Independent Spirit Award for Best Lead Male

=Winners and Nominees=

1990s

*"'1990: Danny Glover - "To Sleep with Anger"
**Martin Priest - "The Plot Against Harry"
**Christopher "Kid" Reid - "House Party"
**Michael Rooker - ""
**Christian Slater - "Pump Up the Volume"

*"'1991: River Phoenix - "My Own Private Idaho"
**Doug E. Doug - "Hangin' with the Homeboys"
**Robert Duvall - "Rambling Rose"
**Gary Oldman - "Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead"
**William Russ - "Pastime"

*"'1992: Harvey Keitel - "Bad Lieutenant"
**Craig Chester - "Swoon"
**Laurence Fishburne - "Deep Cover"
**Peter Greene - "Laws of Gravity"
**Michael Rapaport - "Zebrahead"

*"'1993: Jeff Bridges - "American Heart"
**Vincent D'Onofrio - "Household Saints"
**Mitchell Lichtenstein - "The Wedding Banquet"
**Matthew Modine - "Equinox"
**Tyrin Turner - "Menace II Society"

*"'1994: Samuel L. Jackson - "Pulp Fiction"
**Sihung Lung - "Eat Drink Man Woman"
**William H. Macy - "Oleanna"
**Campbell Scott - "Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle"
**Jon Seda - "I Like It Like That"

*"'1995: Sean Penn - "Dead Man Walking"
**Nicolas Cage - "Leaving Las Vegas"
**Tim Roth - "Little Odessa"
**Jimmy Smits - "My Family"
**Kevin Spacey - "Swimming with Sharks"

*"'1996: William H. Macy - "Fargo"
**Chris Cooper - "Lone Star"
**Chris Penn - "The Funeral"
**Tony Shalhoub - "Big Night"
**Stanley Tucci - "Big Night"

*"'1997: Robert Duvall - "The Apostle"
**Philip Baker Hall - "Hard Eight"
**Peter Fonda - "Ulee's Gold"
**Christopher Guest - "Waiting for Guffman"
**John Turturro - "Box of Moonlight"

*"'1998: Ian McKellen - "Gods and Monsters"
**Dylan Baker - "Happiness"
**Nick Nolte - "Affliction"
**Sean Penn - "Hurlyburly"
**Courtney B. Vance - "Blind Faith"

*"'1999: Richard Farnsworth - "The Straight Story"
**John Cusack - "Being John Malkovich"
**Terence Stamp - "The Limey"
**David Strathairn - "Limbo"
**Noble Willingham - "The Corndog Man"

2000s

*2000: Javier Bardem - "Before Night Falls"
** Adrien Brody - "Restaurant"
** Billy Crudup - "Jesus' Son"
** Hill Harper - "The Visit"
** Mark Ruffalo - "You Can Count on Me"
*2001: Tom Wilkinson - "In the Bedroom"
** Brian Cox - "L.I.E."
** Ryan Gosling - "The Believer"
** Jake Gyllenhaal - "Donnie Darko"
** John Cameron Mitchell - "Hedwig and the Angry Inch"
*2002: Derek Luke - "Antwone Fisher"
** Graham Greene - "Skins"
** Danny Huston - "Ivans XTC"
** Jeremy Renner - "Dahmer"
** Campbell Scott - "Roger Dodger"
*2003: Bill Murray - "Lost in Translation"
** Peter Dinklage - "The Station Agent"
** Paul Giamatti - "American Splendor"
** Ben Kingsley - "House of Sand and Fog"
** Lee Pace - "Soldier's Girl"
*2004: Paul Giamatti - "Sideways"
** Kevin Bacon - "The Woodsman"
** Jeff Bridges - "The Door in the Floor"
** Jamie Foxx - ""
** Liam Neeson - "Kinsey"
*2005: Philip Seymour Hoffman - "Capote"
** Jeff Daniels - "The Squid and the Whale"
** Terrence Howard - "Hustle & Flow"
** Heath Ledger - "Brokeback Mountain"
** David Strathairn - "Good Night, and Good Luck."
*2006: Ryan Gosling - "Half Nelson"
** Aaron Eckhart - "Thank You for Smoking"
** Edward Norton - "The Painted Veil"
** Ahmad Razvi - "Man Push Cart"
** Forest Whitaker - "American Gun"
*2007: Philip Seymour Hoffman - "The Savages"
** Pedro Castaneda - "August Evening"
** Don Cheadle - "Talk to Me"
** Frank Langella - "Starting Out in the Evening"
** Tony Leung - "Lust, Caution"