Film Pertama Terbaik (Independent Spirit Award)
Pemenang dan nominee > 2010an

2010: Get Low – Aaron Schneider, sutradara; Dean Zanuck dan David Gundlach, produser
Everything Strange and New – Frazer Bradshaw, sutradara; Laura Techera Francia dan A.D. Liano, produser
The Last Exorcism – Daniel Stamm, sutradara; Eric Newman, Eli Roth, Marc Abraham dan Thomas A. Bliss, produser
Night Catches Us – Tanya Hamilton, sutradara; Ronald Simon, Sean Costello dan Jason Orans, produser
Tiny Furniture – Lena Dunham, sutradara; Kyle Martin dan Alicia Van Couvering, produser
2011: Margin Call – J. C. Chandor, sutradara; Joe Jenckes, Robert Ogden Barnum, Corey Moosa, Michael Benaroya, Neal Dodson dan Zachary Quinto, produser
Another Earth – Mike Cahill, sutradara; Hunter Gray, Mike Cahill, Brit Marling dan Nicholas Shumaker, produser
In the Family – Patrick Wang, sutradara; Patrick Wang, Andrew van den Houten dan Robert Tonino, produser
Martha Marcy May Marlene – Sean Durkin, sutradara; Josh Mond, Antonio Campos, Chris Maybach dan Patrick Cunningham, produser
Natural Selection – Robbie Pickering, sutradara; Brion Hambell dan Paul Jensen, produser
2012: The Perks of Being a Wallflower – Stephen Chbosky, sutradara
Fill the Void – Rama Burshtein, sutradara
Gimme the Loot – Adam Leon, sutradara
Safety Not Guaranteed – Colin Trevorrow, sutradara
Sound of My Voice – Zal Batmanglij, sutradara
2013: Fruitvale Station – Ryan Coogler, sutradara
Blue Caprice – Alexandre Moors, sutradara
Concussion – Stacie Passon, sutradara
Una Noche – Lucy Mulloy, sutradara
Wadjda – Haifaa al-Mansour, sutradara
2014: Nightcrawler – Dan Gilroy, sutradara
Dear White People – Justin Simien, sutradara
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night – Ana Lily Amirpour, sutradara
Obvious Child – Gillian Robespierre, sutradara
She's Lost Control – Anja Marquardt, sutradara
2015: The Diary of a Teenage Girl – Marielle Heller, sutradara; Miranda Bailey, Anne Carey, Bert Hamelinck, dan Madeline Samit, produser
James White – Josh Mond, sutradara; Max Born, Antonio Campos, Sean Durkin, Melody Roscher, dan Eric Schultz, produser
Manos Sucias – Josef Kubota Wladyka, sutradara; Elena Greenlee and Márcia Nunes, produser
Mediterranea – Jonas Carpignano, sutradara; Jason Michael Berman, Chris Columbus, Jon Coplon, Christoph Daniel, Andrew Kortschak, John Lesher, Ryan Lough, Justin Nappi, Alain Peyrollaz, Gwyn Sannia, Marc Schmidheiny, Victor Shapiro, dan Ryan Zacarias, produser
Songs My Brother Taught Me – Chloé Zhao, sutradara/produser; Mollye Asher, Nina Yang Bongiovi, Angela C. Lee, dan Forest Whitaker, produser
2016: The Witch – Robert Eggers, sutradara/produser; Daniel Bekerman, Jay Van Hoy, Lars Knudsen, Jodi Redmond, dan Rodrigo Teixeira, produser
The Childhood of a Leader – Brady Corbet, sutradara; Antoine de Clermont-Tonnerre, Chris Coen, Ron Curtis, Helena Danielsson, Mona Fastvold, István Major, produser
The Fits – Anna Rose Holmer, sutradara/produser; Lisa Kjerulff, producer
Other People – Chris Kelly, sutradara; Sam Bisbee, Adam Scott, dan Naomi Scott, produser
Swiss Army Man – Daniel Scheinert and Daniel Kwan, sutradara; Miranda Bailey, Lawrence Inglee, Lauren Mann, Amanda Marshall, Eyal Rimmon, dan Jonathan Wang, produser
2017: Ingrid Goes West – Matt Spicer, sutradara; Jared Goldman, Adam Mirels, Robert Mirels, Aubrey Plaza, Tim White, Trevor White, produser
Columbus – Kogonada, sutradara; Danielle Renfrew Behrens, Aaron Boyd, Giulia Caruso, Ki Jin Kim, Andrew Miano, Chris Weitz, produser
Menashe – Joshua Z. Weinstein, sutradara; Yoni Brook, Traci Carlson, Daniel Finkelman, Alex Lipschultz, produser
Oh Lucy! – Atsuko Hirayanagi, sutradara; Jessica Elbaum, Yukie Kito, Han West, produser
Patti Cake$ – Geremy Jasper, sutradara; Chris Columbus, Michael Gottwald, Dan Janvey, Daniela Taplin Lundberg, Noah Stahl, Rodrigo Teixeira, produser
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