Click through each award to see the full list of nominees and winners!
2020 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Feature
The Farewell
Anita Gou
2019 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Feature
If Beale Street Could Talk
Dede Gardner
2018 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Feature
Get Out
Jason Blum
2017 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Feature
Moonlight
Dede Gardner
2016 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Feature
Spotlight
Blye Pagon Faust
2015 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Feature
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
Alejandro G. Iñárritu
2014 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Feature
12 Years a Slave
Dede Gardner
2013 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Feature
Silver Linings Playbook
Bruce Cohen
2012 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Feature
The Artist
Thomas Langmann
2011 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Feature
Black Swan
Mike Medavoy
2010 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Feature
Precious
Lee Daniels
2009 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Feature
The Wrestler
Darren Aronofsky
2008 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Feature
Juno
Lianne Halfon
2007 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Feature
Little Miss Sunshine
Marc Turtletaub
2006 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Feature
Brokeback Mountain
James Schamus
2005 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Feature
Sideways
Michael London
2004 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Feature
Lost in Translation
Sofia Coppola
2003 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Feature
Far from Heaven
Jody Allen
2002 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Feature
Memento
Jennifer Todd
2001 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Feature
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
William Kong
2000 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Feature
Election
Albert Berger
1999 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Feature
Gods and Monsters
Paul Colichman
1998 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Feature
The Apostle
Rob Carliner
1997 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Feature
Fargo
Ethan Coen
1996 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Feature
Leaving Las Vegas
Lila Cazès
1995 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Feature
Pulp Fiction
Lawrence Bender
1994 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Feature
Short Cuts
Cary Brokaw
1993 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Feature
The Player
David Brown
1992 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Feature
Rambling Rose
Renny Harlin
1991 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Feature
The Grifters
Robert A. Harris
1990 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Feature
Sex, Lies, and Videotape
Robert F. Newmyer
1989 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Feature
Stand and Deliver
Tom Musca
1988 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Feature
River’s Edge
Sarah Pillsbury
1987 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Feature
Platoon
Arnold Kopelson
1986 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Feature
