FISA – Best Male Lead
List of winners and nominees for the Film Independent Spirit Awards - Best Male Lead!
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First Reformed
Ethan Hawke
Call Me by Your Name
Timothée Chalamet
Manchester by the Sea
Casey Affleck
Beasts of No Nation
Abraham Attah
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
Michael Keaton
Dallas Buyers Club
Matthew McConaughey
The Wrestler
Mickey Rourke
The Savages
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Capote
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Lost in Translation
Bill Murray
Antwone Fisher
Derek Luke
In the Bedroom
Tom Wilkinson
Before Night Falls
Javier Bardem
The Straight Story
Richard Farnsworth
Gods and Monsters
Ian McKellen
The Apostle
Robert Duvall
Dead Man Walking
Sean Penn
Pulp Fiction
Samuel L. Jackson
American Heart
Jeff Bridges
Bad Lieutenant
Harvey Keitel
My Own Private Idaho
River Phoenix
To Sleep with Anger
Danny Glover
Drugstore Cowboy
Matt Dillon
Stand and Deliver
Edward James Olmos
The Big Easy
Dennis Quaid
Blood Simple
M. Emmet Walsh