The Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Actress is an annual film award given by the Online Film Critics Society to honor the best lead actress of the year.
Natalie Portman, Naomi Watts and Reese Witherspoon have each won this award twice. Cate Blanchett has been awarded three times.
| Year | Winner | Film | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | Judi Dench | Mrs Brown | Queen Victoria |
| Helena Bonham Carter | The Wings of the Dove | Kate Croy | |
| Kate Winslet | Titanic | Rose DeWitt Bukater | |
| 1998 | Cate Blanchett | Elizabeth | Queen Elizabeth I |
| Gwyneth Paltrow | Shakespeare in Love | Viola de Lesseps | |
| Emily Watson | Hilary and Jackie | Jacqueline du Pré | |
| 1999 | Reese Witherspoon | Election | Tracy Flick |
| Annette Bening | American Beauty | Carolyn Burnham | |
| Heather Donahue | The Blair Witch Project | Heather Donahue | |
| Janet McTeer | Tumbleweeds | Mary Jo Walker | |
| Hilary Swank | Boys Don't Cry | Brandon Teena | |
| Year | Winner | Film | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Frances McDormand | Nomadland | Fern |
| Jessie Buckley | I'm Thinking of Ending Things | Young Woman | |
| Viola Davis | Ma Rainey's Black Bottom | Ma Rainey | |
| Sidney Flanigan | Never Rarely Sometimes Always | Autumn Callahan | |
| Carey Mulligan | Promising Young Woman | Cassandra "Cassie" Thomas | |
| 2021 | Olivia Colman | The Lost Daughter | Leda Caruso |
| Alana Haim | Licorice Pizza | Alana Kane | |
| Renate Reinsve | The Worst Person in the World | Julie | |
| Agathe Rousselle | Titane | Alexia/Adrien | |
| Kristen Stewart | Spencer | Diana, Princess of Wales | |
| 2022 | Michelle Yeoh | Everything Everywhere All At Once | Evelyn Quan Wang |
| Cate Blanchett | Tár | Lydia Tár | |
| Viola Davis | The Woman King | General Nanisca | |
| Danielle Deadwyler | Till | Mamie Till-Mobley | |
| Mia Goth | Pearl | Pearl | |
| 2023 | Lily Gladstone | Killers of the Flower Moon | Mollie Kyle |
| Sandra Hüller | Anatomy of a Fall | Sandra Voyter | |
| Greta Lee | Past Lives | Nora Moon | |
| Margot Robbie | Barbie | Barbie | |
| Emma Stone | Poor Things | Bella Baxter | |
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Best Actress is the name of an award which is presented by various film, television and theatre organisations, festivals, and people's awards to leading actresses in a film, television series, television film or play. The first Best Actress award was awarded for acting in a film, on May 16, 1929 by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) at the Academy Awards to Janet Gaynor for her role of Diane in 7th Heaven, Angela in Street Angel and The Wife - Indre in Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans. In theatre, it was first awarded on April 6, 1947 by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at the Tony Awards to Ingrid Bergman for her role of Mary Grey / Joan of Arc in Joan of Lorraine and to Helen Hayes for her role of Addie in Happy Birthday. In television, it was first awarded on January 23, 1951 by Academy of Television Arts & Sciences at the Primetime Emmy Awards to Gertrude Berg for her role of Molly in The Goldbergs. In a film festival, presented as the Volpi Cup, it was first awarded between August 1–20, 1934 by the Venice Film Festival to Katharine Hepburn for her role of Josephine 'Jo' March in Little Women.
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The Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actress is an annual film award given by the Online Film Critics Society to honor the best supporting actress of the year.
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