# Globe de Cristal Award for Best Actress

The Globe de Cristal Award for best actress was first awarded in 2006.

## Winners and nominees
### Best Actress – Motion Picture (2006–2018)

| Year | Winner and nominees | Film | Director |
| 2006 (1st) |
| 2006 (1st) | Nathalie Baye | The Young Lieutenant | Xavier Beauvois |
| 2006 (1st) | Marion Cotillard | Love Is in the Air | Rémi Bezançon |
| 2006 (1st) | Elsa Zylberstein | Little Jerusalem | Karin Albou |
| 2006 (1st) | Catherine Frot | Boudu | Gérard Jugnot |
| 2006 (1st) | Isabelle Carré | Entre ses mains | Anne Fontaine |
| 2007 (2nd) |
| 2007 (2nd) | Léa Drucker | The Man of My Life | Zabou Breitman |
| 2007 (2nd) | Mélanie Laurent | Don't Worry, I'm Fine | Philippe Lioret |
| 2007 (2nd) | Charlotte Gainsbourg | I Do | Eric Lartigau |
| 2007 (2nd) | Cécile De France | Avenue Montaigne | Danièle Thompson |
| 2007 (2nd) | Marina Hands | Lady Chatterley | Pascale Ferran |
| 2008 (3rd) |
| 2008 (3rd) | Cécile De France | A Secret | Claude Miller |
| 2008 (3rd) | Marion Cotillard | La Vie en rose | Olivier Dahan |
| 2008 (3rd) | Isabelle Carré | Anna M. | Michel Spinosa [fr] |
| 2008 (3rd) | Julie Depardieu | A Secret | Claude Miller |
| 2008 (3rd) | Ludivine Sagnier | Love Songs | Christophe Honoré |
| 2009 (4th) |
| 2009 (4th) | Sylvie Testud | Sagan | Diane Kurys |
| 2009 (4th) | Catherine Deneuve | A Christmas Tale | Arnaud Desplechin |
| 2009 (4th) | Nathalie Baye | A French Gigolo | Josiane Balasko |
| 2009 (4th) | Catherine Frot | Mark of an Angel | Safy Nebbou |
| 2009 (4th) | Yolande Moreau | Séraphine | Martin Provost |
| 2010 (5th) |
| 2010 (5th) | Isabelle Adjani | La Journée de la jupe | Jean-Paul Lilienfeld |
| 2010 (5th) | Kristin Scott Thomas | Leaving | Catherine Corsini |
| 2010 (5th) | Chiara Mastroianni | Making Plans for Lena | Christophe Honoré |
| 2010 (5th) | Marie-Josée Croze | Je l'aimais | Zabou Breitman |
| 2010 (5th) | Maïwenn | All About Actresses | Maïwenn |
| 2011 (6th) |
| 2011 (6th) | Kristin Scott Thomas | Sarah's Key | Gilles Paquet-Brenner |
| 2011 (6th) | Géraldine Nakache | Tout ce qui brille | Géraldine Nakache & Hervé Mimran [fr] |
| 2011 (6th) | Leïla Bekhti | Tout ce qui brille | Géraldine Nakache & Hervé Mimran [fr] |
| 2011 (6th) | Vanessa Paradis | Heartbreaker | Pascal Chaumeil |
| 2011 (6th) | Sara Forestier | The Names of Love | Michel Leclerc |
| 2012 (7th) |
| 2012 (7th) | Karin Viard & Marina Foïs | Polisse | Maïwenn |
| 2012 (7th) | Bérénice Bejo | The Artist | Michel Hazanavicius |
| 2012 (7th) | Marie Gillain | All Our Desires | Philippe Lioret |
| 2012 (7th) | Valérie Donzelli | Declaration of War | Valérie Donzelli |
| 2012 (7th) | Leïla Bekhti | The Source | Radu Mihăileanu |
| 2013 (8th) |
| 2013 (8th) | Marion Cotillard | Rust and Bone | Jacques Audiard |
| 2013 (8th) | Emmanuelle Riva | Amour | Michael Haneke |
| 2013 (8th) | Émilie Dequenne | Our Children | Joachim Lafosse |
| 2013 (8th) | Déborah François | Populaire | Régis Roinsard [fr] |
| 2013 (8th) | Izïa | Bad Girl | Patrick Mille [ar; arz; fr; ht; pl] |
| 2014 (9th) |
| 2014 (9th) | Adèle Exarchopoulos | Blue Is the Warmest Colour | Abdellatif Kechiche |
| 2014 (9th) | Sandrine Kiberlain | 9 Month Stretch | Albert Dupontel |
| 2014 (9th) | Bernadette Lafont | Paulette | Jérôme Enrico [de; fr; uk] |
| 2014 (9th) | Emmanuelle Seigner | Venus in Fur | Roman Polanski |
| 2015 (10th) |
| 2015 (10th) | Aïssa Maïga | Prêt à tout [fr] | Nicolas Cuche [fr; it] |
| 2015 (10th) | Marion Cotillard | Two Days, One Night | Dardenne brothers |
| 2015 (10th) | Émilie Dequenne | Not My Type | Lucas Belvaux |
| 2015 (10th) | Adèle Haenel | Love at First Fight | Thomas Cailley |
| 2015 (10th) | Sandrine Kiberlain | Elle L'Adore | Jeanne Herry |
| 2017 (11th) |
| 2017 (11th) | Isabelle Huppert | Elle | Paul Verhoeven |
| 2017 (11th) | Virginie Efira | Up for Love | Laurent Tirard |
| 2017 (11th) | Marion Cotillard | It's Only the End of the World | Xavier Dolan |
| 2017 (11th) | Sandrine Kiberlain | Encore heureux | Benoît Graffin |
| 2017 (11th) | Audrey Tautou | The Odyssey | Jérôme Salle |
| 2018 (12th) |
| 2018 (12th) | Karin Viard | Jalouse | David & Stéphane Foenkinos |
| 2018 (12th) | Juliette Binoche | Let the Sunshine In | Claire Denis |
| 2018 (12th) | Doria Tillier | Mr. & Mrs. Adelman | Nicolas Bedos |
| 2018 (12th) | Catherine Deneuve | The Midwife | Martin Provost |
| 2018 (12th) | Sara Forestier | M [fr] | Sara Forestier |

### Best Actress – Drama (2019–)

| Year | Winner and nominees | Film | Director |
| 2019 (13th) |
| 2019 (13th) | Karin Viard | Little Tickles | Andréa Bescond & Eric Métayer |
| 2019 (13th) | Léa Drucker | Custody | Xavier Legrand |
| 2019 (13th) | Virginie Efira | An Impossible Love | Catherine Corsini |
| 2019 (13th) | Cécile de France | Mademoiselle de Joncquières | Emmanuel Mouret |
| 2019 (13th) | Mélanie Thierry | Memoir of War | Emmanuel Finkiel |

### Best Actress – Comedy (2019–)

| Year | Winner and nominees | Film | Director |
| 2019 (13th) |
| 2019 (13th) | Alexandra Lamy | Rolling to You | Franck Dubosc |
| 2019 (13th) | Isabelle Adjani | The World Is Yours | Romain Gavras |
| 2019 (13th) | Camille Cottin | Larguées | Eloïse Lang |
| 2019 (13th) | Adèle Haenel | The Trouble with You | Pierre Salvadori |
| 2019 (13th) | Mélanie Laurent | Return of the Hero | Laurent Tirard |

## Trivia
### Multiple awards

3 awards
* Karin Viard

### Multiple nominations

5 nominations
* Marion Cotillard
3 nominations
* Cécile De France
* Sandrine Kiberlain
* Karin Viard
2 nominations
* Isabelle Adjani
* Nathalie Baye
* Leïla Bekhti
* Isabelle Carré
* Catherine Deneuve
* Émilie Dequenne
* Léa Drucker
* Virginie Efira
* Sara Forestier
* Catherine Frot
* Adèle Haenel
* Mélanie Laurent
* Kristin Scott Thomas