Independent Spirit Award for Best Director

The Film Independent's Spirit Award for Best Director is one of the annual Independent Spirit Awards.

Notes

"†" indicates an Academy Award-winning director
"‡" indicates an Academy Award nomination

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 – Henry: 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

Independent Spirit Awards
Current categories	Best Film Best Male Lead Best Female Lead Best Supporting Male Best Supporting Female Best Director Best Cinematography Best Editing Best Documentary Feature Best First Feature Best International Film Best Screenplay Best First Screenplay John Cassavetes Award Robert Altman Award
Ceremonies	1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018

Independent Spirit Award for Best Director

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