Screen Actors Guild Award / Best Actress
The Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actress (Original Name: Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role ) is one of the awards given annually in the United States by the Screen Actors Guild , a union of actors. It is aimed at actresses who have excelled in a leading role in a feature film . The category was launched in 1995. The winners will be determined in a secret ballot by the full members of the union.
statistics
Since it was first awarded, the Screen Actors Guild has awarded a total of 26 awards in the Best Leading Actress category to 24 different actresses. The first to win was Jodie Foster , who was honored for her role as Nell Kellty in Michael Apted's drama Nell in 1995. The last winner so far was Renée Zellweger , who was honored in 2020 for her role as Judy Garland in Rupert Goold's film drama Judy .
As of the 2020 award ceremony , the winner in this category did not agree with the future Oscar winner in seven cases . These were Jodie Foster 1995 for her role in Nell , Annette Bening 2000 for American Beauty , Renée Zellweger 2002 for Chicago , Julie Christie 2008 for At Her Side , Meryl Streep 2009 for Faith , Viola Davis 2012 for The Help and Glenn Close 2019 for Die Wife of the Nobel Prize Winner .
The oldest winner at the age of 71 in 2019 was the American Glenn Close ( The Nobel Prize Winner's Wife ); Oldest nominated actress at the age of 83 in 2018 the Briton Judi Dench ( Victoria & Abdul ). The youngest winner at the age of 22 in 2013 was American Jennifer Lawrence ( Silver Linings ); youngest actress nominated at the age of 16 2004 her compatriot Evan Rachel Wood ( thirteen ).
| statistics | actor | number | Years |
|---|---|---|---|
| Most frequent award | Frances McDormand | 2 | 1997, 2018 |
| Renée Zellweger | 2 | 2003, 2020 | |
| Most frequent nominations (* = victory) |
Meryl Streep | 10 | 1995, 1996, 1999, 2000, 2007, 2009 *, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2017 |
| Most frequent nominations without a win | Judi Dench | 6th | 1998, 2002, 2006, 2007, 2014, 2018 |
Winners and nominees
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 in bold type first.
1995-2000
- Jessica Lange - Operation Blue Sky (Blue Sky)
- Meg Ryan - When a Man Loves a Woman - An almost perfect love (When a Man Loves a Woman)
- Susan Sarandon - The Client (The Client)
- Meryl Streep - Am wilden River (The River Wild)
Susan Sarandon - Dead Man Walking - His Last Walk (Dead Man Walking)
- Joan Allen - Nixon
- Elisabeth Shue - Leaving Las Vegas
- Meryl Streep - The Bridges of Madison County (The Bridges of Madison County)
- Emma Thompson - Sense and Sensibility (Sense and Sensibility)
- Brenda Blethyn - Lies and Secrets (Secrets & Lies)
- Diane Keaton - Marvin's Daughters (Marvin's Room)
- Gena Rowlands - A Light In My Heart (Unhook the Stars)
- Kristin Scott Thomas - The English Patient (The English Patient)
Helen Hunt - Good As It Gets (As Good as It Gets)
- Helena Bonham Carter - Wings of the Dove (The Wings of the Dove)
- Judi Dench - Her Majesty Mrs. Brown (Mrs. Brown)
- Pam Grier - Jackie Brown
- Robin Wright - Alles aus Liebe (She's So Lovely)
- Kate Winslet - Titanic
Gwyneth Paltrow - Shakespeare in Love
- Cate Blanchett - Elizabeth
- Jane Horrocks - Little Voice
- Meryl Streep - Family thing (One True Thing)
- Emily Watson - Hilary & Jackie (Hilary and Jackie)
Annette Bening - American Beauty
- Janet McTeer - Tumbleweeds
- Julianne Moore - The End of the Affair (The End of the Affair)
- Meryl Streep - Music of the Heart
- Hilary Swank - Boys Don't Cry
2001-2010
Julia Roberts - Erin Brockovich
- Joan Allen - Character Assassination - Beyond Morality (The Contender)
- Juliette Binoche - Chocolat - A small bite is enough (Chocolat)
- Ellen Burstyn - Requiem for a Dream
- Laura Linney - You Can Count on Me
- Jennifer Connelly - A Beautiful Mind - Genie und Wahnsinn (A Beautiful Mind)
- Judi Dench - Iris
- Sissy Spacek - In the Bedroom
- Renée Zellweger - Bridget Jones - Chocolate for Breakfast (Bridget Jones's Diary)
- Salma Hayek - Frida
- Nicole Kidman - The Hours - From Eternity to Eternity (The Hours)
- Diane Lane - Unfaithful (Unfaithful)
- Julianne Moore - Far from Heaven (Far from Heaven)
- Patricia Clarkson - Station Agent (The Station Agent)
- Diane Keaton - Something's Gotta Give (Something's Gotta Give)
- Naomi Watts - 21 grams (21 grams )
- Evan Rachel Wood - Thirteen (Thirteen)
Hilary Swank - Million Dollar Baby
- Annette Bening - Being Julia
- Catalina Sandino Moreno - Maria Full of Grace (Maria Full of Grace)
- Imelda Staunton - Vera Drake
- Kate Winslet - Forget Mine Don't! (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind)
Reese Witherspoon - Walk the Line
- Judi Dench - Lady Henderson Presents (Mrs. Henderson Presents)
- Felicity Huffman - Transamerica
- Charlize Theron - Cold Land (North Country)
- 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
Julie Christie - By Her Side (Away from Her)
- Cate Blanchett - Elizabeth : The Golden Age
- Marion Cotillard - La vie en rose (La Môme)
- Angelina Jolie - A Mighty Heart (A Mighty Heart)
- Ellen Page - Juno
Meryl Streep - Question of Faith (Doubt)
- Anne Hathaway - Rachel Getting Married (Rachel Getting Married)
- Angelina Jolie - The Stranger Son (Changeling)
- Melissa Leo - Frozen River
- Kate Winslet - Times of Turmoil (Revolutionary Road)
Sandra Bullock - Blind Side - The Blind Side
- Helen Mirren - A Russian Summer (The Last Station)
- Carey Mulligan - An Education
- Gabourey Sidibe - Precious - Life is Precious (Precious: Based on the Novel “Push” by Sapphire)
- Meryl Streep - Julie & Julia
2011-2020
- Annette Bening - The Kids Are All Right
- Nicole Kidman - Rabbit Hole
- Jennifer Lawrence - Winter's Bone
- Hilary Swank - Betty Anne Waters (Conviction)
- Glenn Close - Albert Nobbs
- Meryl Streep - Die Eiserne Lady (The Iron Lady)
- Tilda Swinton - We Need to Talk About Kevin
- Michelle Williams - My Week with Marilyn
Jennifer Lawrence - Silver Linings (Silver Linings Playbook)
- Jessica Chastain - Zero Dark Thirty
- Marion Cotillard - The taste of rust and bones (De rouille et d'os)
- Helen Mirren - Hitchcock
- Naomi Watts - The Impossible (Lo imposible)
- Sandra Bullock - Gravity
- Meryl Streep - In August in Osage County (August: Osage County)
- Emma Thompson - Saving Mr. Banks
- Judi Dench - Philomena
Julianne Moore - Still Alice - My Life Without Yesterday (Still Alice)
- Jennifer Aniston - Cake
- 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
- Helen Mirren - The Woman in Gold
- Saoirse Ronan - Brooklyn - A Love Between Two Worlds (Brooklyn)
- Sarah Silverman - I Smile Back
- 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
- Judi Dench - Victoria & Abdul
- Sally Hawkins - Shape of Water - The Shape of Water
- Margot Robbie - I, Tonya
- Saoirse Ronan - Lady Bird
Glenn Close - The wife of Nobel Prize winner (The Wife)
- Emily Blunt - Mary Poppins' return (Mary Poppins Returns)
- Olivia Colman - The Favorite - Intrigue and Insanity (The Favorite)
- Lady Gaga - A Star Is Born
- Melissa McCarthy - Can You Ever Forgive Me?
- Cynthia Erivo - Harriet - The Path to Freedom (Harriet)
- Scarlett Johansson - Marriage Story
- Lupita Nyong'o - We (Us)
- Charlize Theron - Bombshell - The End of Silence (Bombshell)
Web links
- Screen Actors Guild Awards Official Website