1960s
- 1960
- Best British Actress – Rachel Roberts – Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
- Hayley Mills – Pollyanna
- Wendy Hiller – Sons and Lovers
- Best Foreign Actress – Shirley MacLaine – The Apartment
- Pier Angeli – The Angry Silence
- Monica Vitti – The Adventure
- Jean Simmons – Elmer Gantry
- Emmanuelle Riva – Hiroshima Mon Amour
- Melina Mercouri – Never on Sunday
- Best British Actress – Rachel Roberts – Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
- 1961
- Best British Actress – Dora Bryan – A Taste of Honey
- Deborah Kerr – The Sundowners
- Hayley Mills – Whistle Down the Wind
- Best Foreign Actress – Sophia Loren – Two Women
- Annie Girardot – Rocco and His Brothers
- Piper Laurie – The Hustler
- Claudia McNeil – A Raisin in the Sun
- Jean Seberg – Breathless
- Best British Actress – Dora Bryan – A Taste of Honey
- 1962
- Best British Actress – Leslie Caron – The L-Shaped Room
- Virginia Maskell – The Wild and the Willing
- Janet Munro – Life for Ruth
- Best Foreign Actress – Anne Bancroft – The Miracle Worker
- Anouk Aimée – Lola
- Harriet Andersson – Såsom i en spegel
- Melina Mercouri – Phaedra
- Jeanne Moreau – Jules and Jim
- Geraldine Page – Sweet Bird of Youth
- Natalie Wood – Splendor in the Grass
- Best British Actress – Leslie Caron – The L-Shaped Room
- 1963
- Best British Actress – Rachel Roberts – This Sporting Life
- Julie Christie – Billy Liar
- Edith Evans – Tom Jones
- Sarah Miles – The Servant
- Barbara Windsor – Sparrers Can't Sing
- Best Foreign Actress – Patricia Neal – Hud
- Joan Crawford – What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
- Bette Davis – What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
- Lee Remick – Days of Wine and Roses
- Daniela Rocca – Divorce, Italian Style
- Best British Actress – Rachel Roberts – This Sporting Life
- 1964
- Best British Actress – Audrey Hepburn – Charade
- Julie Andrews – Mary Poppins
- Edith Evans – The Chalk Garden
- Deborah Kerr – The Chalk Garden
- Rita Tushingham – Girl with Green Eyes
- Best Foreign Actress – Anne Bancroft – The Pumpkin Eater
- Ava Gardner – The Night of the Iguana
- Shirley MacLaine – Irma la Douce and What a Way to Go!
- Kim Stanley – Séance on a Wet Afternoon
- Best British Actress – Audrey Hepburn – Charade
- 1965
- Best British Actress – Julie Christie – Darling
- Julie Andrews – The Americanization of Emily and The Sound of Music
- Maggie Smith – Young Cassidy
- Rita Tushingham – The Knack …and How to Get It
- Best Foreign Actress – Patricia Neal – In Harm's Way
- Jane Fonda – Cat Ballou
- Lila Kedrova – Zorba the Greek
- Simone Signoret – Ship of Fools
- Best British Actress – Julie Christie – Darling
- 1966
- Best British Actress – Elizabeth Taylor – Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
- Julie Christie – Doctor Zhivago and Fahrenheit 451
- Lynn Redgrave – Georgy Girl
- Vanessa Redgrave – Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment
- Best Foreign Actress – Jeanne Moreau – Viva Maria!
- Brigitte Bardot – Viva Maria!
- Joan Hackett – The Group
- Best British Actress – Elizabeth Taylor – Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
- 1967
- Best British Actress – Edith Evans – The Whisperers
- Barbara Jefford – Ulysses
- Elizabeth Taylor – The Taming of the Shrew
- Best Foreign Actress – Anouk Aimée – A Man and a Woman
- Bibi Andersson – Persona and Syskonbädd 1782
- Jane Fonda – Barefoot in the Park
- Simone Signoret – The Deadly Affair
- Best British Actress – Edith Evans – The Whisperers
- 1968 – Katharine Hepburn – Guess Who's Coming to Dinner and The Lion in Winter
- Anne Bancroft – The Graduate
- Catherine Deneuve – Belle de jour
- Joanne Woodward – Rachel, Rachel
- 1969 – Maggie Smith – The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
- Mia Farrow – John and Mary, Rosemary's Baby and Secret Ceremony
- Glenda Jackson – Women in Love
- Barbra Streisand – Funny Girl and Hello, Dolly!
- Mary Wimbush – Oh! What a Lovely War
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