Sutradara Terbaik (Independent Spirit Award)
1980an
- 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
Medium | kindergartner