# Independent Spirit de melhor ator

O Prêmio Independent Spirit de Melhor Ator é um dos prêmios anuais do Independent Spirit, concedidos aos melhores atores em um papel principal de cada ano.
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## Vencedores e nomeados
### 1986-1989

| Ano | Vencedor | Filme | Papel |
| 1986 | M. Emmet Walsh | Blood Simple | Loren Visser |
| 1987 | James Woods | Salvador | Richard Boyle ‡ |
| 1988 | Dennis Quaid | The Big Easy | Det. Remy McSwain |
| 1989 | Edward James Olmos | Stand and Deliver | Jaime Escalante ‡ |

### Anos 1990

| Ano | Vencedor | Filme | Papel |
| 1990 | Matt Dillon | Drugstore Cowboy | Bob Hughes |
| 1991 | Danny Glover | To Sleep with Anger | Harry |
| 1992 | River Phoenix | My Own Private Idaho | Mike Waters |
| 1993 | Harvey Keitel | Bad Lieutenant | Tenente |
| 1994 | Jeff Bridges | American Heart | Jack Kelson |
| 1995 | Samuel L. Jackson | Pulp Fiction | Jules Winnfield ‡ |
| 1996 | Sean Penn | Dead Man Walking | Matthew Poncelet ‡ |
| 1997 | William H. Macy | Fargo | Jerry Lundegaard ‡ |
| 1998 | Robert Duvall | The Apostle | Euliss "Sonny" Dewey - The Apostle E.F. ‡ |
| 1999 | Ian McKellen | Gods and Monsters | James Whale ‡ |

### Anos 2000

| Ano | Vencedores e nomeados | Filme | Papel |
| 2000 | Richard Farnsworth | The Straight Story | Alvin Straight ‡ |
| 2000 | John Cusack | Being John Malkovich | Craig Schwartz |
| 2000 | Terence Stamp | The Limey | Wilson |
| 2000 | David Strathairn | Limbo | Joe "Jumpin" Gastineau |
| 2000 | Noble Willingham | The Corndog Man | Ace Barker |
| 2001 | Javier Bardem | Before Night Falls | Reinaldo Arenas ‡ |
| 2001 | Adrien Brody | Restaurant | Chris Calloway |
| 2001 | Billy Crudup | Jesus' Son | FH |
| 2001 | Hill Harper | The Visit | Alex Waters |
| 2001 | Mark Ruffalo | You Can Count on Me | Terry Prescott |
| 2002 | Tom Wilkinson | In the Bedroom | Matt Fowler ‡ |
| 2002 | Brian Cox | L.I.E. | Big John Harrigan |
| 2002 | Ryan Gosling | The Believer | Danny Balint |
| 2002 | Jake Gyllenhaal | Donnie Darko | Donnie Darko |
| 2002 | John Cameron Mitchell | Hedwig and the Angry Inch | Hansel Schmidt / Hedwig Robinson |
| 2003 | Derek Luke | Antwone Fisher | Antwone "Fish" Fisher |
| 2003 | Graham Greene | Skins | Mogie Yellow Lodge |
| 2003 | Danny Huston | Ivans Xtc | Ivan Beckman |
| 2003 | Jeremy Renner | Dahmer | Jeffrey Dahmer |
| 2003 | Campbell Scott | Roger Dodger | Roger Swanson |
| 2004 | Bill Murray | Lost in Translation | Bob Harris ‡ |
| 2004 | Peter Dinklage | The Station Agent | Finbar McBride |
| 2004 | Paul Giamatti | American Splendor | Harvey Pekar |
| 2004 | Ben Kingsley | House of Sand and Fog | Massoud Amir Behrani ‡ |
| 2004 | Lee Pace | Soldier's Girl | Calpernia Addams / Scottie |
| 2005 | Paul Giamatti | Sideways | Miles Raymond |
| 2005 | Kevin Bacon | The Woodsman | Walter |
| 2005 | Jeff Bridges | The Door in the Floor | Ted Cole |
| 2005 | Jamie Foxx | Redemption | Stan Tookie Williams |
| 2005 | Liam Neeson | Kinsey | Alfred Kinsey |
| 2006 | Philip Seymour Hoffman | Capote | Truman Capote † |
| 2006 | Jeff Daniels | The Squid and the Whale | Bernard Berkman |
| 2006 | Terrence Howard | Hustle & Flow | DJay ‡ |
| 2006 | Heath Ledger | Brokeback Mountain | Ennis Del Mar ‡ |
| 2006 | David Strathairn | Good Night, and Good Luck. | Edward R. Murrow ‡ |
| 2007 | Ryan Gosling | Half Nelson | Dan Dunne ‡ |
| 2007 | Aaron Eckhart | Thank You for Smoking | Nick Naylor |
| 2007 | Edward Norton | The Painted Veil | Walter Fane |
| 2007 | Ahmad Razvi | Man Push Cart | Ahmad |
| 2007 | Forest Whitaker | American Gun | Carter |
| 2008 | Philip Seymour Hoffman | The Savages | Jon Savage |
| 2008 | Pedro Castaneda | August Evening | Jaime |
| 2008 | Don Cheadle | Talk to Me | Petey Greene |
| 2008 | Frank Langella | Starting Out in the Evening | Leonard Schiller |
| 2008 | Tony Leung | Lust, Caution | Mr. Yee |
| 2009 | Mickey Rourke | The Wrestler | Randy "The Ram" Robinson ‡ |
| 2009 | Javier Bardem | Vicky Cristina Barcelona | Juan Antonio Gonzalo |
| 2009 | Richard Jenkins | The Visitor | Walter Vale ‡ |
| 2009 | Sean Penn | Milk | Harvey Milk † |
| 2009 | Jeremy Renner | The Hurt Locker | Staff Sgt. First Class William James ‡ |

### Anos 2010

| Ano | Vencedores e nomeados | Filme | Personagem |
| 2010 | Jeff Bridges | Crazy Heart | Otis "Bad" Blake † |
| 2010 | Colin Firth | A Single Man | George Falconer ‡ |
| 2010 | Joseph Gordon-Levitt | (500) Days of Summer | Tom Hansen |
| 2010 | Souleymane Sy Savane | Goodbye Solo | Solo |
| 2010 | Adam Scott | The Vicious Kind | Caleb Sinclaire |
| 2011 | James Franco | 127 Hours | Aron Ralston ‡ |
| 2011 | Ronald Bronstein | Daddy Longlegs | Lenny Sokol |
| 2011 | Aaron Eckhart | Rabbit Hole | Howie Corbett |
| 2011 | John C. Reilly | Cyrus | John Kilpatrick |
| 2011 | Ben Stiller | Greenberg | Roger Greenberg |
| 2012 | Jean Dujardin | O Artista | George Valentin † |
| 2012 | Demián Bichir | A Better Life | Carlos Galindo ‡ |
| 2012 | Ryan Gosling | Drive | Driver |
| 2012 | Woody Harrelson | Rampart | Dave Brown |
| 2012 | Michael Shannon | Take Shelter | Curtis LaForche |
| 2013 | John Hawkes | The Sessions | Mark O'Brien |
| 2013 | Jack Black | Bernie | Bernie Tiede |
| 2013 | Bradley Cooper | Silver Linings Playbook | Patrick "Pat" Solitano, Jr. ‡ |
| 2013 | Thure Lindhardt | Keep the Lights On | Erik |
| 2013 | Matthew McConaughey | Killer Joe | "Killer" Joe Cooper |
| 2013 | Wendell Pierce | Four | Joe |
| 2014 | Matthew McConaughey | Dallas Buyers Club | Ron Woodroof † |
| 2014 | Bruce Dern | Nebraska | Woody Grant‡ |
| 2014 | Chiwetel Ejiofor | 12 Years a Slave | Solomon Northup‡ |
| 2014 | Oscar Isaac | Inside Llewyn Davis | Llewyn Davis |
| 2014 | Michael B. Jordan | Fruitvale Station | Oscar Grant III |
| 2014 | Robert Redford | All Is Lost | Our Man |
| 2015 | Michael Keaton | Birdman | Riggan Thomson‡ |
| 2015 | André Benjamin | Jimi: All Is by My Side | Jimi Hendrix |
| 2015 | Jake Gyllenhaal | Nightcrawler | Louis Bloom |
| 2015 | John Lithgow | Love Is Strange | Ben |
| 2015 | David Oyelowo | Selma | Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| 2016 | Abraham Attah | Beasts of No Nation | Agu |
| 2016 | Christopher Abbott | James White | James White |
| 2016 | Ben Mendelsohn | Mississippi Grind | Gerry |
| 2016 | Jason Segel | The End of the Tour | David Foster Wallace |
| 2016 | Koudous Seihon | Mediterranea | Aviva |
| 2017 | Casey Affleck | Manchester by the Sea | Lee Chandler † |
| 2017 | David Harewood | Free in Deed | Abe Wilkins |
| 2017 | Viggo Mortensen | Captain Fantastic | Ben Cash ‡ |
| 2017 | Jesse Plemons | Other People | David Mulcahey |
| 2017 | Tim Roth | Chronic | David Wilson |
| 2018 | Timothée Chalamet | Call Me by Your Name | Elio Perlman ‡ |
| 2018 | Harris Dickinson | Beach Rats | Frankie |
| 2018 | James Franco | The Disaster Artist | Tommy Wiseau |
| 2018 | Daniel Kaluuya | Get Out | Chris Washington ‡ |
| 2018 | Robert Pattinson | Good Time | Constantine "Connie" Nikas |
| 2019 | Ethan Hawke | First Reformed | Ernst Toller |
| 2019 | John Cho | Searching | David Kim |
| 2019 | Daveed Diggs | Blindspotting | Collin Hoskins |
| 2019 | Christian Malheiros | Sócrates | Sócrates |
| 2019 | Joaquin Phoenix | You Were Never Really Here | Joe |