Film Awards By Year

1995 LAFCA Award - Best Actress WinnerLeaving Las VegasElisabeth ShueBen Sanderson, a Hollywood screenwriter who lost everything because of his alcoholism, arrives in Las Vegas to drink himself to death. There, he meets and forms an uneasy friendship and non-interference pact with prostitute Sera..Amazon1995 LAFCA Award - Best Actress NomineesGeorgiaJennifer Jason LeighAmazon

1996 LAFCA Award - Best Actress WinnerSecrets & LiesBrenda BlethynA successful black woman discovers that her birth mother is an underprivileged white woman, but the woman denies it. As emotions run high, everyone's secrets are exposed.Amazon1996 LAFCA Award - Best Actress NomineesFargoFrances McDormandAmazon

1997 LAFCA Award - Best Actress WinnerThe Wings of the DoveHelena Bonham CarterAn impoverished woman who has been forced to choose between a privileged life with her wealthy aunt and her journalist lover, befriends an American heiress. When she discovers the heiress is attracted to her own lover and is dying, she sees a chance to havAmazon1997 LAFCA Award - Best Actress NomineesAs Good as It GetsHelen HuntAmazon

1998 LAFCA Award - Best Actress WinnerCentral StationFernanda MontenegroAn emotive journey of a former school teacher, who writes letters for illiterate people, and a young boy, whose mother has just died, as they search for the father he never knew.AmazonHigh ArtAlly SheedyA young female intern at a small magazine company becomes involved with a drug-addicted lesbian photographer, both of whom seek to exploit each other for their respective careers, while slowly falling in love with each other.Amazon

1999 LAFCA Award - Best Actress WinnerBoys Don't CryHilary SwankA young man named Brandon Teena navigates love, life, and being transgender in rural Nebraska.Amazon1999 LAFCA Award - Best Actress NomineesElectionReese WitherspoonAmazon

2000 LAFCA Award - Best Actress WinnerErin BrockovichJulia RobertsAn unemployed single mother becomes a legal assistant and almost single-handedly brings down a California power company accused of polluting a city's water supply.Amazon2000 LAFCA Award - Best Actress NomineesYou Can Count on MeLaura LinneyAmazon

2001 LAFCA Award - Best Actress WinnerIn the BedroomSissy SpacekA New England couple's college-aged son dates an older woman who has two small children and an unwelcome ex-husband.Amazon2001 LAFCA Award - Best Actress NomineesMulholland DriveNaomi WattsAmazon

2002 LAFCA Award - Best Actress WinnerFar from HeavenJulianne MooreIn 1950s Connecticut, a housewife faces a marital crisis and mounting racial tensions in the outside world.Amazon2002 LAFCA Award - Best Actress NomineesThe Piano TeacherIsabelle HuppertAmazon

2003 LAFCA Award - Best Actress Winner21 GramsNaomi WattsA freak accident brings together a critically ill mathematician, a grieving mother, and a born-again ex-con.Amazon2003 LAFCA Award - Best Actress NomineesMonsterCharlize TheronAmazon

2004 LAFCA Award - Best Actress WinnerVera DrakeImelda StauntonAbortionist Vera Drake finds her beliefs and practices clash with the mores of 1950s Britain--a conflict that leads to tragedy for her family.Amazon2004 LAFCA Award - Best Actress NomineesBefore SunsetJulie DelpyAmazon