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

1995
*David O. Russell for "Spanking the Monkey" (winner)
*Paul Zehrer for "Blessing"
*Kevin Smith for "Clerks"
*James Bosley for "Fun"
*Tom Noonan for "What Happened Was"1996
*Paul Auster for "Smoke" (winner)
*Harmony Korine for "Kids"
*James Gray for "Little Odessa"
*Steve McLean for "Postcards from America"
*Kelly Reichardt for "River of Grass"1997
*Joseph Tropiano and Stanley Tucci for "Big Night" (winner)
*Suzan-Lori Parks for "Girl 6"
*Lisa Krueger for "Manny & Lo"
*Michael Scott Myers for "The Whole Wide World"
*Steve Buscemi for "Trees Lounge"1998
*Neil LaBute for "In the Company of Men" (winner)
*Steven Schwartz for "Critical Care"
*Paul Thomas Anderson for "Hard Eight"
*Miguel Arteta for "Star Maps"
*Daniel Harris for "The Bible and Gun Club"1999
*Darren Aronofsky for "Pi" (winner)
*Lisa Cholodenko for "High Art"
*Matthew Weiss for "Niagara, Niagara"
*Tamara Jenkins for "Slums of Beverly Hills"
*Sherman Alexie for "Smoke Signals"2000
*Charlie Kaufman for "Being John Malkovich" (winner)
*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"2001
*Gina Prince-Bythewood for "Love & Basketball" (winner)
*Ben Younger for "Boiler Room"
*David Gordon Green for "George Washington"
*Jordan Walker-Pearlman for "The Visit"
*Ross Klavan and Michael McGruther for "Tigerland"2002
*Daniel Clowes and Terry Zwigoff for "Ghost World" (winner)
*Richard Kelly for "Donnie Darko"
*John Cameron Mitchell for "Hedwig and the Angry Inch"
*Stephen Ryder and Gerald Cuesta for "L.I.E."
*Jennifer Jason Leigh and Alan Cumming for "The Anniversary Party"2003
*Erin Cressida Wilson for "Secretary" (winner)
*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"2004
*Thomas McCarthy for "The Station Agent" (winner)
*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"2005
*Joshua Marston for "Maria Full of Grace" (winner)
*Rodney Evans for "Brother to Brother"
*Zach Braff for "Garden State"
*Shane Carruth for "Primer"
*Mario de la Vega for "Robbing Peter"2006
*Duncan Tucker for "Transamerica" (winner)
*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"2007
*Michael Arndt for "Little Miss Sunshine" (winner)
*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 Dukic for ""2008
*Diablo Cody for "Juno" (winner)
*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"

External links

* [http://filmindependent.org/spiritawards/ Official website]