Chlotrudis Awards / Best Actress

Since 1995 the best actress has been honored at the Chlotrudis Awards .

statistics
Most often honored actress	Isabelle Huppert (two awards)
Most often nominated actress	Sarah Polley (four nominations)
Most often nominated actress without a win	Julianne Moore (four nominations; she won an audience award in 2003)

Excellent actresses

year	actress	Movie	Other nominees
1995	Judy Davis	The New Age and No Panic - Good hostages are rare	Linda Fiorentino for The Last Seduction Gong Li for Life! Julianne Moore for Vanja on 42nd Street Winona Ryder for Betty and her sisters Kathleen Turner for Serial Mom - Why doesn't mom let the killing?
1996	Susan Sarandon	Dead Man Walking - His last walk	Kathy Bates for Dolores Nicole Kidman for To Die For Julianne Moore for Safe Elisabeth Shue for Leaving Las Vegas Emma Thompson for Sense and Sensuality
1997	Frances McDormand	Fargo	Brenda Blethyn for Lies and Secrets Linda Henry for Beautiful Thing Catherine Keener for Walking and Talking Heather Matarazzo for Welcome to Madhouse Lili Taylor for I Shot Andy Warhol Emily Watson for Breaking the Waves
1998	Helena Bonham Carter	Wings of the Dove and The End of All Dreams	Judy Davis for Children of the Revolution Minnie Driver for A Man - A Murder Allison Folland for All Over Me Helen Hunt for It couldn't be better Sarah Polley for The Sweet Beyond Emma Thompson for The Winter Guest
1999	Cate Blanchett	Elizabeth	Drew Barrymore for Forever and Forever and A Wedding to Fall in Love Fernanda Montenegro for Central Station Christina Ricci for The Opposite of Sex - The Opposite of Sex and Buffalo '66 Ally Sheedy for High Art Emily Watson for Hilary & Jackie
2000	Hilary Swank	Boys don't cry	Annette Bening for American Beauty Élodie Bouchez for Liebe das Leben Julianne Moore for The End of an Affair and A Perfect Husband Sandra Oh for Last Night Rebecca Pidgeon for Winslow Boy Sarah Polley for Go and Guinevere Franka Potente for Lola Run Reese Witherspoon for Election
2001	Karine Vanasse	Emporte-moi - take me with you	Björk for Dancer in the Dark Ellen Burstyn for Requiem for a Dream Ayesha Dharker for The Terrorist Laura Linney for You Can Count on Me Michelle Rodríguez for Girlfight - On Your Own Cecilia Roth for Everything About My Mother Michelle Yeoh for Tiger and Dragon
2002	Naomi Watts Audience Award: Gillian Anderson	Mulholland Drive - Street of Darkness Bellomont House	Maggie Cheung for In the Mood for Love Lena Endre for Die Faithless Franka Potente for Der Krieger and the Empress Charlotte Rampling for Unter dem Sand Sissy Spacek for In the Bedroom Tilda Swinton for The Deep End - Trügerische Stille
2003	Isabelle Huppert Audience Award: Julianne Moore	The piano player So far from heaven	Jacqueline Bisset for The Sleepy Time Gal Emmanuelle Devos for lip service Maggie Gyllenhaal for Secretary Lena Headey for Aberdeen Catherine Keener for Lovely & Amazing Maribel Verdú for Y Tu Mamá También - Lust for Life
2004	Sarah Polley	My life without me	Oxana Akinschina for Lilja 4-ever Keisha Castle-Hughes for Whale Rider Zooey Deschanel for All the Real Girls Scarlett Johansson for Lost in Translation Frances McDormand for Laurel Canyon Samantha Morton for Morvern Callar Charlotte Rampling for Swimming Pool
2005	Imelda Staunton	Vera Drake	Toni Collette for Japanese Story Sinitta Boonyasak for Last Life in the Universe Catalina Sandino Moreno for Maria voll der Grace Fatoumata Coulibaly for Moolaadé - Ban of Hope Anne Reid for Die Mutter - The Mother Isabella Rossellini for The Saddest Music in the World
2006	Marilou Berry	Look at me!	Emmanuelle Devos for Rois et Reine Kate Dollenmayer for Funny Ha Ha Ronit Elkabetz for Or (My Treasure) Nathalie Press for My Summer of Love
2007	Robin Wright Penn	Sorry, haters	Maggie Cheung for Clean Laura Dern for Inland Empire Shareeka Epps for Half Nelson Sandra Hüller for Requiem Ellen Page for Hard Candy
2008	Kate Dickie	Red Road	Julie Christie for At Her Side Mirjana Karanović for Esma's Secret - Grbavica Ellen Page for Juno Sarah Polley for The Secret Life of Words Parker Posey for Fay Grim
2009	Kristin Scott Thomas	I love you for so many years	Anamaria Marinca for 4 months, 3 weeks and 2 days Sally Hawkins for Happy-Go-Lucky Lina Leandersson for So dark the night Michelle Williams for Wendy and Lucy
2010	Gabourey Sidibe	Precious - Life is precious	Abbie Cornish for Bright Star Nisreen Faour for Amreeka Charlotte Gainsbourg for Antichrist Yolande Moreau for Séraphine Carey Mulligan for An Education Catalina Saavedra for La Nana - Die Perle
2011	Kim Hye-yes	Mother	Anne Dorval for I Killed My Mother Katie Jarvis for Fish Tank Jennifer Lawrence for Winter's Bone Paprika Steen for Applause
2012	Tracy Wright	Trigger	Bérénice Bejo for The Artist Kirsten Dunst for Melancholia Adepero Oduye for Pariah Elizabeth Olsen for Martha Marcy May Marlene Yun Jeong-hie for Poetry
2013	Olivia Colman	Tyrannosaur	Marion Cotillard for Rust and Bone Helen Hunt for The Sessions Aubrey Plaza for Safety Not Guaranteed Quvenzhané Wallis for Beasts of the Southern Wild
2014	Brie Larson	Short term 12	Greta Gerwig for Frances Ha Barbara Sukowa for Hannah Arendt Danai Gurira for Mother of George Shailene Woodley for The Spectacular Now - Rachel Mwanza is now perfect for Rebelle
2015	Anne Dorval	Mommy	Patricia Arquette for Boyhood Paulina García for Gloria Tilda Swinton for Only Lovers Left Alive Agata Trzebuchowska for Ida Robin Wright for The Congress
2016	Karidja Touré	Girlhood	Ronit Elkabetz for Get - The Trial of Viviane Amsalem Nina Hoss for Phoenix Rinko Kikuchi for Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter Bel Powley for The Diary of a Teenage Girl Charlotte Rampling for 45 Years Saoirse Ronan for Brooklyn - A Love Between Two Worlds
2017	Isabelle Huppert	Cubit	Annette Bening for Jahrhundertfrauen Sônia Braga for Aquarius Imajyn Cardinal for The Saver Ruth Negga for Loving Tao Zhao for Mountains May Depart (Shan he gu ren)
2018	Holly Hunter and Sally Hawkins	Strange Weather Shape of Water - The whisper of the water	Aubrey Plaza for Ingrid Goes West Brooklynn Prince for The Florida Project Margot Robbie for I, Tonya
2019	Regina Hall	Support the girls	Emma Thompson for child welfare Eva Melander for Border Helena Howard for Madeline's Madeline Joanna Kulig for Cold War - The Latitude of Love Thomasin McKenzie for Leave No Trace
2020	Halldóra Geirharðsdóttir	Against the current	Jessie Buckley for Wild Rose Kristín Þóra Haraldsdóttir for And Breathe Normally (Andið eðlilega) Elisabeth Moss for Her Smell Karen Allen for Colewell Tessa Thompson for Little Woods