BAFTA Film Award Nominees for Best Actress

Given the year and the film for which they were nominated, see how many nominees for the BAFTA Film Award for Best Leading Actress you can name.
From 1952 to 1967, there were two Best Actress awards: one for a British actress and another for a foreign actress. Answers in the "Best foreign actress" category are in italic.
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Year
Film
Actress
2025
Hamnet
Jessie Buckley
If I Had Legs I'd Kick You
Rose Byrne
Song Sung Blue
Kate Hudson
One Battle After Another
Chase Infiniti
Sentimental Value
Renate Reinsve
Bugonia
Emma Stone
2024
Anora
Mikey Madison
Wicked
Cynthia Erivo
Emilia Pérez
Karla Sofía Gascón
Hard Truths
Marianne Jean-Baptiste
The Substance
Demi Moore
The Outrun
Saoirse Ronan
2023
Poor Things
Emma Stone
The Color Purple
Fantasia Barrino
Anatomy of a Fall
Sandra Hüller
Maestro
Carey Mulligan
Rye Lane
Vivian Oparah
Barbie
Margot Robbie
2022
Tár
Cate Blanchett
The Woman King
Viola Davis
Till
Danielle Deadwyler
Blonde
Ana de Armas
Good Luck to You, Leo Grande
Emma Thompson
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Michelle Yeoh
2021
After Love
Joanna Scanlan
House of Gucci
Lady Gaga
Licorice Pizza
Alana Haim
CODA
Emilia Jones
The Worst Person in the World
Renate Reinsve
Passing
Tessa Thompson
2020
Nomadland
Frances McDormand
Rocks
Bukky Bakray
The Forty-Year-Old Version
Radha Blank
Pieces of a Woman
Vanessa Kirby
His House
Wunmi Mosaku
Clemency
Alfre Woodard
2019
Judy
Renée Zellweger
Wild Rose
Jessie Buckley
Marriage Story
Scarlett Johansson
Little Women
Saoirse Ronan
Bombshell
Charlize Theron
2018
The Favourite
Olivia Colman
The Wife
Glenn Close
Widows
Viola Davis
A Star Is Born
Lady Gaga
Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Melissa McCarthy
2017
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Frances McDormand
Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool
Annette Bening
The Shape of Water
Sally Hawkins
I, Tonya
Margot Robbie
Lady Bird
Saoirse Ronan
2016
La La Land
Emma Stone
Arrival
Amy Adams
The Girl on the Train
Emily Blunt
Jackie
Natalie Portman
Florence Foster Jenkins
Meryl Streep
2015
Room
Brie Larson
Carol
Cate Blanchett
Brooklyn
Saoirse Ronan
The Lady in the Van
Maggie Smith
The Danish Girl
Alicia Vikander
2014
Still Alice
Julianne Moore
Big Eyes
Amy Adams
The Theory of Everything
Felicity Jones
Gone Girl
Rosamund Pike
Wild
Reese Witherspoon
2013
Blue Jasmine
Cate Blanchett
American Hustle
Amy Adams
Gravity
Sandra Bullock
Philomena
Judi Dench
Saving Mr. Banks
Emma Thompson
2012
Amour
Emmanuelle Riva
Zero Dark Thirty
Jessica Chastain
Rust and Bone
Marion Cotillard
Silver Linings Playbook
Jennifer Lawrence
Hitchcock
Helen Mirren
2011
The Iron Lady
Meryl Streep
The Artist
Bérénice Bejo
The Help
Viola Davis
We Need to Talk About Kevin
Tilda Swinton
My Week with Marilyn
Michelle Williams
2010
Black Swan
Natalie Portman
The Kids Are All Right
Annette Bening
Julianne Moore
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Noomi Rapace
True Grit
Hailee Steinfeld
2009
An Education
Carey Mulligan
The Lovely Bones
Saoirse Ronan
Precious
Gabourey Sidibe
Julie & Julia
Meryl Streep
Coco Before Chanel
Audrey Tautou
2008
The Reader
Kate Winslet
Changeling
Angelina Jolie
I've Loved You So Long
Kristin Scott Thomas
Doubt
Meryl Streep
Revolutionary Road
Kate Winslet
2007
La Vie en Rose
Marion Cotillard
Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Cate Blanchett
Away from Her
Julie Christie
Atonement
Keira Knightley
Juno
Elliot Page
2006
The Queen
Helen Mirren
Volver
Penélope Cruz
Notes on a Scandal
Judi Dench
The Devil Wears Prada
Meryl Streep
Little Children
Kate Winslet
2005
Walk the Line
Reese Witherspoon
Mrs Henderson Presents
Judi Dench
North Country
Charlize Theron
The Constant Gardener
Rachel Weisz
Memoirs of a Geisha
Zhang Ziyi
2004
Vera Drake
Imelda Staunton
Monster
Charlize Theron
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Kate Winslet
Finding Neverland
Kate Winslet
House of Flying Daggers
Zhang Ziyi
2003
Lost in Translation
Scarlett Johansson
Girl with a Pearl Earring
Scarlett Johansson
The Mother
Anne Reid
Kill Bill: Volume 1
Uma Thurman
21 Grams
Naomi Watts
2002
The Hours
Nicole Kidman
Monster's Ball
Halle Berry
Frida
Salma Hayek
The Hours
Meryl Streep
Chicago
Renée Zellweger
2001
Iris
Judi Dench
The Others
Nicole Kidman
In the Bedroom
Sissy Spacek
Amélie
Audrey Tautou
Bridget Jones's Diary
Renée Zellweger
2000
Erin Brockovich
Julia Roberts
Chocolat
Juliette Binoche
Almost Famous
Kate Hudson
Boys Don't Cry
Hilary Swank
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Michelle Yeoh
1999
American Beauty
Annette Bening
East Is East
Linda Bassett
The End of the Affair
Julianne Moore
Angela's Ashes
Emily Watson
1998
Elizabeth
Cate Blanchett
Little Voice
Jane Horrocks
Shakespeare in Love
Gwyneth Paltrow
Hilary and Jackie
Emily Watson
1997
Mrs Brown
Judi Dench
L.A. Confidential
Kim Basinger
The Wings of the Dove
Helena Bonham Carter
Nil by Mouth
Kathy Burke
1996
Secrets & Lies
Brenda Blethyn
Fargo
Frances McDormand
The English Patient
Kristin Scott Thomas
Breaking the Waves
Emily Watson
1995
Sense and Sensibility
Emma Thompson
To Die For
Nicole Kidman
The Madness of King George
Helen Mirren
Leaving Las Vegas
Elisabeth Shue
1994
The Client
Susan Sarandon
The Last Seduction
Linda Fiorentino
Three Colours: Red
Irène Jacob
Pulp Fiction
Uma Thurman
1993
The Piano
Holly Hunter
Tom & Viv
Miranda Richardson
The Remains of the Day
Emma Thompson
Shadowlands
Debra Winger
1992
Howards End
Emma Thompson
Husbands and Wives
Judy Davis
Strictly Ballroom
Tara Morice
Fried Green Tomatoes
Jessica Tandy
1991
The Silence of the Lambs
Jodie Foster
Thelma & Louise
Geena Davis
Susan Sarandon
Truly, Madly, Deeply
Juliet Stevenson
1990
Driving Miss Daisy
Jessica Tandy
Postcards from the Edge
Shirley MacLaine
The Fabulous Baker Boys
Michelle Pfeiffer
Pretty Woman
Julia Roberts
1989
Shirley Valentine
Pauline Collins
Dangerous Liaisons
Glenn Close
The Accused
Jodie Foster
Working Girl
Melanie Griffith
1988
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
Maggie Smith
Babette's Feast
Stéphane Audran
Moonstruck
Cher
A Fish Called Wanda
Jamie Lee Curtis
1987
84 Charing Cross Road
Anne Bancroft
Wish You Were Here
Emily Lloyd
Hope and Glory
Sarah Miles
Personal Services
Julie Walters
1986
A Room with a View
Maggie Smith
Hannah and Her Sisters
Mia Farrow
Out of Africa
Meryl Streep
Mona Lisa
Cathy Tyson
1985
A Passage to India
Peggy Ashcroft
The Purple Rose of Cairo
Mia Farrow
Witness
Kelly McGillis
Letter to Brezhnev
Alexandra Pigg
1984
A Private Function
Maggie Smith
Terms of Endearment
Shirley MacLaine
Cal
Helen Mirren
Silkwood
Meryl Streep
1983
Educating Rita
Julie Walters
Tootsie
Jessica Lange
Another Time, Another Place
Phyllis Logan
Sophie's Choice
Meryl Streep
1982
On Golden Pond
Katharine Hepburn
Reds
Diane Keaton
36 Chowringhee Lane
Jennifer Kendal
Missing
Sissy Spacek
1981
The French Lieutenant's Woman
Meryl Streep
Ordinary People
Mary Tyler Moore
Quartet
Maggie Smith
Coal Miner's Daughter
Sissy Spacek
1980
My Brilliant Career
Judy Davis
Being There
Shirley MacLaine
The Rose
Bette Midler
Kramer vs. Kramer
Meryl Streep
1979
The China Syndrome
Jane Fonda
Manhattan
Diane Keaton
California Suite
Maggie Smith
The Deer Hunter
Meryl Streep
1978
Julia
Jane Fonda
The Turning Point
Anne Bancroft
An Unmarried Woman
Jill Clayburgh
The Goodbye Girl
Marsha Mason
1977
Annie Hall
Diane Keaton
Network
Faye Dunaway
3 Women
Shelley Duvall
The Late Show
Lily Tomlin
1976
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Louise Fletcher
The Shootist
Lauren Bacall
The Ritz
Rita Moreno
Face to Face
Liv Ullmann
1975
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
Ellen Burstyn
The Prisoner of Second Avenue
Anne Bancroft
Lenny
Valerie Perrine
Scenes from a Marriage
Liv Ullmann
1974
Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams
Joanne Woodward
Chinatown
Faye Dunaway
The Way We Were
Barbra Streisand
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
Cicely Tyson
1973
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
Stéphane Audran
Just Before Nightfall
Stéphane Audran
Don't Look Now
Julie Christie
A Touch of Class
Glenda Jackson
Lady Sings the Blues
Diana Ross
1972
Cabaret
Liza Minnelli
The Butcher
Stéphane Audran
Young Winston
Anne Bancroft
Savage Messiah
Dorothy Tutin
1971
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Glenda Jackson
Taking Off
Lynn Carlin
The Go-Between
Julie Christie
Klute
Jane Fonda
The Raging Moon
Nanette Newman
1970
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Katharine Ross
Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here
Katharine Ross
They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
Jane Fonda
Cactus Flower
Goldie Hawn
There's a Girl in My Soup
Goldie Hawn
Ryan's Daughter
Sarah Miles
1969
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Maggie Smith
John and Mary
Mia Farrow
Rosemary's Baby
Mia Farrow
Secret Ceremony
Mia Farrow
Women in Love
Glenda Jackson
Funny Girl
Barbra Streisand
Hello Dolly!
Barbra Streisand
1968
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Katharine Hepburn
The Lion in Winter
Katharine Hepburn
The Graduate
Anne Bancroft
Beauty of the Day
Catherine Deneuve
Rachel, Rachel
Joanne Woodward
1967
The Whisperers
Edith Evans
Ulysses
Barbara Jefford
The Taming of the Shrew
Elizabeth Taylor
A Man and a Woman
Anouk Aimée
My Sister, My Love
Bibi Andersson
Persona
Bibi Andersson
Barefoot in the Park
Jane Fonda
The Deadly Affair
Simone Signoret
1966
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Elizabeth Taylor
Doctor Zhivago
Julie Christie
Fahrenheit 451
Julie Christie
Georgy Girl
Lynn Redgrave
Morgan - A Suitable Case for Treatment
Vanessa Redgrave
Viva Maria!
Jeanne Moreau
Brigitte Bardot
The Group
Joan Hackett
The Sleeping Car Murders
Simone Signoret
1965
Darling
Julie Christie
The Americanization of Emily
Julie Andrews
The Sound of Music
Julie Andrews
Young Cassidy
Maggie Smith
The Knack...and How to Get It
Rita Tushingham
In Harm's Way
Patricia Neal
Cat Ballou
Jane Fonda
Zorba the Greek
Lila Kedrova
Ship of Fools
Simone Signoret
1964
Charade
Audrey Hepburn
The Chalk Garden
Edith Evans
Deborah Kerr
Girl with Green Eyes
Rita Tushingham
The Pumpkin Eater
Anne Bancroft
The Night of the Iguana
Ava Gardner
Irma la Douce
Shirley MacLaine
What a Way to Go!
Shirley MacLaine
Séance on a Wet Afternoon
Kim Stanley
1963
This Sporting Life
Rachel Roberts
Billy Liar
Julie Christie
Tom Jones
Edith Evans
The Servant
Sarah Miles
Sparrows Can't Sing
Barbara Windsor
Hud
Patricia Neal
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
Joan Crawford
Bette Davis
Days of Wine and Roses
Lee Remick
Divorce Italian Style
Daniela Rocca
1962
The L-Shaped Room
Leslie Caron
The Wild and the Willing
Virginia Maskell
Life for Ruth
Janet Munro
The Miracle Worker
Anne Bancroft
Lola
Anouk Aimée
Through a Glass Darkly
Harriet Andersson
Phaedra
Melina Mercouri
Jules and Jim
Jeanne Moreau
Sweet Bird of Youth
Geraldine Page
Splendor in the Grass
Natalie Wood
1961
A Taste of Honey
Dora Bryan
The Sundowners
Deborah Kerr
Whistle Down the Wind
Hayley Mills
Two Women
Sophia Loren
Rocco and His Brothers
Annie Girardot
The Hustler
Piper Laurie
A Raisin in the Sun
Claudia McNeil
Breathless
Jean Seberg
1960
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
Rachel Roberts
Sons and Lovers
Wendy Hiller
Pollyanna
Hayley Mills
The Apartment
Shirley MacLaine
The Angry Silence
Pier Angeli
Never on Sunday
Melina Mercouri
Hiroshima, My Love
Emmanuelle Riva
Elmer Gantry
Jean Simmons
The Adventure
Monica Vitti
1959
The Nun's Story
Audrey Hepburn
Peggy Ashcroft
Separate Tables
Wendy Hiller
Sapphire
Yvonne Mitchell
No Trees in the Street
Sylvia Syms
The Horse's Mouth
Kay Walsh
Ask Any Girl
Shirley MacLaine
On the Beach
Ava Gardner
I Want to Live!
Susan Hayward
A Matter of Dignity
Ellie Lambeti
Auntie Mame
Rosalind Russell
1958
Orders to Kill
Irene Worth
Room at the Top
Hermione Baddeley
Aparajito
Karuna Banerjee
Carve Her Name with Pride
Virginia McKenna
Room at the Top
Simone Signoret
The Inn of the Sixth Happiness
Ingrid Bergman
Wild Is the Wind
Anna Magnani
Nights of Cabiria
Giulietta Masina
The Cranes Are Flying
Tatiana Samoilova
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Elizabeth Taylor
No Down Payment
Joanne Woodward
1957
The Story of Esther Costello
Heather Sears
Tea and Sympathy
Deborah Kerr
Woman in a Dressing Gown
Sylvia Syms
The Witches of Salem
Simone Signoret
That Night!
Augusta Dabney
The Rainmaker
Katharine Hepburn
The Prince and the Showgirl
Marilyn Monroe
Is Anna Anderson Anastasia?
Lilli Palmer
A Hatful of Rain
Eva Marie Saint
The Three Faces of Eve
Joanna Woodward
1956
A Town Like Alice
Virginia McKenna
Reach for the Sky
Dorothy Alison
War and Peace
Audrey Hepburn
The Rose Tattoo
Anna Magnani
Baby Doll
Carroll Baker
Smiles of a Summer Night
Eva Dahlbeck
Bhowani Junction
Ava Gardner
I'll Cry Tomorrow
Susan Hayward
The Trouble with Harry
Shirley MacLaine
Picnic
Kim Novak
The Rose Tattoo
Marisa Pavan
Gervaise
Maria Schell
Guys and Dolls
Jean Simmons
1955
The Ladykillers
Katie Johnson
Touch and Go
Margaret Johnston
The End of the Affair
Deborah Kerr
Cast a Dark Shadow
Margaret Lockwood
Marty
Betsy Blair
Carmen Jones
Dorothy Dandridge
A Star Is Born
Judy Garland
I Am a Camera
Julie Harris
Summertime
Katharine Hepburn
The Country Girl
Grace Kelly
The Road
Giulietta Masina
The Seven Year Itch
Marilyn Monroe
1954
The Divided Heart
Yvonne Mitchell
Hobson's Choice
Brenda de Banzie
Sabrina
Audrey Hepburn
Carrington V.C.
Margaret Leighton
Noelle Middleton
The Divided Heart
Cornell Borchers
About Mrs. Leslie
Shirley Booth
Phffft
Judy Holliday
Dial M for Murder
Grace Kelly
Bread, Love and Dreams
Gina Lollobrigida
1953
Roman Holiday
Audrey Hepburn
The Captain's Paradise
Celia Johnson
Lili
Leslie Caron
Come Back, Little Sheba
Shirley Booth
The Medium
Marie Powers
The Heart of the Matter
Maria Schell
1952
A Streetcar Named Desire
Vivien Leigh
Mandy
Phyllis Calvert
I Believe in You
Celia Johnson
The Sound Barrier
Ann Todd
Golden Helmet
Simone Signoret
Olivia
Edwige Feuillère
Pat and Mike
Katharine Hepburn
The Marrying Kind
Judy Holliday
The Strange Ones
Nicole Stéphane
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