Anexo:Independent Spirit Award a la mejor ópera prima

El premio Independent Spirit Award a la mejor ópera prima se otorga anualmente en los Independent Spirit Awards a las mejores primeras películas de un director.

Ganadores y nominados

1980s

1987: She's Gotta Have It
- A Great Wall
- Belizaire The Cajun
- Hoosiers
- True Stories
1988: Dirty Dancing
- Anna
- Hollywood Shuffle
- Siesta
- Waiting for the Moon
1989: Mystic Pizza
- Border Radio
- The Prince of Pennsylvania
- The Chocolate War
- The Wash

1990s

1990: Heathers
- 84 Charlie Mopic
- Powwow Highway
- Sidewalk Stories
- Talking To Strangers
1991: Metropolitan
- House Party
- Lightning Over Braddock
- The Natural History of Parking Lots
- Twister
1992: Straight Out of Brooklyn
- Chameleon Street
- Poison
- Slacker
- The Rapture
1993: The Waterdance
- Laws of Gravity
- My New Gun
- Reservoir Dogs
- Swoon
1994: El Mariachi
- American Heart
- Combination Platter
- Mac
- Menace II Society
1995: Spanking the Monkey
- Clean, Shaven
- Clerks
- I Like It Like That
- Suture
1996: The Brothers McMullen
- Kids
- Little Odessa
- Picture Bride
- River of Grass
1997: Sling Blade
- Big Night
- I Shot Andy Warhol
- Manny & Lo
- Trees Lounge
1998: Eve's Bayou
- Hard Eight
- In the Company of Men
- Star Maps
- The Bible And Gun Club
1999: The Opposite of Sex
- Buffalo '66
- High Art
- π
- Slums of Beverly Hills

2000s

2000: Being John Malkovich
- Boys Don't Cry
- Three Seasons
- Twin Falls Idaho
- Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Girl
2001: Puedes contar conmigo (película de 2000)
- Boiler Room
- Girlfight
- Love & Basketball
- The Visit
2002: In the Bedroom
- Donnie Darko
- Ghost World
- The Anniversary Party
- The Believer
2003: The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys
- Interview with the Assassin
- Manito
- Paid in Full
- Roger Dodger
2004: Monster
- Bomb the System
- House of Sand and Fog
- Quattro Noza
- Thirteen
2005: Garden State
- Brother to Brother
- Napoleon Dynamite
- Saints and Soldiers
- The Woodsman
2006: Crash
- Lackawanna Blues
- Me and You and Everyone We Know
- Thumbsucker
- Transamérica
2007: Sweet Land
- Day Night Day Night
- Man Push Cart
- The Motel
- Wristcutters: A Love Story
2008: The Lookout
- 2 Days in Paris
- Great World of Sound
- The Lookout
- Rocket Science
- Vanaja
2009: Synecdoche, New York
- Afterschool
- Medicine for Melancholy
- Padre nuestro
- Sleep Dealer