BEST ACTRESS AWARD (CANNES FILM FESTIVAL)

The 'Best Actress Award' (French: ''Prix d'interprétation féminine'') is an award presented at the Cannes Film Festival. It is chosen by the jury from the 'official section' of movies at the festival. It was first awarded in 1946.

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Award Winners

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Award Winners

Year	Film	Actress
1946	'''La symphonie pastorale'''	Michèle Morgan
1947	no award this year
1948	festival not held
1949	'''The Walls of Malapaga'''	Isa Miranda
1950	festival not held
1951	'''All About Eve'''	Bette Davis
1952	'''Detective Story'''	Lee Grant
1953	'''Come Back, Little Sheba'''	Shirley Booth
1954	no award these years
1955	'''Bolshaya Semya'''	Whole cast[1]
1956	'''I'll Cry Tomorrow'''	Susan Hayward[2]
1957	'''Nights of Cabiria'''	Giulietta Masina
1958	'''Brink of Life'''	Bibi Andersson, Eva Dahlbeck, Barbro Hiort af Ornäs and Ingrid Thulin
1959	'''Room at the Top'''	Simone Signoret
1960	'''Never on Sunday'''	Melina Mercouri
	'''Moderato Cantabile'''	Jeanne Moreau
1961	'''Two Women'''	Sophia Loren
1962	'''Long Day's Journey into Night'''	Katharine Hepburn
1963	'''La donna scimmia '''	Marina Vlady
1964	'''The Pumpkin Eater'''	Anne Bancroft
	'''One Potato, Two Potato'''	Barbara Barrie
1965	'''The Collector'''	Samantha Eggar
1966	'''Morgan!'''	Vanessa Redgrave
1967	'''Elvira Madigan'''	Pia Degermark
1968	festival not held
1969	'''Isadora'''	Vanessa Redgrave
1970	'''Metello'''	Ottavia Piccolo
1971	'''The Panic in Needle Park'''	Kitty Winn
1972	'''Images'''	Susannah York
1973	'''The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds'''	Joanne Woodward
1974	'''Les violons du bal'''	Marie-José Nat
1975	'''Lenny'''	Valérie Perrine
1976	'''L'eredità Ferramonti'''	Dominique Sanda
	'''Déryné hol van?'''	Mari Törocsik
1977	'''3 Women'''	Shelley Duvall
	'''J.A. Martin photographe'''	Monique Mercure
1978	'''An Unmarried Woman'''	Jill Clayburgh
	'''Violette Nozière'''	Isabelle Huppert
1979	'''Norma Rae'''	Sally Field
1980	'''A Leap in the Dark'''	Anouk Aimée
1981	'''Quartet'''	Isabelle Adjani
	'''Possession'''
1982	'''Another Way'''	Jadwiga Jankowska-Cieslak
1983	'''Storia di Piera'''	Hanna Schygulla
1984	'''Cal'''	Helen Mirren
1985	'''The Official Story'''	Norma Aleandro
	'''Mask'''	Cher
1986	'''Rosa Luxemburg'''	Barbara Sukowa
	'''Eu Sei Que Vou Te Amar'''	Fernanda Torres
1987	'''Shy People'''	Barbara Hershey
1988	'''A World Apart'''	Barbara Hershey, Jodhi May and Linda Mvusi
1989	'''A Cry in the Dark'''	Meryl Streep
1990	'''Przesluchanie'''	Krystyna Janda
1991	'''The Double Life of Véronique'''	Irène Jacob
1992	'''The Best Intentions'''	Pernilla August
1993	'''The Piano'''	Holly Hunter
1994	'''La Reine Margot'''	Virna Lisi
1995	'''The Madness of King George'''	Helen Mirren
1996	'''Secrets & Lies'''	Brenda Blethyn
1997	'''Nil by Mouth'''	Kathy Burke
1998	'''The Dreamlife of Angels'''	Élodie Bouchez and Natacha Régnier
1999	'''Humanité'''	Séverine Caneele
	'''Rosetta'''	Émilie Dequenne
2000	'''Dancer in the Dark'''	Björk
2001	'''The Piano Teacher'''	Isabelle Huppert
2002	'''The Man Without a Past'''	Kati Outinen
2003	'''The Barbarian Invasions'''	Marie-Josée Croze
2004	'''Clean'''	Maggie Cheung
2005	'''Free Zone'''	Hanna Laslo
2006	'''Volver'''	Penélope Cruz, Carmen Maura, Lola Dueñas, Chus Lampreave, Blanca Portillo and Yohana Cobo
2007	'''Secret Sunshine'''	Jeon Do-yeon

Notes

1. This year the award was changed to ''Prix d'Interprétation'' (Acting Award), without gender differentiation. The entire male and female cast of Bolshaya Semya was recipient of this award (As well as Spencer Tracy for ''Bad Day at Bad Rock'').
2. This year the award was changed to ''Prix d'Interprétation'' (Acting Award), without gender differentiation.

External links

★ Cannes Film Festival official website

★ Cannes Film Festival at IMDb.