The Independent Spirit Award for Best Lead Performance is one of the annual awards given out by Film Independent, a non-profit organization dedicated to independent film and independent filmmakers.
In 2022, the Independent Spirit Awards announced that the four acting categories would be retired and replaced with two gender neutral categories, with both Best Male Lead and Best Female Lead merging into the Best Lead Performance category.
Winners and nominees
2020s Year Actor Film Role 2022 Everything Everywhere All at Once Evelyn Quan Wang Tár Lydia Tár A Love Song Faye Pearl Pearl Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul. Trinitie Childs Aftersun Calum Paterson Emily the Criminal Emily Benetto The Inspection Ellis French To Leslie Leslie Bones and All Maren Yearly 2023 American Fiction Thelonious "Monk" Ellison Memory Sylvia Past Lives Nora Moon Monica Monica May December Elizabeth Birth/Rebirth Celie Passages Tomas All of Us Strangers Adam A Thousand and One Inez de la Paz Past Lives Hae Sung 2024 Anora Anora "Ani" Mikheeva Nightbitch Mother The Fire Inside Claressa "T-Rex" Shields Sing Sing John "Divine G" Whitfield Ghostlight Dan Mueller The Substance Elisabeth Sparkle Cuckoo Gretchen I Saw the TV Glow Owen Thelma Thelma Post The Apprentice Donald Trump 2025 If I Had Legs I'd Kick You Linda The Plague Ben Familiar Touch Ruth Chang Chen Lucky Lu Lu Jia Cheng Train Dreams Robert Grainier Twinless Roman / Rocky One of Them Days Dreux Lurker Matthew Morning Hedda Hedda Gabler Peter Hujar's Day Peter Hujar
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