2006 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Male Lead Winner
![Capote Philip Seymour Hoffman](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/capote-image.jpg)
Capote
Philip Seymour Hoffman
In 1959, Truman Capote learns of the murder of a Kansas family and decides to write a book about the case. While researching for his novel In Cold Blood, Capote forms a relationship with one of the killers, Perry Smith, who is on death row.
2006 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Male Lead Nominees
![Brokeback Mountain Heath Ledger](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/brokeback-mountain-image.jpg)
Brokeback Mountain
Heath Ledger
![Good Night, and Good Luck. David Strathairn](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/good-night-and-good-luck.-george-clooney-image.jpg)
Good Night, and Good Luck.
David Strathairn
![Hustle & Flow Terrence Howard](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/hustle-and-flow-craig-brewer-image.jpg)
Hustle & Flow
Terrence Howard
![The Squid and the Whale Jeff Daniels](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-squid-and-the-whale-noah-baumbach-image.jpg)