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2019 Film Independent Spirit Awards - Best First Screenplay WinnerEighth GradeBo BurnhamAn introverted teenage girl tries to survive the last week of her disastrous eighth grade year before leaving to start high school.Amazon2019 Film Independent Spirit Awards - Best First Screenplay NomineesBlameQuinn ShephardAmazonNancyChristina ChoeAmazonThe TaleJennifer FoxAmazonThoroughbredsCory FinleyAmazon

2020 Film Independent Spirit Awards - Best First Screenplay WinnerSee You YesterdayFredrica BaileyTwo Brooklyn teenage prodigies, C.J. Walker and Sebastian Thomas, build makeshift time machines to save C.J.'s brother, Calvin, from being wrongfully killed by a police officer.Amazon2020 Film Independent Spirit Awards - Best First Screenplay NomineesBlow the Man DownDanielle KrudyAmazonDrivewaysHannah BosAmazonGreener GrassJocelyn DeBoerAmazonThe Vast of NightJames MontagueAmazon

1987 Film Independent Spirit Awards - Best First Feature WinnerShe's Gotta Have ItSpike LeeStory of a woman and her three lovers.Amazon1987 Film Independent Spirit Awards - Best First Feature NomineesBelizaire the CajunGlen PitreAmazonHoosiersDavid AnspaughAmazonThe Great Wall Is a Great WallPeter WangAmazonTrue StoriesDavid ByrneAmazon

1988 Film Independent Spirit Awards - Best First Feature WinnerDirty DancingEmile ArdolinoSpending the summer at a Catskills resort with her family, Frances "Baby" Houseman falls in love with the camp's dance instructor, Johnny Castle.Amazon1988 Film Independent Spirit Awards - Best First Feature NomineesAnnaYurek BogayeviczAmazonHollywood ShuffleRobert TownsendAmazonSiestaMary LambertAmazonWaiting for the MoonJill GodmilowAmazon

1989 Film Independent Spirit Awards - Best First Feature WinnerMystic PizzaDonald PetrieThree teenage girls come of age while working at a pizza parlor in the Connecticut town of Mystic.Amazon1989 Film Independent Spirit Awards - Best First Feature NomineesBorder RadioAllison AndersAmazonThe Chocolate WarKeith GordonAmazonThe Prince of PennsylvaniaRon NyswanerAmazonThe WashMichael Toshiyuki UnoAmazon

1990 Film Independent Spirit Awards - Best First Feature WinnerHeathersMichael LehmannIn order to get out of the snobby clique that is destroying her good-girl reputation, an intelligent teen teams up with a dark sociopath in a plot to kill the cool kids.Amazon1990 Film Independent Spirit Awards - Best First Feature Nominees84C MoPicPatrick Sheane DuncanAmazonPowwow HighwayJonathan WacksAmazonSidewalk StoriesCharles LaneAmazonTalking to StrangersRob TregenzaAmazon

1991 Film Independent Spirit Awards - Best First Feature WinnerMetropolitanWhit StillmanA group of young upper-class Manhattanites are blithely passing through the gala debutante season, when an unusual outsider joins them and stirs them up.Amazon1991 Film Independent Spirit Awards - Best First Feature NomineesHouse PartyReginald HudlinAmazonLightning Over Braddock: A Rustbowl FantasyTony BubaAmazonThe Natural History of Parking LotsEverett LewisAmazonTwisterMichael AlmereydaAmazon

1992 Film Independent Spirit Awards - Best First Feature WinnerStraight Out of BrooklynMatty RichA young man living in poverty makes a plan to rob a drug dealer and change the life of his family.Amazon1992 Film Independent Spirit Awards - Best First Feature NomineesChameleon StreetWendell B. Harris Jr.AmazonPoisonTodd HaynesAmazonSlackerRichard LinklaterAmazonThe RaptureMichael TolkinAmazon

1993 Film Independent Spirit Awards - Best First Feature WinnerThe WaterdanceNeal JimenezA film about struggling to deal with paralysis. Author Joel Garcia breaks his neck while hiking, and finds himself in a rehabilitation centre with Raymond, an exaggerating ladies' man, and ...Amazon1993 Film Independent Spirit Awards - Best First Feature NomineesLaws of GravityNick GomezAmazonMy New GunStacy CochranAmazonReservoir DogsQuentin TarantinoAmazonSwoonTom KalinAmazon

1994 Film Independent Spirit Awards - Best First Feature WinnerEl mariachiRobert RodriguezA traveling mariachi is mistaken for a murderous criminal and must hide from a gang bent on killing him.Amazon1994 Film Independent Spirit Awards - Best First Feature NomineesAmerican HeartMartin BellAmazonCombination PlatterTony ChanAmazonMacJohn TurturroAmazonMenace II SocietyAlbert HughesAmazon