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New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress
Award
Award
| Field | Value | |
|---|---|---|
| name | New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress | |
| image | Rose_Byrne_Blue_Moon-21_(cropped).jpg | |
| image_upright | 0.9 | |
| caption | Current recipient: Rose Byrne | |
| awarded_for | Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role | |
| presenter | New York Film Critics Circle | |
| country | United States | |
| year | Greta Garbo | |
| Anna Karenina (1935) | ||
| holder | Rose Byrne | |
| If I Had Legs I'd Kick You (2025) | ||
| website | {{url |
Anna Karenina (1935) If I Had Legs I'd Kick You (2025) nyfcc.com}}
The New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress is one of the awards given by the New York Film Critics Circle to honor the finest achievements in film-making.
Winners
1930s
| Year | Winner | Role | Film | 1935 | 1936 | 1937 | 1938 | 1939 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Greta Garbo | Anna Karenina | Anna Karenina | ||||||
| Luise Rainer | Anna Held | The Great Ziegfeld | ||||||
| Greta Garbo | Marguerite Gautier | Camille | ||||||
| Margaret Sullavan | Patricia "Pat" Hollmann | Three Comrades | ||||||
| Vivien Leigh | Scarlett O'Hara | Gone with the Wind |
1940s
| Year | Winner | Role | Film | 1940 | 1941 | 1942 | 1943 | 1944 | 1945 | 1946 | 1947 | 1948 | 1949 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Katharine Hepburn | Tracy Lord | The Philadelphia Story | |||||||||||
| Joan Fontaine | Lina McLaidlaw Aysgarth | Suspicion | |||||||||||
| Agnes Moorehead | Fanny | The Magnificent Ambersons | |||||||||||
| Ida Lupino | Helen Chernen | The Hard Way | |||||||||||
| Tallulah Bankhead | Constance "Connie" Porter | Lifeboat | |||||||||||
| Ingrid Bergman | Sister Mary Benedict | The Bells of St. Mary's | |||||||||||
| Constance Petersen | Spellbound | ||||||||||||
| Celia Johnson | Laura Jesson | Brief Encounter | |||||||||||
| Deborah Kerr | Sister Clodagh | Black Narcissus | |||||||||||
| Bridie Quilty | I See a Dark Stranger | ||||||||||||
| Olivia de Havilland | Virginia Stuart Cunningham | The Snake Pit | |||||||||||
| Catherine Sloper | The Heiress |
1950s
| Year | Winner | Role | Film | 1950 | 1951 | 1952 | 1953 | 1954 | 1955 | 1956 | 1957 | 1958 | 1959 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bette Davis | Margo Channing | All About Eve | |||||||||||
| Vivien Leigh | Blanche DuBois | A Streetcar Named Desire | |||||||||||
| Shirley Booth | Lola Delaney | Come Back, Little Sheba | |||||||||||
| Audrey Hepburn | Princess Ann | Roman Holiday | |||||||||||
| Grace Kelly | Georgie Elgin | The Country Girl | |||||||||||
| Margot Wendice | Dial M for Murder | ||||||||||||
| Lisa Carol Fremont | Rear Window | ||||||||||||
| Anna Magnani | Serafina Delle Rose | The Rose Tattoo | |||||||||||
| Ingrid Bergman | Anna Koreff / Grand Duchess Anastasia | Anastasia | |||||||||||
| Deborah Kerr | Sister Angela | Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison | |||||||||||
| Susan Hayward | Barbara Graham | I Want to Live! | |||||||||||
| Audrey Hepburn | Sister Luke (Gabrielle van der Mal) | The Nun's Story |
1960s
| Year | Winner | Role | Film | 1960 | 1961 | 1962 | No award given (newspaper strike) | 1963 | 1964 | 1965 | 1966 | 1967 | 1968 | 1969 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Deborah Kerr | Ida Carmody | The Sundowners | ||||||||||||
| Sophia Loren | Cesira | Two Women | ||||||||||||
| Patricia Neal | Alma Brown | Hud | ||||||||||||
| Kim Stanley | Myra Savage | Séance on a Wet Afternoon | ||||||||||||
| Julie Christie | Diana Scott | Darling | ||||||||||||
| Elizabeth Taylor | Martha | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | ||||||||||||
| Lynn Redgrave | Georgy | Georgy Girl | ||||||||||||
| Edith Evans | Maggie Ross | The Whisperers | ||||||||||||
| Joanne Woodward | Rachel Cameron | Rachel, Rachel | ||||||||||||
| Jane Fonda | Gloria Beatty | They Shoot Horses, Don't They? |
1970s
| Year | Winner | Role | Film | 1970 | 1971 | 1972 | 1973 | 1974 | 1975 | 1976 | 1977 | 1978 | 1979 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Glenda Jackson | Gudrun Brangwen | Women in Love | |||||||||||
| Jane Fonda | Bree Daniels | Klute | |||||||||||
| Liv Ullmann | Maria | Cries and Whispers (Viskningar och rop) | |||||||||||
| Kristina Nilsson | The Emigrants (Utvandrarna) | ||||||||||||
| Joanne Woodward | Rita Walden | Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams | |||||||||||
| Liv Ullmann | Marianne | Scenes from a Marriage (Scener ur ett äktenskap) | |||||||||||
| Isabelle Adjani | Adèle Hugo / Adèle Lewry | The Story of Adele H. | |||||||||||
| Liv Ullmann | Dr. Jenny Isaksson | Face to Face (Ansikte mot ansikte) | |||||||||||
| Diane Keaton | Annie Hall | Annie Hall | |||||||||||
| Ingrid Bergman | Charlotte Andergast | Autumn Sonata (Höstsonaten) | |||||||||||
| Sally Field | Norma Rae Webster | Norma Rae |
1980s
| Year | Winner | Role | Film | 1980 | 1981 | 1982 | 1983 | 1984 | 1985 | 1986 | 1987 | 1988 | 1989 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sissy Spacek | Loretta Lynn | Coal Miner's Daughter | |||||||||||
| Glenda Jackson | Stevie Smith | Stevie | |||||||||||
| Meryl Streep | Zofia "Sophie" Zawistowski | Sophie's Choice | |||||||||||
| Shirley MacLaine | Aurora Greenway | Terms of Endearment | |||||||||||
| Peggy Ashcroft | Mrs. Moore | A Passage to India | |||||||||||
| Norma Aleandro | Alicia Marnet de Ibáñez | The Official Story (La historia oficial) | |||||||||||
| Sissy Spacek | Babe Botrelle | Crimes of the Heart | |||||||||||
| Holly Hunter | Jane Craig | Broadcast News | |||||||||||
| Meryl Streep | Lindy Chamberlain | A Cry in the Dark | |||||||||||
| Michelle Pfeiffer | Susie Diamond | The Fabulous Baker Boys |
1990s
| Year | Winner | Role | Film | 1990 | 1991 | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joanne Woodward | India Bridge | Mr. & Mrs. Bridge | |||||||||||
| Jodie Foster | Clarice Starling | The Silence of the Lambs | |||||||||||
| Emma Thompson | Margaret Schlegel | Howards End | |||||||||||
| Holly Hunter | Ada McGrath | The Piano | |||||||||||
| Linda Fiorentino | Bridget Gregory / Wendy Kroy | The Last Seduction | |||||||||||
| Jennifer Jason Leigh | Sadie Flood | Georgia | |||||||||||
| Emily Watson | Bess McNeill | Breaking the Waves | |||||||||||
| Julie Christie | Phyllis Mann | Afterglow | |||||||||||
| Cameron Diaz | Mary Jensen | There's Something About Mary | |||||||||||
| Hilary Swank | Brandon Teena | Boys Don't Cry |
2000s
| Year | Winner | Role | Film | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Laura Linney | Samantha "Sammy" Prescott | You Can Count on Me | |||||||||||
| Sissy Spacek | Ruth Fowler | In the Bedroom | |||||||||||
| Diane Lane | Constance "Connie" Sumner | Unfaithful | |||||||||||
| Hope Davis | Joyce Brabner | American Splendor | |||||||||||
| Dana Hurst | The Secret Lives of Dentists | ||||||||||||
| Imelda Staunton | Vera Drake | Vera Drake | |||||||||||
| Reese Witherspoon | June Carter Cash | Walk the Line | |||||||||||
| Helen Mirren | Queen Elizabeth II | The Queen | |||||||||||
| Julie Christie | Fiona Anderson | Away from Her | |||||||||||
| Sally Hawkins | Pauline "Poppy" Cross | Happy-Go-Lucky | |||||||||||
| Meryl Streep | Julia Child | Julie & Julia |
2010s
| Year | Winner | Role | Film | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Annette Bening | Dr. Nicole "Nic" Allgood | The Kids Are All Right | |||||||||||
| Meryl Streep | Margaret Thatcher | The Iron Lady | |||||||||||
| Rachel Weisz | Hester Collyer | The Deep Blue Sea | |||||||||||
| Cate Blanchett | Jeanette "Jasmine" Francis | Blue Jasmine | |||||||||||
| Marion Cotillard | Sandra Bya | Two Days, One Night | |||||||||||
| Saoirse Ronan | Eilis Lacey | Brooklyn | |||||||||||
| Isabelle Huppert | Michèle Leblanc | Elle | |||||||||||
| Saoirse Ronan | Christine "Lady Bird" McPherson | Lady Bird | |||||||||||
| Regina Hall | Lisa Conroy | Support the Girls | |||||||||||
| Lupita Nyong'o | Adelaide Wilson / Red | Us |
2020s
| Year | Winner | Role | Film | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sidney Flanigan | Autumn Callahan | Never Rarely Sometimes Always | |||||||
| Lady Gaga | Patrizia Reggiani | House of Gucci | |||||||
| Cate Blanchett | Lydia Tár | Tár | |||||||
| Lily Gladstone | Mollie Kyle | Killers of the Flower Moon | |||||||
| Marianne Jean-Baptiste | Pansy Deacon | Hard Truths | |||||||
| Rose Byrne | Linda | If I Had Legs I'd Kick You |
Multiple awards
;4 wins
- Meryl Streep (1982, 1988, 2009, 2011)
;3 wins
- Ingrid Bergman (1945, 1956, 1978)
- Julie Christie (1965, 1997, 2007)
- Deborah Kerr (1947, 1957, 1960)
- Sissy Spacek (1980, 1986, 2001)
- Liv Ullmann (1972, 1974, 1976)
- Joanne Woodward (1968, 1973, 1990)
;2 wins
- Cate Blanchett (2013, 2022)
- Olivia de Havilland (1948, 1949)
- Jane Fonda (1969, 1971)
- Greta Garbo (1935, 1937)
- Audrey Hepburn (1953, 1959)
- Holly Hunter (1987, 1993)
- Glenda Jackson (1970, 1981)
- Vivien Leigh (1939, 1951)
- Saoirse Ronan (2015, 2017)
References
References
- [https://ew.com/awards/2017/11/30/2017-new-york-film-critics-circle-winners-list/ 2017 New York Film Critics Circle winners: Full list. EW.com]
- [https://www.indiewire.com/2018/11/new-york-film-critics-circle-2018-awards-winners-1202023917/ 2018 New York Film Critics Circle Awards. IndieWire]
- [https://deadline.com/2019/12/new-york-film-critics-circle-awards-2019-winners-list-nyfcc-movies-1202800026/ 2019 New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Full List. Deadline]
- [https://editorial.rottentomatoes.com/article/chadwick-boseman-wins-best-supporting-actor-at-the-2020-new-york-film-critics-circle-awards/#:~:text=The%20New%20York%20Film%20Critics%20Circle%20announced%20the,and%20a%20special%20award%20for%20Director%20Spike%20Lee. CHADWICK BOSEMAN WINS BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR AT THE 2020 NEW YORK FILM CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS < < Rotten Tomatoes]
- [https://deadline.com/2021/12/new-york-film-critics-circle-awards-winners-2021-nyfcc-1234883931/ New York Film Critics Circle: 2021 Winners List — Deadline]
- (2023-11-16). "New York Film Critics Awards: 'Killers of the Flower Moon' Wins Best Film, Christopher Nolan Takes Director (Full List)".
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