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Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead

Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead

Discontinued annual award at the Independent Spirit Awards

The Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead was an award presented annually at the Independent Spirit Awards to honor an actor who has delivered an outstanding lead performance in an independent film. It was first presented in 1985, with M. Emmet Walsh being the first recipient of the award for his role as Investigator Loren Visser in Blood Simple. It was last presented in 2022 with Simon Rex being the final recipient of the award for his role in Red Rocket.

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Jeff Bridges and Philip Seymour Hoffman are the only actors who have received this award more than once, with two wins each.

In 2022, it was 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.[1]

Winners and nominees

M. Emmet Walsh won for Blood Simple.
Dennis Quaid won for The Big Easy.
Edward James Olmos won for Stand and Deliver.
Matt Dillon won for Drugstore Cowboy.
Danny Glover won for To Sleep with Anger.
River Phoenix won for My Own Private Idaho.
Jeff Bridges has won the award for American Heart (1993) and Crazy Heart (2009).
Samuel L. Jackson won for Pulp Fiction.
Ian McKellen won for God and Monsters.
Javier Bardem won for Before Night Falls.
Bill Murray won for Lost in Translation.
Philip Seymour Hoffman has won for Capote (2005) and The Savages (2007).
Ryan Gosling won for Half Nelson (2006).
Mickey Rourke won for The Wrestler.
John Hawkes won for The Sessions.
Michael Keaton won for Birdman.
Abraham Attah won for Beasts of No Nation.
Timothée Chalamet won for Call Me by Your Name.
Ethan Hawke won for First Reformed.
Adam Sandler won for Uncut Gems
Riz Ahmed won for Sound of Metal.
Simon Rex was the final recipient for Red Rocket.

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2020s

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Multiple nominees

Multiple winners

2 wins

See also

References

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