# Blue Ribbon Award for Best Actress

The Blue Ribbon Award for Best Actress is as part of its annual Blue Ribbon Awards for Japanese film, to recognize a female actor who has delivered an outstanding performance in a leading role. The award was first given in 1954 for the films released in preceding year 1950.

## List of winners

| No. | Year | Recipient | Film(s) |
| 1 | 1950 | Chikage Awashima | Crazy Uproar |
| 2 | 1951 | Setsuko Hara | Repast Early Summer |
| 3 | 1952 | Isuzu Yamada | The Moderns Hakone Fūunroku |
| 4 | 1953 | Nobuko Otowa | Yokubo Epitome Life of a Woman |
| 5 | 1954 | Hideko Takamine | Twenty-Four Eyes The Garden of Women Somewhere Under the Broad Sky |
| 6 | 1955 | Chikage Awashima | Sweet Beans for Two |
| 7 | 1956 | Isuzu Yamada | Boshizō A Cat, Shozo, and Two Women Nagareru |
| 8 | 1957 | Yūko Mochizuki | Unagitori The Rice People |
| 9 | 1958 | Fujiko Yamamoto | The Snowy Heron Equinox Flower |
| 10 | 1959 | Tanie Kitabayashi | Kiku to Isamu |
| 11 | 1960 | Keiko Kishi | Her Brother |
| 12 | 1961 | Ayako Wakao | A Wife Confesses Onna wa nido umareru The Age of Marriage |
| 13 | 1962 | Sayuri Yoshinaga | Foundry Town |
| 14 | 1963 | Sachiko Hidari | The Insect Woman Kanojo to kare |
| 15 | 1964 | Shima Iwashita | The Scarlet Camellia |
| 16 | 1965 | Ayako Wakao | Seisaku's Wife Nami kage |
| 17 | 1966 | Yoko Tsukasa | The River Kino |
| 18 | 1975 | Ruriko Asaoka | Tora-san's Rise and Fall |
| 19 | 1976 | Kumiko Akiyoshi | Brother and Sister Saraba natsuno hikariyo |
| 20 | 1977 | Shima Iwashita | Ballad of Orin |
| 21 | 1978 | Meiko Kaji | The Love Suicides at Sonezaki |
| 22 | 1979 | Kaori Momoi | No More Easy Life Heaven Sent |
| 23 | 1980 | Yukiyo Toake | Furueru Shita |
| 24 | 1981 | Keiko Matsuzaka | The Gate of Youth Tora-san's Love in Osaka |
| 25 | 1982 | Masako Natsume | Onimasa |
| 26 | 1983 | Yūko Tanaka | Crossing Mt. Amagi |
| 27 | 1984 | Hiroko Yakushimaru | W's Tragedy |
| 28 | 1985 | Yukiyo Toake | Gray Sunset |
| 29 | 1986 | Ayumi Ishida | House on Fire Tokei – Adieu l'hiver |
| 30 | 1987 | Yoshiko Mita | Wakarenu riyû |
| 31 | 1988 | Kaori Momoi | The Yen Family Love Bites Back Tomorrow - ashita |
| 32 | 1989 | Yoshiko Tanaka | Black Rain |
| 33 | 1990 | Keiko Matsuzaka | The Sting of Death |
| 34 | 1991 | Youki Kudoh | War and Youth |
| 35 | 1992 | Yoshiko Mita | Faraway Sunset |
| 36 | 1993 | Ruby Moreno | All Under the Moon |
| 37 | 1994 | Saki Takaoka | Crest of Betrayal |
| 38 | 1995 | Miho Nakayama | Love Letter |
| 39 | 1996 | Mieko Harada | Village of Dreams |
| 40 | 1997 | Kaori Momoi | Tokyo Lullaby |
| 41 | 1998 | Mieko Harada | Begging for Love |
| 42 | 1999 | Kyōka Suzuki | Keiho |
| 43 | 2000 | Sayuri Yoshinaga | Nagasaki burabura bushi |
| 44 | 2001 | Yūki Amami | Inugami Rendan Sekai no Chushin de Ai o Sakebu |
| 45 | 2002 | Reiko Kataoka | Hush! |
| 46 | 2003 | Shinobu Terajima | Vibrator Akame 48 Waterfalls |
| 47 | 2004 | Rie Miyazawa | The Face of Jizo |
| 48 | 2005 | Kyōko Koizumi | Hanging Garden |
| 49 | 2006 | Yū Aoi | Hula Girls Honey and Clover |
| 50 | 2007 | Kumiko Asō | Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms |
| 51 | 2008 | Tae Kimura | All Around Us |
| 52 | 2009 | Haruka Ayase | Oppai Volleyball |
| 53 | 2010 | Shinobu Terajima | Caterpillar |
| 54 | 2011 | Hiromi Nagasaku | Rebirth |
| 55 | 2012 | Sakura Ando | Our Homeland |
| 56 | 2013 | Shihori Kanjiya | Angel Home |
| 57 | 2014 | Sakura Ando | 0.5 mm 100 Yen Love |
| 58 | 2015 | Kasumi Arimura | Flying Colors Strobe Edge |
| 59 | 2016 | Shinobu Otake | Black Widow Business |
| 60 | 2017 | Yui Aragaki | Mixed Doubles |
| 61 | 2018 | Mugi Kadowaki | Dare to Stop Us |
| 62 | 2019 | Masami Nagasawa | The Confidence Man JP: The Movie |
| 63 | 2020 | Masami Nagasawa | The Confidence Man JP: Episode of the Princess Mother |
| 64 | 2021 | Mei Nagano | And So the Baton Is Passed Jigoku no Hanazono: Office Royale |
| 65 | 2022 | Chieko Baisho | Plan 75 |
| 66 | 2023 | Sayuri Yoshinaga | Mom, Is That You?! |
| 67 | 2024 | Yuumi Kawai | A Girl Named Ann Desert of Namibia |