2012 Critics Choice Awards – Best Actress Winner
![The Help Viola Davis](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-help-tate-taylor-image.jpg)
The Help
Viola Davis
An aspiring author during the civil rights movement of the 1960s decides to write a book detailing the African American maids’ point of view on the white families for which they work, and the hardships they go through on a daily basis.
2012 Critics Choice Awards – Best Actress Nominees
![Martha Marcy May Marlene Elizabeth Olsen](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/martha-marcy-may-marlene-sean-durkin-image.jpg)
Martha Marcy May Marlene
Elizabeth Olsen
![My Week with Marilyn Michelle Williams](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/my-week-with-marilyn-simon-curtis-image.jpg)
My Week with Marilyn
Michelle Williams
![The Iron Lady Meryl Streep](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-iron-lady-phyllida-lloyd-image.jpg)
The Iron Lady
Meryl Streep
![We Need to Talk About Kevin Tilda Swinton](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/we-need-to-talk-about-kevin-lynne-ramsay-image.jpg)
We Need to Talk About Kevin
Tilda Swinton
![Young Adult Charlize Theron](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/young-adult-jason-reitman-image.jpg)