurai Artisan Entertainment  Jim JarmuschRequiem for a Dream || Darren Aronofsky
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|rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"|2001
|style="background:#B0C4DE" | Memento|style="background:#B0C4DE" | Newmarket Films
|style="background:#B0C4DE" | Christopher Nolan
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|Hedwig and the Angry Inch || Fine Line Features || John Cameron Mitchell
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|L.I.E. || New Yorker Films || Michael Cuesta
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|Things Behind the Sun || Showtime Networks || Allison Anders
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|Waking Life || Fox Searchlight || Richard Linklater
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|rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"|2002
|style="background:#B0C4DE" | Far from Heaven|style="background:#B0C4DE" | Focus Features
|style="background:#B0C4DE" | Todd Haynes
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|The Good Girl || Fox Searchlight || Miguel Arteta
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|Lovely & Amazing || rowspan=2|Lions Gate Films || Nicole Holofcener
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|Secretary || Steven Shainberg
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|Tully || Telltale Films || Hilary Birmingham
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|rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"|2003
|style="background:#B0C4DE" | Lost in Translation ‡
|style="background:#B0C4DE" | Focus Features
|style="background:#B0C4DE" | Sofia Coppola
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|American Splendor || HBO Films || Shari Springer Berman dan Robert Pulcini
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|In America || Fox Searchlight || Jim Sheridan
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|Raising Victor Vargas || Samuel Goldwyn Films || Peter Sollett
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|Shattered Glass || Lions Gate Films || Billy Ray
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|rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"|2004
|style="background:#B0C4DE" | Sideways ‡
|style="background:#B0C4DE" | Fox Searchlight
|style="background:#B0C4DE" | Alexander Payne
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|Baadasssss! || Sony Pictures Classics || Mario Van Peebles
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|Kinsey || Fox Searchlight || Bill Condon
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|Maria Full of Grace || Fine Line Features || Joshua Marston
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|Primer || THINKFilm || Shane Carruth
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|rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"|2005
|style="background:#B0C4DE" | Brokeback Mountain ‡
|style="background:#B0C4DE" | Focus Features
|style="background:#B0C4DE" | Ang Lee
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|Capote ‡ || Sony Pictures Classics || Bennett Miller
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|Good Night, and Good Luck ‡ || Warner Independent Pictures || George Clooney
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|The Squid and the Whale || Samuel Goldwyn Films || Noah Baumbach
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|The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada || Sony Pictures Classics || Tommy Lee Jones
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|rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"|2006
|style="background:#B0C4DE" | Little Miss Sunshine ‡
|style="background:#B0C4DE" | Fox Searchlight
|style="background:#B0C4DE" | Jonathan Dayton dan Valerie Faris
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|American Gun || IFC Films || Aric Avelino
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|The Dead Girl || First Look International || Karen Moncrieff
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|Half Nelson || THINKFilm || Ryan Fleck
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|Pan's Labyrinth || Picturehouse || Guillermo del Toro
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|rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"|2007
|style="background:#B0C4DE" | Juno ‡
|style="background:#B0C4DE" | Fox Searchlight
|style="background:#B0C4DE" | Jason Reitman
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|The Diving Bell and the Butterfly || Miramax Films || Julian Schnabel
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|I'm Not There || The Weinstein Company || Todd Haynes
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|A Mighty Heart || Paramount Vantage || Michael Winterbottom
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|Paranoid Park || IFC Films || Gus Van Sant
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|rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"|2008
|style="background:#B0C4DE" | The Wrestler|style="background:#B0C4DE" | Fox Searchlight
|style="background:#B0C4DE" | Darren Aronofsky
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|Ballast || Alluvial Film Company || Lance Hammer
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|Frozen River || rowspan=2| Sony Pictures Classics || Courtney Hunt
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|Rachel Getting Married || Jonathan Demme
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|Wendy and Lucy || Oscilloscope Pictures || Kelly Reichardt
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|rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"|2009
|style="background:#B0C4DE" | Precious ‡
|style="background:#B0C4DE" | Lionsgate
|style="background:#B0C4DE" | Lee Daniels
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|(500) Days of Summer || Fox Searchlight || Marc Webb
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|Amreeka || Virgil Films & Entertainment || Cherien Dabis
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|The Last Station || Sony Pictures Classics || Michael Hoffman
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|Sin Nombre''  Focus Features  Cary Fukunaga

 2010an 
TahunPemenangPerusahaan distribusiSutradara2010 Black Swan ‡ Fox Searchlight Darren Aronofsky127 Hours ‡  Fox Searchlight  Danny BoyleGreenberg || rowspan=2|Focus Features || Noah Baumbach
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|The Kids Are All Right ‡ || Lisa Cholodenko
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|Winter's Bone ‡ || Roadside Attractions || Debra Granik
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|rowspan="6" style="text-align:center;"|2011
|style="background:#B0C4DE" | The Artist †
|style="background:#B0C4DE" | The Weinstein Company
|style="background:#B0C4DE" | Michel Hazanavicius
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|50/50 || Summit Entertainment || Jonathan Levine
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|Beginners || Focus Features || Mike Mills
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|The Descendants ‡ || Fox Searchlight || Alexander Payne
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|Drive || FilmDistrict || Nicolas Winding Refn
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|Take Shelter || Sony Pictures Classics || Jeff Nichols
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|rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"|2012
|style="background:#B0C4DE" | Silver Linings Playbook ‡
|style="background:#B0C4DE" | The Weinstein Company
|style="background:#B0C4DE" | David O. Russell
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|Beasts of the Southern Wild ‡ || Fox Searchlight || Benh Zeitlin
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|Bernie || Millennium Entertainment || Richard Linklater
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|Keep the Lights On || Music Box Films || Ira Sachs
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|Moonrise Kingdom || Focus Features || Wes Anderson
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|rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"|2013
|style="background:#B0C4DE" | 12 Years a Slave †
|style="background:#B0C4DE" | Fox Searchlight
|style="background:#B0C4DE" | Steve McQueen
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|All Is Lost || Lionsgate || J. C. Chandor
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|Frances Ha || IFC Films || Noah Baumbach
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|Inside Llewyn Davis || CBS Films || Joel Coen dan Ethan Coen
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|Nebraska ‡ || Paramount Vantage || Alexander Payne
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|rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"|2014
|style="background:#B0C4DE" | Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) †
|style="background:#B0C4DE" | Fox Searchlight
|style="background:#B0C4DE" | Alejandro G. Iñárritu
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|Boyhood ‡ || IFC Films || Richard Linklater
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|Love Is Strange || Sony Pictures Classics || Ira Sachs
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|Selma ‡ || Paramount Pictures || Ava DuVernay
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|Whiplash ‡ || Sony Pictures Classics || Damien Chazelle
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| rowspan=5 style="text-align:center;" | 2015 || style="background:#B0C4DE;" |Spotlight † || style="background:#B0C4DE;" |Open Road Films || style="background:#B0C4DE;" |Tom McCarthy
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|Anomalisa || Paramount Pictures || Charlie Kaufman dan Duke Johnson
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|Beasts of No Nation || Bleecker Street || Cary Joji Fukunaga
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|Carol || The Weinstein Company dan StudioCanal || Todd Haynes
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|Tangerine || Magnolia Pictures || Sean Baker
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| rowspan=5 style="text-align:center;" | 2016 || style="background:#B0C4DE;" |Moonlight † || style="background:#B0C4DE;" | A24 || style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Barry Jenkins
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|American Honey || A24 || Andrea Arnold
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|Chronic || Wild Bunch || Michel Franco
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|Jackie || Fox Searchlight || Pablo Larraín
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|Manchester by the Sea ‡ || Roadside Attractions || Kenneth Lonergan
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| rowspan=5 style="text-align:center;" | 2017 || style="background:#B0C4DE;" |Get Out ‡ || style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Universal Pictures || style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Jordan Peele
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|Call Me by Your Name ‡ || Sony Pictures Classics || Luca Guadagnino
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|The Florida Project || A24 || Sean Baker
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|Lady Bird ‡ || A24 || Greta Gerwig 
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|The Rider''  Sony Pictures Classics  Chloé Zhao

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