# Houston Film Critics Society Award for Best Actress

The Houston Film Critics Society Award for Best Actress is an annual award given by the Houston Film Critics Society.

## Winners

* † = Winner of the Academy Award for Best Actress
* ‡ = Nominated of the Academy Award for Best Actress
2000s
| Year | Winner and nominees | Film | Role |
| 2007 | Julie Christie ‡ | Away from Her | Fiona Anderson |
| 2007 | Amy Adams | Enchanted | Giselle |
| 2007 | Marion Cotillard † | La Vie en rose | Édith Piaf |
| 2007 | Angelina Jolie | A Mighty Heart | Mariane Pearl |
| 2007 | Laura Linney ‡ | The Savages | Wendy Savage |
| 2007 | Elliot Page ‡ | Juno | Juno MacGuff |
| 2008 | Anne Hathaway ‡ | Rachel Getting Married | Kym Buchman |
| 2008 | Cate Blanchett | The Curious Case of Benjamin Button | Daisy Fuller |
| 2008 | Angelina Jolie ‡ | Changeling | Christine Collins |
| 2008 | Melissa Leo ‡ | Frozen River | Ray Eddy |
| 2008 | Meryl Streep ‡ | Doubt | Sister Aloysius Beauvier |
| 2008 | Kate Winslet | Revolutionary Road | April Wheeler |
| 2009 | Carey Mulligan ‡ | An Education | Jenny Mellor |
| 2009 | Sandra Bullock † | The Blind Side | Leigh Anne Tuohy |
| 2009 | Abbie Cornish | Bright Star | Fanny Brawne |
| 2009 | Saoirse Ronan | The Lovely Bones | Susie Salmon |
| 2009 | Gabourey Sidibe ‡ | Precious | Claireece "Precious" Jones |
| 2009 | Meryl Streep ‡ | Julie and Julia | Julia Child |

### 2010s

| Year | Winner and nominees | Film | Role |
| 2010 | Natalie Portman † | Black Swan | Nina Sayers |
| 2010 | Annette Bening ‡ | The Kids Are All Right | Dr. Nicole "Nic" Allgood |
| 2010 | Nicole Kidman ‡ | Rabbit Hole | Becca Corbett |
| 2010 | Jennifer Lawrence ‡ | Winter's Bone | Ree Dolly |
| 2010 | Noomi Rapace | The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo | Lisbeth Salander |
| 2011 | Tilda Swinton | We Need to Talk About Kevin | Eva Khatchadourian |
| 2011 | Viola Davis ‡ | The Help | Aibileen Clark |
| 2011 | Elizabeth Olsen | Martha Marcy May Marlene | Martha / Marcy May / "Marlene Lewis" |
| 2011 | Meryl Streep † | The Iron Lady | Margaret Thatcher |
| 2011 | Michelle Williams ‡ | My Week with Marilyn | Marilyn Monroe |
| 2012 | Jennifer Lawrence † | Silver Linings Playbook | Tiffany Maxwell |
| 2012 | Jessica Chastain ‡ | Zero Dark Thirty | Maya |
| 2012 | Emmanuelle Riva ‡ | Amour | Anne Laurent |
| 2012 | Quvenzhané Wallis ‡ | Beasts of the Southern Wild | Hushpuppy |
| 2012 | Naomi Watts ‡ | The Impossible | Maria Bennett |
| 2013 | Sandra Bullock ‡ | Gravity | Dr. Ryan Stone |
| 2013 | Judi Dench ‡ | Philomena | Philomena Lee |
| 2013 | Brie Larson | Short Term 12 | Grace Howard |
| 2013 | Meryl Streep ‡ | August: Osage County | Violet Weston |
| 2013 | Emma Thompson | Saving Mr. Banks | Pamela "P. L." Travers |
| 2014 | Julianne Moore † | Still Alice | Dr. Alice Daly-Howland |
| 2014 | Marion Cotillard ‡ | Two Days, One Night | Sandra Bya |
| 2014 | Essie Davis | The Babadook | Amelia Vanek |
| 2014 | Felicity Jones ‡ | The Theory of Everything | Jane Hawking |
| 2014 | Reese Witherspoon ‡ | Wild | Cheryl Strayed |
| 2015 | Brie Larson † | Room | Joy "Ma" Newsome |
| 2015 | Cate Blanchett ‡ | Carol | Carol Aird |
| 2015 | Emily Blunt | Sicario | Kate Macer |
| 2015 | Saoirse Ronan ‡ | Brooklyn | Eilis Lacey |
| 2015 | Charlize Theron | Mad Max: Fury Road | Imperator Furiosa |
| 2016 | Natalie Portman ‡ | Jackie | Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis |
| 2016 | Amy Adams | Arrival | Dr. Louise Banks |
| 2016 | Rebecca Hall | Christine | Christine Chubbuck |
| 2016 | Isabelle Huppert ‡ | Elle | Michèle Leblanc |
| 2016 | Emma Stone † | La La Land | Mia Dolan |
| 2017 | Sally Hawkins ‡ | The Shape of Water | Elisa Esposito |
| 2017 | Frances McDormand † | Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri | Mildred Hayes |
| 2017 | Brooklynn Prince | The Florida Project | Moonee |
| 2017 | Margot Robbie ‡ | I, Tonya | Tonya Harding |
| 2017 | Saoirse Ronan ‡ | Lady Bird | Christine "Lady Bird" McPherson |
| 2018 | Toni Collette | Hereditary | Annie Graham |
| 2018 | Glenn Close ‡ | The Wife | Joan Castleman |
| 2018 | Olivia Colman † | The Favourite | Queen Anne |
| 2018 | Lady Gaga ‡ | A Star Is Born | Ally Maine |
| 2018 | Melissa McCarthy ‡ | Can You Ever Forgive Me? | Lee Israel |
| 2019 | Renée Zellweger † | Judy | Judy Garland |
| 2019 | Awkwafina | The Farewell | Billi Wang |
| 2019 | Scarlett Johansson ‡ | Marriage Story | Nicole Barber |
| 2019 | Lupita Nyong'o | Us | Adelaide Wilson / Red |
| 2019 | Saoirse Ronan ‡ | Little Women | Jo March |
| 2019 | Charlize Theron ‡ | Bombshell | Megyn Kelly |

### 2020s

| Year | Winner and nominees | Film | Role |
| 2020 | Carey Mulligan ‡ | Promising Young Woman | Cassandra "Cassie" Thomas |
| 2020 | Viola Davis ‡ | Ma Rainey's Black Bottom | Ma Rainey |
| 2020 | Sidney Flanigan | Never Rarely Sometimes Always | Autumn |
| 2020 | Vanessa Kirby ‡ | Pieces of a Woman | Martha |
| 2020 | Frances McDormand † | Nomadland | Fern |
| 2021 | Jessica Chastain † | The Eyes of Tammy Faye | Tammy Faye Bakker |
| 2021 | Olivia Colman ‡ | The Lost Daughter | Leda Caruso |
| 2021 | Penelope Cruz ‡ | Parallel Mothers | Janis Martinez |
| 2021 | Alana Haim | Licorice Pizza | Alana Kane |
| 2021 | Emilia Jones | CODA | Ruby Rossi |
| 2021 | Kristen Stewart ‡ | Spencer | Diana, Princess of Wales |
| 2022 | Cate Blanchett ‡ | Tár | Lydia Tár |
| 2022 | Viola Davis | The Woman King | General Nanisca |
| 2022 | Danielle Deadwyler | Till | Mamie Till |
| 2022 | Emma Thompson | Good Luck to You, Leo Grande | Nancy Stokes / Susan Robinson |
| 2022 | Michelle Yeoh † | Everything Everywhere All at Once | Evelyn Wang |
| 2023 | Emma Stone † | Poor Things | Bella Baxter |
| 2023 | Fantasia Barrino | The Color Purple | Celie Harris-Johnson |
| 2023 | Lily Gladstone ‡ | Killers of the Flower Moon | Mollie Kyle |
| 2023 | Greta Lee | Past Lives | Nora Moon |
| 2023 | Margot Robbie | Barbie | Barbie |
| 2024 | Mikey Madison ‡ | Anora | Anora "Ani" Mikheeva |
| 2024 | Angelina Jolie | Maria | Maria Callas |
| 2024 | Cynthia Erivo ‡ | Wicked | Elphaba Thropp |
| 2024 | Demi Moore ‡ | The Substance | Elisabeth Sparkle |
| 2024 | Marianne Jean-Baptiste | Hard Truths | Pansey Deacon |