Independent Spirit Award for Best Lead Performance

Independent Spirit Award for Best Lead Performance
The 2025 recipient: Rose Byrne
CountryUnited States
Presented byFilm Independent
First award2022
Currently held byRose Byrne for If I Had Legs I'd Kick You (2025)
Websitefilmindependent.org

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.[1][2]

Nominees

Michelle Yeoh was the first winner in this category for Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)
Jeffrey Wright won for American Fiction (2023)
Mikey Madison won for Anora

2020s

Year Actor Film Role
2022
[3] 		Michelle Yeoh Everything Everywhere All at Once Evelyn Wang
Cate Blanchett Tár Lydia Tár
Dale Dickey A Love Song Faye
Mia Goth Pearl Pearl
Regina Hall Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul. Trinitie Childs
Paul Mescal Aftersun Calum Paterson
Aubrey Plaza Emily the Criminal Emily
Jeremy Pope The Inspection Ellis French
Andrea Riseborough To Leslie Leslie
Taylor Russell Bones and All Maren Yearly
2023
[4] 		Jeffrey Wright American Fiction Thelonious "Monk" Ellison
Jessica Chastain Memory Sylvia
Greta Lee Past Lives Nora Moon
Trace Lysette Monica Monica
Natalie Portman May December Elizabeth
Judy Reyes Birth/Rebirth Celie
Franz Rogowski Passages Tomas
Andrew Scott All of Us Strangers Adam
Teyana Taylor A Thousand and One Inez de la Paz
Teo Yoo Past Lives Hae Sung
2024
[5] 		Mikey Madison Anora Anora "Ani" Mikheeva
Amy Adams Nightbitch Mother
Ryan Destiny The Fire Inside Claressa "T-Rex" Shields
Colman Domingo Sing Sing John "Divine G" Whitfield
Keith Kupfefer Ghostlight Dan Mueller
Demi Moore The Substance Elisabeth Sparkle
Hunter Schafer Cuckoo Gretchen
Justice Smith I Saw the TV Glow Owen
June Squibb Thelma Thelma Post
Sebastian Stan The Apprentice Donald Trump
2025
[6] 		Rose Byrne If I Had Legs I'd Kick You Linda
Everett Blunck The Plague Ben
Kathleen Chalfant Familiar Touch Ruth
Chang Chen Lucky Lu Lu Jia Cheng
Joel Edgerton Train Dreams Robert Grainier
Dylan O'Brien Twinless Roman / Rocky
Keke Palmer One of Them Days Dreux
Théodore Pellerin Lurker Matthew Morning
Tessa Thompson Hedda Hedda Gabler
Ben Whishaw Peter Hujar's Day Peter Hujar

References

  1. ^ Chapman, Wilson (August 23, 2022). "Spirit Awards to Implement Gender Neutral Acting Categories". Variety. Retrieved September 9, 2022.
  2. ^ "Independent Spirit Awards make acting awards gender neutral". Los Angeles Times. October 23, 2022. Retrieved November 27, 2022.
  3. ^ Davis, Clayton (November 22, 2022). "Independent Spirit Awards Nominations: 'Everything Everywhere' Leads With Eight Noms". Variety. Retrieved November 22, 2022.
  4. ^ "Film Independent Spirit Awards (2024)". IMDb. Retrieved February 25, 2024.
  5. ^ "Film Independent Spirit Awards (2025)". IMDb. Retrieved February 25, 2024.
  6. ^ "Film Independent Spirit Awards (2026)". IMDb. Retrieved February 15, 2026.
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