Evening Standard British Film Award / Best Actress

Evening Standard British Film Award : Best Actress

Winners of the Evening Standard British Film Awards in the category Best Actress ( Best Actress ). The British Film Prize selects the best national film productions and filmmakers of the past calendar year and is usually awarded at the beginning of February.

Most successful in this category were Maggie Smith and Emma Thompson , who have won the award three times, followed by Glenda Jackson , Natasha Richardson , Kristin Scott Thomas , Billie Whitelaw and Kate Winslet with two wins each. The winner agreed eight times with the later BAFTA winner , four times (1975, 1980, 1993, 2003) with the later Oscar winner.

year	Laureate	Movie title	German distribution title
1974	Glenda Jackson	Mary, Queen of Scots	Mary Queen of Scots Queen of Scotland
1975	Glenda Jackson	A touch of class	Man are you class!
1976	Wendy Hiller	Murder on the Orient Express	Murder on the Orient Express
1977	Annette Crosbie	The Slipper and the Rose: The Story of Cinderella	Cinderella's silver shoe
1978	Billie Whitelaw	The omen	The Omen
1979	Nanette Newman	International Velvet	All happiness on earth
1980	Maggie Smith	California Suite	The crazy California hotel
1981	Frances de la Tour	Rising Damp	not known
1982	Maggie Smith	Quartet	quartet
1983	Jennifer Kendal	36 Chowringhee Lane	Farewell Road
1984	Phyllis Logan	Another time, another place	Another time, another place
1985	Helen Mirren	Cal	Cal
1986	Miranda Richardson	Dance with a Stranger	Dance with a Stranger
1987	Coral Browne	Dreamchild	The real life of Alice in Wonderland
1988	Emily Lloyd	Wish You Were Here	Wish You Were Here - I wish you were here
1989	Maggie Smith *	The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne	Judith Hearne's great longing
	Billie Whitelaw	The dressmaker	not known
1990	Pauline Collins *	Shirley Valentine	Shirley Valentine - Goodbye, my dear man
1991	Natasha Richardson	The Comfort of Strangers The Handmaid's Tale	The consolation of strangers The story of the servant
1992	Juliet Stevenson	Truly Madly Deeply	How crazy & from the bottom of my heart
1993	Emma Thompson *	Howards End Peter's Friends	See you in Howards End Peter’s Friends
1994	Emma Thompson	Much Ado About Nothing The Remains of the Day	Much ado about nothing that was left of the day
1995	Kristin Scott Thomas **	Four Weddings and a Funeral	Four weddings and one death
1996	Kristin Scott Thomas	Angels and Insects	Angels and insects
1997	Kate Winslet **	Jude Sense and Sensibility	Hearts in turmoil sense and sensuality
1998	Katrin Cartlidge	Career Girls	Career girls
1999	Julie Christie	Afterglow	Love whispers
2000	Samantha Morton	Dreaming of Joseph Lees	My love for Joseph Lees
2001	Julie Walters **	Billy Elliot	Billy Elliot - I Will Dance
2002	Kate Winslet	Enigma Iris Quills	Enigma - The Secret Iris Quills - Power of Obsession
2003	Catherine Zeta-Jones **	Chicago	Chicago
2004	Emma Thompson	Love Actually	Indeed ... love
2005	Imelda Staunton *	Vera Drake	Vera Drake
2006	Natasha Richardson	Asylum	Stella's temptation
2007	Judi Dench	Notes on a Scandal	Diary of a scandal
2008	Helena Bonham Carter	Conversations with Other Women Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street	not known Sweeney Todd - The Devilish Barber from Fleet Street
2009	Tilda Swinton	Julia	Julia
2010	Anne-Marie Duff	Nowhere boy	Nowhere boy
2011	Kristin Scott Thomas	Partir	The affair
2012	Olivia Colman	Tyrannosaur	Tyrannosaur - A love story

* = Actresses who later for her role the BAFTA Award as Best Actress of the Year won
** = actresses who later BAFTA Award for her role as Best Supporting Actress of the Year won