British Academy Film Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role
British Academy Film Awards · 269 nominations across 58 ceremonies · 58 wins
79th BAFTA Film Awards · 2026
- Winner Jessie Buckley · Hamnet
- Nominee Emma Stone · Bugonia
- Nominee Chase Infiniti · One Battle After Another
- Nominee Renate Reinsve · Sentimental Value
- Nominee Rose Byrne · If I Had Legs I'd Kick You
- Nominee Kate Hudson · Song Sung Blue
78th BAFTA Film Awards · 2025
- Winner Mikey Madison · Anora
- Nominee Marianne Jean-Baptiste · Hard Truths
- Nominee Demi Moore · The Substance
- Nominee Karla Sofía Gascón · Emilia Pérez
- Nominee Cynthia Erivo · Wicked
- Nominee Saoirse Ronan · The Outrun
77th BAFTA Film Awards · 2024
- Winner Emma Stone · Poor Things
- Nominee Sandra Hüller · Anatomy of a Fall
- Nominee Fantasia Barrino · The Color Purple
- Nominee Carey Mulligan · Maestro
- Nominee Margot Robbie · Barbie
- Nominee Vivian Oparah · Rye Lane
76th BAFTA Film Awards · 2023
- Winner Cate Blanchett · Tár
- Nominee Emma Thompson · Good Luck to You, Leo Grande
- Nominee Viola Davis · The Woman King
- Nominee Michelle Yeoh · Everything Everywhere All at Once
- Nominee Ana de Armas · Blonde
- Nominee Danielle Deadwyler · Till
75th BAFTA Film Awards · 2022
- Winner Joanna Scanlan · After Love
- Nominee Tessa Thompson · Passing
- Nominee Lady Gaga · House of Gucci
- Nominee Emilia Jones · CODA
- Nominee Renate Reinsve · The Worst Person in the World
- Nominee Alana Haim · Licorice Pizza
74th BAFTA Film Awards · 2021
- Winner Frances McDormand · Nomadland
- Nominee Wunmi Mosaku · His House
- Nominee Radha Blank · The 40-Year-Old Version
- Nominee Bukky Bakray · Rocks
- Nominee Alfre Woodard · Clemency
- Nominee Vanessa Kirby · Pieces of a Woman
73rd BAFTA Film Awards · 2020
- Winner Renée Zellweger · Judy
- Nominee Jessie Buckley · Wild Rose
- Nominee Charlize Theron · Bombshell
- Nominee Saoirse Ronan · Little Women
- Nominee Scarlett Johansson · Marriage Story
72nd BAFTA Film Awards · 2019
- Winner Olivia Colman · The Favourite
- Nominee Lady Gaga · A Star Is Born
- Nominee Glenn Close · The Wife
- Nominee Melissa McCarthy · Can You Ever Forgive Me?
- Nominee Viola Davis · Widows
71st BAFTA Film Awards · 2018
- Winner Frances McDormand · Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
- Nominee Margot Robbie · I, Tonya
- Nominee Sally Hawkins · The Shape of Water
- Nominee Annette Bening · Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool
- Nominee Saoirse Ronan · Lady Bird
70th BAFTA Film Awards · 2017
- Winner Emma Stone · La La Land
- Nominee Emily Blunt · The Girl on the Train
- Nominee Natalie Portman · Jackie
- Nominee Amy Adams · Arrival
- Nominee Meryl Streep · Florence Foster Jenkins
69th BAFTA Film Awards · 2016
- Winner Brie Larson · Room
- Nominee Cate Blanchett · Carol
- Nominee Alicia Vikander · The Danish Girl
- Nominee Saoirse Ronan · Brooklyn
- Nominee Maggie Smith · The Lady in the Van
68th BAFTA Film Awards · 2015
- Winner Julianne Moore · Still Alice
- Nominee Felicity Jones · The Theory of Everything
- Nominee Reese Witherspoon · Wild
- Nominee Rosamund Pike · Gone Girl
- Nominee Amy Adams · Big Eyes
67th BAFTA Film Awards · 2014
- Winner Cate Blanchett · Blue Jasmine
- Nominee Judi Dench · Philomena
- Nominee Emma Thompson · Saving Mr. Banks
- Nominee Sandra Bullock · Gravity
- Nominee Amy Adams · American Hustle
66th BAFTA Film Awards · 2013
- Winner Emmanuelle Riva · Amour
- Nominee Jessica Chastain · Zero Dark Thirty
- Nominee Jennifer Lawrence · Silver Linings Playbook
- Nominee Helen Mirren · Hitchcock
- Nominee Marion Cotillard · Rust and Bone
65th BAFTA Film Awards · 2012
- Winner Meryl Streep · The Iron Lady
- Nominee Viola Davis · The Help
- Nominee Bérénice Bejo · The Artist
- Nominee Tilda Swinton · We Need to Talk About Kevin
- Nominee Michelle Williams · My Week with Marilyn
64th BAFTA Film Awards · 2011
- Winner Natalie Portman · Black Swan
- Nominee Noomi Rapace · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
- Nominee Julianne Moore · The Kids Are All Right
- Nominee Annette Bening · The Kids Are All Right
- Nominee Hailee Steinfeld · True Grit
63rd BAFTA Film Awards · 2010
- Winner Carey Mulligan · An Education
- Nominee Saoirse Ronan · The Lovely Bones
- Nominee Meryl Streep · Julie & Julia
- Nominee Gabourey Sidibe · Precious
- Nominee Audrey Tautou · Coco Before Chanel
62nd BAFTA Film Awards · 2009
- Winner Kate Winslet · The Reader
- Nominee Meryl Streep · Doubt
- Nominee Kate Winslet · Revolutionary Road
- Nominee Angelina Jolie · Changeling
- Nominee Kristin Scott Thomas · I've Loved You So Long
61st BAFTA Film Awards · 2008
- Winner Marion Cotillard · La Vie en Rose
- Nominee Elliot Page · Juno
- Nominee Julie Christie · Away from Her
- Nominee Keira Knightley · Atonement
- Nominee Cate Blanchett · Elizabeth: The Golden Age
60th BAFTA Film Awards · 2007
- Winner Helen Mirren · The Queen
- Nominee Kate Winslet · Little Children
- Nominee Judi Dench · Notes on a Scandal
- Nominee Meryl Streep · The Devil Wears Prada
- Nominee Penélope Cruz · Volver
59th BAFTA Film Awards · 2006
- Winner Reese Witherspoon · Walk the Line
- Nominee Judi Dench · Mrs Henderson Presents
- Nominee Charlize Theron · North Country
- Nominee Ziyi Zhang · Memoirs of a Geisha
- Nominee Rachel Weisz · The Constant Gardener
58th BAFTA Film Awards · 2005
- Winner Imelda Staunton · Vera Drake
- Nominee Kate Winslet · Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
- Nominee Kate Winslet · Finding Neverland
- Nominee Ziyi Zhang · House of Flying Daggers
- Nominee Charlize Theron · Monster
57th BAFTA Film Awards · 2004
- Winner Scarlett Johansson · Lost in Translation
- Nominee Uma Thurman · Kill Bill: Volume 1
- Nominee Anne Reid · The Mother
- Nominee Scarlett Johansson · Girl with a Pearl Earring
- Nominee Naomi Watts · 21 Grams
- Nominee Scarlett Johansson · Girl with a Pearl Earring
56th BAFTA Film Awards · 2003
- Winner Nicole Kidman · The Hours
- Nominee Salma Hayek · Frida
- Nominee Renée Zellweger · Chicago
- Nominee Meryl Streep · The Hours
- Nominee Halle Berry · Monster's Ball
55th BAFTA Film Awards · 2002
- Winner Judi Dench · Iris
- Nominee Sissy Spacek · In the Bedroom
- Nominee Nicole Kidman · The Others
- Nominee Renée Zellweger · Bridget Jones's Diary
- Nominee Audrey Tautou · Amélie
54th BAFTA Film Awards · 2001
- Winner Julia Roberts · Erin Brockovich
- Nominee Kate Hudson · Almost Famous
- Nominee Juliette Binoche · Chocolat
- Nominee Michelle Yeoh · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
- Nominee Hilary Swank · Boys Don't Cry
53rd BAFTA Film Awards · 2000
- Winner Annette Bening · American Beauty
- Nominee Linda Bassett · East Is East
- Nominee Emily Watson · Angela's Ashes
- Nominee Julianne Moore · The End of the Affair
52nd BAFTA Film Awards · 1999
- Winner Cate Blanchett · Elizabeth
- Nominee Gwyneth Paltrow · Shakespeare in Love
- Nominee Emily Watson · Hilary and Jackie
- Nominee Jane Horrocks · Little Voice
51st BAFTA Film Awards · 1998
- Winner Judi Dench · Mrs. Brown
- Nominee Helena Bonham Carter · The Wings of the Dove
- Nominee Kim Basinger · L.A. Confidential
- Nominee Kathy Burke · Nil by Mouth
50th BAFTA Film Awards · 1997
- Winner Brenda Blethyn · Secrets & Lies
- Nominee Frances McDormand · Fargo
- Nominee Kristin Scott Thomas · The English Patient
- Nominee Emily Watson · Breaking the Waves
49th BAFTA Film Awards · 1996
- Winner Emma Thompson · Sense and Sensibility
- Nominee Helen Mirren · The Madness of King George
- Nominee Nicole Kidman · To Die For
- Nominee Elisabeth Shue · Leaving Las Vegas
48th BAFTA Film Awards · 1995
- Winner Susan Sarandon · The Client
- Nominee Irène Jacob · Three Colours: Red
- Nominee Linda Fiorentino · The Last Seduction
- Nominee Uma Thurman · Pulp Fiction
47th BAFTA Film Awards · 1994
- Winner Holly Hunter · The Piano
- Nominee Miranda Richardson · Tom & Viv
- Nominee Debra Winger · Shadowlands
- Nominee Emma Thompson · The Remains of the Day
46th BAFTA Film Awards · 1993
- Winner Emma Thompson · Howards End
- Nominee Tara Morice · Strictly Ballroom
- Nominee Jessica Tandy · Fried Green Tomatoes
- Nominee Judy Davis · Husbands and Wives
45th BAFTA Film Awards · 1992
- Winner Jodie Foster · The Silence of the Lambs
- Nominee Susan Sarandon · Thelma & Louise
- Nominee Geena Davis · Thelma & Louise
- Nominee Juliet Stevenson · Truly, Madly, Deeply
44th BAFTA Film Awards · 1991
- Winner Jessica Tandy · Driving Miss Daisy
- Nominee Michelle Pfeiffer · The Fabulous Baker Boys
- Nominee Shirley MacLaine · Postcards from the Edge
- Nominee Julia Roberts · Pretty Woman
43rd BAFTA Film Awards · 1990
- Winner Pauline Collins · Shirley Valentine
- Nominee Melanie Griffith · Working Girl
- Nominee Jodie Foster · The Accused
- Nominee Glenn Close · Dangerous Liaisons
42nd BAFTA Film Awards · 1989
- Winner Maggie Smith · The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
- Nominee Stéphane Audran · Babette's Feast
- Nominee Jamie Lee Curtis · A Fish Called Wanda
- Nominee Cher · Moonstruck
41st BAFTA Film Awards · 1988
- Winner Anne Bancroft · 84 Charing Cross Road
- Nominee Sarah Miles · Hope and Glory
- Nominee Julie Walters · Personal Services
- Nominee Emily Lloyd · Wish You Were Here
40th BAFTA Film Awards · 1987
- Winner Maggie Smith · A Room with a View
- Nominee Cathy Tyson · Mona Lisa
- Nominee Mia Farrow · Hannah and Her Sisters
- Nominee Meryl Streep · Out of Africa
39th BAFTA Film Awards · 1986
- Winner Peggy Ashcroft · A Passage to India
- Nominee Alexandra Pigg · Letter to Brezhnev
- Nominee Mia Farrow · The Purple Rose of Cairo
- Nominee Kelly McGillis · Witness
38th BAFTA Film Awards · 1985
- Winner Maggie Smith · A Private Function
- Nominee Meryl Streep · Silkwood
- Nominee Shirley MacLaine · Terms of Endearment
- Nominee Helen Mirren · Cal
37th BAFTA Film Awards · 1984
- Winner Julie Walters · Educating Rita
- Nominee Meryl Streep · Sophie's Choice
- Nominee Jessica Lange · Tootsie
- Nominee Phyllis Logan · Another Time, Another Place
36th BAFTA Film Awards · 1983
- Winner Katharine Hepburn · On Golden Pond
- Nominee Jennifer Kendal · 36 Chowringhee Lane
- Nominee Sissy Spacek · Missing
- Nominee Diane Keaton · Reds
35th BAFTA Film Awards · 1982
- Winner Meryl Streep · The French Lieutenant's Woman
- Nominee Mary Tyler Moore · Ordinary People
- Nominee Maggie Smith · Quartet
- Nominee Sissy Spacek · Coal Miner's Daughter
34th BAFTA Film Awards · 1981
- Winner Judy Davis · My Brilliant Career
- Nominee Bette Midler · The Rose
- Nominee Meryl Streep · Kramer vs. Kramer
- Nominee Shirley MacLaine · Being There
33rd BAFTA Film Awards · 1980
- Winner Jane Fonda · The China Syndrome
- Nominee Meryl Streep · The Deer Hunter
- Nominee Maggie Smith · California Suite
- Nominee Diane Keaton · Manhattan
32nd BAFTA Film Awards · 1979
- Winner Jane Fonda · Julia
- Nominee Anne Bancroft · The Turning Point
- Nominee Marsha Mason · The Goodbye Girl
- Nominee Jill Clayburgh · An Unmarried Woman
31st BAFTA Film Awards · 1978
- Winner Diane Keaton · Annie Hall
- Nominee Faye Dunaway · Network
- Nominee Lily Tomlin · The Late Show
- Nominee Shelley Duvall · 3 Women
30th BAFTA Film Awards · 1977
- Winner Louise Fletcher · One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- Nominee Rita Moreno · The Ritz
- Nominee Liv Ullmann · Face to Face
- Nominee Lauren Bacall · The Shootist
29th BAFTA Film Awards · 1976
- Winner Ellen Burstyn · Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
- Nominee Anne Bancroft · The Prisoner of Second Avenue
- Nominee Valerie Perrine · Lenny
- Nominee Liv Ullmann · Scenes from a Marriage
28th BAFTA Film Awards · 1975
- Winner Joanne Woodward · Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams
- Nominee Barbra Streisand · The Way We Were
- Nominee Cicely Tyson · The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
- Nominee Faye Dunaway · Chinatown
27th BAFTA Film Awards · 1974
26th BAFTA Film Awards · 1973
- Winner Liza Minnelli · Cabaret
- Nominee Pauline Collins · Upstairs, Downstairs
- Nominee Anne Bancroft · Young Winston
- Nominee Stéphane Audran · Le Boucher
- Nominee Dorothy Tutin · Savage Messiah
25th BAFTA Film Awards · 1972
- Winner Glenda Jackson · Sunday, Bloody Sunday
- Nominee Nanette Newman · The Raging Moon
- Nominee Lynn Carlin · Taking Off
- Nominee Jane Fonda · Klute
- Nominee Julie Christie · The Go-Between
24th BAFTA Film Awards · 1971
- Winner Katharine Ross · Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
- Nominee Goldie Hawn · There's a Girl in My Soup
- Nominee Sarah Miles · Ryan's Daughter
- Nominee Goldie Hawn · Cactus Flower
- Nominee Jane Fonda · They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
23rd BAFTA Film Awards · 1970
- Winner Maggie Smith · The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
- Nominee Glenda Jackson · Women in Love
- Nominee Mia Farrow · Rosemary's Baby
- Nominee Mia Farrow · John and Mary
- Nominee Mia Farrow · Secret Ceremony
- Nominee Barbra Streisand · Funny Girl
- Nominee Barbra Streisand · Hello, Dolly!
22nd BAFTA Film Awards · 1969
- Winner Katharine Hepburn · Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
- Nominee Joanne Woodward · Rachel, Rachel
- Nominee Anne Bancroft · The Graduate
- Nominee Catherine Deneuve · Belle de Jour