Template:Independent Spirit Award for Best First Screenplay From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia vteIndependent Spirit Award for Best First Screenplay1990s David O. Russell (1994) Paul Auster (1995) Joseph Tropiano and Stanley Tucci (1996) Neil LaBute (1997) Darren Aronofsky (1998) Charlie Kaufman (1999) 2000s Gina Prince-Bythewood (2000) Daniel Clowes (2001) Erin Cressida Wilson (2002) Tom McCarthy (2003) Joshua Marston (2004) Duncan Tucker (2005) Michael Arndt (2006) Diablo Cody (2007) Dustin Lance Black (2008) Geoffrey S. Fletcher (2009) 2010s Lena Dunham (2010) Will Reiser (2011) Derek Connolly (2012) Bob Nelson (2013) Justin Simien (2014) Emma Donoghue (2015) Robert Eggers (2016) Emily V. Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani (2017) Bo Burnham (2018) Fredrica Bailey and Stefon Bristol (2019) 2020s Andy Siara (2020) Michael Sarnoski and Vanessa Block (2021) John Patton Ford (2022) Samy Burch and Alex Mechanik (2023)