Independent Spirit Award for Best Film

The Independent Spirit Award for Best Film (or Best Feature) is one of the annual Independent Spirit Awards.

Winners and nominees

1980s

*"'1985: "After Hours"
**"Blood Simple."
**"Smooth Talk"
**"The Trip to Bountiful"
*"'1986: "Platoon"
**"Blue Velvet"
**"Down by Law"
**"On Valentine's Day"
**"Salvador"
**"Stand by Me"
*"'1987: "River's Edge"
**"The Big Easy"
**"Matewan"
**"Swimming to Cambodia"
**"Tough Guys Don't Dance"
*"'1988: "Stand and Deliver"
**"Hairspray"
**"Patti Rocks"
**"The Thin Blue Line"
**"Torch Song Trilogy"
*"'1989: "sex, lies, and videotape"
**"Drugstore Cowboy"
**"Heat and Sunlight"
**"Mystery Train"
**"True Love"

1990s

*"'1990: "The Grifters"
**""
**"The Plot Against Harry"
**"Pump Up the Volume"
**"To Sleep with Anger"
*"'1991: "Rambling Rose"
**"City of Hope"
**"Hangin' with the Homeboys"
**"Homicide"
**"My Own Private Idaho"
*"'1992: "The Player"
**"Bad Lieutenant"
**"Gas, Food Lodging"
**"Mississippi Masala"
**"One False Move"
*"'1993: "Short Cuts"
**"Equinox"
**"Hsi yen (The Wedding Banquet)"
**"Much Ado About Nothing"
**"Ruby in Paradise"
*"'1994: "Pulp Fiction"
**"Bullets Over Broadway"
**"Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle"
**"New Nightmare"
**"Yin shi nan nu (Eat Drink Man Woman)"
*"'1995: "Leaving Las Vegas"
**"The Addiction"
**"Living in Oblivion"
**"Safe"
**"The Secret of Roan Inish"
*"'1996: "Fargo"
**"Dead Man"
**"The Funeral"
**"Lone Star"
**"Welcome to the Dollhouse"
*"'1997: "The Apostle"
**"Chasing Amy"
**"Loved"
**"Ulee's Gold"
**"Waiting for Guffman"
*"'1998: "Gods and Monsters"
**"Affliction"
**"Claire Dolan"
**"A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries"
**"Velvet Goldmine"
*"'1999: "Election"
**"Cookie's Fortune"
**"The Limey"
**"The Straight Story"
**"Sugar Town"

2000s

*"'2000: "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Wo hu cang long)"
**"Before Night Falls"
**"George Washington"
**""
**"Requiem for a Dream"
*"'2001: "Memento"
**"Hedwig and the Angry Inch"
**"L.I.E."
**"Things Behind the Sun"
**"Waking Life"
*"'2002: "Far From Heaven"
**"The Good Girl"
**"Lovely & Amazing"
**"Secretary"
**"Tully"
*"'2003: "Lost in Translation"
**"American Splendor"
**"In America"
**"Raising Victor Vargas"
**"Shattered Glass"
*"'2004: "Sideways"
**"How to Get the Man's Foot Outta Your Ass"
**"Kinsey"
**"Maria Full of Grace (Maria, eres llena de gracia)"
**"Primer"
*"'2005: "Brokeback Mountain"
**"Capote"
**"Good Night, and Good Luck."
**"The Squid and the Whale"
**"The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada"
*"'2006: "Little Miss Sunshine"
**"American Gun"
**"The Dead Girl"
**"Half Nelson"
**"Pan's Labyrinth (El laberinto del fauno)"
*"'2007: "Juno"
**"The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Le scaphandre et le papillon)"
**"I'm Not There"
**"A Mighty Heart"
**"Paranoid Park"