Giải Tinh thần độc lập cho nam diễn viên chính xuất sắc nhất

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Giải Tinh thần độc lập cho nam diễn viên chính xuất sắc nhất là một trong các giải Tinh thần độc lập dành cho nam diễn viên đóng vai chính trong một phim độc lập, được bầu chọn là xuất sắc nhất. Giải này được lập từ năm 1985.

Các người đoạt giải & được đề cử
Thập niên 1980
1985: M. Emmet Walsh - Blood Simple
Rubén Blades - Crossover Dreams
Tom Bower - Wildrose
Treat Williams - Smooth Talk
1986: James Woods - Salvador
Roberto Benigni - Down by Law
Willem Dafoe - Platoon
Dennis Hopper - Blue Velvet
Victor Love - Native Son
1987: Dennis Quaid - The Big Easy
Spalding Gray - Swimming to Cambodia
Terry O'Quinn - The Stepfather
Mickey Rourke - Barfly
James Woods - Best Seller
1988: Edward James Olmos - Stand and Deliver
Eric Bogosian - Talk Radio
Harvey Fierstein - Torch Song Trilogy
Chris Mulkey - Patti Rocks
James Woods - The Boost
1989: Matt Dillon - Drugstore Cowboy
Nicolas Cage - Vampire's Kiss
Charles Lane - Sidewalk Stories
Randy Quaid - Parents
James Spader - Sex, Lies, and Videotape

Thập niên 1990
1990: Danny Glover - To Sleep with Anger
Martin Priest - The Plot Against Harry
Christopher Reid - House Party
Michael Rooker - Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
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
Mitchell Lichtenstein - Hsi yen (The Wedding Banquet)
Matthew Modine - Equinox
Vincent D'Onofrio - Household Saints
Tyrin Turner - Menace II Society
1994: Samuel L. Jackson - Pulp Fiction
Sihung Lung - Yin shi nan nu (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
Peter Fonda - Ulee's Gold
Philip Baker Hall - Sydney
Christopher Guest - Waiting for Guffman
John Turturro - Box of Moon Light
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

Thập niên 2000
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 - Ivansxtc
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 - Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story
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 (Se, jie)
2008: Mickey Rourke - The Wrestler
Javier Bardem - Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Richard Jenkins - The Visitor
Sean Penn - Milk
Jeremy Renner - The Hurt Locker

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