Independent Spirit Award for Best First Screenplay
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.
Wins and nominations
1990s
1994
- David O. Russell for Spanking the Monkey
- Paul Zehrer for Blessing
- Kevin Smith for Clerks
- James Bosley for Fun
- Tom Noonan for What Happened Was
1995
- Paul Auster for Smoke
- Harmony Korine for Kids
- James Gray for Little Odessa
- Steve McLean for Postcards from America
- Kelly Reichardt for River of Grass
1996
- Joseph Tropiano and Stanley Tucci for Big Night
- Suzan-Lori Parks for Girl 6
- Lisa Krueger for Manny & Lo
- Michael Scott Myers for The Whole Wide World
- Steve Buscemi for Trees Lounge
1997
- Neil LaBute for In the Company of Men
- Steven Schwartz for Critical Care
- Paul Thomas Anderson for Hard Eight
- Miguel Arteta for Star Maps
- Daniel Harris for The Bible and Gun Club
1998
- Darren Aronofsky for Pi
- Lisa Cholodenko for High Art
- Matthew Weiss for Niagara, Niagara
- Tamara Jenkins for Slums of Beverly Hills
- Sherman Alexie for Smoke Signals
1999
- Charlie Kaufman for Being John Malkovich
- 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
2000s
2000
- Gina Prince-Bythewood for Love & Basketball
- Ben Younger for Boiler Room
- David Gordon Green for George Washington
- Jordan Walker-Pearlman for The Visit
- Ross Klavan and Michael McGruther for Tigerland
2001
- Daniel Clowes and Terry Zwigoff for Ghost World
- Richard Kelly for Donnie Darko
- John Cameron Mitchell for Hedwig and the Angry Inch
- Stephen M. Ryder, Michael Cuesta and Gerald Cuesta for L.I.E.
- Jennifer Jason Leigh and Alan Cumming for The Anniversary Party
2002
- Erin Cressida Wilson for Secretary
- 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
2003
- Thomas McCarthy for The Station Agent
- 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
2004
- Joshua Marston for Maria Full of Grace
- Rodney Evans for Brother to Brother
- Zach Braff for Garden State
- Shane Carruth for Primer
- Mario de la Vega for Robbing Peter
2005
- Duncan Tucker for Transamerica
- 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
2006
- Michael Arndt for Little Miss Sunshine
- 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 Dukić for Wristcutters: A Love Story
2007
- Diablo Cody for Juno
- 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
2008
- Dustin Lance Black for Milk
- Lance Hammer for Ballast
- Courtney Hunt for Frozen River
- Jonathan Levine for The Wackness
- Jenny Lumet for Rachel Getting Married
2009
- Geoffrey Fletcher for Precious
- Sophie Barthes for Cold Souls
- Scott Cooper for Crazy Heart
- Cherien Dabis for Amreeka
- Tom Ford and David Scearce for A Single Man
2010s
2010
- Lena Dunham for Tiny Furniture
- Robert Glaudini for Jack Goes Boating
- Nik Fackler for Lovely, Still
- Dana Adam Shapiro and Evan M. Wiener for Monogamy
- Diane Bell for Obselidia
2011
- Will Reiser for 50/50
- Mike Cahill and Brit Marling for Another Earth
- J.C. Chandor for Margin Call
- Patrick deWitt for Terri
- Phil Johnston for Cedar Rapids
2012
- Derek Connolly for Safety Not Guaranteed
- Rama Burshtein for Fill the Void
- Christopher D. Ford for Robot & Frank
- Rashida Jones and Will McCormack for Celeste and Jesse Forever
- Jonathan Lisecki for Gayby
2013
- Bob Nelson for Nebraska
- Lake Bell for In a World...
- Joseph Gordon-Levitt for Don Jon
- Jill Soloway for Afternoon Delight
- Michael Starrbury for The Inevitable Defeat of Mister & Pete
2014
- Justin Simien for Dear White People
- Desiree Akhavan for Appropriate Behavior
- Sara Colangelo for Little Accidents
- Justin Lader for The One I Love
- Anja Marquardt for She's Lost Control
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