Independent Spirit Award for Best Lead Performance

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]

Independent Spirit Award for Best Lead Performance
The 2024 recipient : Mikey Madison
Country	United States
Presented by	Film Independent
First award	2022
Website	filmindependent.org

Nominees

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	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