Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress

The Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress is one of the annual awards given by the Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association.^[1]

The 2024 recipient: Mikey Madison

Winners and nominees

2000s

Year	Actress	Film	Role
2002	Julianne Moore	Far from Heaven	Cathy Whitaker
2003	Naomi Watts	21 Grams	Cristina Peck
	Cate Blanchett	Veronica Guerin	Veronica Guerin
	Keisha Castle-Hughes	Whale Rider	Paikea Apirana
	Diane Keaton	Something's Gotta Give	Erica Barry
	Evan Rachel Wood	Thirteen	Tracy Louise Freeland
2004	Imelda Staunton	Vera Drake	Vera Drake
2005	Reese Witherspoon [2]	Walk the Line	June Carter Cash
	Joan Allen	The Upside of Anger	Terry Wolfmeyer
	Felicity Huffman	Transamerica	Sabrina "Bree" Osbourne
	Keira Knightley	Pride & Prejudice	Elizabeth Bennet
	Charlize Theron	North Country	Josey Aimes
2006	Helen Mirren	The Queen	Elizabeth II
2007	Julie Christie	Away from Her	Fiona Anderson
2008	Meryl Streep	Doubt	Sister Aloysius Beauvier
2009	Carey Mulligan	An Education	Jenny Mellor
	Sandra Bullock	The Blind Side	Leigh Anne Tuohy
	Maya Rudolph	Away We Go	Verona De Tessant
	Gabourey Sidibe	Precious	Claireece "Precious" Jones
	Meryl Streep	Julie & Julia	Julia Child

2010s

Year	Actress	Film	Role
2010	Jennifer Lawrence	Winter's Bone	Ree Dolly
	Annette Bening	The Kids Are All Right	Dr. Nicole "Nic" Allgood
	Anne Hathaway	Love & Other Drugs	Maggie Murdock
	Nicole Kidman	Rabbit Hole	Becca Corbett
	Natalie Portman	Black Swan	Nina Sayers
2011	Michelle Williams	My Week with Marilyn	Marilyn Monroe
	Viola Davis	The Help	Aibileen Clark
	Elizabeth Olsen	Martha Marcy May Marlene	Martha
	Meryl Streep	The Iron Lady	Margaret Thatcher
	Tilda Swinton	We Need to Talk About Kevin	Eva Khatchadourian
2012	Jessica Chastain[3][4]	Zero Dark Thirty	Maya
	Marion Cotillard	Rust and Bone	Stéphanie
	Jennifer Lawrence	Silver Linings Playbook	Tiffany Maxwell
	Helen Mirren	Hitchcock	Alma Reville
	Emmanuelle Riva	Amour	Anne Laurent
2013	Cate Blanchett	Blue Jasmine	Jeanette "Jasmine" Francis
	Sandra Bullock	Gravity	Dr. Ryan Stone
	Brie Larson	Short Term 12	Grace Howard
	Judi Dench	Philomena	Philomena Lee
	Emma Thompson	Saving Mr. Banks	P. L. Travers
2014	Julianne Moore [5]	Still Alice	Dr. Alice Howland
	Scarlett Johansson	Under the Skin	The Female
	Felicity Jones	The Theory of Everything	Jane Hawking
	Rosamund Pike	Gone Girl	Amy Elliott-Dunne
	Reese Witherspoon	Wild	Cheryl Strayed
2015	Saoirse Ronan [6]	Brooklyn	Eilis Lacey
	Cate Blanchett	Carol	Carol Aird
	Brie Larson	Room	Joy "Ma" Newsome
	Sarah Silverman	I Smile Back	Laney Brooks
	Charlize Theron	Mad Max: Fury Road	Imperator Furiosa
2016	Natalie Portman [7]	Jackie	Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
	Amy Adams	Arrival	Dr. Louise Banks
	Annette Bening	20th Century Women	Dorothea Fields
	Ruth Negga	Loving	Mildred Loving
	Emma Stone	La La Land	Mia Dolan
2017	Frances McDormand	Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri	Mildred Hayes
	Sally Hawkins	The Shape of Water	Elisa Esposito
	Brie Larson	The Glass Castle	Jeannette Walls
	Margot Robbie	I, Tonya	Tonya Harding
	Saoirse Ronan	Lady Bird	Christine "Lady Bird" McPherson
2018	Lady Gaga	A Star Is Born	Ally Maine
	Glenn Close	The Wife	Joan Castleman
	Toni Collette	Hereditary	Annie Graham
	Olivia Colman	The Favourite	Queen Anne
	Melissa McCarthy	Can You Ever Forgive Me?	Lee Israel
2019	Lupita Nyong'o	Us	Adelaide Wilson / Red
	Awkwafina	The Farewell	Billi Wang
	Scarlett Johansson	Marriage Story	Nicole Barber
	Saoirse Ronan	Little Women	Josephine "Jo" March
	Renée Zellweger	Judy	Judy Garland

2020s

Year	Actress	Film	Role
2020	Frances McDormand	Nomadland	Fern
	Vanessa Kirby	Pieces of a Woman	Martha Weiss
	Viola Davis	Ma Rainey's Black Bottom	Ma Rainey
	Elisabeth Moss	The Invisible Man	Cecilia Kass
	Carey Mulligan	Promising Young Woman	Cassandra "Cassie" Thomas
2021	Kristen Stewart	Spencer	Princess Diana
	Olivia Colman	The Lost Daughter	Leda Caruso
	Lady Gaga	House of Gucci	Patrizia Reggiani
	Nicole Kidman	Being the Ricardos	Lucille Ball
	Tessa Thompson	Passing	Irene Redfield
2022	Cate Blanchett	Tár	Lydia Tár
	Viola Davis	The Woman King	General Nanisca
	Danielle Deadwyler	Till	Mamie Till
	Michelle Williams	The Fabelmans	Mitzi Fabelman
	Michelle Yeoh	Everything Everywhere All at Once	Evelyn Quan Wang
2023	Lily Gladstone [8]	Killers of the Flower Moon	Mollie Kyle
	Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor	Origin	Isabel Wilkerson
	Greta Lee	Past Lives	Nora Moon
	Margot Robbie	Barbie	Barbie
	Emma Stone	Poor Things	Bella Baxter
2024	Mikey Madison	Anora	Anora "Ani" Mikheeva
	Cynthia Erivo	Wicked	Elphaba Thropp
	Karla Sofía Gascón	Emilia Pérez	Emilia Pérez / Juan "Manitas" Del Monte
	Marianne Jean-Baptiste	Hard Truths	Pansy Deacon
	Demi Moore	The Substance	Elisabeth Sparkle