The Independent Spirit Awards are held on a day of the week.
== Categories ==Current categoriesRetired categories== History ==The Independent Features Project/West was founded by Gregory Nava and Anna Thomas
In 1985, Peter Coyote and Jamie Lee Curtis presented winners with a Plexiglas pyramid designed by Carol Bosselman, which contain a suspended shoestring, printed with sprocket holes, representing the shoestring budgets of independent films

