# Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress

The Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress is an award presented by the Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association. It is given in honor of an actress who has delivered an outstanding performance in a leading role.

## Winners and nominees

* † = Winner of the Academy Award for Best Actress

### 1990s

| Year | Winner | Film | Role |
| 1990 | Kathy Bates † | Misery | Annie Wilkes |
| 1991 | Jodie Foster † | The Silence of the Lambs | Clarice Starling |
| 1992 | Emma Thompson | Howards End | Margaret Schlegel |
| 1993 | Holly Hunter † | The Piano | Ada McGrath |
| 1994 | Linda Fiorentino | The Last Seduction | Bridget Gregory |
| 1994 | Jodie Foster | Nell | Nell Kellty |
| 1995 | Elisabeth Shue | Leaving Las Vegas | Sera |
| 1996 | Frances McDormand † | Fargo | Marge Gunderson |
| 1997 | Helena Bonham Carter | The Wings of the Dove | Kate Croy |
| 1998 | Cate Blanchett | Elizabeth | Elizabeth I of England |
| 1999 | Hilary Swank † | Boys Don't Cry | Brandon Teena / Teena Renae Brandon |

### 2000s

| Year | Winner and nominees | Film | Role |
| 2000 | Laura Linney | You Can Count on Me | Samantha "Sammy" Prescott |
| 2000 | Joan Allen | The Contender | Senator Laine Billings Hanson |
| 2000 | Ellen Burstyn | Requiem for a Dream | Sara Goldfarb |
| 2000 | Julia Roberts † | Erin Brockovich | Erin Brockovich |
| 2000 | Renée Zellweger | Nurse Betty | Betty Sizemore |
| 2001 | Sissy Spacek | In the Bedroom | Ruth Fowler |
| 2001 | Halle Berry † | Monster's Ball | Leticia Musgrove |
| 2001 | Nicole Kidman | Moulin Rouge! | Satine |
| 2001 | Tilda Swinton | The Deep End | Margaret Hall |
| 2001 | Renée Zellweger | Bridget Jones's Diary | Bridget Jones |
| 2002 | Julianne Moore | Far from Heaven | Cathleen "Cathy" Whitaker |
| 2002 | Salma Hayek | Frida | Frida Kahlo |
| 2002 | Isabelle Huppert | The Piano Teacher | Erika Kohut |
| 2002 | Nicole Kidman † | The Hours | Virginia Woolf |
| 2002 | Renée Zellweger | Chicago | Roxie Hart |
| 2003 | Charlize Theron † | Monster | Aileen Wuornos |
| 2003 | Scarlett Johansson | Lost in Translation | Charlotte |
| 2003 | Diane Keaton | Something's Gotta Give | Erica Barry |
| 2003 | Nicole Kidman | Cold Mountain | Ada Monroe |
| 2003 | Naomi Watts | 21 Grams | Cristina Peck |
| 2004 | Hilary Swank † | Million Dollar Baby | Margaret "Maggie" Fitzgerald |
| 2004 | Annette Bening | Being Julia | Julia Lambert |
| 2004 | Catalina Sandino Moreno | Maria Full of Grace | María Álvarez |
| 2004 | Imelda Staunton | Vera Drake | Vera Drake |
| 2004 | Kate Winslet | Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind | Clementine Kruczynski |
| 2005 | Felicity Huffman | Transamerica | Sabrina "Bree" Osbourne |
| 2005 | Joan Allen | The Upside of Anger | Terry Wolfmayer |
| 2005 | Keira Knightley | Pride & Prejudice | Elizabeth "Lizzie" Bennet |
| 2005 | Charlize Theron | North Country | Josie Aimes |
| 2005 | Reese Witherspoon † | Walk the Line | June Carter Cash |
| 2006 | Helen Mirren † | The Queen | Queen Elizabeth II |
| 2006 | Penélope Cruz | Volver | Raimunda |
| 2006 | Judi Dench | Notes on a Scandal | Barbara Covett |
| 2006 | Maggie Gyllenhaal | Sherrybaby | Sherry Swanson |
| 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 (La Môme) | 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 | Sally Hawkins | Happy-Go-Lucky | Pauline "Poppy" Cross |
| 2008 | Meryl Streep | Doubt | Sister Aloysius Beauvier |
| 2008 | Kristin Scott Thomas | I've Loved You So Long | Juliette Fontaine |
| 2008 | Kate Winslet | Revolutionary Road | April Wheeler |
| 2009 | Carey Mulligan | An Education | Jenny Miller |
| 2009 | Emily Blunt | The Young Victoria | Queen Victoria |
| 2009 | Sandra Bullock † | The Blind Side | Leigh Anne Tuohy |
| 2009 | Gabourey Sidibe | Precious | Claireece "Precious" Jones |
| 2009 | Meryl Streep | Julie & 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 | Michelle Williams | Blue Valentine | Cindy Heller |
| 2011 | Michelle Williams | My Week with Marilyn | Marilyn Monroe |
| 2011 | Kirsten Dunst | Melancholia | Justine |
| 2011 | Meryl Streep † | The Iron Lady | Margaret Thatcher |
| 2011 | Tilda Swinton | We Need to Talk About Kevin | Eva Khatchadourian |
| 2011 | Charlize Theron | Young Adult | Mavis Gary |
| 2012 | Jessica Chastain | Zero Dark Thirty | Maya Harris |
| 2012 | Jennifer Lawrence † | Silver Linings Playbook | Tiffany Maxwell |
| 2012 | Helen Mirren | Hitchcock | Alma Reville |
| 2012 | Emmanuelle Riva | Amour | Anne Laurent |
| 2012 | Naomi Watts | The Impossible | Maria Bennett |
| 2012 | Quvenzhané Wallis | Beasts of the Southern Wild | Hushpuppy |
| 2013 | Cate Blanchett † | Blue Jasmine | Jeanette "Jasmine" Francis |
| 2013 | Sandra Bullock | Gravity | Dr. Ryan Stone |
| 2013 | Judi Dench | Philomena | Philomena Lee |
| 2013 | Meryl Streep | August: Osage County | Violet Weston |
| 2013 | Emma Thompson | Saving Mr. Banks | P. L. Travers |
| 2014 | Reese Witherspoon | Wild | Cheryl Strayed |
| 2014 | Marion Cotillard | Two Days, One Night | Sandra Bya |
| 2014 | Felicity Jones | The Theory of Everything | Jane Wilde Hawking |
| 2014 | Julianne Moore † | Still Alice | Dr. Alice Howland |
| 2014 | Rosamund Pike | Gone Girl | Amy Elliott Dunne |
| 2015 | Brie Larson † | Room | Joy "Ma" Newsome |
| 2015 | Cate Blanchett | Carol | Carol Aird |
| 2015 | Carey Mulligan | Suffragette | Maud Watts |
| 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 | Annette Bening | 20th Century Women | Dorothea Fields |
| 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 | Margot Robbie | I, Tonya | Tonya Harding |
| 2017 | Saoirse Ronan | Lady Bird | Christine "Lady Bird" McPherson |
| 2017 | Meryl Streep | The Post | Katharine Graham |
| 2018 | Olivia Colman † | The Favourite | Queen Anne |
| 2018 | Glenn Close | The Wife | Joan Castleman |
| 2018 | Lady Gaga | A Star Is Born | Ally Maine |
| 2018 | Nicole Kidman | Destroyer | Erin Bell |
| 2018 | Melissa McCarthy | Can You Ever Forgive Me? | Lee Israel |
| 2019 | Scarlett Johansson | Marriage Story | Nicole Barber |
| 2019 | Awkwafina | The Farewell | Billi Wang |
| 2019 | Lupita Nyong'o | Us | Adelaide Wilson / Red |
| 2019 | Saoirse Ronan | Little Women | Josephine "Jo" March |
| 2019 | Charlize Theron | Bombshell | Megyn Kelly |
| 2019 | Renée Zellweger † | Judy | Judy Garland |

### 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 | Andra Day | The United States vs. Billie Holiday | Billie Holiday |
| 2020 | Vanessa Kirby | Pieces of a Woman | Martha Weiss |
| 2020 | Frances McDormand † | Nomadland | Fern |
| 2021 | Kristen Stewart | Spencer | Diana, Princess of Wales |
| 2021 | Olivia Colman | The Lost Daughter | Leda Caruso |
| 2021 | Jessica Chastain † | The Eyes of Tammy Faye | Tammy Faye Bakker |
| 2021 | Lady Gaga | House of Gucci | Patrizia Reggiani |
| 2021 | Nicole Kidman | Being the Ricardos | Lucille Ball |
| 2022 | Cate Blanchett | Tár | Lydia Tár |
| 2022 | Viola Davis | The Woman King | General Nanisca |
| 2022 | Danielle Deadwyler | Till | Mamie Till-Mobley |
| 2022 | Michelle Williams | The Fabelmans | Mitzi Schildkraut-Fabelman |
| 2022 | Michelle Yeoh † | Everything Everywhere All at Once | Evelyn Quan Wang |
| 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 | Carey Mulligan | Maestro | Felicia Montealegre Bernstein |
| 2023 | Emma Stone † | Poor Things | Bella Baxter |
| 2024 | Mikey Madison † | Anora | Anora "Ani" Mikheeva |
| 2024 | Demi Moore | The Substance | Elisabeth Sparkle |
| 2024 | Karla Sofía Gascón | Emilia Pérez | Emilia Pérez / Juan "Manitas" Del Monte |
| 2024 | Angelina Jolie | Maria | Maria Callas |
| 2024 | Marianne Jean-Baptiste | Hard Truths | Pansey |
| 2024 | Nicole Kidman | Babygirl | Romy Mathis |