Saturn Award for Best Independent Film explained

Saturn Award for Best Independent Film
Awarded For:	Best motion picture of the year released independently
Presenter:	Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films
Country:	United States
Year:	2012
Holder:	Pearl (2022/2023)

The Saturn Award for Best Independent Film is an award presented to by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films.

Winners and nominees

Year	Film
	*Killer Joe*
	Compliance
	Hitchcock
	The Paperboy
	Robot & Frank
	Safety Not Guaranteed
	Seeking a Friend for the End of the World
	*12 Years a Slave*
	Great Expectations
	Inside Llewyn Davis
	The Invisible Woman
	Out of the Furnace
	Upside Down
	*Whiplash*
	Grand Piano
	I Origins
	A Most Violent Year
	The One I Love
	The Two Faces of January
	*Room*
	Bone Tomahawk
	Cop Car
	Experimenter
	99 Homes
	Trumbo
	*La La Land*^[1] ^[2]
	Eye in the Sky
	Hunt for the Wilderpeople
	Lion
	The Ones Below
	Remember
	*Wonder*^[3] ^[4]
	I, Tonya
	LBJ
	Lucky
	Professor Marston and the Wonder Women
	Super Dark Times
	Wonderstruck
	*Mandy*^[5]
	American Animals
	Anna and the Apocalypse
	The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then the Bigfoot
	Ophelia
	Summer of 84
	The Tomorrow Man
	*Encounter*
	Angel of Mine
	The Aeronauts
	Color Out of Space
	Freaks
	Palm Springs
	Possessor

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