FISA – Best First Feature
List of winners and nominees for the Film Independent Spirit Awards - Best First Feature!
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Sorry to Bother You
Boots Riley
Ingrid Goes West
Matt Spicer
The Diary of a Teenage Girl
Marielle Heller
Fruitvale Station
Ryan Coogler
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Stephen Chbosky
Synecdoche, New York
Charlie Kaufman
The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys
Peter Care
In the Bedroom
Todd Field
You Can Count on Me
Kenneth Lonergan
Being John Malkovich
Spike Jonze
The Blair Witch Project
Daniel Myrick
The Opposite of Sex
Don Roos
Sling Blade
Billy Bob Thornton
The Brothers McMullen
Edward Burns
Spanking the Monkey
David O. Russell
El mariachi
Robert Rodriguez
The Waterdance
Neal Jimenez
Straight Out of Brooklyn
Matty Rich
Metropolitan
Whit Stillman
Mystic Pizza
Donald Petrie
Dirty Dancing
Emile Ardolino
She’s Gotta Have It
Spike Lee