Click through each award to see the full list of nominees and winners!
2020 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Screenplay
Marriage Story
Noah Baumbach
2019 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Screenplay
Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Jeff Whitty
2018 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Screenplay
Lady Bird
Greta Gerwig
2017 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Screenplay
Moonlight
Barry Jenkins
2016 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Screenplay
Spotlight
Tom McCarthy
2015 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Screenplay
Nightcrawler
Dan Gilroy
2014 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Screenplay
12 Years a Slave
John Ridley
2013 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Screenplay
Silver Linings Playbook
David O. Russell
2012 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Screenplay
The Descendants
Alexander Payne
2011 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Screenplay
The Kids Are All Right
Stuart Blumberg
2010 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Screenplay
500 Days of Summer
Scott Neustadter
2009 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Screenplay
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Woody Allen
2008 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Screenplay
The Savages
Tamara Jenkins
2007 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Screenplay
Thank You for Smoking
Jason Reitman
2006 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Screenplay
Capote
Dan Futterman
2005 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Screenplay
Sideways
Alexander Payne
2004 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Screenplay
Lost in Translation
Sofia Coppola
2003 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Screenplay
The Good Girl
Mike White
2002 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Screenplay
Memento
Christopher Nolan
2001 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Screenplay
You Can Count on Me
Kenneth Lonergan
2000 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Screenplay
Election
Alexander Payne
1999 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Screenplay
The Opposite of Sex
Don Roos
1998 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Screenplay
Chasing Amy
Kevin Smith
1997 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Screenplay
Fargo
Joel Coen
1996 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Screenplay
The Usual Suspects
Christopher McQuarrie
1995 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Screenplay
Pulp Fiction
Quentin Tarantino
1994 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Screenplay
Short Cuts
Robert Altman
1993 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Screenplay
The Waterdance
Neal Jimenez
1992 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Screenplay
My Own Private Idaho
Gus Van Sant
1991 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Screenplay
To Sleep with Anger
Charles Burnett
1990 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Screenplay
Drugstore Cowboy
Gus Van Sant
1989 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Screenplay
Stand and Deliver
Ramón Menéndez
1988 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Screenplay
River’s Edge
Neal Jimenez
1987 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Screenplay
Platoon
Oliver Stone
1986 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Screenplay
