# Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress

The Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress is one of the annual awards given by the Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association.

## Winners and nominees
### 2000s

| Year | Actress | Film | Role |
| 2002 | Julianne Moore | Far from Heaven | Cathy Whitaker |
| 2003 | Naomi Watts | 21 Grams | Cristina Peck |
| 2003 | Cate Blanchett | Veronica Guerin | Veronica Guerin |
| 2003 | Keisha Castle-Hughes | Whale Rider | Paikea Apirana |
| 2003 | Diane Keaton | Something's Gotta Give | Erica Barry |
| 2003 | Evan Rachel Wood | Thirteen | Tracy Louise Freeland |
| 2004 | Imelda Staunton | Vera Drake | Vera Drake |
| 2005 | Reese Witherspoon | Walk the Line | June Carter Cash |
| 2005 | Joan Allen | The Upside of Anger | Terry Wolfmeyer |
| 2005 | Felicity Huffman | Transamerica | Sabrina "Bree" Osbourne |
| 2005 | Keira Knightley | Pride & Prejudice | Elizabeth Bennet |
| 2005 | Charlize Theron | North Country | Josey Aimes |
| 2006 | Helen Mirren | The Queen | Elizabeth II |
| 2007 | Julie Christie | Away from Her | Fiona Anderson |
| 2008 | Meryl Streep | Doubt | Sister Aloysius Beauvier |
| 2009 | Carey Mulligan | An Education | Jenny Mellor |
| 2009 | Sandra Bullock | The Blind Side | Leigh Anne Tuohy |
| 2009 | Maya Rudolph | Away We Go | Verona De Tessant |
| 2009 | Gabourey Sidibe | Precious | Claireece "Precious" Jones |
| 2009 | Meryl Streep | Julie & Julia | Julia Child |

### 2010s

| Year | Actress | Film | Role |
| 2010 | Jennifer Lawrence | Winter's Bone | Ree Dolly |
| 2010 | Annette Bening | The Kids Are All Right | Dr. Nicole "Nic" Allgood |
| 2010 | Anne Hathaway | Love & Other Drugs | Maggie Murdock |
| 2010 | Nicole Kidman | Rabbit Hole | Becca Corbett |
| 2010 | Natalie Portman | Black Swan | Nina Sayers |
| 2011 | Michelle Williams | My Week with Marilyn | Marilyn Monroe |
| 2011 | Viola Davis | The Help | Aibileen Clark |
| 2011 | Elizabeth Olsen | Martha Marcy May Marlene | Martha |
| 2011 | Meryl Streep | The Iron Lady | Margaret Thatcher |
| 2011 | Tilda Swinton | We Need to Talk About Kevin | Eva Khatchadourian |
| 2012 | Jessica Chastain | Zero Dark Thirty | Maya |
| 2012 | Marion Cotillard | Rust and Bone | Stéphanie |
| 2012 | Jennifer Lawrence | Silver Linings Playbook | Tiffany Maxwell |
| 2012 | Helen Mirren | Hitchcock | Alma Reville |
| 2012 | Emmanuelle Riva | Amour | Anne Laurent |
| 2013 | Cate Blanchett | Blue Jasmine | Jeanette "Jasmine" Francis |
| 2013 | Sandra Bullock | Gravity | Dr. Ryan Stone |
| 2013 | Brie Larson | Short Term 12 | Grace Howard |
| 2013 | Judi Dench | Philomena | Philomena Lee |
| 2013 | Emma Thompson | Saving Mr. Banks | P. L. Travers |
| 2014 | Julianne Moore | Still Alice | Dr. Alice Howland |
| 2014 | Scarlett Johansson | Under the Skin | The Female |
| 2014 | Felicity Jones | The Theory of Everything | Jane Hawking |
| 2014 | Rosamund Pike | Gone Girl | Amy Elliott-Dunne |
| 2014 | Reese Witherspoon | Wild | Cheryl Strayed |
| 2015 | Saoirse Ronan | Brooklyn | Eilis Lacey |
| 2015 | Cate Blanchett | Carol | Carol Aird |
| 2015 | Brie Larson | Room | Joy "Ma" Newsome |
| 2015 | Sarah Silverman | I Smile Back | Laney Brooks |
| 2015 | Charlize Theron | Mad Max: Fury Road | Imperator Furiosa |
| 2016 | Natalie Portman | Jackie | Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis |
| 2016 | Amy Adams | Arrival | Dr. Louise Banks |
| 2016 | Annette Bening | 20th Century Women | Dorothea Fields |
| 2016 | Ruth Negga | Loving | Mildred Loving |
| 2016 | Emma Stone | La La Land | Mia Dolan |
| 2017 | Frances McDormand | Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri | Mildred Hayes |
| 2017 | Sally Hawkins | The Shape of Water | Elisa Esposito |
| 2017 | Brie Larson | The Glass Castle | Jeannette Walls |
| 2017 | Margot Robbie | I, Tonya | Tonya Harding |
| 2017 | Saoirse Ronan | Lady Bird | Christine "Lady Bird" McPherson |
| 2018 | Lady Gaga | A Star Is Born | Ally Maine |
| 2018 | Glenn Close | The Wife | Joan Castleman |
| 2018 | Toni Collette | Hereditary | Annie Graham |
| 2018 | Olivia Colman | The Favourite | Queen Anne |
| 2018 | Melissa McCarthy | Can You Ever Forgive Me? | Lee Israel |
| 2019 | Lupita Nyong'o | Us | Adelaide Wilson / Red |
| 2019 | Awkwafina | The Farewell | Billi Wang |
| 2019 | Scarlett Johansson | Marriage Story | Nicole Barber |
| 2019 | Saoirse Ronan | Little Women | Josephine "Jo" March |
| 2019 | Renée Zellweger | Judy | Judy Garland |

### 2020s

| Year | Actress | Film | Role |
| 2020 | Frances McDormand | Nomadland | Fern |
| 2020 | Vanessa Kirby | Pieces of a Woman | Martha Weiss |
| 2020 | Viola Davis | Ma Rainey's Black Bottom | Ma Rainey |
| 2020 | Elisabeth Moss | The Invisible Man | Cecilia Kass |
| 2020 | Carey Mulligan | Promising Young Woman | Cassandra "Cassie" Thomas |
| 2021 | Kristen Stewart | Spencer | Princess Diana |
| 2021 | Olivia Colman | The Lost Daughter | Leda Caruso |
| 2021 | Lady Gaga | House of Gucci | Patrizia Reggiani |
| 2021 | Nicole Kidman | Being the Ricardos | Lucille Ball |
| 2021 | Tessa Thompson | Passing | Irene Redfield |
| 2022 | Cate Blanchett | Tár | Lydia Tár |
| 2022 | Viola Davis | The Woman King | General Nanisca |
| 2022 | Danielle Deadwyler | Till | Mamie Till |
| 2022 | Michelle Williams | The Fabelmans | Mitzi Fabelman |
| 2022 | Michelle Yeoh | Everything Everywhere All at Once | Evelyn Quan Wang |
| 2023 | Lily Gladstone | Killers of the Flower Moon | Mollie Kyle |
| 2023 | Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor | Origin | Isabel Wilkerson |
| 2023 | Greta Lee | Past Lives | Nora Moon |
| 2023 | Margot Robbie | Barbie | Barbie |
| 2023 | Emma Stone | Poor Things | Bella Baxter |
| 2024 | Mikey Madison | Anora | Anora "Ani" Mikheeva |
| 2024 | Cynthia Erivo | Wicked | Elphaba Thropp |
| 2024 | Karla Sofía Gascón | Emilia Pérez | Emilia Pérez / Juan "Manitas" Del Monte |
| 2024 | Marianne Jean-Baptiste | Hard Truths | Pansy Deacon |
| 2024 | Demi Moore | The Substance | Elisabeth Sparkle |