Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress

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The Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress is an award given by the Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association to honor the best achievements in filmmaking.

Winners and nominees

1990: Kathy Bates as Annie Wilkes – Misery

1991: Jodie Foster as Clarice Starling – The Silence of the Lambs

1992: Emma Thompson as Margaret Schlegel – Howards End

1993: Holly Hunter as Ada McGrath – The Piano

1994: Jodie Foster as Nell Kellty – Nell / Linda Fiorentino as Bridget Gregory – The Last Seduction (TIE)

1995: Elisabeth Shue as Sera – Leaving Las Vegas

1996: Frances McDormand as Marge Gunderson – Fargo

1997: Helena Bonham Carter as Kate Croy – The Wings of the Dove

1998: Cate Blanchett as Elizabeth I of England – Elizabeth

1999: Hilary Swank as Brandon Teena / Teena Renae Brandon – Boys Don't Cry

2000s

2000: Laura Linney – You Can Count On Me as Samantha “Sammy” Prescott

Julia Roberts – Erin Brockovich as Erin Brockovich

Ellen Burstyn – Requiem for a Dream as Sara Goldfarb

Renée Zellweger – Nurse Betty as Betty Sizemore

Joan Allen – The Contender as Laine Hanson

2001: Sissy Spacek – In the Bedroom as Ruth Fowler

Tilda Swinton – The Deep End as Margaret Hall

Nicole Kidman – Moulin Rouge! as Satine

Halle Berry – Monster's Ball as Leticia Musgrove

Renée Zellweger – Bridget Jones's Diary as Bridget Jones

2002: Julianne Moore – Far From Heaven as Cathy Whitaker

Renée Zellweger – Chicago as Roxie Hart

Salma Hayek – Frida as Frida Kahlo

Nicole Kidman – The Hours as Virginia Woolf

Isabelle Huppert – The Piano Teacher as Erika Kohut

2003: Charlize Theron – Monster as Aileen Wuornos

Nicole Kidman – Cold Mountain as Ada Monroe

Diane Keaton – Something's Gotta Give as Erica Barry

Scarlett Johansson – Lost in Translation as Charlotte

Naomi Watts – 21 Grams as Cristina Peck

2004: Hilary Swank – Million Dollar Baby as Margaret “Maggie” Fitzgerald

Imelda Staunton – Vera Drake as Vera Drake

Kate Winslet – Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind as Clementine Kruczynski

Catalina Sandino Moreno – Maria Full of Grace as María Álvarez

Annette Bening – Being Julia as Julia Lambert

2005: Felicity Huffman – Transamerica as Sabrina “Bree” Osbourne / Stanley Schupak

Keira Knightley – Pride & Prejudice as Elizabeth Bennet

Reese Witherspoon – Walk the Line as June Carter Cash

Joan Allen – The Upside of Anger as Terry Wolfmeyer

Charlize Theron – North Country as Josie Aimes

2006: Helen Mirren – The Queen as Queen Elizabeth II

Judi Dench – Notes on a Scandal as Barbara Covett

Meryl Streep – The Devil Wears Prada as Miranda Priestly

Kate Winslet – Little Children as Sarah Pierce

Penélope Cruz – Volver as Raimunda

2007: Julie Christie – Away from Her as Fiona Anderson

Marion Cotillard – La Vie en rose as Édith Piaf

Ellen Page – Juno as Juno MacGuff

Laura Linney – The Savages as Wendy Savage

Angelina Jolie – A Mighty Heart as Mariane Pearl

2008: Anne Hathaway – Rachel Getting Married as Kym Buchman

Meryl Streep – Doubt as Sister Aloysius Beauvier

Sally Hawkins – Happy-Go-Lucky as Pauline “Poppy” Cross

Kristin Scott Thomas – I've Loved You So Long as Juliette Fontaine

Kate Winslet – Revolutionary Road as April Wheeler

2009: Carey Mulligan – An Education as Jenny Mellor

Meryl Streep – Julie & Julia as Julia Child

Gabourey Sidibe – Precious as Clarice “Precious” Jones

Emily Blunt – The Young Victoria as Queen Victoria

Sandra Bullock – The Blind Side as Leigh Anne Tuohy

2010s

2010: Natalie Portman – Black Swan as Nina Sayers

Jennifer Lawrence – Winter's Bone as Ree Dolly

Nicole Kidman – Rabbit Hole as Becca Corbett

Annette Bening – The Kids Are All Right as Dr. Nicole “Nic” Allgood

Michelle Williams – Blue Valentine as Cindy Heller

2011: Michelle Williams – My Week with Marilyn as Marilyn Monroe

Kirsten Dunst Melancholia as Justine

Tilda Swinton – We Need to Talk About Kevin as Eva Khatchadourian

Meryl Streep – The Iron Lady as Margaret Thatcher

Charlize Theron – Young Adult as Mavis Gary

2012: Jessica Chastain – Zero Dark Thirty as Maya

Jennifer Lawrence – Silver Linings Playbook as Tiffany Maxwell

Helen Mirren – Hitchcock as Alma Reville

Emmanuelle Riva – Amour as Anne Laurent

Quvenzhané Wallis – Beasts of the Southern Wild as Hushpuppy (TIE)

Naomi Watts – The Impossible as Maria Bennett (TIE)

2013: Cate Blanchett – Blue Jasmine as Jeanette “Jasmine” Francis

Sandra Bullock – Gravity as Dr. Ryan Stone

Judi Dench – Philomena as Philomena Lee

Meryl Streep – August: Osage County as Violet Weston

Emma Thompson – Saving Mr. Banks as P. L. Travers

2014: Reese Witherspoon – Wild as Cheryl Strayed

Julianne Moore – Still Alice as Dr. Alice Howland

Rosamund Pike – Gone Girl as Amy Elliot-Dunne

Felicity Jones – The Theory of Everything as Jane Wilde Hawking

Marion Cotillard – Two Days, One Night as Sandra Bya

2015: Brie Larson – Room as Joy “Ma” Newsome

Cate Blanchett – Carol as Carol Aird

Saoirse Ronan – Brooklyn as Eilis Lacey

Charlotte Rampling – 45 Years as Kate Mercer

Charlize Theron – Mad Max: Fury Road as Imperator Furiosa (TIE)

Carey Mulligan – Suffragette as Maud Watts (TIE)

2016: Natalie Portman – Jackie as Jacqueline Kennedy

Emma Stone – La La Land as Mia Dolan

Ruth Negga – Loving as Mildred Loving

Amy Adams – Arrival as Dr. Louise Banks

Annette Bening – 20th Century Women as Dorothea Fields

References

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Winners and nominees

2000s

2010s

References