Independent Spirit Best Film Winners

2019

 1

  The Farewell

2018

 2

  If Beale Street Could Talk

2017

 3

  Get Out

2016

 4

  Moonlight

2015

 5

  Spotlight

2014

 6

  Birdman

2013

 7

  12 Years a Slave

2012

 8

  Silver Linings Playbook

2011

 9

  The Artist

2010

 10

  Black Swan

2009

 11

  Precious

2008

 12

  The Wrestler

2007

 13

  Juno

2006

 14

  Little Miss Sunshine

2005

 15

  Brokeback Mountain

2004

 16

  Sideways

2003

 17

  Lost in Translation

2002

 18

  Far from Heaven

2000

 19

  Memento

2000

 20

  Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

1999

 21

  Election

1998

 22

  Gods and Monsters

1997

 23

  The Apostle

1996

 24

  Fargo

1995

 25

  Leaving Las Vegas

1994

 26

  Pulp Fiction

1993

 27

  Short Cuts

1992

 28

  The Player

1991

 29

  Rambling Rose

1990

 30

  The Grifters

1989

 31

  Sex, Lies, and Videotape

1988

 32

  Stand and Deliver

1986

 33

  River's Edge

1986

 34

  Platoon

1985

 35

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