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.

Winners

1940s 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

1950s 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

1960s 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

1970s 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

1980s 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

1990s Year Winner Film Role 1990 Mia Farrow Alice Alice Smith Tate 1991 Geena Davis and Susan SarandonThelma & 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

2000s 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

2010s 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 BornNational Board of Review Names 'Green Book' Best Film of 2018 - Variety Ally Maine 2019 Renée Zellweger JudyNational Board of Review 2019 Winners|IndieWire Judy Garland

2020s Year Winner Film Role 2020 Carey Mulligan Promising Young Woman2021 National Board of Review Winners and Analysis - Variety Cassandra "Cassie" Thomas 2021 Rachel Zegler West Side StoryNational Board of Review Winners 2021:|IndieWire María Vasquez 2022 Michelle Yeoh Everything Everywhere All At OnceTop Gun: Maverick Named Best Movie of 2022 by National Board of Review - The Hollywood Reporter Evelyn Quan Wang 2023 Lily Gladstone Killers of the Flower MoonNational Board of Review Names ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Best Film of 2023 - The Hollywood Reporter Mollie Kyle 2024 Nicole Kidman Babygirl Romy Mathis 2025 Rose Byrne If I Had Legs I'd Kick YouNational Board of Review Names 2025 Honorees Linda

Multiple awards

3 wins Emma Thompson (1992, 1995, 2013) Liv Ullmann (1968, 1973, 1976)

2 wins Anne Bancroft (1962, 1977) Ingrid Bergman (1958, 1978) Julie Christie (1965, 2007) Jodie Foster (1988, 1991) Holly Hunter (1987, 1993) Glenda Jackson (1970, 1981) Anna Magnani (1946, 1955) Julianne Moore (2002, 2014) Carey Mulligan (2009, 2020) Geraldine Page (1961, 1969) Meryl Streep (1982, 2017)

See also New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress

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