Houston Film Critics Society Award for Best Actress

The Houston Film Critics Society Award for Best Actress is an annual award given by the Houston Film Critics Society.

Houston Film Critics Society Award for Best Actress
The 2023 recipient: Emma Stone
Awarded for	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role
Country	United States
Presented by	Houston Film Critics Society
First awarded	Amy Ryan Gone Baby Gone (2007)
Currently held by	Emma Stone Poor Things (2023)
Website	houstonfilmcritics.org

Winners

• † = Winner of the Academy Award for Best Actress
• ‡ = Nominated of the Academy Award for Best Actress

2000s

Year	Winner and nominees	Film	Role
2007	Julie Christie ‡	Away from Her	Fiona Anderson
	Amy Adams	Enchanted	Giselle
	Marion Cotillard †	La Vie en rose	Édith Piaf
	Angelina Jolie	A Mighty Heart	Mariane Pearl
	Laura Linney ‡	The Savages	Wendy Savage
	Elliot Page ‡	Juno	Juno MacGuff
2008	Anne Hathaway ‡	Rachel Getting Married	Kym Buchman
	Cate Blanchett	The Curious Case of Benjamin Button	Daisy Fuller
	Angelina Jolie ‡	Changeling	Christine Collins
	Melissa Leo ‡	Frozen River	Ray Eddy
	Meryl Streep ‡	Doubt	Sister Aloysius Beauvier
	Kate Winslet	Revolutionary Road	April Wheeler
2009	Carey Mulligan ‡	An Education	Jenny Mellor
	Sandra Bullock †	The Blind Side	Leigh Anne Tuohy
	Abbie Cornish	Bright Star	Fanny Brawne
	Saoirse Ronan	The Lovely Bones	Susie Salmon
	Gabourey Sidibe ‡	Precious	Claireece "Precious" Jones
	Meryl Streep ‡	Julie and Julia	Julia Child

2010s

Year	Winner and nominees	Film	Role
2010	Natalie Portman †	Black Swan	Nina Sayers
	Annette Bening ‡	The Kids Are All Right	Dr. Nicole "Nic" Allgood
	Nicole Kidman ‡	Rabbit Hole	Becca Corbett
	Jennifer Lawrence ‡	Winter's Bone	Ree Dolly
	Noomi Rapace	The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo	Lisbeth Salander
2011	Tilda Swinton	We Need to Talk About Kevin	Eva Khatchadourian
	Viola Davis ‡	The Help	Aibileen Clark
	Elizabeth Olsen	Martha Marcy May Marlene	Martha / Marcy May / "Marlene Lewis"
	Meryl Streep †	The Iron Lady	Margaret Thatcher
	Michelle Williams ‡	My Week with Marilyn	Marilyn Monroe
2012	Jennifer Lawrence †	Silver Linings Playbook	Tiffany Maxwell
	Jessica Chastain ‡	Zero Dark Thirty	Maya
	Emmanuelle Riva ‡	Amour	Anne Laurent
	Quvenzhané Wallis ‡	Beasts of the Southern Wild	Hushpuppy
	Naomi Watts ‡	The Impossible	Maria Bennett
2013	Sandra Bullock ‡	Gravity	Dr. Ryan Stone
	Judi Dench ‡	Philomena	Philomena Lee
	Brie Larson	Short Term 12	Grace Howard
	Meryl Streep ‡	August: Osage County	Violet Weston
	Emma Thompson	Saving Mr. Banks	Pamela "P. L." Travers
2014	Julianne Moore †	Still Alice	Dr. Alice Daly-Howland
	Marion Cotillard ‡	Two Days, One Night	Sandra Bya
	Essie Davis	The Babadook	Amelia Vanek
	Felicity Jones ‡	The Theory of Everything	Jane Hawking
	Reese Witherspoon ‡	Wild	Cheryl Strayed
2015	Brie Larson †	Room	Joy "Ma" Newsome
	Cate Blanchett ‡	Carol	Carol Aird
	Emily Blunt	Sicario	Kate Macer
	Saoirse Ronan ‡	Brooklyn	Eilis Lacey
	Charlize Theron	Mad Max: Fury Road	Imperator Furiosa
2016	Natalie Portman ‡	Jackie	Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
	Amy Adams	Arrival	Dr. Louise Banks
	Rebecca Hall	Christine	Christine Chubbuck
	Isabelle Huppert ‡	Elle	Michèle Leblanc
	Emma Stone †	La La Land	Mia Dolan
2017	Sally Hawkins ‡	The Shape of Water	Elisa Esposito
	Frances McDormand †	Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri	Mildred Hayes
	Brooklynn Prince	The Florida Project	Moonee
	Margot Robbie ‡	I, Tonya	Tonya Harding
	Saoirse Ronan ‡	Lady Bird	Christine "Lady Bird" McPherson
2018	Toni Collette	Hereditary	Annie Graham
	Glenn Close ‡	The Wife	Joan Castleman
	Olivia Colman †	The Favourite	Queen Anne
	Lady Gaga ‡	A Star Is Born	Ally Maine
	Melissa McCarthy ‡	Can You Ever Forgive Me?	Lee Israel
2019	Renée Zellweger †	Judy	Judy Garland
	Awkwafina	The Farewell	Billi Wang
	Scarlett Johansson ‡	Marriage Story	Nicole Barber
	Lupita Nyong'o	Us	Adelaide Wilson / Red
	Saoirse Ronan ‡	Little Women	Jo March
	Charlize Theron ‡	Bombshell	Megyn Kelly

2020s

Year	Winner and nominees	Film	Role
2020	Carey Mulligan ‡	Promising Young Woman	Cassandra "Cassie" Thomas
	Viola Davis ‡	Ma Rainey's Black Bottom	Ma Rainey
	Sidney Flanigan	Never Rarely Sometimes Always	Autumn
	Vanessa Kirby ‡	Pieces of a Woman	Martha
	Frances McDormand †	Nomadland	Fern
2021	Jessica Chastain †	The Eyes of Tammy Faye	Tammy Faye Bakker
	Olivia Colman ‡	The Lost Daughter	Leda Caruso
	Penelope Cruz ‡	Parallel Mothers	Janis Martinez
	Alana Haim	Licorice Pizza	Alana Kane
	Emilia Jones	CODA	Ruby Rossi
	Kristen Stewart ‡	Spencer	Diana, Princess of Wales
2022	Cate Blanchett ‡	Tár	Lydia Tár
	Viola Davis	The Woman King	General Nanisca
	Danielle Deadwyler	Till	Mamie Till
	Emma Thompson	Good Luck to You, Leo Grande	Nancy Stokes / Susan Robinson
	Michelle Yeoh †	Everything Everywhere All at Once	Evelyn Wang
2023	Emma Stone †	Poor Things	Bella Baxter
	Fantasia Barrino	The Color Purple	Celie Harris-Johnson
	Lily Gladstone ‡	Killers of the Flower Moon	Mollie Kyle
	Greta Lee	Past Lives	Nora Moon
	Margot Robbie	Barbie	Barbie

External links

• Houston Film Critics Society official website