| National Board of Review Award for Best Actress | |
|---|---|
 Current recipient: Nicole Kidman | |
| Awarded for | Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role |
| Country | United States |
| Presented by | National Board of Review |
| First award | Joan Crawford Mildred Pierce (1945) |
| Currently held by | Nicole Kidman Babygirl (2024) |
| Website | nationalboardofreview |
The National Board of Review Award for Best Actress is one of the annual film awards given (since 1945) by the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures. [1]
| Year | Winner | Film | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1945 | Joan Crawford | Mildred Pierce | Mildred Pierce Beragon |
| 1946 | Anna Magnani | Rome, Open City | Pina |
| 1947 | Celia Johnson | This Happy Breed | Ethel Gibbons |
| 1948 | Olivia de Havilland | The Snake Pit | Virginia Stuart Cunningham |
| 1949 | Not awarded | ||
| Year | Winner | Film | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950 | Gloria Swanson | Sunset Boulevard | Norma Desmond |
| 1951 | Jan Sterling | Ace in the Hole | Lorraine Minosa |
| 1952 | Shirley Booth | Come Back, Little Sheba | Lola Delaney |
| 1953 | Jean Simmons | The Actress | Ruth Gordon Jones |
| The Robe | Diana | ||
| Young Bess | Princess Elizabeth | ||
| 1954 | Grace Kelly | The Country Girl | Georgie Elgin |
| Dial M for Murder | Margot Mary Wendice | ||
| Rear Window | Lisa Carol Fremont | ||
| 1955 | Anna Magnani | The Rose Tattoo | Serafina Delle Rose |
| 1956 | Dorothy McGuire | Friendly Persuasion | Eliza Birdwell |
| 1957 | Joanne Woodward | The Three Faces of Eve | Eve White / Eve Black / Jane |
| 1958 | Ingrid Bergman | The Inn of the Sixth Happiness | Gladys Aylward |
| 1959 | Simone Signoret | Room at the Top | Alice Aisgill |
| Year | Winner | Film | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960 | Greer Garson | Sunrise at Campobello | Eleanor Roosevelt |
| 1961 | Geraldine Page | Summer and Smoke | Alma Winemiller |
| 1962 | Anne Bancroft | The Miracle Worker | Anne Sullivan |
| 1963 | Patricia Neal | Hud | Alma Brown |
| 1964 | Kim Stanley | Séance on a Wet Afternoon | Myra Savage |
| 1965 | Julie Christie | Darling | Diana Scott |
| Doctor Zhivago | Lara Antipova | ||
| 1966 | Elizabeth Taylor | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | Martha |
| 1967 | Edith Evans | The Whisperers | Maggie Ross |
| 1968 | Liv Ullmann | Hour of the Wolf (Vargtimmen) | Alma Borg |
| Shame (Skammen) | Eva Rosenberg | ||
| 1969 | Geraldine Page | Trilogy | Sook |
| Year | Winner | Film | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970 | Glenda Jackson | Women in Love | Gudrun Brangwen |
| 1971 | Irene Papas | The Trojan Women | Helen of Troy |
| 1972 | Cicely Tyson | Sounder | Rebecca Morgan |
| 1973 | Liv Ullmann | The New Land (Nybyggarna) | Kristina |
| 1974 | Gena Rowlands | A Woman Under the Influence | Mabel Longhetti |
| 1975 | Isabelle Adjani | The Story of Adele H. (L’histoire d'Adèle H.) | Adèle Hugo / Adèle Lewry |
| 1976 | Liv Ullmann | Face to Face (Ansikte mot ansikte) | Dr. Jenny Isaksson |
| 1977 | Anne Bancroft | The Turning Point | Emma Jacklin |
| 1978 | Ingrid Bergman | Autumn Sonata | Charlotte Andergast |
| 1979 | Sally Field | Norma Rae | Norma Rae Webster |
| Year | Winner | Film | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 | Sissy Spacek | Coal Miner's Daughter | Loretta Lynn |
| 1981 | Glenda Jackson | Stevie | Stevie Smith |
| 1982 | Meryl Streep | Sophie's Choice | Zofia "Sophie" Zawistowski |
| 1983 | Shirley MacLaine | Terms of Endearment | Aurora Greenway |
| 1984 | Peggy Ashcroft | A Passage to India | Mrs. Moore |
| 1985 | Whoopi Goldberg | The Color Purple | Celie Johnson |
| 1986 | Kathleen Turner | Peggy Sue Got Married | Peggy Sue |
| 1987 | Lillian Gish | The Whales of August | Sarah Webber |
| Holly Hunter | Broadcast News | Jane Craig | |
| 1988 | Jodie Foster | The Accused | Sarah Tobias |
| 1989 | Michelle Pfeiffer | The Fabulous Baker Boys | Susie Diamond |
| Year | Winner | Film | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | Mia Farrow | Alice | Alice Smith Tate |
| 1991 | Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon | Thelma & Louise | Thelma Dickinson and Louise Sawyer |
| 1992 | Emma Thompson | Howards End | Margaret Schlegel |
| 1993 | Holly Hunter | The Piano | Ada McGrath |
| 1994 | Miranda Richardson | Tom & Viv | Vivienne Haigh-Wood Eliot |
| 1995 | Emma Thompson | Sense and Sensibility | Elinor Dashwood |
| 1996 | Frances McDormand | Fargo | Marge Gunderson |
| 1997 | Helena Bonham Carter | The Wings of the Dove | Kate Croy |
| 1998 | Fernanda Montenegro | Central Station (Central do Brasil) | Isadora "Dora" Teixeira |
| 1999 | Janet McTeer | Tumbleweeds | Mary Jo Walker |
| Year | Winner | Film | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | Julia Roberts | Erin Brockovich | Erin Brockovich |
| 2001 | Halle Berry | Monster's Ball | Leticia Musgrove |
| 2002 | Julianne Moore | Far from Heaven | Cathy Whitaker |
| 2003 | Diane Keaton | Something's Gotta Give | Erica Barry |
| 2004 | Annette Bening | Being Julia | Julia Lambert |
| 2005 | Felicity Huffman | Transamerica | Sabrina "Bree" Osbourne / Stanley Schupak |
| 2006 | Helen Mirren | The Queen | Queen Elizabeth II |
| 2007 | Julie Christie | Away from Her | Fiona Anderson |
| 2008 | Anne Hathaway | Rachel Getting Married | Kym Ryder |
| 2009 | Carey Mulligan | An Education | Jenny Mellor |
| Year | Winner | Film | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Lesley Manville | Another Year | Mary Smith |
| 2011 | Tilda Swinton | We Need to Talk About Kevin | Eva Khatchadourian |
| 2012 | Jessica Chastain | Zero Dark Thirty | Maya |
| 2013 | Emma Thompson | Saving Mr. Banks | Pamela "P. L." Travers |
| 2014 | Julianne Moore | Still Alice | Dr. Alice Howland |
| 2015 | Brie Larson | Room | Joy "Ma" Newsome |
| 2016 | Amy Adams | Arrival | Dr. Louise Banks |
| 2017 | Meryl Streep | The Post | Katharine Graham |
| 2018 | Lady Gaga | A Star Is Born [2] | Ally Maine |
| 2019 | Renée Zellweger | Judy [3] | Judy Garland |
| Year | Winner | Film | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Carey Mulligan | Promising Young Woman [4] | Cassandra "Cassie" Thomas |
| 2021 | Rachel Zegler | West Side Story [5] | María Vasquez |
| 2022 | Michelle Yeoh | Everything Everywhere All At Once [6] | Evelyn Quan Wang |
| 2023 | Lily Gladstone | Killers of the Flower Moon [7] | Mollie Kyle |
| 2024 | Nicole Kidman | Babygirl [8] | Romy Mathis |
|
|