AACTA Award For Best Actress in A Leading Role - Winners and Nominees

Winners and Nominees

In the following table, the years listed correspond to the year of film release; the ceremonies are usually held the same year. The actress in bold and in dark blue background have received a special award; those in bold and in yellow background have won a regular competitive award. Those that are neither highlighted nor in bold are the nominees. When sorted chronologically, the table always lists the winning actress first and then the other nominees.

Contents
AFI Awards (1971-2010) AACTA Awards (2011-present) 1970s • 1980s • 1990s • 2000s • 2010s

Winner of a special prize (1971-1975) Winner of a competitive award (1976–present)

Year	Actor	Film	Character(s)
AFI Awards
1970s
1971	Monica Maughan	A City's Child	Woman
1972	Jacki Weaver	Stork	Anna
1973	Judy Morris	Libido: The Child	Sybil
1974-75	Julie Dawson	Who Killed Jenny Langby	Jenny Langby
1976	Helen Morse	Caddie	Caddie Marsh
1976	Briony Behets	The Trespassers	Penny
1976	Helen Morse	Picnic at Hanging Rock	Mlle. de Poitiers
1976	Judy Morris	The Trespassers	Dee
1977	Pat Bishop	Don's Party	Jenny
1977	Jeanie Drynan	Don's Party	Kath Henderson
1977	Sara Kestelman	Break of Day	Alice
1977	Robyn Nevin	The Fourth Wish	Connie
1978	Angela Punch McGregor	The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith	Gilda Marshall
1978	Geraldine Fitzgerald	The Mango Tree	Grandma Carr
1978	Wendy Hughes	Newsfront	Amy Mackenzie
1978	Kim Krejus	Mouth to Mouth	Carrie
1979	Michele Fawdon	Cathy's Child	Cathy
1979	Ruth Cracknell	The Night the Prowler	Doris Bannister
1979	Judy Davis	My Brilliant Career	Sybylla Melvyn
1979	Sigrid Thornton	Snapshot	Angela
1980s
1980	Tracy Mann	Hard Knocks	Samantha
1980	Carmen Duncan	Harlequin	Sandra Rast
1980	Judy Morris	...Maybe This Time	Fran
1980	Mawuyul Yanthalawuy	Manganinnie	Manganinnie
1981	Judy Davis	Winter of Our Dreams	Lou
1981	Jenny Agutter	The Survivor	Hobbs
1981	Lorraine Bayly	Fatty Finn	Maggie McGrath
1981	Noni Hazlehurst	Fatty Finn	Myrtle Finn
1982	Noni Hazlehurst	Monkey Grip	Nora
1982	Wendy Hughes	Lonely Hearts	Patricia Curnow
1982	Carol Kane	Norman Loves Rose	Rose
1982	Angela Punch McGregor	We of the Never Never	Jeannie Gunn
1983	Wendy Hughes	Careful, He Might Hear You	Vanessa
1983	Lorna Lesley	The Settlement	Joycie
1983	Kris McQuade	Buddies	Stella
1983	Geneviève Picot	Undercover	Libby
1984	Angela Punch McGregor	Annie's Coming Out	Jessica Hathaway
1984	Carol Burns	Strikebound	Agnes Doig
1984	Gosia Dobrowolska	Silver City	Nina
1984	Wendy Hughes	My First Wife	Helen
1985	Noni Hazlehurst	Fran	Fran
1985	Debra Byrne	Rebel	Kathy McLeod
1985	Lynette Curran	Bliss	Bettina Joy
1985	Michele Fawdon	Unfinished Business	Maureen
1986	Judy Davis	Kangaroo	Harriet Somers
1986	Helen Buday	For Love Alone	Teresa
1986	Judy Morris	The More Things Change...	Connie
1986	Justine Saunders	The Fringe Dwellers	Mollie Comeaway
1987	Judy Davis	High Tide	Lillie
1987	Julia Blake	Travelling North	Frances
1987	Loene Carmen	The Year My Voice Broke	Freya Olson
1987	Wendy Hughes	Echoes of Paradise	Maria
1988	Nadine Garner	Mull	Phoebe Mullens
1988	Wendy Hughes	Boundaries of the Heart	Stella Marsden
1988	Rosey Jones	Afraid to Dance	The Female
1988	Jo Kennedy	Tender Hooks	Mitch
1989	Meryl Streep	Evil Angels (A Cry in the Dark)	Lindy Chamberlain
1989	Judy Davis	Georgia	Nina Bailley and Georgia White
1989	Geneviève Lemon	Sweetie	Dawn (Sweetie)
1989	Irini Pappas	Island	Marquise
1990s
1990	Catherine McClements	Weekend with Kate	Kate Moir
1990	Kerry Armstrong	Hunting	Michelle Harris
1990	Rosanna Arquette	Wendy Cracked a Walnut	Wendy
1990	Claudia Karvan	The Big Steal	Joanna Johnson
1991	Sheila Florance	A Woman's Tale	Martha
1991	Eri Ishida	Aya	Aya
1991	Angie Milliken	Act of Necessity	Louise Coleman
1991	Geneviève Picot	Proof	Celia
1992	Lisa Harrow	The Last Days of Chez Nous	Ada McGrath
1992	Claudia Karvan	Broken Highway	Catherine
1992	Jacqueline McKenzie	This Won't Hurt a Bit	Vanessa Prescott
1992	Fiona Ruttelle	Say a Little Prayer	Angie
1993	Holly Hunter	The Piano	Beth
1993	Fiona Ruttelle	Redheads	Angie
1993	Tara Morice	Strictly Ballroom	Fran
1993	Miranda Otto	The Girl Who Came Late	Nell Tiscowitz
1994	Toni Collette	Muriel's Wedding	Muriel Heslop
1994	Tara FitzGerald	Sirens	Estella Campion
1994	Kerry Fox	Country Life	Sally Voysey
1994	Victoria Longley	Talk	Julia Strong
1995	Jacqueline McKenzie	Angel Baby	Kate
1995	Caroline Gillmer	Hotel Sorrento	Hilary Moynihan
1995	Caroline Goodall	Hotel Sorrento	Meg Moynihan
1995	Lisa Harrow	That Eye, the Sky	Alice Flack
1996	Judy Davis	Children of the Revolution	Joan
1996	Gia Carides	Brilliant Lies	Susy Connor
1996	Claudia Karvan	Dating the Enemy	Tash
1996	Frances O'Connor	Love and Other Catastrophes	Mia
1997	Pamela Rabe	The Well	Hester
1997	Frances O'Connor	Kiss or Kill	Nikki Davies
1997	Frances O'Connor	Thank God He Met Lizzie	Jenny
1997	Miranda Otto	The Well	Katherine
1998	Deborah Mailman	Radiance	Nona
1998	Cate Blanchett	Oscar and Lucinda	Lucinda Leplastrier
1998	Lynette Curran	The Boys	Sandra Sprague
1998	Rachel Griffiths	Amy	Tanya Rammus
1999	Sacha Horler	Praise	Cynthia
1999	Jeanie Drynan	Soft Fruit	Patsy
1999	Michela Noonan	Strange Fits of Passion	She
1999	Maya Stange	In a Savage Land	Evelyn Spence
2000s
2000	Pia Miranda	Looking for Alibrandi	Josephine Alibrandi
2000	Julia Blake	Innocence	Claire
2000	Rachel Griffiths	Me Myself I	Pamela Drury
2000	Susie Porter	Better Than Sex	Cin
2001	Kerry Armstrong	Lantana	Sonja Zat
2001	Alice Ansara	La Spagnola	Lucia
2001	Nicole Kidman	Moulin Rouge!	Satine
2001	Lola Marceli	La Spagnola	Lola
2002	Maria Theodorakis	Walking on Water	Anna
2002	Judy Davis	Swimming Upstream	Dora Fingleton
2002	Rachel Griffiths	The Hard Word	Carol
2002	Dannielle Hall	Beneath Clouds	Lena
2003	Toni Collette	Japanese Story	Sandy Edwards
2003	Helen Buday	Alexandra's Project	Alexandra
2003	Rose Byrne	The Rage in Placid Lake	Gemma Taylor
2003	Susie Porter	Teesh and Trude	Letitia (Teesh)
2004	Abbie Cornish	Somersault	Heidi
2004	Chloe Maxwell	Under the Radar	Jo
2004	Olivia Pigeot	A Cold Summer	Tia
2004	Leeanna Walsman	One Perfect Day	Alysse
2005	Cate Blanchett	Little Fish	Tracy Louise Heart
2005	Saskia Burmeister	Hating Alison Ashley	"Erk" Erica "Yuk" Yurken
2005	Justine Clarke	Look Both Ways	Meryl Lee
2005	Frances O'Connor	Three Dollars	Tanya
2006	Emily Barclay	Suburban Mayhem	Katrina
2006	Abbie Cornish	Candy	Candy
2006	Laura Linney	Jindabyne	Claire
2006	Teresa Palmer	2:37	Melody
2007	Joan Chen	The Home Song Stories	Rose
2007	Kerry Armstrong	Razzle Dazzle	Justine Morgan
2007	Brenda Blethyn	Clubland	Jean Dwight
2007	Franka Potente	Romulus, My Father	Christine
2008	Monic Hendrickx	Unfinished Sky	Tahmeena
2008	Noni Hazlehurst	Bitter & Twisted	Penelope Lombard
2008	Emma Lung	The Jammed	Crystal
2008	Veronica Sywak	The Jammed	Ashley
2009	Frances O'Connor	Blessed	Rhonda
2009	Marissa Gibson	Samson and Delilah	Delilah
2009	Sacha Horler	My Year Without Sex	Natalie
2009	Sophie Lowe	Beautiful Kate	Kate
2010s
2010	Jacki Weaver	Animal Kingdom	Janine "Smurf" Cody
2010	Abbie Cornish	Bright Star	Fanny Brawne
2010	Morgana Davies	The Tree	Simone
2010	Charlotte Gainsbourg	The Tree	Dawn
AACTA Awards
2011	Judy Davis	The Eye of the Storm	Dorothy de Lascabanes
2011	Frances O'Connor	The Hunter	Lucy Armstrong
2011	Charlotte Rampling	The Eye of the Storm	Elizabeth Hunter
2011	Emily Watson	Oranges and Sunshine	Margaret Humphreys

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