# Detroit Film Critics Society Award for Best Actress

The Detroit Film Critics Society Award for Best Actress is an annual award given by the Detroit Film Critics Society to honor the best actress that year.

## Winners

    indicates the winners.

### 2000s

| Year | Actress | Film |
| 2007 | Elliot Page | Juno |
| 2007 | Amy Adams | Enchanted |
| 2007 | Julie Christie | Away from Her |
| 2007 | Marion Cotillard | La Vie en rose |
| 2007 | Laura Linney | The Savages |
| 2008 | Kate Winslet | Revolutionary Road |
| 2008 | Anne Hathaway | Rachel Getting Married |
| 2008 | Sally Hawkins | Happy-Go-Lucky |
| 2008 | Melissa Leo | Frozen River |
| 2008 | Meryl Streep | Doubt |
| 2009 | Gabourey Sidibe | Precious |
| 2009 | Alison Lohman | Drag Me to Hell |
| 2009 | Carey Mulligan | An Education |
| 2009 | Saoirse Ronan | The Lovely Bones |
| 2009 | Meryl Streep | Julie & Julia |

### 2010s

| Year | Actress | Film |
| 2010 | Jennifer Lawrence | Winter's Bone |
| 2010 | Nicole Kidman | Rabbit Hole |
| 2010 | Carey Mulligan | Never Let Me Go |
| 2010 | Natalie Portman | Black Swan |
| 2010 | Michelle Williams | Blue Valentine |
| 2011 | Michelle Williams | My Week with Marilyn |
| 2011 | Viola Davis | The Help |
| 2011 | Felicity Jones | Like Crazy |
| 2011 | Meryl Streep | The Iron Lady |
| 2011 | Charlize Theron | Young Adult |
| 2012 | Jennifer Lawrence | Silver Linings Playbook |
| 2012 | Jessica Chastain | Zero Dark Thirty |
| 2012 | Greta Gerwig | Damsels in Distress |
| 2012 | Naomi Watts | The Impossible |
| 2012 | Michelle Williams | Take This Waltz |
| 2013 | Brie Larson | Short Term 12 |
| 2013 | Amy Adams | American Hustle |
| 2013 | Julie Delpy | Before Midnight |
| 2013 | Adèle Exarchopoulos | Blue Is the Warmest Colour |
| 2013 | Meryl Streep | August: Osage County |
| 2014 | Rosamund Pike | Gone Girl |
| 2014 | Essie Davis | The Babadook |
| 2014 | Scarlett Johansson | Under the Skin |
| 2014 | Julianne Moore | Still Alice |
| 2014 | Reese Witherspoon | Wild |
| 2015 | Saoirse Ronan | Brooklyn |
| 2015 | Cate Blanchett | Carol |
| 2015 | Brie Larson | Room |
| 2015 | Jennifer Lawrence | Joy |
| 2015 | Bel Powley | The Diary of a Teenage Girl |
| 2016 | Emma Stone | La La Land |
| 2016 | Amy Adams | Arrival |
| 2016 | Annette Bening | 20th Century Women |
| 2016 | Rebecca Hall | Christine |
| 2016 | Ruth Negga | Loving |
| 2016 | Natalie Portman | Jackie |
| 2017 | Frances McDormand | Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri |
| 2017 | Jessica Chastain | Molly's Game |
| 2017 | Sally Hawkins | The Shape of Water |
| 2017 | Margot Robbie | I, Tonya |
| 2017 | Saoirse Ronan | Lady Bird |
| 2018 | Toni Collette | Hereditary |
| 2018 | Olivia Colman | The Favourite |
| 2018 | Elsie Fisher | Eighth Grade |
| 2018 | Lady Gaga | A Star Is Born |
| 2018 | Melissa McCarthy | Can You Ever Forgive Me? |
| 2019 | Scarlett Johansson | Marriage Story |
| 2019 | Julianne Moore | Gloria Bell |
| 2019 | Lupita Nyong'o | Us |
| 2019 | Charlize Theron | Bombshell |
| 2019 | Renée Zellweger | Judy |

### 2020s

| Year | Actress | Film |
| 2020 | Frances McDormand | Nomadland |
| 2020 | Jessie Buckley | I'm Thinking of Ending Things |
| 2020 | Viola Davis | Ma Rainey's Black Bottom |
| 2020 | Vanessa Kirby | Pieces of a Woman |
| 2020 | Carey Mulligan | Promising Young Woman |
| 2021 | Jessica Chastain | The Eyes of Tammy Faye |
| 2021 | Alana Haim | Licorice Pizza |
| 2021 | Jennifer Hudson | Respect |
| 2021 | Nicole Kidman | Being the Ricardos |
| 2021 | Kristen Stewart | Spencer |