Best Actress Award (Cannes Film Festival)

The Best Actress Award (French: Prix d'interprétation féminine) is an award presented at the Cannes Film Festival. It is chosen by the jury from the 'official section' of films at the festival. It was first awarded in 1946.

Award Winners

Year	Film	Actress
1946	La Symphonie Pastorale	Michèle Morgan
1947	no award this year
1948	festival not held
1949	The Walls of Malapaga	Isa Miranda
1950	festival not held
1951	All About Eve	Bette Davis
1952	Detective Story	Lee Grant
1953	Come Back, Little Sheba	Shirley Booth
1954	no award this year
1955	Bolshaya Semya	whole cast
1956	I'll Cry Tomorrow	Susan Hayward
1957	Nights of Cabiria	Giulietta Masina
1958	Brink of Life	Bibi Andersson Eva Dahlbeck Barbro Hiort af Ornäs Ingrid Thulin
1959	Room at the Top	Simone Signoret
1960	Never on Sunday	Melina Mercouri
	Moderato Cantabile	Jeanne Moreau
1961	Two Women	Sophia Loren
1962	Long Day's Journey into Night	Katharine Hepburn
	A Taste of Honey	Rita Tushingham
1963	The Conjugal Bed (L'Ape Regina)	Marina Vlady
1964	The Pumpkin Eater	Anne Bancroft
	One Potato, Two Potato	Barbara Barrie
1965	The Collector	Samantha Eggar
1966	Morgan!	Vanessa Redgrave
1967	Elvira Madigan	Pia Degermark
1968	festival not held
1969	Isadora	Vanessa Redgrave
1970	Metello	Ottavia Piccolo
1971	The Panic in Needle Park	Kitty Winn
1972	Images	Susannah York
1973	The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds	Joanne Woodward
1974	Les violons du bal	Marie-José Nat
1975	Lenny	Valérie Perrine
1976	L'eredità Ferramonti	Dominique Sanda
	A lőcsei fehér asszony	Mari Törőcsik
1977	3 Women	Shelley Duvall
	J.A. Martin Photographe	Monique Mercure
1978	An Unmarried Woman	Jill Clayburgh
	Violette Nozière	Isabelle Huppert
1979	Norma Rae	Sally Field
1980	A Leap in the Dark	Anouk Aimée
1981	Quartet	Isabelle Adjani
	Possession
1982	Another Way	Jadwiga Jankowska-Cieślak
1983	Storia di Piera	Hanna Schygulla
1984	Cal	Helen Mirren
1985	The Official Story	Norma Aleandro
	Mask	Cher
1986	Rosa Luxemburg	Barbara Sukowa
	Eu Sei Que Vou Te Amar	Fernanda Torres
1987	Shy People	Barbara Hershey
1988	A World Apart	Barbara Hershey Jodhi May Linda Mvusi
1989	A Cry in the Dark	Meryl Streep
1990	Przesłuchanie	Krystyna Janda
1991	The Double Life of Véronique	Irène Jacob
1992	The Best Intentions	Pernilla August
1993	The Piano	Holly Hunter
1994	La Reine Margot	Virna Lisi
1995	The Madness of King George	Helen Mirren
1996	Secrets & Lies	Brenda Blethyn
1997	Nil by Mouth	Kathy Burke
1998	The Dreamlife of Angels	Élodie Bouchez Natacha Régnier
1999	Humanité	Séverine Caneele
	Rosetta	Émilie Dequenne
2000	Dancer in the Dark	Björk
2001	The Piano Teacher	Isabelle Huppert
2002	The Man Without a Past	Kati Outinen
2003	The Barbarian Invasions	Marie-Josée Croze
2004	Clean	Maggie Cheung
2005	Free Zone	Hanna Laslo
2006	Volver	Penélope Cruz Carmen Maura Lola Dueñas Chus Lampreave Blanca Portillo Yohana Cobo
2007	Secret Sunshine	Jeon Do-yeon
2008	Linha de Passe	Sandra Corveloni
2009	Antichrist	Charlotte Gainsbourg
2010	Certified Copy	Juliette Binoche
2011	Melancholia	Kirsten Dunst
2012	Beyond the Hills	Cristina Flutur Cosmina Stratan

External links

• Cannes Film Festival official website
• Cannes Film Festival at IMDb.