1984

• Old Enough
• Style Wars

1985

• Blood Simple
• Seventeen

1986

• Smooth Talk
• Private Conversations

1987

• Waiting for the Moon
• The Trouble with Dick
• Sherman's March

1988

• Heat and Sunlight
• Beirut: The Last Home Movie

1989

• True Love
• For All Mankind

1990

• Chameleon Street
• H-2 Worker
• Water and Power

1991

• Poison
• American Dream
• Paris Is Burning

1992

• In the Soup
• A Brief History of Time
• Finding Christa

1993

• Ruby in Paradise
• Public Access
• Silverlake Life: The View from Here

1994

• What Happened Was...
• Freedom on My Mind

1995

• The Brothers McMullen
• The Young Poisoner's Handbook
• Crumb

1996

• Welcome to the Dollhouse
• Troublesome Creek: A Midwestern

1997

• Sunday
• Girls Like Us

1998

• Slam
• Frat House
• The Farm: Angola, USA

1999

• American Movie
• Three Seasons

2000

• Long Night's Journey into Day
• Girlfight
• You Can Count On Me

2001

• Southern Comfort
• The Believer

2002

• Daughter from Danang
• Personal Velocity: Three Portraits

2003

• Capturing the Friedmans
• American Splendor

2004

• Dig!
• Primer

2005

• Why We Fight
• Forty Shades of Blue

2006

• God Grew Tired of Us
• Quinceanera

2007

• Manda Bala
• Padre Nuestro

2008

• Trouble the Water
• Frozen River

2009

• Precious:Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire
• We Live in Public

2010

• Restrepo
• Winter's Bone

2011

• How to Die in Oregon
• Like Crazy

2012

• The House I Live In
• Beasts of the Southern Wild

2013

• Fruitvale Station
• Blood Brother
• Jiseul
• A River Changes Course
• The Whistle

2014

• Whiplash
• Rich Hill
• Of God and Dogs

2015

• Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
• The Wolfpack
• World of Tomorrow

2016

• The Birth of a Nation
• Weiner
• Sand Storm
• Thunder Road

2017

• I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore
• Dina
• The Nile Hilton Incident

2018

• The Miseducation of Cameron Post
• The Price of Free
• Butterflies
• Of Fathers and Sons
• Matria

2019

• Clemency
• One Child Nation
• The Souvenir
• Honeyland
• Aziza

2020

• Minari
• Boys State
• Yalda, a Night for Forgiveness
• Epicentro
• So What if the Goats Die

2021

• CODA
• Summer of Soul
• Hive
• Flee
• Lizard

2022

• Nanny
• The Exiles
• Utama
• All That Breathes
• The Headhunter’s Daughter

2023

• A Thousand and One
• Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project
• Scrapper
• The Eternal Memory
• When You Left Me On That Boulevard