Best Actress

2008 LAFCA Award - Best Actress WinnerHappy-Go-LuckySally HawkinsA look at a few chapters in the life of Poppy, a cheery, colorful, North London schoolteacher whose optimism tends to exasperate those around her.Amazon2008 LAFCA Award - Best Actress NomineesFrozen RiverMelissa LeoAmazon

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

2011 LAFCA Award - Best Actress WinnerPoetryJeong-hie YunA sixty-something woman, faced with the discovery of a heinous family crime and in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease, finds strength and purpose when she enrolls in a poetry class.Amazon2011 LAFCA Award - Best Actress NomineesMelancholiaKirsten DunstAmazon

2012 LAFCA Award - Best Actress WinnerAmourEmmanuelle RivaGeorges and Anne are an octogenarian couple. They are cultivated, retired music teachers. Their daughter, also a musician, lives in Britain with her family. One day, Anne has a stroke, and the couple's bond of love is severely tested.AmazonSilver Linings PlaybookJennifer LawrenceAfter a stint in a mental institution, former teacher Pat Solitano moves back in with his parents and tries to reconcile with his ex-wife. Things get more challenging when Pat meets Tiffany, a mysterious girl with problems of her own.Amazon

2013 LAFCA Award - Best Actress WinnerBlue Is the Warmest ColorAdèle ExarchopoulosAdèle's life is changed when she meets Emma, a young woman with blue hair, who will allow her to discover desire and to assert herself as a woman and as an adult. In front of others, Adèle grows, seeks herself, loses herself, and ultimately finds herself tAmazonBlue JasmineCate BlanchettA New York socialite, deeply troubled and in denial, arrives in San Francisco to impose upon her sister. She looks a million, but isn't bringing money, peace, or love...Amazon

2014 LAFCA Award - Best Actress WinnerBoyhoodPatricia ArquetteThe life of Mason, from early childhood to his arrival at college.Amazon2014 LAFCA Award - Best Actress NomineesStill AliceJulianne MooreAmazon

2015 LAFCA Award - Best Actress Winner45 YearsCharlotte RamplingA married couple preparing to celebrate their wedding anniversary receives shattering news that promises to forever change the course of their lives.Amazon2015 LAFCA Award - Best Actress NomineesBrooklynSaoirse RonanAmazon

2016 LAFCA Award - Best Actress WinnerElleIsabelle HuppertA successful businesswoman gets caught up in a game of cat and mouse as she tracks down the unknown man who raped her.Amazon2016 LAFCA Award - Best Actress NomineesChristineRebecca HallAmazon

2017 LAFCA Award - Best Actress WinnerThe Shape of WaterSally HawkinsAt a top secret research facility in the 1960s, a lonely janitor forms a unique relationship with an amphibious creature that is being held in captivity.Amazon2017 LAFCA Award - Best Actress NomineesThree Billboards Outside Ebbing, MissouriFrances McDormandAmazon