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1995 Film Independent Spirit Awards - Best First Feature WinnerSpanking the MonkeyDavid O. RussellRaymond Aibelli is a promising medical student ready to begin a prestigious summer internship. But Susan, his mother, is immobilized by a broken leg, and his father Tom, a travelling ...Amazon1995 Film Independent Spirit Awards - Best First Feature NomineesClean, ShavenLodge KerriganAmazonClerksKevin SmithAmazonI Like It Like ThatDarnell MartinAmazonSutureDavid SiegelAmazon

1996 Film Independent Spirit Awards - Best First Feature WinnerThe Brothers McMullenEdward BurnsThree Irish Catholic brothers from Long Island struggle to deal with love, marriage, and infidelity.Amazon1996 Film Independent Spirit Awards - Best First Feature NomineesKidsLarry ClarkAmazonLittle OdessaJames GrayAmazonPicture BrideKayo HattaAmazonRiver of GrassKelly ReichardtAmazon

1997 Film Independent Spirit Awards - Best First Feature WinnerSling BladeBilly Bob ThorntonKarl Childers, a simple man hospitalized since his childhood murder of his mother and her lover, is released to start a new life in a small town.Amazon1997 Film Independent Spirit Awards - Best First Feature NomineesBig NightCampbell ScottAmazonI Shot Andy WarholMary HarronAmazonManny & LoLisa KruegerAmazonTrees LoungeSteve BuscemiAmazon

1998 Film Independent Spirit Awards - Best First Feature WinnerEve's BayouKasi LemmonsAfter a daughter witnesses her father having an affair, she begins a chain reaction that could tear her family apart.Amazon1998 Film Independent Spirit Awards - Best First Feature NomineesHard EightPaul Thomas AndersonAmazonIn the Company of MenNeil LaButeAmazonStar MapsMiguel ArtetaAmazonThe Bible and Gun ClubDaniel J. HarrisAmazon

1999 Film Independent Spirit Awards - Best First Feature WinnerThe Opposite of SexDon RoosA 16-year-old girl visits her gay half-brother and ends up seducing his boyfriend, thus wreaking havoc on all of their lives.Amazon1999 Film Independent Spirit Awards - Best First Feature NomineesBuffalo '66Vincent GalloAmazonHigh ArtLisa CholodenkoAmazonPiDarren AronofskyAmazonSlums of Beverly HillsTamara JenkinsAmazon

2000 Film Independent Spirit Awards - Best First Feature WinnerBeing John MalkovichSpike JonzeA puppeteer discovers a portal that leads literally into the head of movie star John Malkovich.AmazonThe Blair Witch ProjectDaniel MyrickThree film students vanish after traveling into a Maryland forest to film a documentary on the local Blair Witch legend, leaving only their footage behind.Amazon2000 Film Independent Spirit Awards - Best First Feature NomineesBoys Don't CryKimberly PeirceAmazonCompensationZeinabu irene DavisAmazonJudy BerlinEric MendelsohnAmazonLa Ciudad (The City)David RikerAmazonThree SeasonsTony BuiAmazonTreasure IslandScott KingAmazonTwin Falls IdahoMichael PolishAmazonXiu Xiu: The Sent-Down GirlJoan ChenAmazon

2001 Film Independent Spirit Awards - Best First Feature WinnerYou Can Count on MeKenneth LonerganA single mother's life is thrown into turmoil after her struggling, rarely seen younger brother returns to town.Amazon2001 Film Independent Spirit Awards - Best First Feature NomineesBoiler RoomBen YoungerAmazonGirlfightKaryn KusamaAmazonLove & BasketballGina Prince-BythewoodAmazonThe VisitJordan Walker-PearlmanAmazon

2002 Film Independent Spirit Awards - Best First Feature WinnerIn the BedroomTodd FieldA New England couple's college-aged son dates an older woman who has two small children and an unwelcome ex-husband.Amazon2002 Film Independent Spirit Awards - Best First Feature NomineesDonnie DarkoRichard KellyAmazonGhost WorldTerry ZwigoffAmazonThe Anniversary PartyJennifer Jason LeighAmazonThe BelieverHenry BeanAmazon

2003 Film Independent Spirit Awards - Best First Feature WinnerThe Dangerous Lives of Altar BoysPeter CareA group of Catholic school friends, after being caught drawing an obscene comic book, plan a heist that will outdo their previous prank and make them local legends.Amazon2003 Film Independent Spirit Awards - Best First Feature NomineesInterview with the AssassinNeil BurgerAmazonManitoEric EasonAmazonPaid in FullCharles Stone IIIAmazonRoger DodgerDylan KiddAmazon

2004 Film Independent Spirit Awards - Best First Feature WinnerMonsterPatty JenkinsBased on the life of Aileen Wuornos, a Daytona Beach prostitute who became a serial killer.Amazon2004 Film Independent Spirit Awards - Best First Feature NomineesBomb the SystemAdam Bhala LoughAmazonHouse of Sand and FogVadim PerelmanAmazonQuattro NozaJoey CurtisAmazonThirteenCatherine HardwickeAmazon