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BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role

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BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role
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Best Actress in a Leading Role is a British Academy Film Award presented annually by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) to recognize an actress who has delivered an outstanding leading performance in a film.

  • From 1952 to 1967, there were two Best Actress awards presented, Best British Actress and Best Foreign Actress.
  • From 1968 onwards, the two awards merged into one award, which from 1968 to 1984 was known as Best Actress.[1]
  • From 1985 to present, the award has been known by its current name of Best Actress in a Leading Role.[2]

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In the following lists, the titles and names in bold with a gold background are the winners and recipients respectively; those not in bold are the nominees. The years given are those in which the films under consideration were released, not the year of the ceremony, which always takes place the following year.

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Winners and nominees

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Vivien Leigh was the inaugural winner, for A Streetcar Named Desire (1952).
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Simone Signoret won thrice, for Golden Helmet (1952), The Witches of Salem (1957), and Room at the Top (1958).
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Audrey Hepburn won thrice, for Roman Holiday (1953), The Nun's Story (1959), and Charade (1963).
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Shirley MacLaine won twice, for Ask Any Girl (1959) and The Apartment (1960).
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Sophia Loren won for Two Women (1961)
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Leslie Caron won twice, for Lili (1953) and The L-Shaped Room (1962).
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Patricia Neal won twice, for Hud (1963) and In Harms Way (1965)
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Anne Bancroft won thrice, for The Miracle Worker (1962), The Pumpkin Eater (1964), and 84 Charing Cross Road (1987).
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Julie Christie won for Darling (1965).
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Elizabeth Taylor won for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966).
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Jeanne Moreau won for Viva Maria! (1966)
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Anouk Aimee won for A Man and a Woman (1967)
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Katharine Hepburn won twice, for Guess Who's Coming to Dinner / The Lion in Winter (1968) and On Golden Pond (1981).
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Maggie Smith won four times in 1969, 1984, 1985, and 1987.
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Katharine Ross won for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid / Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here (1970).
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Glenda Jackson won for Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971).
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Liza Minnelli won for Cabaret (1972).
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Joanne Woodward won for Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams (1973).
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Ellen Burstyn won for Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974).
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Diane Keaton won for Annie Hall (1977).
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Jane Fonda won twice, for Julia (1977) and The China Syndrome (1978).
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Meryl Streep twice for The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981) and The Iron Lady (2011).
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Judy Davis won for My Brilliant Career (1980)
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Julie Walters won for Educating Rita (1983).
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Pauline Collins won for Shirley Valentine (1989)
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Jodie Foster won for The Silence of the Lambs (1991).
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Emma Thompson won twice, for Howards End (1992) and Sense and Sensibility (1995).
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Holly Hunter won for The Piano (1993).
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Susan Sarandon won for The Client (1994).
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Brenda Blethyn won for Secrets & Lies (1996).
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Judi Dench won twice, for Mrs Brown (1997) and Iris (2001).
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Cate Blanchett won thrice, for Elizabeth (1998), Blue Jasmine (2013), and Tár (2022).
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Annette Bening won for American Beauty (1999).
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Julia Roberts won for Erin Brockovich (2000).
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Nicole Kidman won for The Hours (2002).
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Scarlett Johansson won for Lost in Translation (2003).
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Imelda Staunton won for Vera Drake (2004)
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Reese Witherspoon won for Walk the Line (2005).
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Helen Mirren won for The Queen (2006).
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Marion Cotillard won for La Vie en Rose (2007).
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Kate Winslet won for The Reader (2008).
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Carey Mulligan won for An Education (2009).
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Natalie Portman won for Black Swan (2010).
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Emmanuelle Riva won at age 85 for Amour (2012)
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Julianne Moore won for Still Alice (2014).
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Brie Larson won for Room (2015).
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Emma Stone won twice, for La La Land (2016) and Poor Things (2023).
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Frances McDormand won twice, for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017) and Nomadland (2020).
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Olivia Colman won for The Favourite (2018).
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Renée Zellweger won for Judy (2019).
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Joanna Scanlan won for After Love (2021).
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Mikey Madison won for Anora (2024)

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Superlatives

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Multiple nominations

12 nominations
8 nominations
7 nominations
6 nominations
5 nominations
4 nominations
3 nominations
2 nominations

Multiple wins

See also

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Notes

    A1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 : Rules from the 1960s to the 1970s allowed for a performer to receive a single citation which could honor their work in more than one film. Shirley MacLaine, Julie Andrews, Julie Christie, Bibi Andersson, Katharine Hepburn, Barbra Streisand, Katharine Ross, Goldie Hawn, and Stéphane Audran were all nominated for their roles in two different films in the same category, while Mia Farrow was nominated for three films.
    B^ : Elliot Page was nominated before his gender transition in 2020.[30]
    C1 2 : Emmanuelle Riva and Marion Cotillard both received nominations for French-speaking roles. It was the first time that multiple foreign-language performances were nominated for Best Actress in the same year since separate Best Foreign Actress and Best British Actress awards were folded into a single category in 1968.
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