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2020 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Robert Altman Award
![Marriage Story Noah Baumbach](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/marriage-story-noah-baumbach-image.jpg)
Marriage Story
Noah Baumbach
2019 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Robert Altman Award
![Suspiria Luca Guadagnino](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/suspiria-luca-guadagnino-image.jpg)
Suspiria
Luca Guadagnino
2018 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Robert Altman Award
![Mudbound Dee Rees](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/mudbound-dee-rees-image.jpg)
Mudbound
Dee Rees
2017 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Robert Altman Award
![Moonlight Barry Jenkins](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/moonlight-image.jpg)
Moonlight
Barry Jenkins
2016 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Robert Altman Award
![Spotlight Tom McCarthy](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/spotlight-tom-mccarthy-image.jpg)
Spotlight
Tom McCarthy
2015 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Robert Altman Award
![Inherent Vice Paul Thomas Anderson](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/inherent-vice-paul-thomas-anderson-image.jpg)
Inherent Vice
Paul Thomas Anderson
2014 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Robert Altman Award
![Mud Jeff Nichols](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/mud-jeff-nichols-image.jpg)
Mud
Jeff Nichols
2013 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Robert Altman Award
![Starlet Julia Kim](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/starlet-sean-baker-image.jpg)
Starlet
Julia Kim
2012 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Robert Altman Award
![Margin Call J.C. Chandor](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/margin-call-j.c.-chandor-image.jpg)
Margin Call
J.C. Chandor
2011 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Robert Altman Award
![Please Give Catherine Keener](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/please-give-nicole-holofcener-image.jpg)
Please Give
Catherine Keener
2010 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Robert Altman Award
![A Serious Man Ethan Coen](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/a-serious-man-ethan-coen-joel-coen-image.jpg)
A Serious Man
Ethan Coen
2009 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Robert Altman Award
![Synecdoche, New York Charlie Kaufman](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/synecdoche-new-york-charlie-kaufman-image.jpg)
Synecdoche, New York
Charlie Kaufman
2008 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Robert Altman Award
![I'm Not There Todd Haynes](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/im-not-there-todd-haynes-image.jpg)