BAFTA Award For Best Actress in A Leading Role - Winners and Nominees - 1990s

1990s

• 1990 – Jessica Tandy – Driving Miss Daisy as Miss Daisy Werthan
  • Shirley MacLaine – Postcards from the Edge as Doris Mann
  • Michelle Pfeiffer – The Fabulous Baker Boys
  • Julia Roberts – Pretty Woman as Vivian Ward

• 1991 – Jodie Foster – The Silence of the Lambs as Clarice Starling
  • Geena Davis – Thelma & Louise as Thelma Dickinson
  • Susan Sarandon – Thelma & Louise as Louise Sawyer
  • Juliet Stevenson – Truly, Madly, Deeply

• 1992 – Emma Thompson – Howards End as Margaret Schlegel
  • Judy Davis – Husbands and Wives
  • Tara Morice – Strictly Ballroom
  • Jessica Tandy – Fried Green Tomatoes as Ninny Threadgoode

• 1993 – Holly Hunter – The Piano as Ada McGrath
  • Miranda Richardson – Tom & Viv as Vivienne Haigh-Wood Eliot
  • Emma Thompson – The Remains of the Day
  • Debra Winger – Shadowlands

• 1994 – Susan Sarandon – The Client as Reggie Love
  • Linda Fiorentino – The Last Seduction as Bridget Gregory
  • Irène Jacob – Three Colors: Red (Trois couleurs: Rouge)
  • Uma Thurman – Pulp Fiction as Mia Wallace

• 1995 – Emma Thompson – Sense and Sensibility as Eleanor Dashwood
  • Nicole Kidman – To Die For as Suzanne Stone Maretto
  • Helen Mirren – The Madness of King George
  • Elisabeth Shue – Leaving Las Vegas as Sera

• 1996 – Brenda Blethyn – Secrets & Lies as Cynthia Rose Purley
  • Frances McDormand – Fargo as Marge Gunderson
  • Kristin Scott Thomas – The English Patient
  • Emily Watson – Breaking the Waves

• 1997 – Judi Dench – Mrs. Brown as Queen Victoria
  • Kim Basinger – L.A. Confidential
  • Kathy Burke – Nil By Mouth
  • Helena Bonham Carter – The Wings of the Dove

• 1998 – Cate Blanchett – Elizabeth as Queen Elizabeth I
  • Jane Horrocks – Little Voice
  • Gwyneth Paltrow – Shakespeare in Love as Viola de Lesseps
  • Emily Watson – Hilary and Jackie as Jacqueline du Pre

• 1999 – Annette Bening – American Beauty as Carolyn Burnham
  • Linda Bassett – East is East
  • Julianne Moore – The End of the Affair
  • Emily Watson – Angela's Ashes