Independent Spirit Best Film Winners

2023

 1

  Past Lives

2022

 2

  Everything Everywhere All at Once

2021

 3

  The Lost Daughter

2020

 4

  Nomadland

2019

 5

  The Farewell

2018

 6

  If Beale Street Could Talk

2017

 7

  Get Out

2016

 8

  Moonlight

2015

 9

  Spotlight

2014

 10

  Birdman

2013

 11

  12 Years a Slave

2012

 12

  Silver Linings Playbook

2011

 13

  The Artist

2010

 14

  Black Swan

2009

 15

  Precious

2008

 16

  The Wrestler

2007

 17

  Juno

2006

 18

  Little Miss Sunshine

2005

 19

  Brokeback Mountain

2004

 20

  Sideways

2003

 21

  Lost in Translation

2002

 22

  Far from Heaven

2000

 23

  Memento

2000

 24

  Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

1999

 25

  Election

1998

 26

  Gods and Monsters

1997

 27

  The Apostle

1996

 28

  Fargo

1995

 29

  Leaving Las Vegas

1994

 30

  Pulp Fiction

1993

 31

  Short Cuts

1992

 32

  The Player

1991

 33

  Rambling Rose

1990

 34

  The Grifters

1989

 35

  Sex, Lies, and Videotape

1988

 36

  Stand and Deliver

1986

 37

  River's Edge

1986

 38

  Platoon

1985

 39

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