Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead

The Film Independent's Spirit Award for Best Male Lead is one of the annual Independent Spirit Awards.

Contents 1 Winners and nominees 1.1 1980s 1.2 1990s 1.3 2000s 1.4 2010s 2 External link

Winners and nominees

1980s

• 1985: M. Emmet Walsh – Blood Simple
  • Rubén Blades – Crossover Dreams
  • Tom Bower – Wildrose
  • Treat Williams – Smooth Talk
• 1986: James Woods – Salvador
  • Roberto Benigni – Down by Law
  • Willem Dafoe – Platoon
  • Dennis Hopper – Blue Velvet
  • Victor Love – Native Son
• 1987: Dennis Quaid – The Big Easy
  • Spalding Gray – Swimming to Cambodia
  • Terry O'Quinn – The Stepfather
  • Mickey Rourke – Barfly
  • James Woods – Best Seller
• 1988: Edward James Olmos – Stand and Deliver
  • Eric Bogosian – Talk Radio
  • Harvey Fierstein – Torch Song Trilogy
  • Chris Mulkey – Patti Rocks
  • James Woods – The Boost
• 1989: Matt Dillon – Drugstore Cowboy
  • Nicolas Cage – Vampire's Kiss
  • Charles Lane – Sidewalk Stories
  • Randy Quaid – Parents
  • James Spader – sex, lies, and videotape

1990s

• 1990: Danny Glover – To Sleep with Anger
  • Martin Priest – The Plot Against Harry
  • Christopher Reid – House Party
  • Michael Rooker – Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
  • Christian Slater – Pump Up the Volume
• 1991: River Phoenix – My Own Private Idaho
  • Doug E. Doug – Hangin' with the Homeboys
  • Robert Duvall – Rambling Rose
  • Gary Oldman – Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
  • William Russ – Pastime
• 1992: Harvey Keitel – Bad Lieutenant
  • Craig Chester – Swoon
  • Laurence Fishburne – Deep Cover
  • Peter Greene – Laws of Gravity
  • Michael Rapaport – Zebrahead
• 1993: Jeff Bridges – American Heart
  • Vincent D'Onofrio – Household Saints
  • Mitchell Lichtenstein – The Wedding Banquet
  • Matthew Modine – Equinox
  • Tyrin Turner – Menace II Society
• 1994: Samuel L. Jackson – Pulp Fiction
  • Sihung Lung – Eat Drink Man Woman
  • William H. Macy – Oleanna
  • Campbell Scott – Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
  • Jon Seda – I Like It Like That
• 1995: Sean Penn – Dead Man Walking
  • Nicolas Cage – Leaving Las Vegas
  • Tim Roth – Little Odessa
  • Jimmy Smits – My Family
  • Kevin Spacey – Swimming with Sharks
• 1996: William H. Macy – Fargo
  • Chris Cooper – Lone Star
  • Chris Penn – The Funeral
  • Tony Shalhoub – Big Night
  • Stanley Tucci – Big Night
• 1997: Robert Duvall – The Apostle
  • Peter Fonda – Ulee's Gold
  • Christopher Guest – Waiting for Guffman
  • Philip Baker Hall – Hard Eight
  • John Turturro – Box of Moon Light
• 1998: Ian McKellen – Gods and Monsters
  • Dylan Baker – Happiness
  • Nick Nolte – Affliction
  • Sean Penn – Hurlyburly
  • Courtney B. Vance – Blind Faith
• 1999: Richard Farnsworth – The Straight Story
  • John Cusack – Being John Malkovich
  • Terence Stamp – The Limey
  • David Strathairn – Limbo
  • Noble Willingham – The Corndog Man

2000s

• 2000: Javier Bardem – Before Night Falls
  • Adrien Brody – Restaurant
  • Billy Crudup – Jesus' Son
  • Hill Harper – The Visit
  • Mark Ruffalo – You Can Count on Me
• 2001: Tom Wilkinson – In the Bedroom
  • Brian Cox – L.I.E.
  • Ryan Gosling – The Believer
  • Jake Gyllenhaal – Donnie Darko
  • John Cameron Mitchell – Hedwig and the Angry Inch
• 2002: Derek Luke – Antwone Fisher
  • Graham Greene – Skins
  • Danny Huston – Ivansxtc
  • Jeremy Renner – Dahmer
  • Campbell Scott – Roger Dodger
• 2003: Bill Murray – Lost in Translation
  • Peter Dinklage – The Station Agent
  • Paul Giamatti – American Splendor
  • Ben Kingsley – House of Sand and Fog
  • Lee Pace – Soldier's Girl
• 2004: Paul Giamatti – Sideways
  • Kevin Bacon – The Woodsman
  • Jeff Bridges – The Door in the Floor
  • Jamie Foxx – Redemption
  • Liam Neeson – Kinsey
• 2005: Philip Seymour Hoffman – Capote
  • Jeff Daniels – The Squid and the Whale
  • Terrence Howard – Hustle & Flow
  • Heath Ledger – Brokeback Mountain
  • David Strathairn – Good Night, and Good Luck.
• 2006: Ryan Gosling – Half Nelson
  • Aaron Eckhart – Thank You for Smoking
  • Edward Norton – The Painted Veil
  • Ahmad Razvi – Man Push Cart
  • Forest Whitaker – American Gun
• 2007: Philip Seymour Hoffman – The Savages
  • Pedro Castaneda – August Evening
  • Don Cheadle – Talk to Me
  • Frank Langella – Starting Out in the Evening
  • Tony Leung – Lust, Caution
• 2008: Mickey Rourke – The Wrestler
  • Javier Bardem – Vicky Cristina Barcelona
  • Richard Jenkins – The Visitor
  • Sean Penn – Milk
  • Jeremy Renner – The Hurt Locker
• 2009: Jeff Bridges – Crazy Heart
  • Colin Firth – A Single Man
  • Joseph Gordon-Levitt – (500) Days of Summer
  • Souleymane Sy Savane – Goodbye Solo
  • Adam Scott – The Vicious Kind

2010s

• 2010: James Franco - 127 Hours
  • Ronald Bronstein - Daddy Longlegs
  • Aaron Eckhart - Rabbit Hole
  • John C. Reilly - Cyrus
  • Ben Stiller - Greenberg

External link

• Full list of all Nominees and Winners

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