Independent Spirit Award for Best First Film

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The Independent Spirit Award for Best First Film is one of the annual Independent Spirit Awards.

[edit] Winners and nominees

[edit] 1980s

• 1987: She's Gotta Have It
  • A Great Wall
  • Belizaire The Cajun
  • Hoosiers
  • True Stories
• 1988: Dirty Dancing
  • Anna
  • Hollywood Shuffle
  • Siesta
  • Waiting for the Moon
• 1989: Mystic Pizza
  • Border Radio
  • The Prince of Pennsylvania
  • The Chocolate War
  • The Wash

[edit] 1990s

• 1990: Heathers
  • 84 Charlie Mopic
  • Powwow Highway
  • Sidewalk Stories
  • Talking To Strangers
• 1991: Metropolitan
  • House Party
  • Lightning Over Braddock
  • The Natural History of Parking Lots
  • Twister
• 1992: Straight Out of Brooklyn
  • Chameleon Street
  • Poison
  • Slacker
  • The Rapture
• 1993: The Waterdance
  • Laws of Gravity
  • My New Gun
  • Reservoir Dogs
  • Swoon
• 1994: El Mariachi
  • American Heart
  • Combination Platter
  • Mac
  • Menace II Society
• 1995: Spanking the Monkey
  • Clean, Shaven
  • Clerks
  • I Like It Like That
  • Suture
• 1996: The Brothers McMullen
  • Kids
  • Little Odessa
  • Picture Bride
  • River of Grass
• 1997: Sling Blade
  • Big Night
  • I Shot Andy Warhol
  • Manny & Lo
  • Trees Lounge
• 1998: Eve's Bayou
  • Hard Eight
  • In the Company of Men
  • Star Maps
  • The Bible And Gun Club
• 1999: The Opposite of Sex
  • Buffalo ’66
  • High Art
  • π
  • Slums of Beverly Hills

[edit] 2000s

• 2000: Being John Malkovich
  • Boys Don't Cry
  • Three Seasons
  • Twin Falls Idaho
  • Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Girl
• 2001: You Can Count on Me
  • Boiler Room
  • Girlfight
  • Love & Basketball
  • The Visit
• 2002: In the Bedroom
  • Donnie Darko
  • Ghost World
  • The Anniversary Party
  • The Believer
• 2003: The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys
  • Interview with the Assassin
  • Manito
  • Paid in Full
  • Roger Dodger
• 2004: Monster
  • Bomb the System
  • House of Sand and Fog
  • Quattro Noza
  • Thirteen
• 2005: Garden State
  • Brother to Brother
  • Napoleon Dynamite
  • Saints and Soldiers
  • The Woodsman
• 2006: Crash
  • Lackawanna Blues
  • Me and You and Everyone We Know
  • Thumbsucker
  • Transamerica
• 2007: Sweet Land
  • Day Night Day Night
  • Man Push Cart
  • The Motel
  • Wristcutters: A Love Story
• 2008: [[The Lookout]]
  • 2 Days in Paris
  • Great World of Sound
  • The Lookout
  • Rocket Science
  • Vanaja