| Independent Spirit Award for Best Lead Performance | |
| Presenter: | Film Independent |
| Country: | United States |
| Year: | 2022 |
| Image Caption: | The 2023 recipient : Jeffrey Wright |
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]
| Year | Actor | Film | Role | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 [3] | Michelle Yeoh | Everything Everywhere All at Once | Evelyn Wang | |
| Cate Blanchett | Tár | Lydia Tár | ||
| A Love Song | Faye | |||
| Pearl | Pearl | |||
| Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul. | Trinitie Childs | |||
| Aftersun | Calum Paterson | |||
| Emily the Criminal | Emily | |||
| Jeremy Pope | The Inspection | Ellis French | ||
| To Leslie | Leslie | |||
| Bones and All | Maren Yearly | |||
| 2023 [4] | Jeffrey Wright | American Fiction | Thelonious "Monk" Ellison | |
| Jessica Chastain | Memory | Sylvia | ||
| Past Lives | Nora Moon | |||
| Monica | Monica | |||
| Natalie Portman | May December | Elizabeth | ||
| Judy Reyes | Birth/Rebirth | Celie | ||
| 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 |