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British film industry award
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.
From 1952 to 1967, there were two Best Actress awards presented, Best British Actress and Best Foreign Actress.
From 1968 onwards, the two awards merged into one award, which from 1968 to 1984 was known as Best Actress.
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From 1985 to present, the award has been known by its current name of Best Actress in a Leading Role.
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In the following lists, the titles and names in bold with a gold background are the winners and recipients respectively; those not in bold are the nominees. The years given are those in which the films under consideration were released, not the year of the ceremony, which always takes place the following year.
Winners and nominees
indicates the winner
Vivien Leigh was the inaugural winner, for
A Streetcar Named Desire (1952).
Simone Signoret was the inaugural winner, and she won three times for
Golden Helmet (1952),
The Witches of Salem (1957), and
Room at the Top (1958).
Audrey Hepburn won three times for
Roman Holiday (1953),
The Nun's Story (1959), and
Charade (1963).
Shirley MacLaine won two consecutive times for
Ask Any Girl (1959) and
The Apartment (1960).
Rachel Roberts won twice, for
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960) and
This Sporting Life (1963).
Leslie Caron won for
The L-Shaped Room (1962).
Anne Bancroft won thrice, for
The Miracle Worker (1962),
The Pumpkin Eater (1964), and
84 Charing Cross Road (1987).
Julie Christie won for
Darling (1965).
Elizabeth Taylor won for
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966).
Katharine Hepburn won twice, for
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner /
The Lion in Winter (1968) and
On Golden Pond (1981).
Maggie Smith holds the record for most wins in this category, with four for
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969),
A Private Function (1984),
A Room with a View (1985), and
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne (1987).
Katharine Ross won for
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid /
Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here (1970).
Glenda Jackson won for
Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971).
Liza Minnelli won for
Cabaret (1972).
Joanne Woodward won for
Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams (1973).
Ellen Burstyn won for
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974).
Diane Keaton won for
Annie Hall (1977).
Jane Fonda won two consecutive times for
Julia (1977) and
The China Syndrome (1978).
Meryl Streep received a leading twelve nominations in this category, winning two times for
The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981) and
The Iron Lady (2011).
Julie Walters won for
Educating Rita (1983).
Jodie Foster won for
The Silence of the Lambs (1991).
Emma Thompson won twice, for
Howards End (1992) and
Sense and Sensibility (1995).
Judi Dench won twice, for
Mrs Brown (1997) and
Iris (2001).
Cate Blanchett won three times for
Elizabeth (1998),
Blue Jasmine (2013), and
Tár (2022).
Annette Bening won for
American Beauty (1999).
Julia Roberts won for
Erin Brockovich (2000).
Nicole Kidman won for
The Hours (2002).
Scarlett Johansson won for
Lost in Translation (2003).
Reese Witherspoon won for
Walk the Line (2005).
Helen Mirren won for
The Queen (2006).
Marion Cotillard won for
La Vie en Rose (2007).
Kate Winslet won for
The Reader (2008).
Carey Mulligan won for
An Education (2009).
Natalie Portman won for
Black Swan (2010).
Emmanuelle Riva won for
Amour (2012); this category's oldest winner, at age 85.
Julianne Moore won for
Still Alice (2014).
Brie Larson won for
Room (2015).
Emma Stone won twice, for
La La Land (2016) and
Poor Things (2023).
Frances McDormand won twice, for
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017) and
Nomadland (2020).
Olivia Colman won for
The Favourite (2018).
Renée Zellweger won for
Judy (2019).
Joanna Scanlan won for
After Love (2020).
1950s
1960s
1970s
1980s
1990s
2000s
2010s
2020s
Superlatives
Multiple nominations
12 nominations
8 nominations
7 nominations
6 nominations
5 nominations
4 nominations
3 nominations
2 nominations
Multiple wins
See also
Notes
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9 : Rules from the 1960s to the 1970s allowed for an actress to receive a single citation for performances in multiple films in the same year.
Shirley MacLaine ,
Julie Andrews ,
Julie Christie ,
Bibi Andersson ,
Katharine Hepburn ,
Barbra Streisand ,
Katharine Ross ,
Goldie Hawn , and
Stéphane Audran were all nominated for their roles in two different films, while
Mia Farrow was nominated for three films.
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Elliot Page was nominated before his
gender transition in 2020.
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Emmanuelle Riva and
Marion Cotillard both received nominations for French-speaking roles, the first occasion that two actresses were nominated for foreign-language performances in the same year since separate awards for Best British Actress and Best Foreign Actress were folded into a single category for Best Actress in 1968.
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