1930
1. Marlene Dietrich, Morocco
2. Barbara Stanwyck, Ladies of Leisure
3. Norma Shearer, The Divorcee
4. Ann Harding, Holiday
5. Kay Johnson, Madam Satan

1931
1. Lilyan Tashman, Girls About Town
2. Marlene Dietrich, Dishonored
3. Barbara Stanwyck, The Miracle Woman
4. Barbara Stanwyck, Night Nurse
5. Greta Garbo, Mata Hari

1932
1. Kay Francis, Trouble in Paradise
2. Barbara Stanwyck, Forbidden
3. Constance Bennett, What Price Hollywood?
4. Helen Hayes, A Farewell to Arms
5. Tallulah Bankhead, Faithless

1933
1. Margaret Sullavan, Only Yesterday
2. Greta Garbo, Queen Christina
3. Yoshiko Okada, Woman of Tokyo
4. Aline MacMahon, Gold Diggers of 1933
5. Marlene Dietrich, The Song of Songs

1934
1. Myrna Loy, The Thin Man
2. Margaret Sullavan, Little Man, What Now?
3. Greta Garbo, The Painted Veil
4. Claudette Colbert, It Happened One Night
5. Paula Wessely, Masquerade in Vienna

1935
1. Katharine Hepburn, Alice Adams
2. Carole Lombard, Hands Across the Table
3. Françoise Rosay, Carnival in Flanders
4. Margaret Sullavan, The Good Fairy
5. Ann Harding, Peter Ibbetson

1936
1. Greta Garbo, Camille
2. Irene Dunne, Theodora Goes Wild
3. Isuzu Yamada, Osaka Elegy
4. Marlene Dietrich, Desire
5. Chôko Iida, The Only Son

1937
1. Irene Dunne, The Awful Truth
2. Beulah Bondi, Make Way for Tomorrow
3. Marlene Dietrich, Angel
4. Kay Francis, Confession
5. Marlene Dietrich, Knight Without Armour

1938
1. Margaret Sullavan, Three Comrades
2. Katharine Hepburn, Bringing Up Baby
3. Margaret Sullavan, The Shopworn Angel
4. Danielle Darrieux, The Rage of Paris
5. Constance Bennett, Merrily We Live

1939
1. Vivien Leigh, Gone With the Wind
2. Claudette Colbert, Midnight
3. Greta Garbo, Ninotchka
4. Irene Dunne, When Tomorrow Comes
5. Irene Dunne, Love Affair



1940
1. Katharine Hepburn, The Philadelphia Story
2. Rosalind Russell, His Girl Friday
3. Margaret Sullavan, The Shop Around the Corner
4. Vivien Leigh, Waterloo Bridge
5. Danielle Darrieux, Beating Heart

1941
1. Barbara Stanwyck, The Lady Eve
2. Danielle Darrieux, Her First Affair
3. Bette Davis, The Little Foxes
4. Olivia de Havilland, Hold Back the Dawn
5. Margaret Sullavan, Back Street

1942
1. Carole Lombard, To Be or Not to Be
2. Katharine Hepburn, Woman of the Year
3. Ingrid Bergman, Casablanca
4. Bette Davis, Now, Voyager
5. Ginger Rogers, The Major and the Minor

1943
1. Joan Fontaine, The Constant Nymph
2. Ida Lupino, The Hard Way
3. Lisbeth Movin, Day of Wrath
4. Ann Sothern, Cry Havoc
5. Joan Fontaine, Jane Eyre

1944
1. Celia Johnson, This Happy Breed
2. Barbara Britton, Till We Meet Again
3. Barbara Stanwyck, Double Indemnity
4. Ella Raines, Phantom Lady
5. Joan Bennett, The Woman in the Window

1945
1. Dorothy McGuire, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
2. Celia Johnson, Brief Encounter
3. Anna Magnani, Rome, Open City
4. María Casares, Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne
5. Arletty, Children of Paradise

1946
1. Ingrid Bergman, Notorious
2. Olivia de Havilland, To Each His Own
3. Katharine Hepburn, Undercurrent
4. Barbara Stanwyck, My Reputation
5. Laraine Day, The Locket

1947
1. Rosalind Russell, Mourning Becomes Electra
2. Deborah Kerr, Black Narcissus
3. Joan Fontaine, Ivy
4. Joan Crawford, Daisy Kenyon
5. Ida Lupino, Deep Valley

1948
1. Anna Magnani, L’Amore
2. Kinuyo Tanaka, Women of the Night
3. Marlene Dietrich, A Foreign Affair
4. Irene Dunne, I Remember Mama
5. Olivia de Havilland, The Snake Pit

1949
1. Olivia de Havilland, The Heiress
2. Alida Valli, The Third Man
3. Ingrid Bergman, Under Capricorn
4. Patricia Neal, The Fountainhead
5. Lizabeth Scott, Too Late for Tears


1950
1. Bette Davis, All About Eve
2. Kinuyo Tanaka, The Munekata Sisters
3. Judy Holliday, Born Yesterday
4. Gloria Grahame, In a Lonely Place
5. Ann Sheridan, Woman on the Run

1951
1. Setsuko Hara, Repast
2. Vivien Leigh, A Streetcar Named Desire
3. Katharine Hepburn, The African Queen
4. Kinuyo Tanaka, Ginza Cosmetics
5. Hideko Takamine, Carmen Comes Home

1952
1. Kinuyo Tanaka, Mother
2. Ingrid Bergman, Europa ’51
3. Olivia de Havilland, My Cousin Rachel
4. Maureen O’Hara, The Quiet Man
5. Barbara Stanwyck, Clash By Night

1953
1. Danielle Darrieux, The Earrings of Madame de…
2. Barbara Stanwyck, All I Desire
3. Machiko Kyō, Gate of Hell
4. Jean Simmons, Angel Face
5. Marilyn Monroe, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

1954
1. Giulietta Masina, La Strada
2. Alida Valli, Senso
3. Kyôko Kagawa, The Crucified Lovers
4. Gloria Grahame, Human Desire
5. Audrey Hepburn, Sabrina

1955
1. Hideko Takamine, Floating Clouds
2. Danielle Darrieux, Lady Chatterley’s Lover
3. Katharine Hepburn, Summertime
4. Jane Wyman, All That Heaven Allows
5. Deborah Kerr, The End of the Affair

1956
1. Carroll Baker, Baby Doll
2. Deborah Kerr, Tea and Sympathy
3.
4.
5.

1957
1. Patricia Neal, A Face in the Crowd
2. Giulietta Masina, Nights of Cabiria
3. Hideko Takamine, Untamed Woman
4. Deborah Kerr, An Affair to Remember
5. Joanne Woodward, The Three Faces of Eve

1958
1. Kim Stanley, The Goddess
2. Jean Simmons, Home Before Dark
3. Jeanne Moreau, The Lovers
4. Rosalind Russell, Auntie Mame
5. Leslie Caron, Gigi

1959
1. Eleonora Rossi Drago, Violent Summer
2. Audrey Hepburn, The Nun’s Story
3. Emmanuelle Riva, Hiroshima Mon Amour
4. Elizabeth Taylor, Suddenly, Last Summer
5. Doris Day, Pillow Talk

1960
1. Monica Vitti, L’Avventura
2. Hideko Takamine, When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
3. Shirley MacLaine, The Apartment
4. Sophia Loren, Two Women
5. Danielle Darrieux, Meurte en 45 tours

1961
1. Deborah Kerr, The Innocents
2. Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany’s
3. Anouk Aimée, Lola
4. Vivien Leigh, The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
5. Harriet Andersson, Through a Glass Darkly

1962
1. Katharine Hepburn, Long Day’s Journey Into Night
2. Anne Bancroft, The Miracle Worker
3. Candace Hilligoss, Carnival of Souls
4. Bette Davis, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
5. Lee Remick, Experiment in Terror

1963
1. Delphine Seyrig, Muriel, or the Time of Return
2. Leslie Caron, The L-Shaped Room
3. Ingrid Thulin, The Silence
4. Daliah Lavi, The Demon
5. Michèle Mercier, Black Sabbath

1964
1. Hideko Takamine, Yearning
2. Anne Bancroft, The Pumpkin Eater
3. Monica Vitti, Red Desert
4. Kim Stanley, Seance on a Wet Afternoon
5. Nina Pens Rode, Gertrud

1965
1. Tura Satana, Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!
2. Samantha Eggar, The Collector
3. Stefania Sandrelli, I Knew Her Well
4. Catherine Deneuve, Repulsion
5.

1966
1. Bibi Andersson, Persona
2. Jeanne Moreau, Mademoiselle
3. Elizabeth Taylor, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
4. Liv Ullmann, Persona
5. Lynn Redgrave, Georgy Girl

1967
1. Audrey Hepburn, Two for the Road
2. Vanessa Redgrave, Camelot
3. Yoko Tsukasa, Scattered Clouds
4. Audrey Hepburn, Wait Until Dark
5. Catherine Deneuve, Belle de Jour

1968
1. Tuesday Weld, Pretty Poison
2. Mia Farrow, Rosemary’s Baby
3. Liv Ullmann, Hour of the Wolf
4. Joanne Woodward, Rachel, Rachel
5. Lynn Carlin, Faces

1969
1. Jean Simmons, The Happy Ending
2. Stéphane Audran, La Femme Infidèle
3. Liza Minnelli, The Sterile Cuckoo
4. Ingrid Bergman, Cactus Flower
5. Jane Fonda, They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?

1970
1. Stéphane Audran, Le Boucher
2. Faye Dunaway, Puzzle of a Downfall Child
3. Stéphane Audran, La Rupture
4. Shirley Stoler, The Honeymoon Killers
5. Catherine Deneuve, Tristana

1971
1. Dyan Cannon, Such Good Friends
2. Delphine Seyrig, Daughters of Darkness
3. Zohra Lampert, Let’s Scare Jessica to Death
4. Glenda Jackson, The Music Lovers
5. Glenda Jackson, Sunday Bloody Sunday

1972
1. Ingrid Thulin, Cries and Whispers
2. Margit Carstensen, The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant
3. Joanne Woodward, The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds
4. Liv Ullmann, The New Land
5. Barbra Streisand, What’s Up, Doc?

1973
1. Julie Christie, Don’t Look Now
2. Ana Torrent, The Spirit of the Beehive
3. Glenda Jackson, A Touch of Class
4. Sissy Spacek, Badlands
5.

1974
1. Liv Ullmann, Scenes from a Marriage
2. Yella Rottländer, Alice in the Cities
3. Juliet Berto, Celine and Julie Go Boating
4. Gena Rowlands, A Woman Under the Influence
5. Dominique Labourier, Celine and Julie Go Boating

1975
1. Romy Schneider, That Most Important Thing: Love
2. Ann-Margret, Tommy
3. Delphine Seyrig, Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
4. Isabelle Adjani, The Story of Adele H
5. Glenda Jackson, Hedda

1976
1. Sissy Spacek, Carrie
2. Liv Ullmann, Face to Face
3. Ana Torrent, Cría Cuervos
4. Sally Field, Sybil
5. Bulle Ogier, Maîtresse

1977
1. Smita Patil, Bhumika
2. Gena Rowlands, Opening Night
3. Shelley Duvall, 3 Women
4. Sissy Spacek, 3 Women
5. Diane Keaton, Annie Hall

1978
1. Glenda Jackson, Stevie
2. Geraldine Page, Interiors
3. Jill Clayburgh, An Unmarried Woman
4. Ingrid Bergman, Autumn Sonata
5. Geraldine Chaplin, Remember My Name

1979
1. Hanna Schygulla, The Marriage of Maria Braun
2. Sigourney Weaver, Alien
3. Nastassja Kinski, Tess
4. Diane Keaton, Manhattan
5.



1980
1. Shelley Duvall, The Shining
2. Theresa Russell, Bad Timing
3. Sissy Spacek, Coal Miner’s Daughter
4. Gena Rowlands, Gloria
5. Goldie Hawn, Private Benjamin

1981
1. Isabelle Adjani, Possession
2. Isabelle Huppert, The Lady of the Camellias
3. Faye Dunaway, Mommie Dearest
4. Barbara Sukowa, Lola
5. Zoë Lund, Ms .45

1982
1. Meryl Streep, Sophie’s Choice
2. Barbara Hershey, The Entity
3. Nora Aunor, Himala
4. Rosel Zech, Veronika Voss
5.

1983
1. Danielle Darrieux, At the Top of the Stairs
2. Debra Winger, Terms of Endearment
3. Meryl Streep, Silkwood
4. Shabana Azmi, Mandi
5. Shirley MacLaine, Terms of Endearment


1984
1. Pascale Ogier, Full Moon in Paris
2. Carmen Maura, What Have I Done to Deserve This?
3. Mia Farrow, Broadway Danny Rose
4. Kathleen Turner, Crimes of Passion
5. Kathleen Turner, Romancing the Stone

1985
1. Grażyna Szapołowska, No End
2. Helen Shaver, Desert Hearts
3. Mia Farrow, The Purple Rose of Cairo
4. Patricia Charbonneau, Desert Hearts
5. Charlotte Rampling, On ne meurt que deux fois

1986
1. Marie Rivière, The Green Ray
2. Kathleen Turner, Peggy Sue Got Married
3. Charlotte Rampling, Max Mon Amour
4.
5.

1987
1. Maggie Smith, The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
2. Holly Hunter, Broadcast News
3. Cher, Moonstruck
4. Stéphane Audran, Babette’s Feast
5.

1988
1. Isabelle Huppert, Story of Women
2. Glenn Close, Dangerous Liaisons
3. Cassandra Peterson, Elvira, Mistress of the Dark
4. Carmen Maura, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
5. Amanda Donohoe, The Lair of the White Worm

1989
1. Sabine Azéma, Life and Nothing But
2. Kathleen Turner, The War of the Roses
3. Meryl Streep, She-Devil
4. Michelle Pfeiffer, The Fabulous Baker Boys
5.


1990
1. Mia Farrow, Alice
2. Anjelica Huston, The Grifters
3. Anjelica Huston, The Witches
4.
5.

1991
1. Isabelle Huppert, Malina
2. Susan Sarandon, Thelma & Louise
3. Sally Field, Soapdish
4. Geena Davis, Thelma & Louise
5. Isabelle Huppert, Madame Bovary

1992
1. Marie Trintignant, Betty
2. Emma Thompson, Howards End
3. Sheryl Lee, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
4. Meryl Streep, Death Becomes Her
5.

1993
1. Stockard Channing, Six Degrees of Separation
2. Holly Hunter, The Piano
3. Angela Bassett, What’s Love Got to Do With It?
4. Diane Keaton, Manhattan Murder Mystery
5. Michelle Pfeiffer, The Age of Innocence

1994
1. Kathleen Turner, Serial Mom
2. Julianne Moore, Vanya on 42nd Street
3. Toni Collette, Muriel’s Wedding
4. Susan Sarandon, The Client
5. Irène Jacob, Three Colors: Red

1995
1. Julianne Moore, Safe
2. Meryl Streep, The Bridges of Madison County
3. Alicia Silverstone, Clueless
4. Elizabeth Berkley, Showgirls
5. Nicole Kidman, To Die For

1996
1. Emily Watson, Breaking the Waves
2. Brenda Blethyn, Secrets & Lies
3. Kristin Scott Thomas, The English Patient
4. Gwyneth Paltrow, Emma
5. Nicole Kidman, The Portrait of a Lady

1997
1. Pam Grier, Jackie Brown
2. Julia Roberts, My Best Friend’s Wedding
3. Isabelle Huppert, The Swindle
4. Helena Bonham Carter, The Wings of the Dove
5. Mira Sorvino, Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion

1998
1. Gwyneth Paltrow, Shakespeare in Love
2. Isabelle Huppert, The School of Flesh
3. Gwyneth Paltrow, Sliding Doors
4.
5.

1999
1. Cecilia Roth, All About My Mother
2. Maria Schrader, Aimee & Jaguar
3. Juliane Köhler, Aimee & Jaguar
4. Annette Bening, American Beauty
5. Julianne Moore, The End of the Affair


2000
1. Lena Endre, Faithless
2. Charlotte Rampling, Under the Sand
3. Gillian Anderson, The House of Mirth
4. Björk, Dancer in the Dark
5. Zhang Ziyi, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

2001
1. Naomi Watts, Mulholland Drive
2. Nicole Kidman, Moulin Rouge!
3. Renée Zellweger, Bridget Jones’s Diary
4. Isabelle Huppert, The Piano Teacher
5. Sissy Spacek, In the Bedroom

2002
1. Julianne Moore, Far From Heaven
2. Diane Lane, Unfaithful
3. Oksana Akinshina, Lilya 4-ever
4. Naomi Watts, The Ring
5. Isabelle Huppert, Two

2003
1. Eva Löbau, The Forest for the Trees
2. Scarlett Johansson, Lost in Translation
3. Naomi Watts, 21 Grams
4. Charlotte Rampling, Swimming Pool
5. Uma Thurman, Kill Bill Vol 1

2004
1. Maggie Cheung, Clean
2. Imelda Staunton, Vera Drake
3. Nicole Kidman, Birth
4. Julia Roberts, Closer
5. Uma Thurman, Kill Bill Vol 2

2005
1. Shu Qi, Three Times
2. Isabelle Huppert, Gabrielle
3. Gwyneth Paltrow, Proof
4. Embeth Davidtz, Junebug
5. Kyoko Koizumi, Hanging Garden

2006
1. Penélope Cruz, Volver
2. Laura Dern, Inland Empire
3. Meryl Streep, The Devil Wears Prada
4. Kirsten Dunst, Marie Antoinette
5. Ashley Judd, Bug

2007
1. Laura Linney, The Savages
2. Marion Cotillard, La Vie En Rose
3. Amy Adams, Enchanted
4. Naomi Watts, Funny Games
5. Nicole Kidman, Margot at the Wedding

2008
1. Sally Hawkins, Happy-Go-Lucky
2. Gwyneth Paltrow, Two Lovers
3. Kristin Scott Thomas, I’ve Loved You So Long
4. Anne Hathaway, Rachel Getting Married
5. Maria Onetto, The Headless Woman

2009
1. Tilda Swinton, I Am Love
2. Kim Hye-Ja, Mother
3. Annette Bening, Mother and Child
4. Mélanie Laurent, Inglourious Basterds
5. Carey Mulligan, An Education



2010
1. Yoon Jeong-hee, Poetry
2. Lesley Manville, Another Year
3. Annette Bening, The Kids Are All Right
4. Michelle Williams, Blue Valentine
5. Emma Stone, Easy A

2011
1. Anna Paquin, Margaret
2. Kristen Wiig, Bridesmaids
3. Charlize Theron, Young Adult
4. Saoirse Ronan, Hanna
5. Tilda Swinton, We Need to Talk About Kevin

2012
1. Greta Gerwig, Frances Ha
2. Suzanne Clément, Laurence Anyways
3. Nina Hoss, Barbara
4. Charlotte Rampling, I, Anna
5. Jennifer Lawrence, Silver Linings Playbook

2013
1. Adèle Exarchopoulos, Blue is the Warmest Color
2. Amy Adams, American Hustle
3. Marion Cotillard, The Immigrant
4. Tilda Swinton, Only Lovers Left Alive
5. Isabelle Huppert, Abuse of Weakness

2014
1. Marion Cotillard, Two Days, One Night
2. Julianne Moore, Maps to the Stars
3. Anne Dorval, Mommy
4. Sidse Babett Knudsen, The Duke of Burgundy
5. Essie Davis, The Babadook

2015
1. Charlotte Rampling, 45 Years
2. Rooney Mara, Carol
3. Saoirse Ronan, Brooklyn
4. Krisha Fairchild, Krisha
5. Mya Taylor, Tangerine

2016
1. Kristen Stewart, Personal Shopper
2. Isabelle Huppert, Things to Come
3. Cynthia Nixon, A Quiet Passion
4. Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Like Crazy
5. Sonia Braga, Aquarius

2017
1. Saoirse Ronan, Lady Bird
2. Kim Min-hee, On the Beach at Night Alone
3. Haley Lu Richardson, Columbus
4. Juliette Binoche, Let the Sunshine In
5. Jeanne Balibar, Barbara

2018
1. Carey Mulligan, Wildlife
2. Helena Howard, Madeline’s Madeline
3. Regina Hall, Support the Girls
4. Sienna Miller, American Woman
5. Zhao Tao, Ash Is Purest White

2019
1. Beanie Feldstein, Booksmart
2. Kaitlyn Dever, Booksmart
3. Saoirse Ronan, Little Women
4. Scarlett Johansson, Marriage Story
5. Naomi Watts, Luce