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- Winners and nominees 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s
The Film Independent's Spirit Award for Best Director is one of the annual Independent Spirit Awards. Winners and nominees 1980s - 1985: Joel Coen – Blood Simple / Martin Scorsese – After Hours
- Joyce Chopra – Smooth Talk
- Peter Masterson – The Trip to Bountiful
- 1986: Oliver Stone – Platoon
- Jim Jarmusch – Down by Law
- David Lynch – Blue Velvet
- Rob Reiner – Stand by Me
- Oliver Stone – Salvador
- 1987: John Huston – The Dead
- Jonathan Demme – Swimming to Cambodia
- Tim Hunter – River's Edge
- Jim McBride – The Big Easy
- John Sayles – Matewan
- 1988: Ramon Menendez – Stand and Deliver
- David Burton Morris – Patti Rocks
- Errol Morris – The Thin Blue Line
- Oliver Stone – Talk Radio
- John Waters – Hairspray
- 1989: Steven Soderbergh – Sex, Lies, and Videotape
- Jim Jarmusch – Mystery Train
- Charles Lane – Sidewalk Stories
- Nancy Savoca – True Love
- Gus Van Sant – Drugstore Cowboy
1990s - 1990: Charles Burnett – To Sleep with Anger
- Reginald Hudlin – House Party
- John McNaughton – Portrait of a Serial Killer
- Allan Moyle – Pump Up the Volume
- Michael Roemer – The Plot Against Harry
- 1991: Martha Coolidge – Rambling Rose
- Todd Haynes – Poison
- Richard Linklater – Slacker
- Gus Van Sant – My Own Private Idaho
- Joseph Vásquez – Hangin' with the Homeboys
- 1992: Carl Franklin – One False Move
- Allison Anders – Gas Food Lodging
- Abel Ferrara – Bad Lieutenant
- Tom Kalin – Swoon
- Quentin Tarantino – Reservoir Dogs
- 1993: Robert Altman – Short Cuts
- Ang Lee – The Wedding Banquet
- Victor Nuñez – Ruby in Paradise
- Robert Rodriguez – El Mariachi
- John Turturro – Mac
- 1994: Quentin Tarantino – Pulp Fiction
- John Dahl – Red Rock West
- Ang Lee – Eat Drink Man Woman
- Roman Polanski – Death and the Maiden
- Alan Rudolph – Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
- 1995: Mike Figgis – Leaving Las Vegas
- Michael Almereyda – Nadja
- Ulu Grosbard – Georgia
- Todd Haynes – Safe
- John Sayles – The Secret of Roan Inish
- 1996: Joel Coen – Fargo
- Abel Ferrara – The Funeral
- David O. Russell – Flirting with Disaster
- Todd Solondz – Welcome to the Dollhouse
- Robert M. Young – Caught
- 1997: Robert Duvall – The Apostle
- Larry Fessenden – Habit
- Victor Nuñez – Ulee's Gold
- Paul Schrader – Touch
- Wim Wenders – The End of Violence
- 1998: Wes Anderson – Rushmore
- Todd Haynes – Velvet Goldmine
- Lodge Kerrigan – Claire Dolan
- Paul Schrader – Affliction
- Todd Solondz – Happiness
- 1999: Alexander Payne – Election
- Harmony Korine – Julien Donkey-Boy
- Doug Liman – Go
- David Lynch – The Straight Story
- Steven Soderbergh – The Limey
2000s - 2000: Ang Lee – Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
- Darren Aronofsky – Requiem for a Dream
- Miguel Arteta – Chuck & Buck
- Christopher Guest – Best in Show
- Julian Schnabel – Before Night Falls
- 2001: Christopher Nolan – Memento
- Michael Cuesta – L.I.E.
- Cheryl Dunye – Stranger Inside
- Richard Linklater – Waking Life
- John Cameron Mitchell – Hedwig and the Angry Inch
- 2002: Todd Haynes – Far from Heaven
- Joe Carnahan – Narc
- Nicole Holofcener – Lovely & Amazing
- Bernard Rose – Ivans Xtc
- Gus Van Sant – Gerry
- 2003: Sofia Coppola – Lost in Translation
- Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini – American Splendor
- Jim Sheridan – In America
- Peter Sollett – Raising Victor Vargas
- Gus Van Sant – Elephant
- 2004: Alexander Payne – Sideways
- Shane Carruth – Primer
- Joshua Marston – Maria Full of Grace
- Walter Salles – The Motorcycle Diaries
- Mario Van Peebles – Baadasssss!
- 2005: Ang Lee – Brokeback Mountain
- Gregg Araki – Mysterious Skin
- Noah Baumbach – The Squid and the Whale
- George Clooney – Good Night, and Good Luck
- Rodrigo García – Nine Lives
- 2006: Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris – Little Miss Sunshine
- Robert Altman – A Prairie Home Companion
- Ryan Fleck – Half Nelson
- Karen Moncrieff – The Dead Girl
- Steven Soderbergh – Bubble
- 2007: Julian Schnabel – The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
- Todd Haynes – I'm Not There
- Tamara Jenkins – The Savages
- Jason Reitman – Juno
- Gus Van Sant – Paranoid Park
- 2008: Tom McCarthy – The Visitor
- Ramin Bahrani – Chop Shop
- Jonathan Demme – Rachel Getting Married
- Lance Hammer – Ballast
- Courtney Hunt – Frozen River
- 2009: Lee Daniels – Precious
- Joel Coen and Ethan Coen – A Serious Man
- Cary Fukunaga – Sin Nombre
- James Gray – Two Lovers
- Michael Hoffman – The Last Station
2010s- 2010: Darren Aronofsky – Black Swan
- Danny Boyle – 127 Hours
- Lisa Cholodenko – The Kids Are All Right
- Debra Granik – Winter's Bone
- John Cameron Mitchell – Rabbit Hole
- 2011: Michel Hazanavicius – The Artist
- Mike Mills – Beginners
- Jeff Nichols – Take Shelter
- Alexander Payne – The Descendants
- Nicolas Winding Refn – Drive
- 2012: David O. Russell – Silver Linings Playbook
- Wes Anderson – Moonrise Kingdom
- Julia Loktev – The Loneliest Planet
- Ira Sachs – Keep the Lights On
- Benh Zeitlin – Beasts of the Southern Wild
- 2013: Steve McQueen – 12 Years a Slave
- Shane Carruth – Upstream Color
- J. C. Chandor – All Is Lost
- Jeff Nichols – Mud
- Alexander Payne – Nebraska
- 2014: Richard Linklater – Boyhood
- Damien Chazelle – Whiplash
- Ava DuVernay – Selma
- Alejandro G. Iñárritu – Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
- David Zellner – Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter
- 2015: Tom McCarthy – Spotlight
- Sean Baker – Tangerine
- Cary Joji Fukunaga – Beasts of No Nation
- Todd Haynes – Carol
- Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson – Anomalisa
- David Robert Mitchell – It Follows
- 2016: Barry Jenkins – Moonlight
- Andrea Arnold – American Honey
- Pablo Larraín – Jackie
- Jeff Nichols – Loving
- Kelly Reichardt – Certain Women
- 2017: Jordan Peele – Get Out
- Sean Baker – The Florida Project
- Jonas Carpignano – A Ciambra
- Luca Guadagnino – Call Me by Your Name
- Safdie Brothers – Good Time
- Chloé Zhao – The Rider
- 2018: Barry Jenkins – If Beale Street Could Talk
- Debra Granik – Leave No Trace
- Tamara Jenkins – Private Life
- Lynne Ramsay – You Were Never Really Here
- Paul Schrader – First Reformed
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