1996 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Female Lead Winner and Nominees

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..

Georgia

Jennifer Jason Leigh

Nadja

Elina Löwensohn

Safe

Julianne Moore

The Addiction

Lili Taylor