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BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role
The 2023 recipient: Emma Stone
Awarded for	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role
Country	United Kingdom
Presented by	British Academy of Film and Television Arts
Currently held by	Emma Stone for Poor Things (2023)
Website	http://www.bafta.org/

Best Actress in a Leading Role is a British Academy Film Award presented annually by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) to recognize an actress who has delivered an outstanding leading performance in a film.

• From 1952 to 1967, there were two Best Actress awards presented, Best British Actress and Best Foreign Actress.
• From 1968 onwards, the two awards merged into one award, which from 1968 to 1984 was known as Best Actress.
• From 1985 to present, the award has been known by its current name of Best Actress in a Leading Role.

In the following lists, the titles and names in bold with a gold background are the winners and recipients respectively; those not in bold are the nominees. The years given are those in which the films under consideration were released, not the year of the ceremony, which always takes place the following year.

Winners and nominees

1950s

1960s

1970s

1980s

1990s

2000s

2010s

2020s

Superlatives

Multiple nominations

12 nominations

• Meryl Streep

8 nominations

• Maggie Smith

7 nominations

• Anne Bancroft
• Shirley MacLaine

6 nominations

• Julie Christie
• Jane Fonda
• Simone Signoret

5 nominations

• Cate Blanchett
• Judi Dench
• Audrey Hepburn
• Katharine Hepburn
• Emma Thompson
• Kate Winslet

4 nominations

• Deborah Kerr
• Helen Mirren
• Saoirse Ronan
• Joanne Woodward

3 nominations

• Amy Adams
• Stéphane Audran
• Annette Bening
• Viola Davis
• Edith Evans
• Mia Farrow
• Ava Gardner
• Glenda Jackson
• Scarlett Johansson
• Diane Keaton
• Nicole Kidman
• Frances McDormand
• Sarah Miles
• Julianne Moore
• Sissy Spacek
• Elizabeth Taylor
• Charlize Theron
• Emily Watson
• Renée Zellweger

2 nominations

• Anouk Aimée
• Peggy Ashcroft
• Leslie Caron
• Glenn Close
• Marion Cotillard
• Judy Davis
• Faye Dunaway
• Jodie Foster
• Lady Gaga
• Susan Hayward
• Judy Holliday
• Celia Johnson
• Grace Kelly
• Anna Magnani
• Giulietta Masina
• Virginia McKenna
• Melina Mercouri
• Hayley Mills
• Yvonne Mitchell
• Marilyn Monroe
• Jeanne Moreau
• Carey Mulligan
• Patricia Neal
• Natalie Portman
• Emmanuelle Riva
• Margot Robbie
• Julia Roberts
• Rachel Roberts
• Susan Sarandon
• Maria Schell
• Kristin Scott Thomas
• Jean Simmons
• Emma Stone
• Barbra Streisand
• Sylvia Syms
• Jessica Tandy
• Audrey Tautou
• Uma Thurman
• Rita Tushingham
• Liv Ullmann
• Julie Walters
• Reese Witherspoon
• Michelle Yeoh
• Ziyi Zhang

Multiple wins

See also

• Academy Award for Best Actress
• Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Actress
• Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead
• Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
• Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical
• BIFA for Best Performance by an Actress in a British Independent Film
• Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role

Notes

A  : Rules from the 1960s to the 1970s allowed for a performer to receive a single citation which could honor their work in more than one film. Shirley MacLaine, Julie Andrews, Julie Christie, Bibi Andersson, Katharine Hepburn, Barbra Streisand, Katharine Ross, Goldie Hawn, and Stéphane Audran were all nominated for their roles in two different films in the same category, while Mia Farrow was nominated for three films.

B : Elliot Page was nominated before his gender transition in 2020.

C  : Emmanuelle Riva and Marion Cotillard both received nominations for French-speaking roles. It was the first time that multiple foreign-language performances were nominated for Best Actress in the same year since separate Best Foreign Actress and Best British Actress awards were folded into a single category in 1968.

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External links

• BAFTA Awards Database

• British Academy Film Awards
• Best Actress BAFTA Award winners
• Film awards for lead actress