Gotham Independent Film Award for Outstanding Lead Performance

Gotham Independent Film Award for Outstanding Lead Performance
Gotham Independent Film Award for Outstanding Lead Performance
Country	United States
Presented by	The Gotham Film & Media Institute
First awarded	2021
Currently held by	Lily Gladstone for The Unknown Country (2023)
Website	awards.thegotham.org

The Gotham Independent Film Award for Outstanding Lead Performance is one of the annual Gotham Independent Film Awards and was first awarded in 2021.

It is a gender neutral award and was introduced for the Gotham Independent Film Awards 2021 to replace the awards for Best Actor and Best Actress given out in previous years.^[1]

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2020s edit

Year	Winner and nominees	Film	Role	Ref.
2021	Olivia Colman	The Lost Daughter	Leda Caruso	^[2]^[3]
	Frankie Faison	The Killing of Kenneth Chamberlain	Kenneth Chamberlain Sr.
	Michael Greyeyes	Wild Indian	Makwa
	Brittany S. Hall	Test Pattern	Renesha
	Oscar Isaac	The Card Counter	William "Tell" Tillich
	Taylour Paige	Zola	Aziah "Zola" King
	Joaquin Phoenix	C'mon C'mon	Johnny
	Simon Rex	Red Rocket	Mikey Saber
	Lili Taylor	Paper Spiders	Dawn
	Tessa Thompson	Passing	Irene "Reenie" Redfield
2022	Danielle Deadwyler	Till	Mamie Till-Mobley	^[4]^[5]
	Cate Blanchett	Tár	Lydia Tár
	Dale Dickey	A Love Song	Faye
	Colin Farrell	After Yang	Jake
	Brendan Fraser	The Whale	Charlie
	Paul Mescal	Aftersun	Calum
	Thandiwe Newton	God's Country	Sandra Guidry
	Aubrey Plaza	Emily the Criminal	Emily Benetto
	Taylor Russell	Bones and All	Maren Yearly
	Michelle Yeoh	Everything Everywhere All At Once	Evelyn Wang
2023	Lily Gladstone	The Unknown Country	Tana	^[6]
	Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor	Origin	Isabel Wilkerson
	Greta Lee	Past Lives	Nora
	Franz Rogowski	Passages	Tomas
	Babetida Sadjo	Our Father, the Devil	Marie Cissé
	Andrew Scott	All of Us Strangers	Adam
	Cailee Spaeny	Priscilla	Priscilla Presley
	Teyana Taylor	A Thousand and One	Inez de la Paz
	Michelle Williams	Showing Up	Lizzy
	Jeffrey Wright	American Fiction	Thelonious "Monk" Ellison

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Gotham Independent Film Award for Outstanding Lead Performance

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