BAFTA de melhor atriz em cinema
# BAFTA de melhor atriz em cinema

BAFTA de Melhor Atriz num Papel Principal (no original, em inglês: BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role) é um prêmio entregue anualmente pela British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) à atriz que se tenha distinguido durante o ano num papel principal em cinema.
Foi dividido anteriormente em Melhor Atriz Britânica e Melhor Atriz Estrangeira até ao ano de 1968.
Atrizes de qualquer nacionalidade são elegíveis para receber o prémio.
* † indica uma vencedora do Oscar de Melhor Atriz
* ‡ indica uma nomeada/indicada ao Oscar de Melhor Atriz
* § indica uma vencedora ou indicada ao Oscar de Melhor Atriz Coadjuvante.

## Vencedoras e indicadas
### Melhor Atriz Britânica (1953–1968)

| Ano | Atriz | Filme | Personagem |
| 1953 |
| 1953 | Vivien Leigh † | A Streetcar Named Desire | Blanche DuBois |
| 1953 | Phyllis Calvert | Mandy | Christine Garland |
| 1953 | Celia Johnson | I Believe in You | Matty Matheson |
| 1953 | Ann Todd | The Sound Barrier | Susan Garthwaite |
| 1954 |
| 1954 | Audrey Hepburn † | Roman Holiday | Princesa Ann |
| 1954 | Celia Johnson | The Captain's Paradise | Maud |
| 1955 |
| 1955 | Yvonne Mitchell | The Divided Heart | Sonja |
| 1955 | Brenda De Banzie | Hobson's Choice | Maggie Hobson |
| 1955 | Audrey Hepburn | Sabrina | Sabrina Fairchild |
| 1955 | Margaret Leighton | Carrington V.C. | Valerie Carrington |
| 1955 | Noelle Middleton | Carrington V.C. | Alison L. Graham |
| 1956 |
| 1956 | Katie Johnson | The Ladykillers | Louisa Wilberforce |
| 1956 | Margaret Johnston | Touch and Go | Helen Fletcher |
| 1956 | Deborah Kerr | The End of the Affair | Sarah Miles |
| 1956 | Margaret Lockwood | Cast a Dark Shadow | Freda Jefferies |
| 1957 |
| 1957 | Virginia McKenna | A Town Like Alice | Jean Paget |
| 1957 | Dorothy Alison | Reach for the Sky | Enfermeira Brace |
| 1957 | Audrey Hepburn | War and Peace | Natasha Rostova |
| 1958 |
| 1958 | Heather Sears | The Story of Esther Costello | Esther Costello |
| 1958 | Deborah Kerr | Tea and Sympathy | Laura Reynolds |
| 1958 | Sylvia Syms | Woman in a Dressing Gown | Georgie Harlow |
| 1959 |
| 1959 | Irene Worth | Orders to Kill | Leonie |
| 1959 | Hermione Baddeley | Room at the Top | Elspeth |
| 1959 | Karuna Banerjee | Aparajito | Sarbajaya Roy |
| 1959 | Virginia McKenna | Carve Her Name with Pride | Violette Szabo |
| 1960 |
| 1960 | Audrey Hepburn ‡ | The Nun's Story | Gabrielle |
| 1960 | Peggy Ashcroft | The Nun's Story | Mother Mathilde |
| 1960 | Yvonne Mitchell | Sapphire | Mildred |
| 1960 | Sylvia Syms | No Trees in the Street | Hetty |
| 1960 | Kay Walsh | The Horse's Mouth | Miss. Coker |
| 1960 | Wendy Hiller | Separate Tables | Pat Cooper |
| 1961 |
| 1961 | Rachel Roberts | Saturday Night and Sunday Morning | Brenda |
| 1961 | Hayley Mills | Pollyana | Pollyanna |
| 1961 | Wendy Hiller | Sons and Lovers | Gertrude Morel |
| 1962 |
| 1962 | Dora Bryan | A Taste of Honey | Helen |
| 1962 | Deborah Kerr | The Sundowners | Ida Carmody |
| 1962 | Hayley Mills | Whistle Down the Wind | Kathy Bostock |
| 1963 |
| 1963 | Leslie Caron ‡ | The L-Shaped Room | Jane Fosset |
| 1963 | Virginia Maskell | The Wild and the Willing | Virginia Chown |
| 1963 | Janet Munro | Life for Ruth | Pat Harris |
| 1964 |
| 1964 | Rachel Roberts ‡ | This Sporting Life | Margaret Hammond |
| 1964 | Julie Christie | Billy Liar | Liz |
| 1964 | Edith Evans | Tom Jones | Miss Western |
| 1964 | Sarah Miles | The Servant | Vera |
| 1964 | Barbara Windsor | Sparrers Can't Sing | Maggie Gooding |
| 1965 |
| 1965 | Audrey Hepburn | Charade | Regina Lampert |
| 1965 | Edith Evans | The Chalk Garden | Sra. St. Maugham |
| 1965 | Deborah Kerr | The Chalk Garden | Sra. Madrigal |
| 1965 | Rita Tushingham | Girl with Green Eyes | Kate Brady |
| 1966 |
| 1966 | Julie Christie † | Darling | Diana Scott |
| 1966 | Julie Andrews | The Americanization of Emily / The Sound of Music ‡ | Emily Barham / Maria |
| 1966 | Maggie Smith | Young Cassidy | Nora |
| 1966 | Rita Tushingham | The Knack...and How to Get It | Nancy Jones |
| 1967 |
| 1967 | Elizabeth Taylor † | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf | Martha |
| 1967 | Julie Christie | Doctor Zhivago / Fahrenheit 451 | Lara Antipova / Linda Montag / Clarisse |
| 1967 | Lynn Redgrave ‡ | Georgy Girl | Georgina "Georgy" Parkin |
| 1967 | Vanessa Redgrave ‡ | Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment | Leonie Delt |
| 1968 |
| 1968 | Edith Evans ‡ | The Whisperers | Sra. Ross |
| 1968 | Barbara Jefford | Ulysses | Molly Bloom |
| 1968 | Elizabeth Taylor | The Taming of the Shrew | Katharina |

### Melhor Atriz Estrangeira (1953–1968)

| Ano | Atriz | Filme | Personagem |
| 1953 |
| 1953 | Simone Signoret | Golden Helmet | Marie |
| 1953 | Edwige Feuillère | The Pit of Loneliness | Julie |
| 1953 | Katharine Hepburn | Pat and Mike | Patricia "Pat" Pemberton |
| 1953 | Judy Holliday | The Marrying Kind | Florence Keefer |
| 1953 | Nicole Stéphane | The Terrible Children | Elisabeth |
| 1954 |
| 1954 | Leslie Caron | Lili | Lili Daurier |
| 1954 | Shirley Booth † | Come Back, Little Sheba | Lola Delaney |
| 1954 | Marie Powers | The Medium | Flora |
| 1954 | Maria Schell | The Heart of the Matter | Helen Rolt |
| 1955 |
| 1955 | Cornell Borchers | The Divided Heart | Inga Hartl |
| 1955 | Shirley Booth | About Mrs. Leslie | Vivien Leslie |
| 1955 | Judy Holliday | Phffft | Nina Tracey |
| 1955 | Grace Kelly | Dial M for Murder | Margot Wendice |
| 1955 | Gina Lollobrigida | Pane, amore e fantasia (Bread, Love and Dreams) | Maria de Ritis |
| 1956 |
| 1956 | Betsy Blair | Marty | Clara |
| 1956 | Dorothy Dandridge ‡ | Carmen Jones | Carmen Jones |
| 1956 | Judy Garland ‡ | A Star is Born | Esther Blodgett |
| 1956 | Julie Harris | I Am a Camera | Sally Bowles |
| 1956 | Katharine Hepburn | Summertime | Jane Hudson |
| 1956 | Grace Kelly † | The Country Girl | Georgie Elgin |
| 1956 | Giulietta Masina | The Road | Gelsomina |
| 1956 | Marilyn Monroe | The Seven Year Itch | The Girl |
| 1957 |
| 1957 | Anna Magnani † | The Rose Tattoo | Serafina Delle Rose |
| 1957 | Carroll Baker | Baby Doll | Baby Doll Meighan |
| 1957 | Eva Dahlbeck | Smiles of a Summer Night | Desiree Armfeldt |
| 1957 | Ava Gardner | Bhowani Junction | Victoria Jones |
| 1957 | Susan Hayward ‡ | I'll Cry Tomorrow | Lillian Roth |
| 1957 | Shirley MacLaine | The Trouble with Harry | Jennifer Rogers |
| 1957 | Kim Novak | Picnic | Marjorie Owens |
| 1957 | Marisa Pavan | The Rose Tattoo | Rose Delle Rose |
| 1957 | Maria Schell | Gervaise | Gervaise Macquart Coupeau |
| 1957 | Jean Simmons | Guys and Dolls | Sarah Brown |
| 1958 |
| 1958 | Simone Signoret | The Crucible | Elizabeth Proctor |
| 1958 | Augusta Dabney | That Night! | Maggie Bowden |
| 1958 | Katharine Hepburn ‡ | The Rainmaker | Lizzie Curry |
| 1958 | Lilli Palmer | The Story of Anastasia | Anna Anderson |
| 1958 | Eva Marie Saint | A Hatful of Rain | Celia Pope |
| 1958 | Marilyn Monroe | The Prince and the Showgirl | Elsie Marina |
| 1958 | Joanne Woodward † | The Three Faces of Eve | Eve White |
| 1959 |
| 1959 | Simone Signoret † | Room at the Top | Alice Aisgill |
| 1959 | Ingrid Bergman | The Inn of the Sixth Happiness | Gladys Aylward |
| 1959 | Anna Magnani ‡ | Wild Is the Wind | Gioia |
| 1959 | Giulietta Masina | Nights of Cabiria | Cabiria Ceccarelli |
| 1959 | Tatiana Samoilova | The Cranes Are Flying | Veronika |
| 1959 | Elizabeth Taylor | Cat on a Hot Tin Roof | Maggie Pollitt |
| 1959 | Joanne Woodward | No Down Payment | Leola Boone |
| 1960 |
| 1960 | Shirley MacLaine | Ask Any Girl | Meg Wheeler |
| 1960 | Ava Gardner | On the Beach | Moira Davidson |
| 1960 | Susan Hayward † | I Want to Live! | Barbara Graham |
| 1960 | Ellie Lambeti | A Matter of Dignity | Chloe Pella |
| 1960 | Rosalind Russell ‡ | Auntie Mame | Mame Dennis |
| 1961 |
| 1961 | Shirley MacLaine | The Apartment | Fran Kubelik |
| 1961 | Pier Angeli | The Angry Silence | Anna Curtis |
| 1961 | Melina Mercouri ‡ | Never on Sunday | Illya |
| 1961 | Emmanuelle Riva | Hiroshima mon amour | Elle |
| 1961 | Jean Simmons | Elmer Gantry | Sharon Falconer |
| 1961 | Monica Vitti | The Adventure | Claudia |
| 1962 |
| 1962 | Sophia Loren † | Two Women | Cesira |
| 1962 | Annie Girardot | Rocco and His Brothers | Nadia |
| 1962 | Piper Laurie ‡ | The Hustler | Sarah Packard |
| 1962 | Claudia McNeil | A Raisin in the Sun | Lena Younger |
| 1962 | Jean Seberg | Breathless | Patricia Franchini |
| 1963 |
| 1963 | Anne Bancroft † | The Miracle Worker | Annie Sullivan |
| 1963 | Harriet Andersson | Through a Glass Darkly | Katrin |
| 1963 | Anouk Aimée | Lola | Lola |
| 1963 | Melina Mercouri | Phaedra | Phaedra |
| 1963 | Jeanne Moreau | Jules and Jim | Catherine |
| 1963 | Geraldine Page ‡ | Sweet Bird of Youth | Alexandra del Lago |
| 1963 | Natalie Wood ‡ | Splendor in the Grass | Deanie Loomis |
| 1964 |
| 1964 | Patricia Neal † | Hud | Alma Brown |
| 1964 | Joan Crawford | What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? | Blanche Hudson |
| 1964 | Bette Davis ‡ | What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? | Baby Jane Hudson |
| 1964 | Lee Remick | Days of Wine and Roses | Kirsten Arnesen Clay |
| 1964 | Daniela Rocca | Divorce Italian Style | Rosalia Cefalù |
| 1965 |
| 1965 | Anne Bancroft ‡ | The Pumpkin Eater | Jo Armitage |
| 1965 | Kim Stanley | Séance on a Wet Afternoon | Myra Savage |
| 1965 | Ava Gardner | The Night of the Iguana | Maxine Faulk |
| 1965 | Shirley MacLaine | Irma la Douce ‡ & What a Way to Go! | Irma la Douce & Louisa Foster |
| 1966 |
| 1966 | Patricia Neal | In Harm's Way | Maggie Haines |
| 1966 | Jane Fonda | Cat Ballou | Catherine Ballou |
| 1966 | Lila Kedrova | Zorba the Greek | Madame Hortense |
| 1966 | Simone Signoret | Ship of Fools | La Condesa |
| 1967 |
| 1967 | Jeanne Moreau | Viva Maria! | Maria I |
| 1967 | Brigitte Bardot | Viva Maria! | Éliane Darrès |
| 1967 | Joan Hackett | The Group | Dottie Renfrew |
| 1967 | Simone Signoret | The Sleeping Car Murders | Maria II |
| 1968 |
| 1968 | Anouk Aimée ‡ | A Man and a Woman | Anne Gauthier |
| 1968 | Bibi Andersson | Persona & My Sister, My Love | Alma / Charlotte |
| 1968 | Jane Fonda | Barefoot in the Park | Corie Bratter |
| 1968 | Simone Signoret | The Deadly Affair | Elsa Fennan |

### Melhor Atriz num Papel Principal (1969–presente)
#### 1969–1979

| Ano | Atriz | Filme | Personagem |
| 1969 |
| 1969 | Katharine Hepburn † | Guess Who's Coming to Dinner | Christina Drayton |
| 1969 | Katharine Hepburn † | The Lion in Winter | Leonor da Aquitânia |
| 1969 | Anne Bancroft ‡ | The Graduate | Sra. Robinson |
| 1969 | Catherine Deneuve | Beautiful of the Day | Séverine Serizy |
| 1969 | Sarah Miles | Rachel, Rachel | Rachel Cameron |
| 1970 |
| 1970 | Maggie Smith † | The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie | Jean Brodie |
| 1970 | Mia Farrow | Secret Ceremony | Cenci |
| 1970 | Mia Farrow | John & Mary | Mary |
| 1970 | Mia Farrow | Rosemary's Baby | Rosemary Woodhouse |
| 1970 | Glenda Jackson † | Women in Love | Gudrun Brangwen |
| 1970 | Barbra Streisand | Funny Girl † | Fanny Brice |
| 1970 | Barbra Streisand | Hello, Dolly! | Dolly Gallagher Levi |
| 1971 |
| 1971 | Katharine Ross | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid | Etta Place |
| 1971 | Katharine Ross | Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here | Lola |
| 1971 | Jane Fonda ‡ | They Shoot Horses, Don't They? | Gloria Beatty |
| 1971 | Goldie Hawn | Cactus Flower § | Toni Simmons |
| 1971 | Goldie Hawn | There's a Girl in My Soup | Marie |
| 1971 | Sarah Miles | Ryan's Daughter | Rosy Ryan |
| 1972 |
| 1972 | Glenda Jackson ‡ | Sunday Bloody Sunday | Alex Greville |
| 1972 | Lynn Carlin | Taking Off | Lynn Tyne |
| 1972 | Julie Christie | The Go-Between | Marian |
| 1972 | Jane Fonda † | Klute | Bree Daniels |
| 1972 | Nanette Newman | The Raging Moon | Jill Matthews |
| 1973 |
| 1973 | Liza Minnelli † | Cabaret | Sally Bowles |
| 1973 | Stéphane Audran | The Butcher | Hélène |
| 1973 | Anne Bancroft | Young Winston | Randolph Churchill |
| 1973 | Dorothy Tutin | Savage Messiah | Sophie Brzeska |
| 1974 |
| 1974 | Stéphane Audran | Just Before Nightfall | Hélène Masson |
| 1974 | Stéphane Audran | The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie | Alice Sénéchal |
| 1974 | Julie Christie | Don't Look Now | Laura Baxter |
| 1974 | Glenda Jackson † | A Touch of Class | Vicki Allessio |
| 1974 | Diana Ross ‡ | Lady Sings the Blues | Billie Holiday |
| 1975 |
| 1975 | Joanne Woodward ‡ | Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams | Rita Walden |
| 1975 | Faye Dunaway ‡ | Chinatown | Evelyn Mulwray |
| 1975 | Barbra Streisand ‡ | The Way We Were | Katie Morosky |
| 1975 | Cicely Tyson | The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman | Jane Pittmann |
| 1976 |
| 1976 | Ellen Burstyn † | Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore | Alice Hyatt |
| 1976 | Anne Bancroft | The Prisoner of Second Avenue | Edna Edison |
| 1976 | Valerie Perrine | Lenny | Honey Harlow |
| 1976 | Liv Ullmann | Scener ur ett äktenskap (Scenes from a Marriage) | Marianne |
| 1977 |
| 1977 | Louise Fletcher † | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | Enfermeira Mildred Ratched |
| 1977 | Lauren Bacall | The Shootist | Bond Rogers |
| 1977 | Rita Moreno | The Ritz | Googie Gomez |
| 1977 | Liv Ullmann ‡ | Ansikte mot ansikte (Face to Face) | Jane Isaksson |
| 1978 |
| 1978 | Diane Keaton † | Annie Hall | Annie Hall |
| 1978 | Faye Dunaway † | Network | Diana Christensen |
| 1978 | Shelley Duvall | 3 Women | Millie Lammoreaux |
| 1978 | Lily Tomlin | The Late Show | Margo Sperling |
| 1979 |
| 1979 | Jane Fonda ‡ | Julia | Lillian Hellman |
| 1979 | Anne Bancroft ‡ | The Turning Point | Emma Jacklin |
| 1979 | Jill Clayburgh ‡ | An Unmarried Woman | Erica Benton |
| 1979 | Marsha Mason ‡ | The Goodbye Girl | Paula McFadden |

#### 1980-1989

| Ano | Atriz | Filme | Personagem |
| 1980 |
| 1980 | Jane Fonda ‡ | The China Syndrome | Kimberly Wells |
| 1980 | Diane Keaton | Manhattan | Mary Wilkie |
| 1980 | Maggie Smith § | California Suite | Diana Barrie |
| 1980 | Meryl Streep § | The Deer Hunter | Linda |
| 1981 |
| 1981 | Judy Davis | My Brilliant Career | Sybylla Melvyn |
| 1981 | Shirley MacLaine | Being There | Eve Rand |
| 1981 | Bette Midler ‡ | The Rose | Mary Rose Foster |
| 1981 | Meryl Streep § | Kramer vs. Kramer | Joanna Kramer |
| 1982 |
| 1982 | Meryl Streep ‡ | The French Lieutenant's Woman | Anna / Sara Woodruff |
| 1982 | Mary Tyler Moore ‡ | Ordinary People | Beth Jarrett |
| 1982 | Maggie Smith | Quartet | Lois Heidler |
| 1982 | Sissy Spacek † | Coal Miner's Daughter | Loretta Lynn |
| 1983 |
| 1983 | Katharine Hepburn † | On Golden Pond | Ethel Thayler |
| 1983 | Diane Keaton ‡ | Reds | Louise Bryant |
| 1983 | Jennifer Kendal | 36 Chowringhee Lane | Violet Stoneham |
| 1983 | Sissy Spacek ‡ | Missing | Beth Horman |
| 1984 |
| 1984 | Julie Walters ‡ | Educating Rita | Rita |
| 1984 | Jessica Lange § | Tootsie | Julie Nichols |
| 1984 | Phyllis Logan | Another Time, Another Place | Janie |
| 1984 | Meryl Streep † | Sophie's Choice | Sophie Zawistowska |
| 1985 |
| 1985 | Maggie Smith | A Private Function | Joyce Chilvers |
| 1985 | Shirley MacLaine † | Terms of Endearment | Aurora Greenaway |
| 1985 | Helen Mirren | Cal | Marcella |
| 1985 | Meryl Streep ‡ | Silkwood | Karen Silkwood |
| 1986 |
| 1986 | Peggy Ashcroft § | A Passage to India | Sra. Moore |
| 1986 | Mia Farrow | The Purple Rose of Cairo | Cecilia |
| 1986 | Kelly McGillis | Witness | Rachel Lapp |
| 1986 | Alexandra Pigg | Letter to Brezhnev | Elaine |
| 1987 |
| 1987 | Maggie Smith § | A Room with a View | Charlotte Bartlett |
| 1987 | Mia Farrow | Hannah and Her Sisters | Hannah |
| 1987 | Meryl Streep ‡ | Out of Africa | Karen Blixen |
| 1987 | Cathy Tyson | Mona Lisa | Simone |
| 1988 |
| 1988 | Anne Bancroft | 84 Charing Cross Road | Helene Hanff |
| 1988 | Emily Lloyd | Wish You Were Here | Lynda Mansell |
| 1988 | Sarah Miles | Hope and Glory | Grace Rowan |
| 1988 | Julie Walters | Personal Services | Christine Painter |
| 1989 |
| 1989 | Maggie Smith | The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne | Judith Hearne |
| 1989 | Stéphane Audran | Babette's Feast | Babette Hersant |
| 1989 | Cher † | Moonstruck | Loretta Castorini |
| 1989 | Jamie Lee Curtis | A Fish Called Wanda | Wanda Gershwitz |

#### 1990-1999

| Ano | Atriz | Filme | Personagem |
| 1990 |
| 1990 | Pauline Collins ‡ | Shirley Valentine | Shirley Valentine |
| 1990 | Glenn Close ‡ | Dangerous Liaisons | Marquesa Isabelle de Merteuil |
| 1990 | Jodie Foster † | The Accused | Sarah Tobias |
| 1990 | Melanie Griffith ‡ | Working Girl | Tess McGill |
| 1991 |
| 1991 | Jessica Tandy † | Driving Miss Daisy | Daisy Werthan |
| 1991 | Shirley MacLaine | Postcards from the Edge | Doris Mann |
| 1991 | Michelle Pfeiffer ‡ | The Fabulous Baker Boys | Susie Diamond |
| 1991 | Julia Roberts ‡ | Pretty Woman | Vivian Ward |
| 1992 |
| 1992 | Jodie Foster † | The Silence of the Lambs | Clarice Starling |
| 1992 | Geena Davis ‡ | Thelma & Louise | Thelma Elizabeth Dickinson |
| 1992 | Susan Sarandon ‡ | Thelma & Louise | Louise Yvonne Sawyer |
| 1992 | Juliet Stevenson | Truly, Madly, Deeply | Nina |
| 1993 |
| 1993 | Emma Thompson † | Howards End | Margaret Schlegel |
| 1993 | Judy Davis | Husbands and Wives | Sally |
| 1993 | Tara Morice | Strictly Ballroom | Fran |
| 1993 | Jessica Tandy § | Fried Green Tomatoes | Ninny Threadgoode |
| 1994 |
| 1994 | Holly Hunter † | The Piano | Ada McGrath |
| 1994 | Miranda Richardson ‡ | Tom & Viv | Vivienne Haigh-Wood |
| 1994 | Emma Thompson ‡ | The Remains of the Day | Sarah Kenton |
| 1994 | Debra Winger | Shadowlands | Joy Davidman Gresham |
| 1995 |
| 1995 | Susan Sarandon ‡ | The Client | Regina "Reggie" Love |
| 1995 | Linda Fiorentino | The Last Seduction | Bridget Gregory |
| 1995 | Irène Jacob | Three Colors: Red | Valentine Dusot |
| 1995 | Uma Thurman § | Pulp Fiction | Mia Wallace |
| 1996 |
| 1996 | Emma Thompson ‡ | Sense and Sensibility | Elinor Dashwood |
| 1996 | Nicole Kidman | To Die For | Suzanne Stone-Maretto |
| 1996 | Helen Mirren § | The Madness of King George | Rainha Charlotte |
| 1996 | Elisabeth Shue ‡ | Leaving Las Vegas | Sera |
| 1997 |
| 1997 | Brenda Blethyn ‡ | Secrets & Lies | Cynthia Rose Purley |
| 1997 | Frances McDormand † | Fargo | Marge Gunderson |
| 1997 | Kristin Scott Thomas ‡ | The English Patient | Katharine Clifton |
| 1997 | Emily Watson ‡ | Breaking the Waves | Bess McNeill |
| 1998 |
| 1998 | Judi Dench ‡ | Mrs. Brown | Rainha Vitória do Reino Unido |
| 1998 | Kim Basinger § | L.A. Confidential | Lynn Bracken |
| 1998 | Helena Bonham Carter ‡ | The Wings of the Dove | Kate Croy |
| 1998 | Kathy Burke | Nil by Mouth | Valerie |
| 1999 |
| 1999 | Cate Blanchett ‡ | Elizabeth | Rainha Elizabeth I da Inglaterra |
| 1999 | Jane Horrocks | Little Voice | Laurie Hoff / Little Voice |
| 1999 | Gwyneth Paltrow † | Shakespeare in Love | Viola De Lesseps |
| 1999 | Emily Watson ‡ | Hilary and Jackie | Jacqueline du Pré |

#### 2000-2009

| Ano | Atriz | Filme | Personagem |
| 2000 |
| 2000 | Annette Bening ‡ | American Beauty | Carolyn Burnham |
| 2000 | Linda Bassett | East is East | Ella Khan |
| 2000 | Julianne Moore ‡ | The End of the Affair | Sarah Miles |
| 2000 | Emily Watson | Angela's Ashes | Angela Sheehan McCourt |
| 2001 |
| 2001 | Julia Roberts † | Erin Brockovich | Erin Brockovich |
| 2001 | Juliette Binoche ‡ | Chocolat | Vivian Rocher |
| 2001 | Kate Hudson § | Almost Famous | Penny Lane |
| 2001 | Hilary Swank † | Boys Don't Cry | Brandon Teena |
| 2001 | Michelle Yeoh | Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon | Yu Shu Lien |
| 2002 |
| 2002 | Judi Dench ‡ | Iris | Iris Murdoch |
| 2002 | Nicole Kidman | The Others | Grace Stewart |
| 2002 | Sissy Spacek ‡ | In the Bedroom | Ruth Fowler |
| 2002 | Audrey Tautou | Amélie | Amélie Poulain |
| 2002 | Renée Zellweger ‡ | Bridget Jones's Diary | Bridget Jones |
| 2003 |
| 2003 | Nicole Kidman † | The Hours | Virginia Woolf |
| 2003 | Halle Berry † | Monster's Ball | Leticia Musgrove |
| 2003 | Salma Hayek ‡ | Frida | Frida Kahlo |
| 2003 | Meryl Streep | The Hours | Clarissa Vaughan |
| 2003 | Renée Zellweger ‡ | Chicago | Roxie Hart |
| 2004 |
| 2004 | Scarlett Johansson | Lost in Translation | Charlotte |
| 2004 | Scarlett Johansson | Girl with a Pearl Earring | Griet |
| 2004 | Anne Reid | The Mother | May |
| 2004 | Uma Thurman | Kill Bill Vol. 1 | Beatrix Kiddo / A Noiva |
| 2004 | Naomi Watts ‡ | 21 Grams | Christina Peck |
| 2005 |
| 2005 | Imelda Staunton ‡ | Vera Drake | Vera Drake |
| 2005 | Charlize Theron † | Monster | Aileen Wuornos |
| 2005 | Kate Winslet | Finding Neverland | Sylvia Llewelyn Davies |
| 2005 | Kate Winslet ‡ | Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind | Clementine Kruczynski |
| 2005 | Ziyi Zhang | House of Flying Daggers | Mei |
| 2006 |
| 2006 | Reese Whiterspoon † | Walk the Line | June Carter Cash |
| 2006 | Judi Dench ‡ | Mrs. Henderson Presents | Laura Henderson |
| 2006 | Charlize Theron ‡ | North Country | Josey Aimes |
| 2006 | Rachel Weisz § | The Constant Gardener | Tessa Quayle |
| 2006 | Ziyi Zhang | Memoirs of a Gueisha | Chiyo Sakamoto / Sayuri Nitta |
| 2007 |
| 2007 | Helen Mirren † | The Queen | Rainha Elizabeth II do Reino Unido |
| 2007 | Penélope Cruz ‡ | Volver | Raimunda |
| 2007 | Judi Dench ‡ | Notes on a Scandal | Barbara Covett |
| 2007 | Meryl Streep ‡ | The Devil Wears Prada | Miranda Priestly |
| 2007 | Kate Winslet ‡ | Little Children | Sarah Pierce |
| 2008 |
| 2008 | Marion Cotillard † | La Vie En Rose | Edith Piaf |
| 2008 | Cate Blanchett ‡ | Elizabeth: The Golden Age | Rainha Elizabeth I da Inglaterra |
| 2008 | Julie Christie ‡ | Away from Her | Fiona Anderson |
| 2008 | Keira Knightley | Atonement | Cecilia Tallis |
| 2008 | Elliot Page ‡ | Juno | Juno MacGuff |
| 2009 |
| 2009 | Kate Winslet † | The Reader | Hanna Schmitz |
| 2009 | Angelina Jolie ‡ | Changeling | Christine Collins |
| 2009 | Kristin Scott Thomas | I've Loved You So Long | Juliette Fontaine |
| 2009 | Meryl Streep ‡ | Doubt | Irmã Aloysius Beauvier |
| 2009 | Kate Winslet | Revolutionary Road | April Wheeler |

#### 2010-2019

| Ano | Atriz | Filme | Personagem |
| 2010 |
| 2010 | Carey Mulligan ‡ | An Education | Jenny Mellor |
| 2010 | Saoirse Ronan | The Lovely Bones | Susan "Susie" Salmon |
| 2010 | Gabourey Sidibe ‡ | Precious | Claireece "Precious" Jones |
| 2010 | Meryl Streep ‡ | Julie & Julia | Julia Child |
| 2010 | Audrey Tautou | Coco Before Chanel | Coco Chanel |
| 2011 |
| 2011 | Natalie Portman † | Black Swan | Nina Sayers |
| 2011 | Annette Bening ‡ | The Kids Are All Right | Nicole "Nic" Allgood |
| 2011 | Julianne Moore | The Kids Are All Right | Julianna "Jules" Allgood |
| 2011 | Noomi Rapace | The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo | Lisbeth Salander |
| 2011 | Hailee Steinfeld § | True Grit | Mattie Ross |
| 2012 |
| 2012 | Meryl Streep † | The Iron Lady | Margaret Thatcher |
| 2012 | Bérénice Bejo § | The Artist | Peppy Miller |
| 2012 | Viola Davis ‡ | The Help | Aibileen Clark |
| 2012 | Tilda Swinton | We Need to Talk About Kevin | Eva Katchadourian |
| 2012 | Michelle Williams ‡ | My Week with Marilyn | Marilyn Monroe |
| 2013 |
| 2013 | Emmanuelle Riva ‡ | Amour | Anne Laurent |
| 2013 | Jessica Chastain ‡ | Zero Dark Thirty | Maya |
| 2013 | Marion Cotillard | Rust and Bone | Stéphanie |
| 2013 | Jennifer Lawrence † | Silver Linings Playbook | Tiffany Maxwell |
| 2013 | Helen Mirren | Hitchcock | Alma Reville |
| 2014 |
| 2014 | Cate Blanchett † | Blue Jasmine | Jeanette "Jasmine" Francis |
| 2014 | Amy Adams ‡ | American Hustle | Sydney Prosser / Edith Greensly |
| 2014 | Sandra Bullock ‡ | Gravity | Dra. Ryan Stone |
| 2014 | Judi Dench ‡ | Philomena | Philomena Lee |
| 2014 | Emma Thompson | Saving Mr. Banks | P.L. Travers |
| 2015 |
| 2015 | Julianne Moore † | Still Alice | Dra. Alice Howland |
| 2015 | Amy Adams | Big Eyes | Margaret Keane |
| 2015 | Felicity Jones ‡ | The Theory of Everything | Jane Wilde Hawking |
| 2015 | Rosamund Pike ‡ | Gone Girl | Amy Elliott-Dunne |
| 2015 | Reese Witherspoon ‡ | Wild | Cheryl Strayed |
| 2016 |
| 2016 | Brie Larson † | Room | Joy "Ma" Newsome |
| 2016 | Cate Blanchett ‡ | Carol | Carol Aird |
| 2016 | Saoirse Ronan ‡ | Brooklyn | Eilis Lacey |
| 2016 | Maggie Smith | The Lady in the Van | Miss Mary Shepherd |
| 2016 | Alicia Vikander § | The Danish Girl | Gerda Wegener |
| 2017 |
| 2017 | Emma Stone † | La La Land | Mia Dolan |
| 2017 | Amy Adams | Arrival | Dra. Louise Banks |
| 2017 | Emily Blunt | The Girl on the Train | Rachel Watson |
| 2017 | Natalie Portman ‡ | Jackie | Jacqueline Kennedy |
| 2017 | Meryl Streep ‡ | Florence Foster Jenkins | Florence Foster Jenkins |
| 2018 |
| 2018 | Frances McDormand † | Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri | Mildred Hayes |
| 2018 | Annette Bening | Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool | Gloria Grahame |
| 2018 | Margot Robbie ‡ | I, Tonya | Tonya Harding |
| 2018 | Sally Hawkins ‡ | The Shape of Water | Elisa Esposito |
| 2018 | Saoirse Ronan ‡ | Lady Bird | Christine "Lady Bird" McPherson |
| 2019 |
| 2019 | Olivia Colman † | The Favourite | Ana da Grã-Bretanha| |
| 2019 | Glenn Close ‡ | The Wife | Joan Castleman |
| 2019 | Lady Gaga ‡ | A Star Is Born | Ally Maine |
| 2019 | Melissa McCarthy ‡ | Can You Ever Forgive Me? | Lee Israel |
| 2019 | Viola Davis | Widows | Veronica Rawlings |

#### 2020–presente

| Ano | Atriz | Filme | Personagem |
| 2020 |
| 2020 | Renée Zellweger † | Judy | Judy Garland |
| 2020 | Charlize Theron ‡ | Bombshell | Megyn Kelly |
| 2020 | Saoirse Ronan ‡ | Little Women | Josephine "Jo" March |
| 2020 | Scarlett Johansson ‡ | Marriage Story | Nicole Barber |
| 2020 | Jessie Buckley | Wild Rose | Rose-Lynn Harlan |
| 2021 |
| 2021 | Frances McDormand † | Nomadland | Fern |
| 2021 | Bukky Bakray | Rocks | Olushola "Rocks" Omotoso |
| 2021 | Radha Blank | The Forty-Year-Old Version | Radha Blank |
| 2021 | Vanessa Kirby ‡ | Pieces of a Woman | Martha Weiss |
| 2021 | Wunmi Mosaku | His House | Rial Majur |
| 2021 | Alfre Woodard | Clemency | Bernardine Williams |
| 2022 |
| 2022 | Joanna Scanlan | After Love | Mary Hussain |
| 2022 | Lady Gaga | House of Gucci | Patrizia Reggiani |
| 2022 | Alana Haim | Licorice Pizza | Alana Kane |
| 2022 | Emilia Jones | CODA | Ruby Rossi |
| 2022 | Renate Reinsve | Verdens verste menneske (The Worst Person in the World) | Julie |
| 2022 | Tessa Thompson | Passing | Irene Redfield |
| 2023 |
| 2023 | Cate Blanchett ‡ | Tár | Lydia Tár |
| 2023 | Michelle Yeoh † | Everything Everywhere All at Once | Evelyn Quan Wang |
| 2023 | Ana de Armas ‡ | Blonde | Norma Jeane Mortensen/ Marilyn Monroe |
| 2023 | Viola Davis | The Woman King | General Nanisca |
| 2023 | Emma Thompson | Good Luck to You, Leo Grande | Nancy Stokes / Susan Robinson |
| 2023 | Danielle Deadwyler | Till | Mamie Till-Bradley |
| 2024 |
| 2024 | Emma Stone † | Poor Things | Bella Baxter |
| 2024 | Fantasia Barrino | The Color Purple | Celie Harris-Johnson |
| 2024 | Sandra Hüller ‡ | Anatomie d'une chute (Anatomy of a Fall) | Sandra Voyter |
| 2024 | Carey Mulligan ‡ | Maestro | Felicia Montealegre |
| 2024 | Margot Robbie | Barbie | Barbie |
| 2024 | Vivian Oparah | Rye Lane | Yas |
| 2025 |
| 2025 | Mikey Madison ‡ | Anora | Anora |
| 2025 | Cynthia Erivo ‡ | Wicked | Elphaba Thropp |
| 2025 | Demi Moore ‡ | The Substance | Elisabeth Sparkle |
| 2025 | Karla Sofía Gascón ‡ | Emilia Pérez | Emilia Pérez / Juan "Small Hands" Del Monte |
| 2025 | Marianne Jean-Baptiste | Hard Truths | Pansy Deacon |
| 2025 | Saoirse Ronan | The Outrun | Rona |