Awards·Top prize, by year
Independent Spirit Awards
Independent Spirit Awards · Best Feature winners by year.
Independent Spirit Awards · Best Feature
16 winners on record · 2010–2025
2025
Train Dreams
Clint Bentley
2024
Anora
Sean Baker
2023
Past Lives
Celine Song
2022
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Daniel Kwan
2021
The Lost Daughter
Maggie Gyllenhaal
2020
Nomadland
Chloé Zhao
2019
The Farewell
Lulu Wang
2018
If Beale Street Could Talk
Barry Jenkins
2017
Get Out
Jordan Peele
2016
Moonlight
Barry Jenkins
2015
Spotlight
Tom McCarthy
2014
Birdman
Alejandro G. Iñárritu
2013
12 Years a Slave
Steve McQueen
2012
Silver Linings Playbook
David O. Russell
2011
The Artist
Michel Hazanavicius
2010
Black Swan
Darren Aronofsky