Independent Spirit Award for Best Screenplay

{{Infobox award

| name = Independent Spirit Award for Best Screenplay

| awarded_for = Best Screenplay

| presenter = Film Independent

| country = United States

| year = 1985

| holder = Jesse Eisenberg for A Real Pain (2024)

| website = {{URL|https://www.filmindependent.org}}

}}

The Independent Spirit Award for Best Screenplay is one of the annual awards given out by Film Independent, a non-profit organization dedicated to independent film and independent filmmakers. It was first presented in 1985 with Horton Foote being the first winner of the awards for The Trip to Bountiful.

The category includes both original and adapted screenplays. Despite the creation of the Best First Screenplay category in 1994, first screenplays are also eligible to compete for this award.

Alexander Payne is the most awarded writer in the category with three wins, followed by Neal Jimenez, Gus Van Sant and Jim Taylor with two wins each. Sofia Coppola was the first female writer to win the award.

Winners and nominees

File:Oliver Stone by Gage Skidmore.jpg won for Platoon.]]

File:Gus Van Sant-1345.jpg has won the award twice, for Drugstore Cowboy and My Own Private Idaho, the former with Daniel Yost.]]

File:BURNETT Charles-24x30-2008b.jpg won for To Sleep with Anger.]]

=1980s=

width="100"\|Year !width="450"\|Film !width="450"\|Recipient(s)
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rowspan="4" style="text-align:center;" \|1985 [https://s3.amazonaws.com/SA_SubForm_etc/2019_SA_NomsWinners_092619.pdf Film Independent Spirit Awards - 34 Years of Nominees and Winners][https://www.goldderby.com/article/2019/independent-spirit-awards-predictions-barry-jenkins-director-if-beale-street-could-talk/ Barry Jenkins expected to join tiny group of double directing champs at Spirit Awards - GoldDerby] \| style="background:#B0C4DE" \|*The Trip to Bountiful* \|\| style="background:#B0C4DE" \| Horton Foote
After Hours	Joseph Minion
Blood Simple	Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
Smooth Talk	Tom Cole
rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" \|1986 \| style="background:#B0C4DE" \|*Platoon* \|\| style="background:#B0C4DE" \| Oliver Stone
Blue Velvet	David Lynch
A Great Wall	Peter Wang and Shirley Sun
Salvador	Oliver Stone and Richard Boyle
Stand by Me	Raynold Gideon and Bruce A. Evans
rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" \|1987 \| style="background:#B0C4DE" \|*River's Edge* \|\| style="background:#B0C4DE" \| Neal Jimenez
Anna	Agnieszka Holland
The Dead	Tony Huston
Matewan	John Sayles
Swimming to Cambodia	Spalding Gray
rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" \|1988 \| style="background:#B0C4DE" \|*Stand and Deliver* \|\| style="background:#B0C4DE" \| Ramón Menéndez and Tom Musca
Five Corners	John Patrick Shanley
Hairspray	John Waters
The Moderns	Alan Rudolph and Jon Bradshaw
Patti Rocks	John Jenkins, Karen Landry, David Burton Morris, and Chris Mulkey
rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" \|1989 \| style="background:#B0C4DE" \|*Drugstore Cowboy* \|\| style="background:#B0C4DE" \| Gus Van Sant and Daniel Yost
84 Charlie Mopic	Patrick Sheane Duncan
Heathers	Daniel Waters
Miracle Mile	Steve De Jarnatt
Mystery Train	Jim Jarmusch

=1990s=

File:Robert Altman 02 (cropped).jpg won for Shortcuts with Frank Barhydt.]]

File:Christopher McQuarrie (8237747500).jpg won for The Usual Suspects.]]

File:Kevin Smith by Gage Skidmore.jpg won for Chasing Amy.]]

File:Alexander Payne 8692.jpg has won this award thrice, for Election, Sideways and The Descendants, the former two with Jim Taylor and the latter with Nat Faxon and Jim Rash.]]

File:Kenneth Lonergan Viennale 2016 opening 4 (cropped).jpg won for You Can Count on Me.]]

width="100"\|Year !width="450"\|Film !width="450"\|Recipient(s)
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rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" \|1990 \| style="background:#B0C4DE" \|*To Sleep with Anger* \|\| style="background:#B0C4DE" \| Charles Burnett
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer	John McNaughton and Richard Fire
Metropolitan	Whit Stillman
The Plot Against Harry	Michael Roemer
Pump Up the Volume	Allan Moyle
rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" \|1991 \| style="background:#B0C4DE" \|*My Own Private Idaho* \|\| style="background:#B0C4DE" \| Gus Van Sant
Hangin' with the Homeboys	Joseph Vásquez
Kafka	Lem Dobbs
Mindwalk	Floyd Byars and Fritjof Capra
The Rapture	Michael Tolkin
rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" \|1992 \| style="background:#B0C4DE" \|*The Waterdance* \|\| style="background:#B0C4DE" \| Neal Jimenez
Gas Food Lodging	Allison Anders
Light Sleeper	Paul Schrader
A Midnight Clear	Keith Gordon
One False Move	Billy Bob Thornton and Tom Epperson
rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" \|1993 \| style="background:#B0C4DE" \|*Short Cuts* \|\| style="background:#B0C4DE" \| Robert Altman and Frank Barhydt
Combination Platter	Edwin Baker and Tony Chan
Household Saints	Nancy Savoca and Richard Guay
Ruby in Paradise	Victor Nuñez
The Wedding Banquet	Ang Lee, Neil Peng, and James Schamus
rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" \|1994 \| style="background:#B0C4DE" \|*Pulp Fiction* \|\| style="background:#B0C4DE" \| Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary
Bullets Over Broadway	Woody Allen and Douglas McGrath
Eat Drink Man Woman	Hui-Ling Wang, James Schamus, and Ang Lee
Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle	Alan Rudolph and Randy Sue Coburn
Red Rock West	John Dahl and Rick Dahl
rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" \|1995 \| style="background:#B0C4DE" \|*The Usual Suspects* \|\| style="background:#B0C4DE" \| Christopher McQuarrie
Leaving Las Vegas	Mike Figgis
Living in Oblivion	Tom DiCillo
Safe	Todd Haynes
The Secret of Roan Inish	John Sayles
rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" \|1996 \| style="background:#B0C4DE" \|*Fargo* \|\| style="background:#B0C4DE" \| Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
Dead Man	Jim Jarmusch
Flirting with Disaster	David O. Russell
The Funeral	Nicholas St. John
Lone Star	John Sayles
rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" \|1997 \| style="background:#B0C4DE" \|*Chasing Amy* \|\| style="background:#B0C4DE" \| Kevin Smith
The Apostle	Robert Duvall
Touch	Paul Schrader
Ulee's Gold	Victor Nuñez
Waiting for Guffman	Christopher Guest and Eugene Levy
rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" \|1998 \| style="background:#B0C4DE" \|*The Opposite of Sex* \|\| style="background:#B0C4DE" \| Don Roos
Affliction	Paul Schrader
Blind Faith	Frank Military
Gods and Monsters	Bill Condon
The Spanish Prisoner	David Mamet
rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" \|1999 \| style="background:#B0C4DE" \|*Election* \|\| style="background:#B0C4DE" \| Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor
Dogma	Kevin Smith
Guinevere	Audrey Wells
The Limey	Lem Dobbs
SLC Punk!	James Merendino

=2000s=

File:Christopher Nolan Cannes 2018.jpg won for Memento.]]

File:Mike White in 2011.jpg won for The Good Girl.]]

File:Sofia Coppola Cannes 2013.jpg won for Lost in Translation.]]

File:CFC In LA 2012 19 (6962385999) (Jason Reitman cropped).jpg won for Thank You for Smoking.]]

File:Tamara Jenkins (11327430963) (cropped).jpg won for The Savages.]]

width="100"\|Year !width="450"\|Film !width="450"\|Recipient(s)
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rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" \|2000 {{cite web \|url=https://variety.com/2001/film/awards/tiger-shows-most-independent-spirit-1117795885/ \|title='Tiger' shows most Independent Spirit \|last=Lyons \|first=Charles \|work=Variety \|date=March 25, 2001 \|access-date=March 25, 2001}} \| style="background:#B0C4DE" \|*You Can Count on Me* \|\| style="background:#B0C4DE" \| Kenneth Lonergan
Chuck & Buck	Mike White
Love & Sex	Valerie Breiman
Two Family House	Raymond De Felitta
Waking the Dead	Robert Dillon
rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" \|2001 {{cite web \|url=https://variety.com/2002/film/awards/memento-tops-indie-spirit-awards-1117864351/ \|title='Memento' tops Indie Spirit Awards \|last=Harris \|first=Dana \|work=Variety \|date=March 23, 2002 \|access-date=March 23, 2002}} \| style="background:#B0C4DE" \|*Memento* \|\| style="background:#B0C4DE" \| Christopher Nolan
The Believer	Henry Bean
In the Bedroom	Robert Festinger and Todd Field
Monster's Ball	Milo Addica and Will Rokos
Waking Life	Richard Linklater
rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" \|2002 {{cite web \|url=https://variety.com/2003/film/awards/heaven-tops-indie-spirit-awards-1117883201/ \|title='Heaven' tops Indie Spirit Awards \|last=Harris \|first=Dana \|work=Variety \|date=March 22, 2003 \|access-date=March 22, 2003}} \| style="background:#B0C4DE" \|*The Good Girl* \|\| style="background:#B0C4DE" \| Mike White
Lovely & Amazing	Nicole Holofcener
Roger Dodger	Dylan Kidd
Thirteen Conversations About One Thing	Jill Sprecher and Karen Sprecher
Tully	Hilary Birmingham and Matt Drake
rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" \|2003 {{cite web \|url=https://www.indiewire.com/2004/02/lost-in-translation-tops-independent-spirit-awards-station-agent-another-big-winner-79105/ \|title="Lost In Translation" Tops Independent Spirit Awards, "Station Agent" Another Big Winner \|last=Hernandez \|first=Eugene \|publisher=IndieWire \|date=February 28, 2004 \|access-date=February 28, 2004}} \| style="background:#B0C4DE" \|*Lost in Translation* \|\| style="background:#B0C4DE" \| Sofia Coppola
American Splendor	Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini
A Mighty Wind	Christopher Guest and Eugene Levy (...and the cast)
Pieces of April	Peter Hedges
Shattered Glass	Billy Ray
rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" \|2004 {{cite web \|url=https://www.indiewire.com/2005/02/sideways-wins-six-at-independent-spirit-awards-78389/ \|title=Sideways Wins Six at Independent Spirit Awards \|last=Hernandez \|first=Eugene \|publisher=IndieWire \|date=February 28, 2005 \|access-date=February 28, 2005}} \| style="background:#B0C4DE" \|*Sideways* \|\| style="background:#B0C4DE" \| Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor
Baadasssss!	Mario Van Peebles and Dennis Haggerty
Before Sunset	Richard Linklater, Ethan Hawke, and Julie Delpy
The Door in the Floor	Tod Williams
Kinsey	Bill Condon
rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" \|2005 {{cite web \|url=https://www.indiewire.com/2006/03/brokeback-capote-crash-transamerica-honored-with-spirit-awards-77064/ \|title="Brokeback," "Capote," "Crash," "Transamerica" Honored With Spirit Awards \|last=Hernandez \|first=Eugene \|publisher=IndieWire \|date=March 5, 2006 \|access-date=March 5, 2006}} \| style="background:#B0C4DE" \|*Capote* \|\| style="background:#B0C4DE" \| Dan Futterman
Nine Lives	Rodrigo García
The Squid and the Whale	Noah Baumbach
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada	Guillermo Arriaga
The War Within	Ayad Akhtar, Joseph Castelo, and Tom Glynn
rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" \|2006 {{cite web \|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/sunshine-brightest-star-at-spirit-130808/ \|title='Sunshine' brightest star at Spirit Awards \|last=Kilday \|first=Gregg \|work=The Hollywood Reporter \|date=February 25, 2007 \|access-date=February 25, 2007}} \| style="background:#B0C4DE" \|*Thank You for Smoking* \|\| style="background:#B0C4DE" \| Jason Reitman
Friends with Money	Nicole Holofcener
The Illusionist	Neil Burger
The Painted Veil	Ron Nyswaner
Sorry, Haters	Jeff Stanzler
rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" \|2007 {{cite web \|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/indie-spirits-juno-wins-best-105496/ \|title=Indie Spirits: 'Juno' wins best feature \|last=Kilday \|first=Gregg \|work=The Hollywood Reporter \|date=February 24, 2008 \|access-date=February 24, 2008}} \| style="background:#B0C4DE" \|*The Savages* \|\| style="background:#B0C4DE" \| Tamara Jenkins
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly	Ronald Harwood
Starting Out in the Evening	Fred Parnes and Andrew Wagner
Waitress	Adrienne Shelly
Year of the Dog	Mike White
rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" \|2008 {{cite web \|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/wrestler-tops-spirits-79652/ \|title='Wrestler' tops Spirits \|last=Kilday \|first=Gregg \|work=The Hollywood Reporter \|date=February 21, 2009 \|access-date=February 21, 2009}} \| style="background:#B0C4DE" \|*Vicky Cristina Barcelona* \|\| style="background:#B0C4DE" \| Woody Allen
Sangre de Mi Sangre	Christopher Zalla
Savage Grace	Howard A. Rodman
Sugar	Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck
Synecdoche, New York	Charlie Kaufman
rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" \|2009 {{cite web \|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/precious-tops-spirit-awards-21364/ \|title='Precious' tops Spirit Awards \|last=Kilday \|first=Gregg \|work=The Hollywood Reporter \|date=March 5, 2010 \|access-date=March 5, 2010}} \| style="background:#B0C4DE" \|*(500) Days of Summer* \|\| style="background:#B0C4DE" \| Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber
Adventureland	Greg Mottola
The Last Station	Michael Hoffman
The Messenger	Alessandro Camon and Oren Moverman
The Vicious Kind	Lee Toland Krieger

=2010s=

File:John Ridley in Nov 2013.jpg won for 12 Years a Slave.]]

File:Dan Gilroy 2014.jpg won for Nightcrawler.]]

File:Barry Jenkins (cropped).jpg won for Moonlight.]]

File:Greta Gerwig Berlinale 2018.jpg won for Lady Bird.]]

width="100"\|Year !width="450"\|Film !width="450"\|Recipient(s)
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rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" \|2010 {{cite web \|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/black-swan-takes-best-feature-161977/ \|title=2011 Independent Spirit Awards Winners List \|last=Fernandez \|first=Sofia M. \|work=The Hollywood Reporter \|date=February 26, 2011 \|access-date=February 26, 2011}} \| style="background:#B0C4DE" \|*The Kids Are All Right* \|\| style="background:#B0C4DE" \| Stuart Blumberg and Lisa Cholodenko
Life During Wartime	Todd Solondz
Please Give	Nicole Holofcener
Rabbit Hole	David Lindsay-Abaire
Winter's Bone	Debra Granik and Anne Rosellini
rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" \|2011 {{cite web \|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/indie-spirit-awards-winners-list-the-artist-294970/ \|title=Indie Spirit Awards 2012: Complete Winners List \|last=Fernandez \|first=Jay \|work=The Hollywood Reporter \|date=February 25, 2012 \|access-date=February 25, 2012}} \| style="background:#B0C4DE" \|*The Descendants* \|\| style="background:#B0C4DE" \| Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon, and Jim Rash
The Artist	Michel Hazanavicius
Beginners	Mike Mills
Footnote	Joseph Cedar
Win Win	Tom McCarthy
rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" \|2012 {{cite web \|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/independent-spirit-awards-2013-winners-423644/ \|title=Independent Spirit Awards 2013: Winners List \|author= \|work=The Hollywood Reporter \|date=February 23, 2013 \|access-date=February 23, 2013}} \| style="background:#B0C4DE" \|*Silver Linings Playbook* \|\| style="background:#B0C4DE" \| David O. Russell
Keep the Lights On	Ira Sachs and Mauricio Zacharias
Moonrise Kingdom	Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola
Ruby Sparks	Zoe Kazan
Seven Psychopaths	Martin McDonagh
rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" \|2013 {{cite web \|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/independent-spirit-awards-2013-winners-684633/ \|title=Independent Spirit Awards: '12 Years a Slave' Named Best Feature \|last=Nordyke \|first=Kimberly \|work=The Hollywood Reporter \|date=March 1, 2014 \|access-date=March 1, 2014}} \| style="background:#B0C4DE" \|*12 Years a Slave* \|\| style="background:#B0C4DE" \| John Ridley
Before Midnight	Richard Linklater, Ethan Hawke, and Julie Delpy
Blue Jasmine	Woody Allen
Enough Said	Nicole Holofcener
The Spectacular Now	Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber
rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" \|2014 {{cite web \|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/spirit-awards-2015-winners-complete-775905/ \|title=Spirit Awards 2015: The Complete Winners List \|author= \|work=The Hollywood Reporter \|date=February 21, 2015 \|access-date=February 21, 2015}} \| style="background:#B0C4DE" \|*Nightcrawler* \|\| style="background:#B0C4DE" \| Dan Gilroy
Big Eyes	Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski
Love Is Strange	Ira Sachs and Mauricio Zacharias
A Most Violent Year	J. C. Chandor
Only Lovers Left Alive	Jim Jarmusch
rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" \| 2015 {{cite web \|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lists/full-winners-list-2016-independent-863128/ \|title=Spirit Awards: The Complete Winners List \|author= \|work=The Hollywood Reporter \|date=February 27, 2016 \|access-date=February 27, 2016}} \| style="background:#B0C4DE" \|*Spotlight* \|\| style="background:#B0C4DE" \| Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer
Anomalisa	Charlie Kaufman
Bone Tomahawk	S. Craig Zahler
Carol	Phyllis Nagy
The End of the Tour	Donald Margulies
rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" \| 2016 {{cite web \|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lists/2017-independent-spirit-award-winners-complete-list-966489/ \|title=Spirit Awards: The Complete Winners List \|last=Nordyke \|first=Kimberly \|work=The Hollywood Reporter \|date=February 25, 2017 \|access-date=February 25, 2017}} \| style="background:#B0C4DE" \|*Moonlight* \|\| style="background:#B0C4DE" \| Barry Jenkins and Tarell Alvin McCraney
20th Century Women	Mike Mills
Hell or High Water	Taylor Sheridan
Little Men	Ira Sachs and Mauricio Zacharias
Manchester by the Sea	Kenneth Lonergan
rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" \| 2017 {{cite web \|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lists/spirit-award-winners-2018-updating-live-1067773/ \|title=Spirit Awards: Complete Winners List \|last=Nordyke \|first=Kimberly \|work=The Hollywood Reporter \|date=March 3, 2018 \|access-date=March 3, 2018}} \| style="background:#B0C4DE" \|*Lady Bird* \|\| style="background:#B0C4DE" \| Greta Gerwig
Beatriz at Dinner	Mike White
Get Out	Jordan Peele
The Lovers	Azazel Jacobs
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri	Martin McDonagh
rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" \| 2018 {{cite web \|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lists/film-independent-spirit-award-winners-2019-list-full-1181250/ \|title=Spirit Awards: 'If Beale Street Could Talk' Wins Best Feature; Complete Winners List \|last=Nordyke \|first=Kimberly \|work=The Hollywood Reporter \|date=February 23, 2019 \|access-date=February 23, 2019}} \| style="background:#B0C4DE" \|*Can You Ever Forgive Me?* \|\| style="background:#B0C4DE" \| Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty
Colette	Richard Glatzer, Rebecca Lenkiewicz, and Wash Westmoreland
First Reformed	Paul Schrader
Private Life	Tamara Jenkins
Sorry to Bother You	Boots Riley
rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" \| 2019 {{cite web \|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lists/spirit-award-winners-2020-updating-live-1275924/ \|title=Film Independent Spirit Awards: 'The Farewell' Takes Best Feature; Complete Winners List \|last1=Galuppo \|last2=Nordyke \|last3=Howard \|first1=Mia \|first2=Kimberly \|first3=Annie \|work=The Hollywood Reporter \|date=February 8, 2020 \|access-date=February 8, 2020}} \| style="background:#B0C4DE" \|*Marriage Story* \|\| style="background:#B0C4DE" \| Noah Baumbach
Clemency	Chinonye Chukwu
High Flying Bird	Tarell Alvin McCraney
To Dust	Jason Begue and Shawn Snyder
Uncut Gems	Ronald Bronstein, Josh Safdie and Benny Safdie

=2020s=

File:Emerald Fennell, 2023 (1).jpg won for Promising Young Woman.]]

width="100"\|Year !width="450"\|Film !width="450"\|Recipient(s)
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rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" \| 2020 {{cite web \|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/2021-independent-spirit-awards-winners-list-4171081/ \|title=Film Independent Spirit Awards: 'Nomadland' Wins Best Feature, Best Director for Chloe Zhao \|last1=Galuppo \|last2=Nordyke \|last3=Drury \|last4=Perez \|first1=Mia \|first2=Kimberly \|first3=Sharareh \|first4=Lexy \|work=The Hollywood Reporter \|date=April 22, 2021 \|access-date=April 22, 2021}} \| style="background:#B0C4DE" \|*Promising Young Woman* \|\| style="background:#B0C4DE" \| Emerald Fennell
Bad Education	Mike Makowsky
The Half of It	Alice Wu
Minari	Lee Isaac Chung
Never Rarely Sometimes Always	Eliza Hittman
rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" \|2021 {{cite web \|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/spirit-awards-2022-lost-daughter-1235105514/ \|title=Spirit Awards: 'The Lost Daughter,' 'Reservation Dogs' Win Big as Ukraine Fuels Onstage Remarks \|last=Galuppo \|first=Mia \|work=The Hollywood Reporter \|date=March 6, 2022 \|access-date=March 6, 2022}} \| style="background:#B0C4DE" \|*The Lost Daughter* \|\| style="background:#B0C4DE" \| Maggie Gyllenhaal
C'mon C'mon	Mike Mills
Swan Song	Todd Stephens
Together Together	Nikole Beckwith
Zola	Janicza Bravo and Jeremy O. Harris
rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" \|2022 {{cite web \|url=https://variety.com/2022/awards/awards/2023-independent-spirit-awards-nominations-1235438877/ \|title=Independent Spirit Awards Nominations: ‘Everything Everywhere’ Leads With Eight Noms \|first=Clayton\|last=Davis\|work=Variety \|date=November 22, 2022 \|access-date=November 22, 2022}} \| style="background:#B0C4DE;" \|*Everything Everywhere All at Once* \|style="background:#B0C4DE;" \|Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert
After Yang	Kogonada
Catherine Called Birdy	Lena Dunham
\| Tár	Todd Field
\|Women Talking	Sarah Polley
rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" \|2023 {{Cite web \|last=Lang \|first=Brent \|date=2023-12-05 \|title=Spirit Awards 2024 Nominations List: ‘Past Lives,’ ‘May December,’ ‘American Fiction’ Lead With 5 Noms Each \|url=https://variety.com/2023/film/awards/indie-spirit-awards-2024-nominations-film-tv-1235820700/ \|access-date=2024-02-22 \|website=Variety \|language=en-US}} \| style="background:#B0C4DE;" \|*American Fiction* \|style="background:#B0C4DE;" \| Cord Jefferson
Birth/Rebirth	Laura Moss and Brendan J. O'Brien
Bottoms	Emma Seligman and Rachel Sennott
The Holdovers	David Hemingson
Past Lives	Celine Song
rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" \| 2024 {{Cite web \|last=D'Alessandro \|first=Anthony \|date=2024-12-04 \|title=Spirit Awards Best Feature Nominees Include ‘Anora’, ‘I Saw The TV Glow’, ‘Nickel Boys’, ‘Sing Sing’ & ‘The Substance’ \|url=https://deadline.com/2024/12/spirit-awards-nominations-2025-list-1236193844/ \|access-date=2024-12-04 \|website=Deadline \|language=en-US}} \| style="background:#B0C4DE;" \|*A Real Pain* \|style="background:#B0C4DE;" \|Jesse Eisenberg
A Different Man \|Aaron Schimberg
Heretic \|Scott Beck and Bryan Woods
I Saw the TV Glow \|Jane Schoenbrun
My Old Ass \|Megan Park

References

Category:Screenwriting awards for film

Category:Awards established in 1985