Each year, the Fargo Film Festival juries nominate films and vote on the overall Best Experimental Film from movies in competition.

2023: Light Leak (Nate Dorr)
2022: The Length of the Day (Laura Conway)
2021: Beyond Noh (Patrick Smith)
2020: Blooming (Lingyun Zheng)

2019: Fragments 83 (Richard Millen)
2018: The Velvet Abstract (James Hughes)
2017: Gratus (Sarah Johnson)
2016: Double-Blind No.1 (Ian B. Anderson, Zenon Kohler, Ricky Marks, Jasper St Aubyn West, and Raoul Teague)
2015: Confluence (Noah Schulman)
2014: F-Line (Silvia Turchin)
2013: Green Lady (Jordan Baseman)
2012: Melt (Noemie Lafrance)
2011: Energie! (Thorsten Fleisch)
2010: Anomie (Denah Johnston)

2009: Themes and Variations for the Naked Eye (Caitlin Horsmon)
2008: High Plains Winter (Cindy Stillwell)
2007: Blood of the Earthworm (Brittany Gravely)