1987 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Female Lead Winner and Nominees

Blue Velvet

Isabella Rossellini

The discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation related to a beautiful, mysterious nightclub singer and a group of psychopathic criminals who have kidnapped her child.

Blue Velvet

Laura Dern

Desert Hearts

Patricia Charbonneau

Salvador

Elpidia Carrillo

She’s Gotta Have It

Tracy Camilla Johns