# Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Actress

The Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Actress is an annual film award given by the Online Film Critics Society to honor the best lead actress of the year.
Natalie Portman, Naomi Watts and Reese Witherspoon have each won this award twice. Cate Blanchett has been awarded three times.

## Winners
### 1990s

| Year | Winner | Film | Role |
| 1997 | Judi Dench | Mrs Brown | Queen Victoria |
| 1997 | Helena Bonham Carter | The Wings of the Dove | Kate Croy |
| 1997 | Kate Winslet | Titanic | Rose DeWitt Bukater |
| 1998 | Cate Blanchett | Elizabeth | Queen Elizabeth I |
| 1998 | Gwyneth Paltrow | Shakespeare in Love | Viola de Lesseps |
| 1998 | Emily Watson | Hilary and Jackie | Jacqueline du Pré |
| 1999 | Reese Witherspoon | Election | Tracy Flick |
| 1999 | Annette Bening | American Beauty | Carolyn Burnham |
| 1999 | Heather Donahue | The Blair Witch Project | Heather Donahue |
| 1999 | Janet McTeer | Tumbleweeds | Mary Jo Walker |
| 1999 | Hilary Swank | Boys Don't Cry | Brandon Teena |

### 2000s

| Year | Winner | Film | Role |
| 2000 | Ellen Burstyn | Requiem for a Dream | Sara Goldfarb |
| 2000 | Joan Allen | The Contender | Sen. Laine Billings Hanson |
| 2000 | Björk | Dancer in the Dark | Selma Ježková |
| 2000 | Laura Linney | You Can Count on Me | Samantha 'Sammy' Prescott |
| 2000 | Julia Roberts | Erin Brockovich | Erin Brockovich |
| 2001 | Naomi Watts | Mulholland Drive | Betty Elms / Diane Selwyn |
| 2001 | Thora Birch | Ghost World | Enid |
| 2001 | Nicole Kidman | The Others | Grace Stewart |
| 2001 | Sissy Spacek | In the Bedroom | Ruth Fowler |
| 2001 | Tilda Swinton | The Deep End | Margaret Hall |
| 2002 | Julianne Moore | Far from Heaven | Cathy Whitaker |
| 2002 | Jennifer Aniston | The Good Girl | Justine Last |
| 2002 | Maggie Gyllenhaal | Secretary | Lee Holloway |
| 2002 | Isabelle Huppert | The Piano Teacher | Erika Kohut |
| 2002 | Diane Lane | Unfaithful | Connie Sumner |
| 2003 | Naomi Watts | 21 Grams | Cristina Peck |
| 2003 | Angela Bettis | May | May Dove Canady |
| 2003 | Scarlett Johansson | Lost in Translation | Charlotte |
| 2003 | Charlize Theron | Monster | Aileen Wuornos |
| 2003 | Uma Thurman | Kill Bill: Volume 1 | The Bride/Black Mamba |
| 2004 | Kate Winslet | Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind | Clementine Kruczynski |
| 2004 | Julie Delpy | Before Sunset | Celine |
| 2004 | Imelda Staunton | Vera Drake | Vera Drake |
| 2004 | Hilary Swank | Million Dollar Baby | Maggie Fitzgerald |
| 2004 | Uma Thurman | Kill Bill: Volume 2 | Beatrix Kiddo/The Bride/Black Mamba |
| 2005 | Reese Witherspoon | Walk the Line | June Carter Cash |
| 2005 | Joan Allen | The Upside of Anger | Terry Wolfmeyer |
| 2005 | Felicity Huffman | Transamerica | Bree Osbourne |
| 2005 | Keira Knightley | Pride & Prejudice | Elizabeth Bennet |
| 2005 | Naomi Watts | King Kong | Ann Darrow |
| 2006 | Helen Mirren | The Queen | Queen Elizabeth II |
| 2006 | Penélope Cruz | Volver | Raimunda |
| 2006 | Judi Dench | Notes on a Scandal | Barbara Covett |
| 2006 | Meryl Streep | The Devil Wears Prada | Miranda Priestly |
| 2006 | Kate Winslet | Little Children | Sarah Pierce |
| 2007 | Julie Christie | Away from Her | Fiona Anderson |
| 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 | Michelle Williams | Wendy and Lucy | Wendy Carroll |
| 2008 | Anne Hathaway | Rachel Getting Married | Kym Buchanan |
| 2008 | Sally Hawkins | Happy-Go-Lucky | Poppy Cross |
| 2008 | Meryl Streep | Doubt | Sister Aloysius Beauvier |
| 2008 | Kate Winslet | Revolutionary Road | April Wheeler |
| 2009 | Mélanie Laurent | Inglourious Basterds | Shoshanna Dreyfus |
| 2009 | Carey Mulligan | An Education | Jenny Miller |
| 2009 | Gabourey Sidibe | Precious | Claireece "Precious" Jones |
| 2009 | Meryl Streep | Julie & Julia | Julia Child |
| 2009 | Tilda Swinton | Julia | Julia |

### 2010s

| Year | Winner | 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 | Kim Hye-ja | Mother | Mother |
| 2010 | Jennifer Lawrence | Winter's Bone | Ree Dolly |
| 2011 | Tilda Swinton | We Need to Talk About Kevin | Eva Khatchadourian |
| 2011 | Kirsten Dunst | Melancholia | Justine |
| 2011 | Elizabeth Olsen | Martha Marcy May Marlene | Martha |
| 2011 | Meryl Streep | The Iron Lady | Margaret Thatcher |
| 2011 | Michelle Williams | My Week with Marilyn | Marilyn Monroe |
| 2012 | Jessica Chastain | Zero Dark Thirty | Maya |
| 2012 | Jennifer Lawrence | Silver Linings Playbook | Tiffany Maxwell |
| 2012 | Emmanuelle Riva | Amour | Anne Laurent |
| 2012 | Quvenzhané Wallis | Beasts of the Southern Wild | Hushpuppy |
| 2012 | Rachel Weisz | The Deep Blue Sea | Hester Collyer |
| 2013 | Cate Blanchett | Blue Jasmine | Jeanette "Jasmine" Francis |
| 2013 | Amy Adams | American Hustle | Sydney Prosser / Lady Edith Greensly |
| 2013 | Julie Delpy | Before Midnight | Céline Wallace |
| 2013 | Adèle Exarchopoulos | Blue Is the Warmest Colour | Adèle |
| 2013 | Brie Larson | Short Term 12 | Grace |
| 2014 | Rosamund Pike | Gone Girl | Amy Elliott-Dunne |
| 2014 | Marion Cotillard | Two Days, One Night | Sandra Bya |
| 2014 | Essie Davis | The Babadook | Amelia |
| 2014 | Anne Dorval | Mommy | Diane Després |
| 2014 | Julianne Moore | Still Alice | Dr. Alice Howland |
| 2015 | Cate Blanchett | Carol | Carol Aird |
| 2015 | Brie Larson | Room | Joy "Ma" Newsome |
| 2015 | Charlotte Rampling | 45 Years | Kate Mercer |
| 2015 | Saoirse Ronan | Brooklyn | Eilis Lacey |
| 2015 | Charlize Theron | Mad Max: Fury Road | Imperator Furiosa |
| 2016 | Natalie Portman | Jackie | Jackie Kennedy |
| 2016 | Amy Adams | Arrival | Dr. Louise Banks |
| 2016 | Isabelle Huppert | Elle | Michèle Leblanc |
| 2016 | Ruth Negga | Loving | Mildred Loving |
| 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 | Cynthia Nixon | A Quiet Passion | Emily Dickinson |
| 2017 | Margot Robbie | I, Tonya | Tonya Harding |
| 2017 | Saoirse Ronan | Lady Bird | Christine "Lady Bird" McPherson |
| 2018 | Toni Collette | Hereditary | Annie Graham |
| 2018 | Yalitza Aparicio | Roma | Cleodegaria "Cleo" Gutiérrez |
| 2018 | Olivia Colman | The Favourite | Anne, Queen of Great Britain |
| 2018 | Regina Hall | Support the Girls | Lisa Conroy |
| 2018 | Lady Gaga | A Star is Born | Ally Maine |
| 2019 | Lupita Nyong'o | Us | Adelaide Wilson / Red |
| 2019 | Awkwafina | The Farewell | Billi Wang |
| 2019 | Scarlett Johansson | Marriage Story | Nicole Barber |
| 2019 | Florence Pugh | Midsommar | Dani Ardor |
| 2019 | Renée Zellweger | Judy | Judy Garland |

### 2020s

| Year | Winner | Film | Role |
| 2020 | Frances McDormand | Nomadland | Fern |
| 2020 | Jessie Buckley | I'm Thinking of Ending Things | Young Woman |
| 2020 | Viola Davis | Ma Rainey's Black Bottom | Ma Rainey |
| 2020 | Sidney Flanigan | Never Rarely Sometimes Always | Autumn Callahan |
| 2020 | Carey Mulligan | Promising Young Woman | Cassandra "Cassie" Thomas |
| 2021 | Olivia Colman | The Lost Daughter | Leda Caruso |
| 2021 | Alana Haim | Licorice Pizza | Alana Kane |
| 2021 | Renate Reinsve | The Worst Person in the World | Julie |
| 2021 | Agathe Rousselle | Titane | Alexia/Adrien |
| 2021 | Kristen Stewart | Spencer | Diana, Princess of Wales |
| 2022 | Michelle Yeoh | Everything Everywhere All At Once | Evelyn Quan Wang |
| 2022 | Cate Blanchett | Tár | Lydia Tár |
| 2022 | Viola Davis | The Woman King | General Nanisca |
| 2022 | Danielle Deadwyler | Till | Mamie Till-Mobley |
| 2022 | Mia Goth | Pearl | Pearl |
| 2023 | Lily Gladstone | Killers of the Flower Moon | Mollie Kyle |
| 2023 | Sandra Hüller | Anatomy of a Fall | Sandra Voyter |
| 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 | Marianne Jean-Baptiste | Hard Truths | Pansey Deacon |
| 2024 | Demi Moore | The Substance | Elisabeth Sparkle |
| 2024 | Fernanda Torres | I'm Still Here | Eunice Paiva |