Best Actress

1988 National Board of Review - Best Actress WinnerThe AccusedJodie FosterAfter a young woman suffers a brutal gang rape in a bar one night, a prosecutor assists in bringing the perpetrators to justice, including the ones who encouraged and cheered on the attack.Amazon

2019 National Board of Review - Best Actress WinnerJudyRenée ZellwegerLegendary performer Judy Garland (Renée Zellweger) arrives in London in the winter of 1968 to perform a series of sold-out concerts.Amazon

1990 National Board of Review - Best Actress WinnerAliceMia FarrowA spoiled Manhattan housewife re-evaluates her life after visiting a Chinatown healer.Amazon

1991 National Board of Review - Best Actress WinnerThelma & LouiseSusan SarandonTwo best friends set out on an adventure, but it soon turns around to a terrifying escape from being hunted by the police, as these two girls escape for the crimes they committed.AmazonThelma & LouiseGeena DavisTwo best friends set out on an adventure, but it soon turns around to a terrifying escape from being hunted by the police, as these two girls escape for the crimes they committed.Amazon

1992 National Board of Review - Best Actress WinnerHowards EndEmma ThompsonA businessman thwarts his wife's bequest of an estate to another woman.Amazon

1993 National Board of Review - Best Actress WinnerThe PianoHolly HunterIn the mid-19th century, a mute woman is sent to New Zealand along with her young daughter and prized piano for an arranged marriage to a wealthy landowner, but is soon lusted after by a local worker on the plantation.Amazon

1994 National Board of Review - Best Actress WinnerTom & VivMiranda RichardsonIn 1915, T.S. (Tom) Eliot and Vivienne Haigh-Wood elope, but her longstanding gynecological and emotional problems disrupt their planned honeymoon. Her father is angry because Tom's poetry ...Amazon

1995 National Board of Review - Best Actress WinnerSense and SensibilityEmma ThompsonRich Mr. Dashwood dies, leaving his second wife and her three daughters poor by the rules of inheritance. The two eldest daughters are the titular opposites.Amazon

1996 National Board of Review - Best Actress WinnerFargoFrances McDormandJerry Lundegaard's inept crime falls apart due to his and his henchmen's bungling and the persistent police work of the quite pregnant Marge Gunderson.Amazon

1997 National Board of Review - 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 havAmazon