Independent Spirit Award per la miglior sceneggiatura

L'Independent Spirit Award per la miglior sceneggiatura (Independent Spirit Award for Best Screenplay) è un premio cinematografico statunitense assegnato annualmente dal 1986.^[1]

Vincitori e candidati

I vincitori sono indicati in grassetto, a seguire gli altri candidati.

Anni 1980

• 1986: Horton Foote - In viaggio verso Bountiful (The Trip to Bountiful)
  • Joseph Minion - Fuori orario (After Hours)
  • Joel Coen e Ethan Coen - Blood Simple - Sangue facile (Blood Simple.)
  • Tom Cole - La prima volta (Smooth Talk)
• 1987: Oliver Stone - Platoon
  • David Lynch - Velluto blu (Blue Velvet)
  • Peter Wang e Shirley Sun - A Great Wall
  • Oliver Stone e Rick Boyle - Salvador
  • Raynold Gideon e Bruce A. Evans - Stand by Me - Ricordo di un'estate (Stand by Me)
• 1988: Neal Jimenez - I ragazzi del fiume ( River's Edge)
  • Agnieszka Holland - Anna
  • Tony Huston - The Dead - Gente di Dublino (The Dead)
  • John Sayles - Matewan
  • Spalding Gray - Swimming to Cambodia
• 1989: Ramón Menéndez - La forza della volontà (Stand and Deliver)
  • John Patrick Shanley - Dentro la grande mela (Five Corners)
  • John Waters - Grasso è bello (Hairspray)
  • John Bradshaw e Alan Rudolph - Moderns (The Moderns)
  • David Burton Morris, Chris Mulkey, John Jenkins e Karen Landry - Patti Rocks

Anni 1990

• 1990: Gus Van Sant e Daniel Yost - Drugstore Cowboy
  • Patrick Sheane Duncan - 84C MoPic
  • Daniel Waters - Schegge di follia (Heathers)
  • Steve De Jarnatt - Soluzione finale (Miracle Mile)
  • Jim Jarmusch - Mystery Train - Martedì notte a Memphis (Mystery Train)
• 1991: Charles Burnett - To Sleep with Anger
  • John McNaughton e Richard Fire - Henry pioggia di sangue (Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer)
  • Whit Stillman - Metropolitan
  • Michael Roemer - Tutti contro Harry (The Plot Against Harry)
  • Allan Moyle - Pump up the volume - Alza il volume (Pump Up the Volume)
• 1992: Gus Van Sant - Belli e dannati (My Own Private Idaho)
  • Joseph B. Vasquez - I migliori del Bronx (Hangin' with the Homeboys)
  • Lem Dobbs - Delitti e segreti ( Kafka)
  • Floyd Byars e Fritjof Capra - Mindwalk
  • Michael Tolkin - Sacrificio fatale (The Rapture)
• 1993: Neal Jimenez - Vita di cristallo (The Waterdance)
  • Allison Anders - Gas, Food Lodging
  • Paul Schrader - Lo spacciatore (Light Sleeper)
  • Keith Gordon - Vicino alla fine (A Midnight Clear)
  • Billy Bob Thornton - Qualcuno sta per morire (One False Move)
• 1994: Robert Altman e Frank Barhydt - America oggi (Short Cuts)
  • Edwin Baker e Tony Chan - Combination Platter
  • Nancy Savoca e Richard Guay - Verso il paradiso (Household Saints)
  • Ang Lee, Neil Peng e James Schamus - Il banchetto di nozze (Hsi yen)
  • Víctor Núñez - Ruby in Paradiso (Ruby in Paradise)
• 1995: Quentin Tarantino e Roger Avary - Pulp Fiction
  • Woody Allen e Douglas McGrath - Pallottole su Broadway (Bullets Over Broadway)
  • Randy Sue Coburn e Alan Rudolph - Mrs. Parker e il circolo vizioso (Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle)
  • John Dahl e Rick Dahl - Red Rock West
  • Hui-Ling Wang, James Schamus e Ang Lee - Mangiare bere uomo donna (Yin shi nan nu)
• 1996: Christopher McQuarrie - I soliti sospetti (The Usual Suspects)
  • Mike Figgis - Via da Las Vegas (Leaving Las Vegas)
  • Tom DiCillo - Si gira a Manhattan (Living in Oblivion)
  • Todd Haynes - Safe
  • John Sayles - Il segreto dell'isola di Roan (The Secret of Roan Inish)
• 1997: Joel Coen ed Ethan Coen - Fargo
  • Jim Jarmusch - Dead Man
  • David O. Russell - Amori e disastri (Flirting with Disaster)
  • Nicholas St. John - Fratelli (The Funeral)
  • John Sayles - Stella solitaria (Lone Star)
• 1998: Kevin Smith - In cerca di Amy (Chasing Amy)
  • Robert Duvall - L'apostolo (The Apostle)
  • Paul Schrader - Touch
  • Victor Nuñez - L'oro di Ulisse (Ulee's Gold)
  • Christopher Guest e Eugene Levy - Sognando Broadway (Waiting for Guffman)
• 1999: Don Roos - The Opposite of Sex - L'esatto contrario del sesso (The Opposite of Sex)
  • Paul Schrader - Affliction
  • Frank Military - Blind Faith
  • Bill Condon - Demoni e dei (Gods and Monsters)
  • David Mamet - Il prigioniero (The Spanish Prisoner)

Anni 2000

• 2000: Alexander Payne e Jim Taylor - Election
  • Kevin Smith - Dogma
  • Audrey Wells - Guinevere
  • Lem Dobbs - L'inglese (The Limey)
  • James Merendino - Fuori di cresta (SLC Punk!)
• 2001: Kenneth Lonergan - Conta su di me (You Can Count on Me)
  • Mike White - Chuck & Buck
  • Valerie Breiman - Love & Sex
  • Raymond De Felitta - Two Family House
  • Robert Dillon - Waking the Dead
• 2002: Christopher Nolan - Memento
  • Henry Bean - The Believer
  • Robert Festinger e Todd Field - In the Bedroom
  • Milo Addica e Will Rokos - Monster's Ball - L'ombra della vita (Monster's Ball), regia di Marc Forster
  • Richard Linklater - Waking Life
• 2003: Mike White - The Good Girl
  • Nicole Holofcener - Lovely & Amazing
  • Dylan Kidd - Roger Dodger
  • Jill Sprecher e Karen Sprecher - Tredici variazioni sul tema (Thirteen Conversations About One Thing)
  • Hilary Birmingham e Matt Drake - Tully
• 2004: Sofia Coppola - Lost in Translation - L'amore tradotto (Lost in Translation)
  • Shari Springer Berman e Robert Pulcini - American Splendor
  • Christopher Guest ed Eugene Levy (e il resto del cast del film) - A Mighty Wind - Amici per la musica (A Mighty Wind)
  • Peter Hedges - Schegge di April (Pieces of April)
  • Billy Ray - L'inventore di favole (Shattered Glass)
• 2005: Alexander Payne e Jim Taylor - Sideways - In viaggio con Jack (Sideways)
  • Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy ed Ethan Hawke - Before Sunset - Prima del tramonto (Before Sunset)
  • Tod Williams - The Door in the Floor
  • Mario Van Peebles e Dennis Haggerty - How to Get the Man's Foot Outta Your Ass
  • Bill Condon - Kinsey
• 2006: Dan Futterman - Truman Capote - A sangue freddo (Capote)
  • Rodrigo García - 9 vite da donna (Nine Lives)
  • Noah Baumbach - Il calamaro e la balena (The Squid and the Whale)
  • Guillermo Arriaga - Le tre sepolture (The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada)
  • Ayad Akhtar, Joseph Castelo e Tom Glynn - The War Within
• 2007: Jason Reitman - Thank You for Smoking
  • Nicole Holofcener - Friends with Money
  • Neil Burger - The Illusionist - L'illusionista (The Illusionist)
  • Ron Nyswaner - Il velo dipinto (The Painted Veil)
  • Jeff Stanzler - Sorry, Haters
• 2008: Tamara Jenkins - La famiglia Savage (The Savages)
  • Ronald Harwood - Lo scafandro e la farfalla (Le scaphandre et le papillon)
  • Fred Parnes e Andrew Wagner - Starting Out in the Evening
  • Adrienne Shelly - Waitress - Ricette d'amore (Waitress)
  • Mike White - Year of the Dog
• 2009: Woody Allen – Vicky Cristina Barcelona
  • Anna Boden e Ryan Fleck – Sugar
  • Charlie Kaufman – Synecdoche, New York
  • Howard A Rodman – Savage Grace
  • Christopher Zalla – Sangre de mi sangre

Anni 2010

• 2010: Scott Neustadter e Michael H. Weber - (500) giorni insieme ((500) Days of Summer)
  • Greg Mottola - Adventureland
  • Michael Hoffman - The Last Station
  • Alessandro Camon e Oren Moverman - Oltre le regole - The Messenger (The Messenger)
  • Lee Toland Krieger - The Vicious Kind
• 2011: Stuart Blumberg e Lisa Cholodenko - I ragazzi stanno bene (The Kids Are All Right)
  • Debra Granik e Anne Rosellini - Un gelido inverno (Winter's Bone)
  • Nicole Holofcener - Please Give
  • David Lindsay-Abaire - Rabbit Hole
  • Todd Solondz - Perdona e dimentica (Life During Wartime)
• 2012: Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon e Jim Rash - Paradiso amaro (The Descendants)
  • Joseph Cedar - Hearat Shulayim
  • Michel Hazanavicius - The Artist
  • Thomas McCarthy - Mosse vincenti (Win Win)
  • Mike Mills - Beginners
• 2013: David O. Russell - Il lato positivo - Silver Linings Playbook (Silver Linings Playbook)
  • Wes Anderson e Roman Coppola - Moonrise Kingdom - Una fuga d'amore (Moonrise Kingdom)
  • Zoe Kazan - Ruby Sparks
  • Martin McDonagh - 7 psicopatici (Seven Psychopaths)
  • Ira Sachs - Keep the Lights On
• 2014: John Ridley - 12 anni schiavo (12 Years a Slave)
  • Woody Allen - Blue Jasmine
  • Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke e Richard Linklater - Before Midnight
  • Nicole Holofcener - Enough Said
  • Scott Neustadter e Michael H. Weber - The Spectacular Now
• 2015: Dan Gilroy - Lo sciacallo - Nightcrawler (Nightcrawler)
  • Scott Alexander e Larry Karaszewski - Big Eyes
  • J. C. Chandor - 1981: Indagine a New York (A Most Violent Year)
  • Jim Jarmusch - Solo gli amanti sopravvivono (Only Lovers Left Alive)
  • Ira Sachs e Mauricio Zacharias - I toni dell'amore - Love Is Strange (Love Is Strange)
• 2016: Tom McCarthy e Josh Singer – Il caso Spotlight (Spotlight)
  • Charlie Kaufman – Anomalisa
  • Donald Margulies – The End of the Tour - Un viaggio con David Foster Wallace (The End of the Tour)
  • Phyllis Nagy – Carol
  • S. Craig Zahler – Bone Tomahawk

• 2017: Barry Jenkins – Moonlight
  • Kenneth Lonergan – Manchester by the Sea
  • Mike Mills – Le donne della mia vita (20th Century Women)
  • Ira Sachs e Mauricio Zacharias – Little Men
  • Taylor Sheridan – Hell or High Water

• 2018: Greta Gerwig - Lady Bird
  • Azazel Jacobs - The Lovers
  • Martin McDonagh - Tre manifesti a Ebbing, Missouri (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri)
  • Jordan Peele - Scappa - Get Out (Get Out)
  • Mike White - Beatriz at Dinner

• 2019: Nicole Holofcener, Jeff Whitty - Copia originale (Can You Ever Forgive Me?)
  • Wash Westmoreland, Richard Glatzer, Rebecca Lenkiewicz - Colette
  • Tamara Jenkins - Private Life
  • Boots Riley - Sorry to Bother You
  • Paul Schrader - First Reformed - La creazione a rischio (First Reformed)

Anni 2020

• 2020: Noah Baumbach - Storia di un matrimonio (Marriage Story)
  • Jason Begue e Shawn Snyder - To Dust
  • Ronald Bronstein, Josh Safdie e Benny Safdie - Diamanti grezzi (Uncut Gems)
  • Chinonye Chukwu - Clemency
  • Tarell Alvin McCraney - High Flying Bird
• 2021^[2]: Emerald Fennell - Una donna promettente (Promising Young Woman)
  • Lee Isaac Chung - Minari
  • Eliza Hittman - Mai raramente a volte sempre (Never Rarely Sometimes Always)
  • Mike Makowsky - Bad Education
  • Alice Wu - L'altra metà (The Half of It)
• 2022: Maggie Gyllenhaal - La figlia oscura (The Lost Daughter)
  • Nikole Beckwith - Insieme per davvero (Together Together)
  • Janicza Bravo e Jeremy O. Harris - Zola
  • Mike Mills - C'mon C'mon
  • Todd Stephens - Swan Song