Independent Spirit Award for Best First Screenplay
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The Independent Spirit Award for Best First Screenplay is one of the annual awards given by Film Independent, a non-profit organization dedicated to independent film and independent filmmakers.
[edit] Wins and nominations
1995
- David O. Russell for Spanking the Monkey (winner)
- Paul Zehrer for Blessing
- Kevin Smith for Clerks
- James Bosley for Fun
- Tom Noonan for What Happened Was
1996
- Paul Auster for Smoke (winner)
- Harmony Korine for Kids
- James Gray for Little Odessa
- Steve McLean for Postcards from America
- Kelly Reichardt for River of Grass
1997
- Joseph Tropiano and Stanley Tucci for Big Night (winner)
- Suzan-Lori Parks for Girl 6
- Lisa Krueger for Manny & Lo
- Michael Scott Myers for The Whole Wide World
- Steve Buscemi for Trees Lounge
1998
- Neil LaBute for In the Company of Men (winner)
- Steven Schwartz for Critical Care
- Paul Thomas Anderson for Hard Eight
- Miguel Arteta for Star Maps
- Daniel Harris for The Bible and Gun Club
1999
- Darren Aronofsky for Pi (winner)
- Lisa Cholodenko for High Art
- Matthew Weiss for Niagara, Niagara
- Tamara Jenkins for Slums of Beverly Hills
- Sherman Alexie for Smoke Signals
2000
- Charlie Kaufman for Being John Malkovich (winner)
- Kimberly Peirce and Andy Bienen for Boys Don't Cry
- Anne Rapp for Cookie's Fortune
- Tod Williams for The Adventures of Sebastian Cole
- John Roach and Mary Sweeney for The Straight Story
2001
- Gina Prince-Bythewood for Love & Basketball (winner)
- Ben Younger for Boiler Room
- David Gordon Green for George Washington
- Jordan Walker-Pearlman for The Visit
- Ross Klavan and Michael McGruther for Tigerland
2002
- Daniel Clowes and Terry Zwigoff for Ghost World (winner)
- Richard Kelly for Donnie Darko
- John Cameron Mitchell for Hedwig and the Angry Inch
- Stephen Ryder and Gerald Cuesta for L.I.E.
- Jennifer Jason Leigh and Alan Cumming for The Anniversary Party
2003
- Erin Cressida Wilson for Secretary (winner)
- Laura Cahill for Hysterical Blindness
- Burr Steers for Igby Goes Down
- Neil Burger for Interview with the Assassin
- Heather Juergensen and Jennifer Westfeldt for Kissing Jessica Stein
2004
- Thomas McCarthy for The Station Agent (winner)
- Karen Moncrieff for Blue Car
- Patty Jenkins for Monster
- Peter Sollett and Eva Vives for Raising Victor Vargas
- Catherine Hardwicke and Nikki Reed for Thirteen
2005
- Joshua Marston for Maria Full of Grace (winner)
- Rodney Evans for Brother to Brother
- Zach Braff for Garden State
- Shane Carruth for Primer
- Mario de la Vega for Robbing Peter
2006
- Duncan Tucker for Transamerica (winner)
- Kenneth Hanes for Fixing Frank
- Angus MacLachlan for Junebug
- Miranda July for Me and You and Everyone We Know
- Sabina Murray for The Beautiful Country
2007
- Michael Arndt for Little Miss Sunshine (winner)
- Dito Montiel for A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints
- Gabrielle Zevin for Conversations with Other Women
- Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden for Half Nelson
- Goran Dukic for Wristcutters: A Love Story
2008
- Diablo Cody for Juno (winner)
- Jeffrey Blitz for Rocket Science
- Zoe Cassavetes for Broken English
- Kelly Masterson for Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
- John Orloff for A Mighty Heart
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