Film Terbaik (Independent Spirit Award)

## Pemenang dan nominee
### 1980an
* **1985: ''[[After Hours (film)|After Hours]]'' (Warner Bros.) – [[Martin Scorsese]]**
** *[[Blood Simple]]* (Circle Films) – Joel Coen dan Ethan Coen
** *[[Smooth Talk]]*
** *[[The Trip to Bountiful]]*
* **1986: ''[[Platoon (film)|Platoon]]'' † (Orion) – [[Oliver Stone]]**
** *[[Blue Velvet (film)|Blue Velvet]]* – David Lynch
** *[[Down by Law (film)|Down by Law]]*
** *On Valentine's Day*
** *[[Salvador (film)|Salvador]]* – Oliver Stone
** *[[Stand by Me (film)|Stand by Me]]* (Columbia) – Rob Reiner
* **1987: ''[[River's Edge]]'' (Island Pictures) – [[Tim Hunter (sutradara)|Tim Hunter]]
** ''[[The Big Easy (film)|The Big Easy]]''
** ''[[The Dead (film 1987)|The Dead]]'' – [[John Huston]]
** ''[[Matewan]]''
** ''[[Swimming to Cambodia]]'' – [[Jonathan Demme]]
** ''[[Tough Guys Don't Dance (film)|Tough Guys Don't Dance]]'' (Cannon) – [[Norman Mailer]]
* **1988: *[[Stand and Deliver]]* (Warner Bros.) – Ramon Menendez**
** ''[[Hairspray (film 1988)|Hairspray]]'' (New Line Cinema) – [[John Waters (pembuat film)|John Waters]]
** ''[[Patti Rocks]]''
** ''[[The Thin Blue Line (film 1988)|The Thin Blue Line]]''
** ''[[Torch Song Trilogy (film)|Torch Song Trilogy]]'' (New Line Cinema)
* **1989: *[[Sex, Lies, and Videotape]]* (Miramax) – Steven Soderbergh**
** ''[[Drugstore Cowboy]]'' – [[Gus Van Sant]]
** ''[[Heat and Sunlight]]''
** ''[[Mystery Train (film)|Mystery Train]]''
** ''[[True Love (film 1989)|True Love]]''

=== 1990an ===
* **1990: *[[The Grifters (film)|The Grifters]]* (Miramax) – Stephen Frears**
** **'
** *[[The Plot Against Harry]]*
** *[[Pump Up the Volume (film)|Pump Up the Volume]]* (New Line Cinema)
** *[[To Sleep with Anger]]*
* **1991: ''[[Rambling Rose (film)|Rambling Rose]]'' – [[Martha Coolidge]]**
** *[[City of Hope (film)|City of Hope]]*
** *[[Hangin' with the Homeboys]]*
** *[[Homicide (film 1991)|Homicide]]*
** *[[My Own Private Idaho]]* (Fine Line Features) – Gus Van Sant
* **1992: ''[[The Player (film)|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 (film 1992)|Equinox]]*
** *[[Much Ado About Nothing (film 1993)|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 (film 1995)|Safe]]''
** ''[[The Secret of Roan Inish]]'' (Sony Pictures Classics) – [[John Sayles]]
* **1996: *[[Fargo (film)|Fargo]]* ‡ (PolyGram) – Joel Coen**
** ''[[Dead Man]]'' (Miramax) – [[Jim Jarmusch]]
** ''[[The Funeral (film 1996)|The Funeral]]''
** ''[[Lone Star (film 1996)|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 (film)|Loved]]''
** ''[[Ulee's Gold]]'' (Orion)
** ''[[Waiting for Guffman]]'' (Columbia / Castle Rock) – [[Christopher Guest]]
* **1998: *[[Gods and Monsters (film)|Gods and Monsters]]* – Bill Condon**
** ''[[Affliction (film 1997)|Affliction]]'' – [[Paul Schrader]]
** ''[[Claire Dolan]]''
** ''[[A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries (film)|A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries]]''
** ''[[Velvet Goldmine]]''
* **1999: *[[Election (film 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