2004 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best First Screenplay Winner
![The Station Agent Tom McCarthy](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-station-agent-tom-mccarthy-image.jpg)
The Station Agent
Tom McCarthy
When his only friend dies, a man born with dwarfism moves to rural New Jersey to live a life of solitude, only to meet a chatty hot dog vendor and a woman dealing with her own personal loss.
2004 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best First Screenplay Nominees
![Blue Car Karen Moncrieff](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/blue-car-karen-moncrieff-image.jpg)
Blue Car
Karen Moncrieff
![Monster Patty Jenkins](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/monster-patty-jenkins-image.jpg)
Monster
Patty Jenkins
![Raising Victor Vargas Peter Sollett](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/raising-victor-vargas-peter-sollett-image.jpg)
Raising Victor Vargas
Peter Sollett
![Thirteen Catherine Hardwicke](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/thirteen-catherine-hardwicke-image.jpg)