Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards / Best Experimental / Independent Film

Since 1980, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards have honored the best experimental film or independent film with the Experimental / Independent Film / Video Award (since 1999 The Douglas Edwards Experimental / Independent Film / Video Award ).

Excellent films

Notes: In some years there was an ex-aequo result and thus two winners.

year	Award winners	German distribution title	Director / Producer
1980	Journeys From Berlin / 1971	Journeys From Berlin / 1971	Yvonne Rainer
1980	Demon Lover Diary	Demon Lover Diary	Joel Dermott
1981	The Art of Worldly Wisdom	The Art of Worldly Wisdom	Bruce Elder
1982	Chan is missing	Chan is missing	Wayne Wang
1983	So is this	So is this	Michael Snow
1984	For the body of his work	For the body of his work	George Kuchar
1985	Horror Vacui	Horror Vacui	Rosa von Praunheim
1986	He Stands in the Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life	He Stands in the Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life	Jonas Mekas
1986	Magdalena Viraga	Magdalena Viraga	Nina Menkes
1987	Mala Noche	Mala Noche	Gus Van Sant
1988	The Last of England	The Last of England - Lost Utopias	Derek Jarman
1988	America	America	Al Razutis
1989	The Long Weekend (O'Dispair)	The Long Weekend (O'Dispair)	Gregg Araki
1990	Tongues Untied	Tongues Untied	Marlon Riggs
1991	All the Vermeers in New York	All the Vermeers in New York	Jon Jost Henry S. Rosenthal
1992	It wasn't love	It wasn't love	Sadie Benning
1993	Silverlake Live: The View From Here	Silverlake Live: The View From Here	Tom Joslin Peter Friedman
1994	Remembrance of Things Past	Remembrance of Things Past	John Maybury
1995	From the Journals of Jean Seberg	From the Journals of Jean Seberg	Mark Rappapport
1996	Sonic Outlaws	Sonic Outlaws	Craig Baldwin
1997	Finished	Finished	William E. Jones
1998	Shulie	Shulie	Elisabeth Subrin
1999	Award for the complete work - not a special film	Award for the complete work - not a special film	Owen Land
2000	Not awarded
2001	The Beaver Trilogy	The Beaver Trilogy	Trent Harris
2002	* Corpus Callosum	* Corpus Callosum	Michael Snow
2002	Award for the complete work - not a special film	Award for the complete work - not a special film	Kenneth Anger
2003	Los Angeles Plays Itself	Los Angeles Plays Itself	Thom Andersen
2003	The Decay of Fiction	The Decay of Fiction	Pat O'Neill
2004	Star-Spangled to Death	Star-Spangled to Death	Ken Jacobs
2005	La Commune (Paris 1871)	La Commune (Paris 1871)	Peter Watkins
2006	Old Joy	Old Joy	Kelly Reichardt
2006	In Between Days	In Between Days	So Yong Kim
2007	Colossal Youth	Youth ahead!	Pedro Costa
2008	RR & Casting a Glance	RR & Casting a Glance	James Benning
2009	The Anchorage	The Anchorage	Edström and CW Winter are different
2010	Film Socialisme	Film Socialisme	Jean-Luc Godard
2011	Spark of Being	not known	Bill Morrison
2012	Leviathan	not known	Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel
2013	Cabinets of Wonder: Films and a Performance by Charlotte Pryce	not known	Charlotte Pryce
2014	The David Whiting Story	not known	Walter Reuben
2015	Prize not awarded
2016	The Illinois Parables	not known	Deborah Stratman
2017	Purge This Land	not known	Lee Anne Schmitt
2018	The Green Fog	The Green Fog	Evan Johnson Galen Johnson Guy Maddin
2019	The Giverny Experiment	not known	Yes'tovia Gary