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2000 Film Independent Spirit Awards - Best Female Lead WinnerBoys Don't CryHilary SwankA young man named Brandon Teena navigates love, life, and being transgender in rural Nebraska.Amazon2000 Film Independent Spirit Awards - Best Female Lead NomineesA Walk on the MoonDiane LaneAmazonElectionReese WitherspoonAmazonTumbleweedsJanet McTeerAmazonValerie FlakeSusan TraylorAmazon

2001 Film Independent Spirit Awards - Best Female Lead WinnerRequiem for a DreamEllen BurstynThe drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island people are shattered when their addictions run deep.Amazon2001 Film Independent Spirit Awards - Best Female Lead NomineesLove & BasketballSanaa LathanAmazonThe ContenderJoan AllenAmazonTwo Family HouseKelly MacdonaldAmazonYou Can Count on MeLaura LinneyAmazon

2002 Film Independent Spirit Awards - Best Female Lead WinnerIn the BedroomSissy SpacekA New England couple's college-aged son dates an older woman who has two small children and an unwelcome ex-husband.Amazon2002 Film Independent Spirit Awards - Best Female Lead NomineesLiftKerry WashingtonAmazonThe Center of the WorldMolly ParkerAmazonThe Deep EndTilda SwintonAmazonThings Behind the SunKim DickensAmazon

2003 Film Independent Spirit Awards - Best Female Lead WinnerFar from HeavenJulianne MooreIn 1950s Connecticut, a housewife faces a marital crisis and mounting racial tensions in the outside world.Amazon2003 Film Independent Spirit Awards - Best Female Lead NomineesLovely & AmazingCatherine KeenerAmazonPersonal VelocityParker PoseyAmazonSecretaryMaggie GyllenhaalAmazonThe Good GirlJennifer AnistonAmazon

2004 Film Independent Spirit Awards - Best Female Lead WinnerMonsterCharlize TheronBased on the life of Aileen Wuornos, a Daytona Beach prostitute who became a serial killer.Amazon2004 Film Independent Spirit Awards - Best Female Lead NomineesAll the Real GirlsZooey DeschanelAmazonBlue CarAgnes BrucknerAmazonIn AmericaSamantha MortonAmazonVirginElisabeth MossAmazon

2005 Film Independent Spirit Awards - Best Female Lead WinnerMaria Full of GraceCatalina Sandino MorenoA pregnant Colombian teenager becomes a drug mule to make some desperately needed money for her family.Amazon2005 Film Independent Spirit Awards - Best Female Lead NomineesCavedwellerKyra SedgwickAmazonDown to the BoneVera FarmigaAmazonOn the OutsJudy MarteAmazonWoman Thou Art LoosedKimberly EliseAmazon

2006 Film Independent Spirit Awards - Best Female Lead WinnerTransamericaFelicity HuffmanA preoperative transgender woman takes an unexpected journey when she learns that she fathered a son, now a teenage runaway hustling on the streets of New York.Amazon2006 Film Independent Spirit Awards - Best Female Lead NomineesForty Shades of BlueDina KorzunAmazonLackawanna BluesS. Epatha MerkersonAmazonRoomCyndi WilliamsAmazonThe Squid and the WhaleLaura LinneyAmazon

2007 Film Independent Spirit Awards - Best Female Lead WinnerHalf NelsonShareeka EppsAn inner-city junior high school teacher with a drug habit forms an unlikely friendship with one of his students after she discovers his secret.Amazon2007 Film Independent Spirit Awards - Best Female Lead NomineesFor Your ConsiderationCatherine O'HaraAmazonLand of PlentyMichelle WilliamsAmazonSorry, HatersRobin WrightAmazonSweet LandElizabeth ReaserAmazon

2008 Film Independent Spirit Awards - Best Female Lead WinnerJunoEllen PageFaced with an unplanned pregnancy, an offbeat young woman makes an unusual decision regarding her unborn child.Amazon2008 Film Independent Spirit Awards - Best Female Lead NomineesA Mighty HeartAngelina JolieAmazonBroken EnglishParker PoseyAmazonInterviewSienna MillerAmazonLust, CautionWei TangAmazon

2009 Film Independent Spirit Awards - Best Female Lead WinnerFrozen RiverMelissa LeoA mom looks for another source of income, when her husband leaves with the money meant for the new mobile home. A nearby Indian territory stretches across the border to Canada with a drivable frozen river between. Smugling?Amazon2009 Film Independent Spirit Awards - Best Female Lead NomineesBallastTarra RiggsAmazonRachel Getting MarriedAnne HathawayAmazonTowelheadSummer BishilAmazonWendy and LucyMichelle WilliamsAmazon