BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role

Best Actress in a Leading Role is a British Academy Film award presented annually by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) to recognize an actress who has delivered an outstanding leading performance in a film.

Contents

1 Winners and nominees
- 1.1 1950s
- 1.2 1960s
- 1.3 1970s
- 1.4 1980s
- 1.5 1990s
- 1.6 2000s
2 External links

Winners and nominees

Between 1952 and 1967, two distinct awards were given to the best British and best foreign actress each year. In 1968, the two prizes of British and foreign actress were combined to create a single Best Actress award. Its current title, for Best Actress in a Leading Role, has been used since 1995.

1950s

1952
- Best British Actress – Vivien Leigh – A Streetcar Named Desire
  - Ann Todd – The Sound Barrier
  - Celia Johnson – I Believe in You
  - Phyllis Calvert – Mandy
- Best Foreign Actress – Simone Signoret – Golden Helmet
  - Nicole Stéphane – Les Enfants terribles
  - Judy Holliday – The Marrying Kind
  - Edwige Feuillère – Olivia
  - Katharine Hepburn – Pat and Mike

1953
- Best British Actress – Audrey Hepburn – Roman Holiday
  - Celia Johnson – The Captain's Paradise
- Best Foreign Actress – Leslie Caron – Lili
  - Shirley Booth – Come Back, Little Sheba
  - Maria Schell – The Heart of the Matter
  - Mala Powers – The Medium

1954
- Best British Actress – Yvonne Mitchell – The Divided Heart
  - Brenda De Banzie – Hobson's Choice
  - Audrey Hepburn – Sabrina Fair
  - Margaret Leighton – Carrington V.C.
  - Noelle Middleton – Carrington V.C.
- Best Foreign Actress – Cornell Borchers – The Divided Heart
  - Shirley Booth – About Mrs. Leslie
  - Grace Kelly – Dial M for Murder
  - Gina Lollobrigida – Bread, Love and Dreams
  - Judy Holliday – Phffft!

1955
- Best British Actress – Katie Johnson – The Ladykillers
  - Deborah Kerr – The End of the Affair
  - Margaret Johnson – Touch and Go
- Best Foreign Actress – Betsy Blair – Marty
  - Dorothy Dandridge – Carmen Jones
  - Judy Garland – A Star Is Born
  - Julie Harris – I Am a Camera
  - Katharine Hepburn – Summertime
  - Grace Kelly – The Country Girl
  - Giulietta Masina – The Road
  - Marilyn Monroe – The Seven Year Itch

1956
- Best British Actress – Virginia McKenna – A Town Like Alice
  - Dorothy Alison – Reach for the Sky
  - Audrey Hepburn – War and Peace
- Best Foreign Actress – Anna Magnani – The Rose Tattoo
  - Carroll Baker – Baby Doll
  - Ava Gardner – Bhowani Junction
  - Maria Schell – Gervaise
  - Jean Simmons – Guys and Dolls
  - Susan Hayward – I'll Cry Tomorrow
  - Kim Novak – Picnic
  - Marisa Pavan – The Rose Tattoo
  - Eva Dahlbeck – Sommarnattens leende
  - Shirley MacLaine – The Trouble with Harry

1957
- Best British Actress – Heather Sears – The Story of Esther Costello
  - Deborah Kerr – Tea and Sympathy
  - Sylvia Syms – Woman in a Dressing Gown
- Best Foreign Actress – Simone Signoret – The Witches of Salem
  - Augusta Dabney – That Night!
  - Katharine Hepburn – The Rainmaker
  - Marilyn Monroe – The Prince and the Showgirl
  - Lilli Palmer – Anastasia: Die letzte Zarentochter
  - Eva Marie Saint – A Hatful of Rain
  - Joanne Woodward – The Three Faces of Eve

1958
- Best British Actress – Irene Worth – Orders to Kill
  - Virginia McKenna – Carve Her Name with Pride
  - Hermione Baddeley – Room at the Top
- Best Foreign Actress – Simone Signoret – Room at the Top
  - Karuna Bannerjee – The Unvanquished
  - Elizabeth Taylor – Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
  - Ingrid Bergman – The Inn of the Sixth Happiness
  - Tatyana Samojlova – The Cranes Are Flying
  - Joanne Woodward – No Down Payment
  - Giulietta Masina – Nights of Cabiria
  - Anna Magnani – Wild Is the Wind

1959
- Best British Actress – Audrey Hepburn – The Nun's Story
  - Kay Walsh – The Horse's Mouth
  - Sylvia Syms – No Trees in the Street
  - Peggy Ashcroft – The Nun's Story
  - Yvonne Mitchell – Sapphire
- Best Foreign Actress – Shirley MacLaine – Ask Any Girl
  - Rosalind Russell – Auntie Mame
  - Susan Hayward – I Want to Live!
  - Ava Gardner – On the Beach
  - Ellie Lambeti – To Telefteo psemma

1960s

1960
- Best British Actress – Rachel Roberts – Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
  - Hayley Mills – Pollyanna
  - Wendy Hiller – Sons and Lovers
- Best Foreign Actress – Shirley MacLaine – The Apartment
  - Pier Angeli – The Angry Silence
  - Monica Vitti – The Adventure
  - Jean Simmons – Elmer Gantry
  - Emmanuelle Riva – Hiroshima Mon Amour
  - Melina Mercouri – Never on Sunday

1961
- Best British Actress – Dora Bryan – A Taste of Honey
  - Deborah Kerr – The Sundowners
  - Hayley Mills – Whistle Down the Wind
- Best Foreign Actress – Sophia Loren – Two Women
  - Piper Laurie – The Hustler
  - Claudia McNeil – A Raisin in the Sun
  - Annie Girardot – Rocco and His Brothers
  - Jean Seberg – Breathless

1962
- Best British Actress – Leslie Caron – The L-Shaped Room
  - Janet Munro – Life for Ruth
  - Virginia Maskell – The Wild and the Willing
- Best Foreign Actress – Anne Bancroft – The Miracle Worker
  - Jeanne Moreau – Jules and Jim
  - Anouk Aimée – Lola
  - Melina Mercouri – Phaedra
  - Natalie Wood – Splendor in the Grass
  - Geraldine Page – Sweet Bird of Youth
  - Harriet Andersson – Såsom i en spegel

1963
- Best British Actress – Rachel Roberts – This Sporting Life
  - Julie Christie – Billy Liar
  - Sarah Miles – The Servant
  - Barbara Windsor – Sparrers Can't Sing
  - Edith Evans – Tom Jones
- Best Foreign Actress – Patricia Neal – Hud
  - Lee Remick – Days of Wine and Roses
  - Daniela Rocca – Divorce, Italian Style
  - Joan Crawford – What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
  - Bette Davis – What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

1964
- Best British Actress – Audrey Hepburn – Charade
  - Julie Andrews – Mary Poppins
  - Edith Evans – The Chalk Garden
  - Deborah Kerr – The Chalk Garden
  - Rita Tushingham – Girl with Green Eyes
- Best Foreign Actress – Anne Bancroft – The Pumpkin Eater
  - Ava Gardner – The Night of the Iguana
  - Shirley MacLaine – Irma la Douce
  - Shirley MacLaine – What a Way to Go!
  - Kim Stanley – Séance on a Wet Afternoon

1965
- Best British Actress – Julie Christie – Darling
  - Julie Andrews – The Americanization of Emily
  - Julie Andrews – The Sound of Music
  - Maggie Smith – Young Cassidy
  - Rita Tushingham – The Knack …and How to Get It
- Best Foreign Actress – Patricia Neal – In Harm's Way
  - Lila Kedrova – Zorba the Greek
  - Simone Signoret – Ship of Fools

1966
- Best British Actress – Elizabeth Taylor – Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
  - Julie Christie – Doctor Zhivago
  - Julie Christie – Fahrenheit 451
  - Lynn Redgrave – Georgy Girl
  - Vanessa Redgrave – Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment
- Best Foreign Actress – Jeanne Moreau – Viva Maria!
  - Brigitte Bardot – Viva Maria!
  - Joan Hackett – The Group

1967
- Best British Actress – Edith Evans – The Whisperers
  - Barbara Jefford – Ulysses
  - Elizabeth Taylor – The Taming of the Shrew
- Best Foreign Actress – Anouk Aimée – A Man and a Woman
  - Bibi Andersson – Persona
  - Bibi Andersson – Syskonbädd 1782
  - Jane Fonda – Barefoot in the Park
  - Simone Signoret – The Deadly Affair

1968 – Katharine Hepburn – Guess Who's Coming to Dinner and The Lion in Winter
- Catherine Deneuve – Belle de jour
- Anne Bancroft – The Graduate
- Joanne Woodward – Rachel, Rachel

1969 – Maggie Smith – The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
- Mia Farrow – John and Mary
- Mia Farrow – Rosemary's Baby
- Mia Farrow – Secret Ceremony
- Glenda Jackson – Women in Love
- Barbra Streisand – Funny Girl
- Barbra Streisand – Hello, Dolly!
- Mary Wimbush – Oh! What a Lovely War

1970s

1970 – Katharine Ross – Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here
- Jane Fonda – They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
- Goldie Hawn – Cactus Flower
- Goldie Hawn – There's a Girl in My Soup
- Sarah Miles – Ryan's Daughter

1971 – Glenda Jackson – Sunday Bloody Sunday
- Lynn Carlin – Taking Off
- Julie Christie – The Go-Between
- Jane Fonda – Klute
- Nanette Newman – The Raging Moon

1972 – Liza Minnelli – Cabaret
- Stéphane Audran – The Butcher
- Anne Bancroft – Young Winston
- Dorothy Tutin – Savage Messiah

1973 – Stéphane Audran – The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie and Just Before Nightfall
- Julie Christie – Don't Look Now
- Glenda Jackson – A Touch of Class
- Diana Ross – Lady Sings the Blues
- Ingrid Thulin – Viskningar och rop

1974 – Joanne Woodward – Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams
- Faye Dunaway – Chinatown
- Barbra Streisand – The Way We Were
- Liv Ullmann – Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams

1975 – Ellen Burstyn – Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
- Anne Bancroft – The Prisoner of Second Avenue
- Valerie Perrine – Lenny
- Liv Ullmann – Scener ur ett äktenskap

1976 – Louise Fletcher – One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- Lauren Bacall – The Shootist
- Rita Moreno – The Ritz
- Liv Ullmann – Ansikte mot ansikte

1977 – Diane Keaton – Annie Hall
- Faye Dunaway – Network
- Shelley Duvall – 3 Women
- Lily Tomlin – The Late Show

1978 – Jane Fonda – Julia
- Anne Bancroft – The Turning Point
- Jill Clayburgh – An Unmarried Woman
- Marsha Mason – The Goodbye Girl

1979 – Jane Fonda – The China Syndrome
- Diane Keaton – Manhattan
- Maggie Smith – California Suite
- Meryl Streep – The Deer Hunter

1980s

1980 – Judy Davis – My Brilliant Career
- Shirley MacLaine – Being There
- Bette Midler – The Rose
- Meryl Streep – Kramer vs. Kramer

1981 – Meryl Streep – The French Lieutenant's Woman
- Mary Tyler Moore – Ordinary People
- Maggie Smith – Quartet
- Sissy Spacek – Coal Miner's Daughter

1982 – Katharine Hepburn – On Golden Pond
- Diane Keaton – Reds
- Jennifer Kendal – 36 Chowringhee Lane
- Sissy Spacek – Missing

1983 – Julie Walters – Educating Rita
- Jessica Lange – Tootsie
- Phyllis Logan – Another Time, Another Place
- Meryl Streep – Sophie's Choice

1984 – Maggie Smith – A Private Function
- Shirley MacLaine – Terms of Endearment
- Helen Mirren – Cal
- Meryl Streep – Silkwood

1985 – Peggy Ashcroft – A Passage to India
- Mia Farrow – The Purple Rose of Cairo
- Kelly McGillis – Witness
- Alexandra Pigg – Letter to Brezhnev

1986 – Maggie Smith – A Room with a View
- Mia Farrow – Hannah and Her Sisters
- Meryl Streep – Out of Africa
- Cathy Tyson – Mona Lisa

1987 – Anne Bancroft – 84 Charing Cross Road
- Emily Lloyd – Wish You Were Here
- Sarah Miles – Hope and Glory
- Julie Walters – Personal Services

1988 – Maggie Smith – The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
- Stéphane Audran – Babettes gæstebud
- Cher – Moonstruck
- Jamie Lee Curtis – A Fish Called Wanda

1989 – Pauline Collins – Shirley Valentine
- Glenn Close – Dangerous Liaisons
- Jodie Foster – The Accused
- Melanie Griffith – Working Girl

1990s

1990 – Jessica Tandy – Driving Miss Daisy
- Shirley MacLaine – Postcards from the Edge
- Michelle Pfeiffer – The Fabulous Baker Boys
- Julia Roberts – Pretty Woman

1991 – Jodie Foster – The Silence of the Lambs
- Geena Davis – Thelma & Louise
- Susan Sarandon – Thelma & Louise
- Juliet Stevenson – Truly, Madly, Deeply

1992 – Emma Thompson – Howards End
- Judy Davis – Husbands and Wives
- Tara Morice – Strictly Ballroom
- Jessica Tandy – Fried Green Tomatoes

1993 – Holly Hunter – The Piano
- Miranda Richardson – Tom & Viv
- Emma Thompson – The Remains of the Day
- Debra Winger – Shadowlands

1994 – Susan Sarandon – The Client
- Linda Fiorentino – The Last Seduction
- Irène Jacob – Three Colors: Red (Trois couleurs: Rouge)
- Uma Thurman – Pulp Fiction

1995 – Emma Thompson – Sense and Sensibility
- Nicole Kidman – To Die For
- Helen Mirren – The Madness of King George
- Elisabeth Shue – Leaving Las Vegas

1996 – Brenda Blethyn – Secrets & Lies
- Frances McDormand – Fargo
- Kristin Scott Thomas – The English Patient
- Emily Watson – Breaking the Waves

1997 – Judi Dench – Mrs. Brown
- Kim Basinger – L.A. Confidential
- Kathy Burke – Nil by Mouth
- Helena Bonham Carter – The Wings of the Dove

1998 – Cate Blanchett – Elizabeth
- Jane Horrocks – Little Voice
- Gwyneth Paltrow – Shakespeare in Love
- Emily Watson – Hilary and Jackie

1999 – Annette Bening – American Beauty
- Linda Bassett – East is East
- Julianne Moore – The End of the Affair
- Emily Watson – Angela's Ashes

2000s

2000 – Julia Roberts – Erin Brockovich
- Juliette Binoche – Chocolat
- Kate Hudson – Almost Famous
- Hilary Swank – Boys Don't Cry
- Michelle Yeoh – Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Wo hu cang long)

2001 – Judi Dench – Iris
- Nicole Kidman – The Others
- Sissy Spacek – In the Bedroom
- Audrey Tautou – Amélie (Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain)
- Renée Zellweger – Bridget Jones's Diary

2002 – Nicole Kidman – The Hours
- Halle Berry – Monster's Ball
- Salma Hayek – Frida
- Meryl Streep – The Hours
- Renée Zellweger – Chicago

2003 – Scarlett Johansson – Lost in Translation
- Scarlett Johansson – Girl with a Pearl Earring
- Anne Reid – The Mother
- Uma Thurman – Kill Bill: Vol. 1
- Naomi Watts – 21 Grams

2004 – Imelda Staunton – Vera Drake
- Charlize Theron – Monster
- Kate Winslet – Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
- Kate Winslet – Finding Neverland
- Zhang Ziyi – House of Flying Daggers (Shi mian mai fu)

2005 – Reese Witherspoon – Walk the Line
- Judi Dench – Mrs Henderson Presents
- Charlize Theron – North Country
- Rachel Weisz – The Constant Gardener
- Zhang Ziyi – Memoirs of a Geisha

2006 – Helen Mirren – The Queen
- Penélope Cruz – To Return (Volver)
- Judi Dench – Notes on a Scandal
- Meryl Streep – The Devil Wears Prada
- Kate Winslet – Little Children

2007 – Marion Cotillard – La Vie en Rose (La môme)
- Cate Blanchett – Elizabeth: The Golden Age
- Julie Christie – Away From Her
- Keira Knightley – Atonement
- Ellen Page – Juno

2008 – Kate Winslet – The Reader
- Angelina Jolie – Changeling
- Kristin Scott Thomas – I've Loved You So Long (Il y a longtemps que je t'aime)
- Meryl Streep – Doubt
- Kate Winslet – Revolutionary Road

External links

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