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2005 Film Independent Spirit Awards - Best Feature WinnerSidewaysMichael LondonTwo men reaching middle age with not much to show but disappointment embark on a week-long road trip through California's wine country, just as one is about to take a trip down the aisle.Amazon2005 Film Independent Spirit Awards - Best Feature NomineesBaadasssss!Mario Van PeeblesAmazonKinseyGail MutruxAmazonMaria Full of GracePaul MezeyAmazonPrimerShane CarruthAmazon

2006 Film Independent Spirit Awards - Best Feature WinnerBrokeback MountainJames SchamusThe story of a forbidden and secretive relationship between two cowboys, and their lives over the years.Amazon2006 Film Independent Spirit Awards - Best Feature NomineesCapoteCaroline BaronAmazonGood Night, and Good Luck.Grant HeslovAmazonThe Squid and the WhaleWes AndersonAmazonThree BurialsMichael FitzgeraldAmazon

2007 Film Independent Spirit Awards - Best Feature WinnerLittle Miss SunshineMarc TurtletaubA family determined to get their young daughter into the finals of a beauty pageant take a cross-country trip in their VW bus.Amazon2007 Film Independent Spirit Awards - Best Feature NomineesAmerican GunTed KroeberAmazonHalf NelsonJamie PatricofAmazonPan's LabyrinthBertha NavarroAmazonThe Dead GirlTom RosenbergAmazon

2008 Film Independent Spirit Awards - Best Feature WinnerJunoLianne HalfonFaced with an unplanned pregnancy, an offbeat young woman makes an unusual decision regarding her unborn child.Amazon2008 Film Independent Spirit Awards - Best Feature NomineesA Mighty HeartDede GardnerAmazonI'm Not ThereChristine VachonAmazonParanoid ParkNeil KoppAmazonThe Diving Bell and the ButterflyKathleen KennedyAmazon

2009 Film Independent Spirit Awards - Best Feature WinnerThe WrestlerDarren AronofskyA faded professional wrestler must retire, but finds his quest for a new life outside the ring a dispiriting struggle.Amazon2009 Film Independent Spirit Awards - Best Feature NomineesBallastLance HammerAmazonFrozen RiverChip HourihanAmazonRachel Getting MarriedNeda ArmianAmazonWendy and LucyLarry FessendenAmazon

2010 Film Independent Spirit Awards - Best Feature WinnerPreciousLee DanielsIn New York City's Harlem circa 1987, an overweight, abused, illiterate teen who is pregnant with her second child is invited to enroll in an alternative school in hopes that her life can head in a new direction.Amazon2010 Film Independent Spirit Awards - Best Feature Nominees500 Days of SummerJessica TuchinskyAmazonAmreekaChristina PiovesanAmazonSin nombreAmy KaufmanAmazonThe Last StationChris CurlingAmazon

2011 Film Independent Spirit Awards - Best Feature WinnerBlack SwanMike MedavoyA committed dancer struggles to maintain her sanity after winning the lead role in a production of Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake".Amazon2011 Film Independent Spirit Awards - Best Feature Nominees127 HoursAmazonGreenbergAmazonThe Kids Are All RightAmazonWinter's BoneAmazon

2012 Film Independent Spirit Awards - Best Feature WinnerThe ArtistThomas LangmannAn egomaniacal film star develops a relationship with a young dancer against the backdrop of Hollywood's silent era.Amazon2012 Film Independent Spirit Awards - Best Feature Nominees50/50Evan GoldbergAmazonBeginnersMiranda de PencierAmazonDriveMichel LitvakAmazonTake ShelterTyler DavidsonAmazonThe DescendantsJim BurkeAmazon

2013 Film Independent Spirit Awards - Best Feature WinnerSilver Linings PlaybookBruce CohenAfter a stint in a mental institution, former teacher Pat Solitano moves back in with his parents and tries to reconcile with his ex-wife. Things get more challenging when Pat meets Tiffany, a mysterious girl with problems of her own.Amazon2013 Film Independent Spirit Awards - Best Feature NomineesBeasts of the Southern WildMichael GottwaldAmazonBernieRichard LinklaterAmazonKeep the Lights OnMarie Therese GuirgisAmazonMoonrise KingdomWes AndersonAmazon

2014 Film Independent Spirit Awards - Best Feature Winner12 Years a SlaveDede GardnerIn the antebellum United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery.Amazon2014 Film Independent Spirit Awards - Best Feature NomineesAll Is LostNeal DodsonAmazonFrances HaNoah BaumbachAmazonInside Llewyn DavisEthan CoenAmazonNebraskaAlbert BergerAmazon