# New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress

The New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress is one of the awards given by the New York Film Critics Circle to honor the finest achievements in film-making.

## Winners
### 1930s

| Year | Winner | Film | Role |
| 1935 | Greta Garbo | Anna Karenina | Anna Karenina |
| 1936 | Luise Rainer | The Great Ziegfeld | Anna Held |
| 1937 | Greta Garbo | Camille | Marguerite Gautier |
| 1938 | Margaret Sullavan | Three Comrades | Patricia "Pat" Hollmann |
| 1939 | Vivien Leigh | Gone with the Wind | Scarlett O'Hara |

### 1940s

| Year | Winner | Film | Role |
| 1940 | Katharine Hepburn | The Philadelphia Story | Tracy Lord |
| 1941 | Joan Fontaine | Suspicion | Lina McLaidlaw Aysgarth |
| 1942 | Agnes Moorehead | The Magnificent Ambersons | Fanny |
| 1943 | Ida Lupino | The Hard Way | Helen Chernen |
| 1944 | Tallulah Bankhead | Lifeboat | Constance "Connie" Porter |
| 1945 | Ingrid Bergman | The Bells of St. Mary's | Sister Mary Benedict |
| 1945 | Ingrid Bergman | Spellbound | Constance Petersen |
| 1946 | Celia Johnson | Brief Encounter | Laura Jesson |
| 1947 | Deborah Kerr | Black Narcissus | Sister Clodagh |
| 1947 | Deborah Kerr | I See a Dark Stranger | Bridie Quilty |
| 1948 | Olivia de Havilland | The Snake Pit | Virginia Stuart Cunningham |
| 1949 | Olivia de Havilland | The Heiress | Catherine Sloper |

### 1950s

| Year | Winner | Film | Role |
| 1950 | Bette Davis | All About Eve | Margo Channing |
| 1951 | Vivien Leigh | A Streetcar Named Desire | Blanche DuBois |
| 1952 | Shirley Booth | Come Back, Little Sheba | Lola Delaney |
| 1953 | Audrey Hepburn | Roman Holiday | Princess Ann |
| 1954 | Grace Kelly | The Country Girl | Georgie Elgin |
| 1954 | Grace Kelly | Dial M for Murder | Margot Wendice |
| 1954 | Grace Kelly | Rear Window | Lisa Carol Fremont |
| 1955 | Anna Magnani | The Rose Tattoo | Serafina Delle Rose |
| 1956 | Ingrid Bergman | Anastasia | Anna Koreff / Grand Duchess Anastasia |
| 1957 | Deborah Kerr | Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison | Sister Angela |
| 1958 | Susan Hayward | I Want to Live! | Barbara Graham |
| 1959 | Audrey Hepburn | The Nun's Story | Sister Luke (Gabrielle van der Mal) |

### 1960s

| Year | Winner | Film | Role |
| 1960 | Deborah Kerr | The Sundowners | Ida Carmody |
| 1961 | Sophia Loren | Two Women (La Ciociara) | Cesira |
| 1962 | No award given (newspaper strike) | No award given (newspaper strike) | No award given (newspaper strike) |
| 1963 | Patricia Neal | Hud | Alma Brown |
| 1964 | Kim Stanley | Séance on a Wet Afternoon | Myra Savage |
| 1965 | Julie Christie | Darling | Diana Scott |
| 1966 | Elizabeth Taylor | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | Martha |
| 1966 | Lynn Redgrave | Georgy Girl | Georgy |
| 1967 | Edith Evans | The Whisperers | Maggie Ross |
| 1968 | Joanne Woodward | Rachel, Rachel | Rachel Cameron |
| 1969 | Jane Fonda | They Shoot Horses, Don't They? | Gloria Beatty |

### 1970s

| Year | Winner | Film | Role |
| 1970 | Glenda Jackson | Women in Love | Gudrun Brangwen |
| 1971 | Jane Fonda | Klute | Bree Daniels |
| 1972 | Liv Ullmann | Cries and Whispers (Viskningar och rop) | Maria |
| 1972 | Liv Ullmann | The Emigrants (Utvandrarna) | Kristina Nilsson |
| 1973 | Joanne Woodward | Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams | Rita Walden |
| 1974 | Liv Ullmann | Scenes from a Marriage (Scener ur ett äktenskap) | Marianne |
| 1975 | Isabelle Adjani | The Story of Adele H. | Adèle Hugo / Adèle Lewry |
| 1976 | Liv Ullmann | Face to Face (Ansikte mot ansikte) | Dr. Jenny Isaksson |
| 1977 | Diane Keaton | Annie Hall | Annie Hall |
| 1978 | Ingrid Bergman | Autumn Sonata (Höstsonaten) | 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 | Norma Aleandro | The Official Story (La historia oficial) | Alicia Marnet de Ibáñez |
| 1986 | Sissy Spacek | Crimes of the Heart | Babe Botrelle |
| 1987 | Holly Hunter | Broadcast News | Jane Craig |
| 1988 | Meryl Streep | A Cry in the Dark | Lindy Chamberlain |
| 1989 | Michelle Pfeiffer | The Fabulous Baker Boys | Susie Diamond |

### 1990s

| Year | Winner | Film | Role |
| 1990 | Joanne Woodward | Mr. & Mrs. Bridge | India Bridge |
| 1991 | Jodie Foster | The Silence of the Lambs | Clarice Starling |
| 1992 | Emma Thompson | Howards End | Margaret Schlegel |
| 1993 | Holly Hunter | The Piano | Ada McGrath |
| 1994 | Linda Fiorentino | The Last Seduction | Bridget Gregory / Wendy Kroy |
| 1995 | Jennifer Jason Leigh | Georgia | Sadie Flood |
| 1996 | Emily Watson | Breaking the Waves | Bess McNeill |
| 1997 | Julie Christie | Afterglow | Phyllis Mann |
| 1998 | Cameron Diaz | There's Something About Mary | Mary Jensen |
| 1999 | Hilary Swank | Boys Don't Cry | Brandon Teena |

### 2000s

| Year | Winner | Film | Role |
| 2000 | Laura Linney | You Can Count on Me | Samantha "Sammy" Prescott |
| 2001 | Sissy Spacek | In the Bedroom | Ruth Fowler |
| 2002 | Diane Lane | Unfaithful | Constance "Connie" Sumner |
| 2003 | Hope Davis | American Splendor | Joyce Brabner |
| 2003 | Hope Davis | The Secret Lives of Dentists | Dana Hurst |
| 2004 | Imelda Staunton | Vera Drake | Vera Drake |
| 2005 | Reese Witherspoon | Walk the Line | June Carter Cash |
| 2006 | Helen Mirren | The Queen | Queen Elizabeth II |
| 2007 | Julie Christie | Away from Her | Fiona Anderson |
| 2008 | Sally Hawkins | Happy-Go-Lucky | Pauline "Poppy" Cross |
| 2009 | Meryl Streep | Julie & Julia | Julia Child |

### 2010s

| Year | Winner | Film | Role |
| 2010 | Annette Bening | The Kids Are All Right | Dr. Nicole "Nic" Allgood |
| 2011 | Meryl Streep | The Iron Lady | Margaret Thatcher |
| 2012 | Rachel Weisz | The Deep Blue Sea | Hester Collyer |
| 2013 | Cate Blanchett | Blue Jasmine | Jeanette "Jasmine" Francis |
| 2014 | Marion Cotillard | Two Days, One Night | Sandra Bya |
| 2015 | Saoirse Ronan | Brooklyn | Eilis Lacey |
| 2016 | Isabelle Huppert | Elle | Michèle Leblanc |
| 2017 | Saoirse Ronan | Lady Bird | Christine "Lady Bird" McPherson |
| 2018 | Regina Hall | Support the Girls | Lisa Conroy |
| 2019 | Lupita Nyong'o | Us | Adelaide Wilson / Red |

### 2020s

| Year | Winner | Film | Role |
| 2020 | Sidney Flanigan | Never Rarely Sometimes Always | Autumn Callahan |
| 2021 | Lady Gaga | House of Gucci | Patrizia Reggiani |
| 2022 | Cate Blanchett | Tár | Lydia Tár |
| 2023 | Lily Gladstone | Killers of the Flower Moon | Mollie Kyle |
| 2024 | Marianne Jean-Baptiste | Hard Truths | Pansy Deacon |