Anexo:Independent Spirit Award a la mejor película

El Independent Spirit Award a la mejor película es un premio anual otorgado en los Independent Spirit Awards a las mejores películas.

Ganadoras y nominadas

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: Sexo, mentiras y cintas de vídeo
- Drugstore Cowboy
- Heat and Sunlight
- Mystery Train
- True Love

1990s

1990: Los timadores (The Grifters)
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: Vidas cruzadas (Short Cuts)
- Equinox
- The Wedding Banquet
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Ruby in Paradise
1994: Pulp Fiction
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: El apóstol (The Apostle)
- Chasing Amy
- Loved
- Ulee's Gold
- Waiting for Guffman
1998: Dioses y monstruos
- 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: Wò hǔ cáng lóng
2001: Memento
- Hedwig and the Angry Inch
- L.I.E.
- Things Behind the Sun
- Despertando a la vida
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: Entre copas
- Baadasssss!
- Kinsey
- María, llena eres de gracia
- Primer
2005: Brokeback Mountain
2006: Little Miss Sunshine
- American Gun
- The Dead Girl
- Half Nelson
- El laberinto del fauno
2007: Juno
- Le Scaphandre et le Papillon
- I'm Not There
- A Mighty Heart
- Paranoid Park
2008: El luchador
- Rachel Getting Married
- Wendy and Lucy
- Ballast
- Frozen River
2009: Precious

2010

2010: Black Swan
2011: The Artist (The Weinstein Company) - Michel Hazanavicius
- 50/50
- Beginners
- Los descendientes (Fox Searchlight) - Alexander Payne
- Drive (FilmDistrict)
- Take Shelter
2012: Silver Linings Playbook (The Weinstein Company) - David O. Russell
- Beasts of the Southern Wild (Fox Searchlight) - Benh Zeitlin
- Bernie - Richard Linklater
- Keep the Lights On
- Moonrise Kingdom (Focus Features) - Wes Anderson
2013: 12 años de esclavitud - Steve McQueen'
- Inside Llewyn Davis - Joel Coen Ethan Coen
- Cuando todo está perdido - J.C. Chandor
- Frances Ha
- Nebraska - Alexander Payne
2014: Birdman o (la inesperada virtud de la ignorancia) (Regency Enterprises) - Alejandro González, John Lesher y Arnon Milchan
2015: Spotlight
- Anomalisa
- Beasts of No Nation
- Carol
- Tangerine
2016: Moonlight
- American Honey
- Chronic
- Jackie
- Manchester by the Sea
2017: Get Out
- Call Me by Your Name
- The Florida Project
- Lady Bird
- The Rider
2018: If Beale Street Could Talk
- Eighth Grade
- First Reformed
- Leave No Trace
- You Were Never Really Here
2019: The Farewell
- A Hidden Life
- Clemency
- Historia de un matrimonio
- Uncut Gems

2020

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