Aktris Utama Terbaik (BAFTA)
Pemenang dan nomine > Aktris Britania Terbaik (1952–1967 )

| Tahun | Aktris | Film | Karakter |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
1952 6: 
| 1952 6 | Vivien Leigh | A Streetcar Named Desire | Blanche DuBois † |
| 1952 6 | Phyllis Calvert | Mandy | Christine Garland |
| 1952 6 | Celia Johnson | I Believe in You | Matty Matheson |
| 1952 6 | Ann Todd | The Sound Barrier | Susan Garthwaite |
1953 7: 
| 1953 7 | Audrey Hepburn | Roman Holiday | Putri Anne † |
| 1953 7 | Celia Johnson | The Captain's Paradise | Maud |
1954 8: 
| 1954 8 | Yvonne Mitchell | The Divided Heart | Sonja |
| 1954 8 | Brenda De Banzie | Hobson's Choice | Maggie Hobson |
| 1954 8 | Audrey Hepburn | Sabrina's Affair | Sabrina Fairchild ‡ |
| 1954 8 | Margaret Leighton | Carrington V.C. | Valerie Carrington |
| 1954 8 | Noelle Middleton | Carrington V.C. | Alison L. Graham |
1955 9: 
| 1955 9 | Katie Johnson | The Ladykillers | Louisa Wilberforce |
| 1955 9 | Margaret Johnston | Touch and Go | Helen Fletcher |
| 1955 9 | Deborah Kerr | The End of the Affair | Sarah Miles |
| 1955 9 | Margaret Lockwood | Cast a Dark Shadow | Freda Jefferies |
1956 10: 
| 1956 10 | Virginia McKenna | A Town Like Alice | Jean Paget |
| 1956 10 | Dorothy Alison | Reach for the Sky | Perawat Brace |
| 1956 10 | Audrey Hepburn | War and Peace | Natasha Rostova |
1957 11: 
| 1957 11 | Heather Sears | The Story of Esther Costello | Esther Costello |
| 1957 11 | Deborah Kerr | Tea and Sympathy | Laura Reynolds |
| 1957 11 | Sylvia Syms | Woman in a Dressing Gown | Georgie Harlow |
1958 12: 
| 1958 12 | Irene Worth | Orders to Kill | Leonie |
| 1958 12 | Hermione Baddeley | Room at the Top | Elspeth ‡ |
| 1958 12 | Karuna Banerjee | Aparajito | Sarbajaya Roy |
| 1958 12 | Virginia McKenna | Carve Her Name with Pride | Violette Szabo |
1959 13: 
| 1959 13 | Audrey Hepburn | The Nun's Story | Gabrielle ‡ |
| 1959 13 | Peggy Ashcroft | The Nun's Story | Bunda Mathilde |
| 1959 13 | Yvonne Mitchell | Sapphire | Mildred |
| 1959 13 | Sylvia Syms | No Trees in the Street | Hetty |
| 1959 13 | Kay Walsh | The Horse's Mouth | Miss. Coker |
| 1959 13 | Wendy Hiller | Separate Tables | Pat Cooper † |
1960 14: 
| 1960 14 | Rachel Roberts | Saturday Night and Sunday Morning | Brenda |
| 1960 14 | Hayley Mills | Pollyanna | Pollyanna |
| 1960 14 | Wendy Hiller | Sons and Lovers | Gertrude Morel |
1961 15: 
| 1961 15 | Dora Bryan | A Taste of Honey | Helen |
| 1961 15 | Deborah Kerr | The Sundowners | Ida Carmody ‡ |
| 1961 15 | Hayley Mills | Whistle Down the Wind | Kathy Bostock |
1962 16: 
| 1962 16 | Leslie Caron | The L-Shaped Room | Jane Fosset ‡ |
| 1962 16 | Virginia Maskell | The Wild and the Willing | Virginia Chown |
| 1962 16 | Janet Munro | Life for Ruth | Pat Harris |
1963 17: 
| 1963 17 | Rachel Roberts | This Sporting Life | Margaret Hammond |
| 1963 17 | Julie Christie | Billy Liar | Liz |
| 1963 17 | Edith Evans | Tom Jones | Miss Western |
| 1963 17 | Sarah Miles | The Servant | Vera |
| 1963 17 | Barbara Windsor | Sparrers Can't Sing | Maggie Gooding |
1964 18: 
| 1964 18 | Audrey Hepburn | Charade | Regina Lampert |
| 1964 18 | Edith Evans | The Chalk Garden | Ny. St. Maugham |
| 1964 18 | Deborah Kerr | The Chalk Garden | Ny. Madrigal |
| 1964 18 | Rita Tushingham | Girl with Green Eyes | Kate Brady |
1965 19: 
| 1965 19 | Julie Christie | Darling | Diana Scott † |
| 1965 19 | Julie Andrews | The Americanization of Emily / The Sound of Music | Emily Barham / Maria ‡ |
| 1965 19 | Maggie Smith | Young Cassidy | Nora |
| 1965 19 | Rita Tushingham | The Knack...and How to Get It | Nancy Jones |
1966 20: 
| 1966 20 | Elizabeth Taylor | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf | Martha † |
| 1966 20 | Julie Christie | Doctor Zhivago / Fahrenheit 451 | Lara Antipova / Linda Montag/Clarisse |
| 1966 20 | Lynn Redgrave | Georgy Girl | Georgina "Georgy" Parkin ‡ |
| 1966 20 | Vanessa Redgrave | Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment | Leonie Delt ‡ |
1967 21: 
| 1967 21 | Edith Evans | The Whisperers | Ny. Ross ‡ |
| 1967 21 | Barbara Jefford | Ulysses | Molly Bloom |
| 1967 21 | Elizabeth Taylor | The Taming of the Shrew | Katharina |