Independent Spirit Award for Best First Screenplay | |
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Awarded for | Best First Screenplay |
Country | United States |
Presented by | Film Independent |
First awarded | 1994 |
Currently held by | Samy Burch and Alex Mechanik for May December (2023) |
Website | www |
The Independent Spirit Award for Best First Screenplay is one of the annual awards given by the Film Independent, a non-profit organization dedicated to independent film and independent filmmakers. It was first presented in 1994 with David O. Russell being the first recipient of the award for Spanking the Monkey , a film he also directed.
Year | Recipient(s) | Film |
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1994 [1] | David O. Russell | Spanking the Monkey |
Paul Zehrer | Blessing | |
Kevin Smith | Clerks | |
James Bosley | Fun | |
Tom Noonan | What Happened Was | |
1995 | Paul Auster | Smoke |
Harmony Korine | Kids | |
James Gray | Little Odessa | |
Steve McLean | Postcards from America | |
Kelly Reichardt | River of Grass | |
1996 [2] | Joseph Tropiano and Stanley Tucci | Big Night |
Suzan-Lori Parks | Girl 6 | |
Lisa Krueger | Manny & Lo | |
Michael Scott Myers | The Whole Wide World | |
Steve Buscemi | Trees Lounge | |
1997 | Neil LaBute | In the Company of Men |
Steven Schwartz | Critical Care | |
Paul Thomas Anderson | Hard Eight | |
Miguel Arteta | Star Maps | |
Daniel Harris | The Bible and Gun Club | |
1998 | Darren Aronofsky | Pi |
Lisa Cholodenko | High Art | |
Matthew Weiss | Niagara, Niagara | |
Tamara Jenkins | Slums of Beverly Hills | |
Sherman Alexie | Smoke Signals | |
1999 [3] | Charlie Kaufman | Being John Malkovich |
Kimberly Peirce and Andy Bienen | Boys Don't Cry | |
Anne Rapp | Cookie's Fortune | |
Tod Williams | The Adventures of Sebastian Cole | |
John Roach and Mary Sweeney | The Straight Story | |
Year | Recipient(s) | Film |
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2020 [19] | Andy Siara | Palm Springs |
Kitty Green | The Assistant | |
Noah Hutton | Lapsis | |
Channing Godfrey Peoples | Miss Juneteenth | |
James Sweeney | Straight Up | |
2021 [20] | Michael Sarnoski and Vanessa Block | Pig |
Sheldon D. Brown and Matthew Fifer | Cicada | |
Lyle Mitchell Corbine Jr. | Wild Indian | |
Shatara Michelle Ford | Test Pattern | |
Fran Kranz | Mass | |
2022 [21] | John Patton Ford | Emily the Criminal |
Joel Kim Booster | Fire Island | |
Jamie Dack and Audrey Findlay, story by Jamie Dack | Palm Trees and Power Lines | |
K.D. Dávila | Emergency | |
Sarah DeLappe, story by Kristen Roupenian | Bodies Bodies Bodies | |
2023 [22] | Samy Burch; story by Samy Burch and Alex Mechanik | May December |
Tomás Gómez Bustillo | Chronicles of a Wandering Saint | |
Laurel Parmet | The Starling Girl | |
Noah Galvin, Molly Gordon, Nick Lieberman, and Ben Platt | Theater Camp | |
Alejandro Rojas and Juan Sebastián Vásquez | Upon Entry |
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