British Academy Film Award / Best Actress
Winners and nominees in the category Best Actress ( Leading Actress ) at the British Academy Film Awards (BAFTA Awards) , which honors the outstanding acting performance in the previous calendar year. First time acting awards for film actors were given in 1953, each for the best British and best foreign actors. As with the two film categories, the aim was to forestall a possible predominance of the foreign and especially the US film industry. Nevertheless, in 1955, 1959 and 1965 the German Cornell Borchers , the French Simone Signoret and the American Anne Bancroft won the award for the best foreign actress, although they worked in British film productions, while the British Jean Simmons in the same category in 1957 and 1961 Received nominations for her work in American cinema. In 1963, the French Leslie Caron was named the best British actress for the domestic film production Das Indiskrete Zimmer .
In 1968 the award ceremony was restructured. In order to prevent irritation, only one actor's prize is awarded. The annual number of nominations, which was limited to four until 2000 and now to five, has not varied since then. While Cornell Borchers, Lilli Palmer and Maria Schell achieved almost a few nominations in the 1950s, since Palmer's title role in Anastasia, The Last Tsar's Daughter (1958), no German-speaking actress has been able to join the list of nominees.
The winner agreed with the later Oscar winner 34 times , most recently in 2019 with the victory of Olivia Colman ( The Favorite - Intrigue and Insanity ).
statistics | Surname | number | year |
Most frequent awards | Maggie Smith | 4th | 1970, 1985, 1987, 1989 |
Most frequent nominations (* = victory) |
Meryl Streep | 12 | 1980, 1981, 1982 *, 1984, 1985, 1987, 2003, 2007 , 2009 , 2010 , 2012 *, 2017 |
Most frequent nominations without a win | Deborah Kerr | 4th | 1956, 1958, 1962, 1965 |
The films listed below are given with their German distribution title (if this can be determined), followed by the foreign-language original title in brackets in italics. The original title is not mentioned if the German and foreign-language film titles are identical. The winners are highlighted first.
1950s
1960s
1969
Katharine Hepburn - Guess Who's to eat comes ( Guess Who's Coming to Dinner ) and The Lion in Winter ( The Lion in Winter )
- Anne Bancroft - The Graduate ( The Graduate )
- Catherine Deneuve - Belle de jour - Beauty of the day ( Belle de jour )
- Joanne Woodward - A Summer's Love ( Rachel, Rachel )
1970s
1970
Maggie Smith - The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie ( The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie )
- Mia Farrow - The woman from nowhere ( Secret Ceremony ), Rosemary's Baby ( Rosemary's Baby ), and John and Mary ( John and Mary )
- Glenda Jackson - Women in Love ( Women in Love )
- Barbra Streisand - Funny Girl and Hello, Dolly!
1971
Katharine Ross - Two Bandits ( Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid ) and Bloody Trail ( Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here )
- Jane Fonda - Only horses are given the coup de grace ( They Shoot Horses, Don't They? )
- Goldie Hawn - Cactus Flower ( Cactus Flower ), and a girl in the soup ( There's a Girl in My Soup )
- Sarah Miles - Ryan's Daughter ( Ryan's Daughter )
1972
Glenda Jackson - Sunday, Bloody Sunday ( Sunday Bloody Sunday )
- Lynn Carlin - Taking Off
- Julie Christie - The Mediator ( The Go-Between )
- Jane Fonda - Klute
- Nanette Newman - The Mad Moon ( The Raging Moon )
1973
- Stéphane Audran - The Butcher ( Le Boucher )
- Anne Bancroft - The Young Lion ( Young Winston )
- Dorothy Tutin - Savage Messiah
1974
Stéphane Audran - The discreet charm of the bourgeoisie ( Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie ) and Before Nightfall ( Juste avant la nuit )
- Julie Christie - When the Gondolas Bear Mourning ( Don't Look Now )
- Glenda Jackson - man, you are great! ( A Touch of Class )
- Diana Ross - Lady Sings the Blues ( Lady Sings the Blues )
1975
Joanne Woodward - Summer Wishes - Winter Dreams ( Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams )
- Faye Dunaway - Chinatown
- Barbra Streisand - The Way We Were ( The Way We Were )
- Cicely Tyson - The story of Jane Pittman ( The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman )
1976
Ellen Burstyn - Alice Does not Live Here Anymore ( Alice Does not Live Here Anymore )
- Anne Bancroft - The nerve bundles ( The Prisoner of Second Avenue )
- Valerie Perrine - Lenny
- Liv Ullmann - Scenes from a Marriage ( Scener ur ett äktenskap )
1977
Louise Fletcher - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest ( One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest )
- Lauren Bacall - The Last Sniper ( The Shootist )
- Rita Moreno - The killer lurks in the sauna ( The Ritz )
- Liv Ullmann - From face to face ( Ansigte mot ansigte )
1978
Diane Keaton - The Urban Neurotic ( Annie Hall )
- Faye Dunaway - Network
- Shelley Duvall - Three women ( 3 Women )
- Lily Tomlin - The Cat Knows the Killer ( The Late Show )
1979
- Anne Bancroft - The Turning Point ( The Turning Point )
- Jill Clayburgh - An Unmarried Woman ( An Unmarried Woman )
- Marsha Mason - The Goodbye ( The Goodbye Girl )
1980s
1980
Jane Fonda - The China Syndrome ( The China Syndrome )
- Diane Keaton - Manhattan
- Maggie Smith - The Crazy California Hotel ( California Suite )
- Meryl Streep - Those Going Through Hell ( The Deer Hunter )
1981
Judy Davis - My brilliant career ( My Brilliant Career )
- Shirley MacLaine - Welcome Mr. Chance ( Being There )
- Bette Midler - The Rose
- Meryl Streep - Kramer vs. Kramer ( Kramer vs. Kramer )
1982
Meryl Streep - The French Lieutenant's Woman ( The French Lieutenant's Woman )
- Mary Tyler Moore - Ordinary People ( Ordinary People )
- Maggie Smith - Quartet ( Quartet )
- Sissy Spacek - Nashville Lady ( Coal Miner's Daughter )
1983
Katharine Hepburn - On Golden Pond ( On Golden Pond )
- Diane Keaton - Reds
- Jennifer Kendal - Farewell Street ( 36 Chowringhee Lane )
- Sissy Spacek - Missing ( Missing )
1984
Julie Walters - Rita finally wants to know ( Educating Rita )
- Jessica Lange - Tootsie
- Phyllis Logan - Another Time, Another Place ( Another Time, Another Place )
- Meryl Streep - Sophie's Choice ( Sophie's Choice )
1985
Maggie Smith - Lean Times - The Movie With the Pig ( A Private Function )
- Shirley MacLaine - Terms of Endearment ( Terms of Endearment )
- Helen Mirren - Cal
- Meryl Streep - Silkwood
1986
Peggy Ashcroft - Passage to India ( A Passage to India )
- Mia Farrow - The Purple Rose of Cairo
- Kelly McGillis - Witness ( Witness )
- Alexandra Pigg - Letter to Breshnev ( A Letter to Breshnev )
1987
Maggie Smith - Room with a View ( Room with a View )
- Mia Farrow - Hannah and Her Sisters ( Hannah and Her Sisters )
- Meryl Streep - Out of Africa ( Out of Africa )
- Cathy Tyson - Mona Lisa
1988
Anne Bancroft - Between the Lines ( 84 Charing Cross Road )
1989
Maggie Smith - The great desire of Judith Hearne ( The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne )
- Stéphane Audran - Babettes feast ( Babettes gæstebud )
- Cher - Moonstruck ( Moonstruck )
- Jamie Lee Curtis - A Fish Called Wanda ( A Fish Called Wanda )
1990s
1990
Pauline Collins - Shirley Valentine - Goodbye, My Dear Man ( Shirley Valentine )
- Glenn Close - Dangerous Liaisons ( Dangerous Liaisons )
- Jodie Foster - The Accused ( The Accused )
- Melanie Griffith - The Weapons of Women ( Working Girl )
1991
Jessica Tandy - Miss Daisy and her Chauffeur ( Driving Miss Daisy )
- Shirley MacLaine - Greetings from Hollywood ( Postcards from the Edge )
- Michelle Pfeiffer - The Fabulous Baker Boys ( The Fabulous Baker Boys )
- Julia Roberts - Pretty Woman
1992
Jodie Foster - The Silence of the Lambs ( The Silence of the Lambs )
- Geena Davis - Thelma & Louise
- Susan Sarandon - Thelma & Louise
- Juliet Stevenson - Like Crazy & From the bottom of my heart ( Truly, Madly, Deeply )
1993
Emma Thompson - Howards End ( Howards End )
- Judy Davis - Husbands and Wives ( Husbands and Wives )
- Tara Morice - Strictly Ballroom - Those who dance against all the rules ( Strictly Ballroom )
- Jessica Tandy - green tomatoes ( Fried Green Tomatoes )
1994
Holly Hunter - Das Piano ( The Piano )
- Miranda Richardson - Tom & Viv
- Emma Thompson - The Remains of the Day ( The Remains of the Day )
- Debra Winger - Shadowlands
1995
Susan Sarandon - The Client ( The Client )
- Linda Fiorentino - The Last Seduction ( The Last Seduction )
- Irène Jacob - Three colors: red ( Trois couleurs: Rouge )
- Uma Thurman - Pulp Fiction
1996
Emma Thompson - Sense and Sensibility ( Sense & Sensibility )
- Nicole Kidman - To Die For
- Helen Mirren - King George - A Madness ( The Madness of King George )
- Elisabeth Shue - Leaving Las Vegas
1997
Brenda Blethyn - Lies and Secrets ( Secrets & Lies )
- Frances McDormand - Fargo
- Kristin Scott Thomas - The English Patient ( The English Patient )
- Emily Watson - Breaking the Waves
1998
Judi Dench - Her Majesty Mrs. Brown ( Mrs. Brown )
1999
- Jane Horrocks - Little Voice
- Gwyneth Paltrow - Shakespeare in Love
- Emily Watson - Hilary and Jackie ( Hilary and Jackie )
2000s
2000
Annette Bening - American Beauty
- Linda Bassett - East is East ( East Is East )
- Julianne Moore - The End of the Affair ( The End of the Affair )
- Emily Watson - My Mother 's Ashes ( Angela's Ashes )
2001
Julia Roberts - Erin Brockovich
- Juliette Binoche - Chocolat - A small bite is enough ( Chocolat )
- Kate Hudson - Almost Famous - Almost Famous ( Almost Famous )
- Hilary Swank - Boys Don't Cry
- Michelle Yeoh - Tiger & Dragon ( 臥虎藏龍 )
2002
- Nicole Kidman - The Others
- Sissy Spacek - In the Bedroom
- Audrey Tautou - The fabulous world of Amélie ( Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain )
- Renée Zellweger - Bridget Jones - Chocolate for Breakfast ( Bridget Jones' Diary )
2003
Nicole Kidman - The Hours - From Eternity to Eternity ( The Hours )
- Halle Berry - Monster's Ball
- Salma Hayek - Frida
- Meryl Streep - The Hours - From Eternity to Eternity ( The Hours )
- Renée Zellweger - Chicago
2004
Scarlett Johansson - Lost in Translation
- Scarlett Johansson - Girl with a Pearl Earring ( Girl with a Pearl Earring )
- Anne Reid - The Mother ( The Mother )
- Uma Thurman - Kill Bill - Volume 1 ( Kill Bill: Vol. 1 )
- Naomi Watts - 21 grams ( 21 grams )
2005
- Charlize Theron - monsters
- Kate Winslet - Forget Mine Don't! ( Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind )
- Kate Winslet - When Dreams Learn To Fly ( Finding Neverland )
- Zhang Ziyi - House of Flying Daggers ( 十面埋伏 )
Reese Witherspoon - Walk the Line
- Judi Dench - Lady Henderson Presents ( Mrs. Henderson Presents )
- Charlize Theron - Cold Land ( North County )
- Rachel Weisz - The Eternal Gardener ( The Constant Gardner )
- Zhang Ziyi - The Geisha ( Memoirs of a Geisha )
Helen Mirren - The Queen ( The Queen )
- Penélope Cruz - Volver - Return ( Volver )
- Judi Dench - Diary of a Scandal ( Notes on a Scandal )
- Meryl Streep - The Devil Wears Prada ( The Devil Wears Prada )
- Kate Winslet - Little Children
Marion Cotillard - La vie en rose ( La Môme )
- Cate Blanchett - Elizabeth - The Golden Age ( Elizabeth: The Golden Age )
- Julie Christie - By Her Side ( Away from Her )
- Keira Knightley - Atonement ( Atonement )
- Ellen Page - Juno
Kate Winslet - The Reader ( The Reader )
- Angelina Jolie - The Stranger Son ( Changeling )
- Kristin Scott Thomas - I love you for so many years ( Il ya longtemps que je t'aime )
- Meryl Streep - Question of Faith ( Doubt )
- Kate Winslet - Times of Turmoil ( Revolutionary Road )
2010s
- Saoirse Ronan - In My Heaven ( The Lovely Bones )
- Gabourey Sidibe - Precious - Life is Precious ( Precious: Based on the Novel “Push” by Sapphire )
- Meryl Streep - Julie & Julia
- Audrey Tautou - Coco Chanel - The Beginning of a Passion ( Coco avant Chanel )
- Annette Bening - The Kids Are All Right
- Julianne Moore - The Kids Are All Right
- Noomi Rapace - Delusion ( Man som hatar kvinnor )
- Hailee Steinfeld - True Grit
Meryl Streep - Die Eiserne Lady (The Iron Lady)
- Bérénice Bejo - The Artist
- Viola Davis - The Help
- Tilda Swinton - We Need to Talk About Kevin
- Michelle Williams - My Week with Marilyn
Emmanuelle Riva - Love (Amour)
- Jessica Chastain - Zero Dark Thirty
- Marion Cotillard - The taste of rust and bones (De rouille et d'os)
- Jennifer Lawrence - Silver Linings (Silver Linings Playbook)
- Helen Mirren - Hitchcock
- Amy Adams - American Hustle
- Emma Thompson - Saving Mr. Banks
- Sandra Bullock - Gravity
- Judi Dench - Philomena
Julianne Moore - Still Alice - My Life Without Yesterday (Still Alice)
- Amy Adams - Big Eyes
- Felicity Jones - The Theory of Everything (The Theory of Everything)
- Rosamund Pike - Gone Girl - Gone Girl
- Reese Witherspoon - The Big Trip - Wild (Wild)
Brie Larson - room (Room)
- Cate Blanchett - Carol
- Saoirse Ronan - Brooklyn - A Love Between Two Worlds (Brooklyn)
- Maggie Smith - The Lady in the Van
- Alicia Vikander - The Danish Girl
- Amy Adams - Arrival
- Emily Blunt - Girl on the Train (The Girl on the Train)
- Natalie Portman - Jackie: The First Lady (Jackie)
- Meryl Streep - Florence Foster Jenkins
Frances McDormand - Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
- Annette Bening - Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool
- Sally Hawkins - Shape of Water - The Shape of Water
- Margot Robbie - I, Tonya
- Saoirse Ronan - Lady Bird
Olivia Colman - The Favorite - Intrigue and Insanity (The Favorite)
- Glenn Close - The wife of Nobel Prize winner (The Wife)
- Viola Davis - Widows - Deadly Widows (Widows)
- Lady Gaga - A Star Is Born
- Melissa McCarthy - Can You Ever Forgive Me?