1996 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Female Lead Winner

Leaving Las Vegas
Elisabeth Shue
Ben Sanderson, a Hollywood screenwriter who lost everything because of his alcoholism, arrives in Las Vegas to drink himself to death. There, he meets and forms an uneasy friendship and non-interference pact with prostitute Sera..
1996 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Female Lead Nominees

Georgia
Jennifer Jason Leigh

Nadja
Elina Löwensohn

Safe
Julianne Moore
