BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role

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The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role has been presented to its winners since 1952 and actresses of all nationalities are eligible to receive the award.

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Between 1952 and 1967, two distinct awards were given to the best British and best foreign actress each year.

Year Winner Film
1952 Vivien Leigh A Streetcar Named Desire
1953 Audrey Hepburn Roman Holiday
1954 Yvonne Mitchell The Divided Heart
1955 Katie Johnson The Ladykillers
1956 Virginia McKenna A Town Like Alice
1957 Heather Sears The Story of Esther Costello
1958 Irene Worth Orders to Kill
1959 Audrey Hepburn The Nun's Story
1960 Rachel Roberts Saturday Night, Sunday Morning
1961 Dora Bryan A Taste of Honey
1962 Leslie Caron The L-Shaped Room
1963 Rachel Roberts This Sporting Life
1964 Audrey Hepburn Charade
1965 Julie Christie Darling
1966 Elizabeth Taylor Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
1967 Edith Evans The Whisperers

Year Winner Film
1952 Simone Signoret Casque d'Or
1953 Leslie Caron Lili
1954 Cornell Borchers The Divided Heart
1955 Betsy Blair Marty
1956 Anna Magnani The Rose Tattoo
1957 Simone Signoret The Witches of Salem
1958 Simone Signoret Room at the Top
1959 Shirley MacLaine Ask Any Girl
1960 Shirley MacLaine The Apartment
1961 Sophia Loren The Women
1962 Anne Bancroft The Miracle Worker
1963 Patricia Neal Hud
1964 Anne Bancroft The Pumpkin Eater
1965 Patricia Neal In Harm's Way
1966 Jeanne Moreau The Sleeping Car Murders
1967 Anouk Aimée Un homme et une femme

In 1968, the two prizes were combined to create a single Best Actress award. Its current title, for Best Actress in a Leading Role, has been used since 1995.

Year Winner Film
1968 Katharine Hepburn The Lion in Winter; Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?
1969 Maggie Smith The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
1970 Katharine Ross Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here; Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
1971 Glenda Jackson Sunday Bloody Sunday
1972 Liza Minnelli Cabaret
1973 Stéphane Audran The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie; Just Before Nighfall
1974 Joanne Woodward Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams
1975 Ellen Burstyn Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
1976 Louise Fletcher One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
1977 Diane Keaton Annie Hall
1978 Jane Fonda Julia
1979 Jane Fonda The China Syndrome
1980 Judy Davis My Brilliant Career
1981 Meryl Streep The French Lieutenant's Woman
1982 Katharine Hepburn On Golden Pond
1983 Julie Walters Educating Rita
1984 Maggie Smith A Private Function
1985 Peggy Ashcroft A Passage to India
1986 Maggie Smith A Room with a View
1987 Anne Bancroft 84 Charing Cross Road
1988 Maggie Smith The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
1989 Pauline Collins Shirley Valentine
1990 Jessica Tandy Driving Miss Daisy
1991 Jodie Foster The Silence of the Lambs
1992 Emma Thompson Howards End
1993 Holly Hunter The Piano
1994 Susan Sarandon The Client
1995 Emma Thompson Sense and Sensibility
1996 Brenda Blethyn Secrets & Lies
1997 Judi Dench Mrs. Brown
1998 Cate Blanchett Elizabeth
1999 Annette Bening American Beauty
2000 Julia Roberts Erin Brockovich
2001 Judi Dench Iris
2002 Nicole Kidman The Hours
2003 Scarlett Johansson Lost In Translation
2004 Imelda Staunton Vera Drake
2005 Reese Witherspoon Walk the Line
2006 Helen Mirren The Queen

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