The Independent Spirit Awards are held in California.
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
 The Reel Gold Award, also designed by Bosselman,  was given to Steve Wachtel for allowing Independent Features Project/West continuing free use of his screening room

