Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress

The Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress is one of the annual awards given by the Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association.

Winners

2000s

Year	Nominee	Film	Role
2002	Julianne Moore	Far from Heaven	Cathy Whitaker
2003	Naomi Watts	21 Grams	Cristina Peck
	Cate Blanchett	Veronica Guerin	Veronica Guerin
	Keisha Castle-Hughes	Whale Rider	Paikea Apirana
	Diane Keaton	Something's Gotta Give	Erica Barry
	Evan Rachel Wood	Thirteen	Tracy Louise Freeland
2004	Imelda Staunton	Vera Drake	Vera Drake
2005	Reese Witherspoon	Walk the Line	June Carter Cash
	Joan Allen	The Upside of Anger	Terry Wolfmeyer
	Felicity Huffman	Transamerica	Sabrina “Bree” Osbourne
	Keira Knightley	Pride & Prejudice	Elizabeth Bennet
	Charlize Theron	North Country	Josey Aimes
2006	Helen Mirren	The Queen	Elizabeth II
2007	Julie Christie	Away from Her	Fiona Anderson
2008	Meryl Streep	Doubt	Sister Aloysius Beauvier
2009	Carey Mulligan	An Education	Jenny Miller
	Sandra Bullock	The Blind Side	Leigh Anne Tuohy
	Maya Rudolph	Away We Go	Verona De Tessant
	Gabourey Sidibe	Precious	Claireece “Precious” Jones
	Meryl Streep	Julie & Julia	Julia Child

2010s

Year	Nominee	Film	Role
2010	Jennifer Lawrence	Winter's Bone	Ree Dolly
	Annette Bening	The Kids Are All Right	Dr. Nicole “Nic” Allgood
	Anne Hathaway	Love and Other Drugs	Maggie Murdock
	Nicole Kidman	Rabbit Hole	Becca Corbett
	Natalie Portman	Black Swan	Nina Sayers
2011	Michelle Williams	My Week with Marilyn	Marilyn Monroe
	Viola Davis	The Help	Aibileen Clark
	Elizabeth Olsen	Martha Marcy May Marlene	Martha
	Meryl Streep	The Iron Lady	Margaret Thatcher
	Tilda Swinton	We Need to Talk About Kevin	Eva Khatchadourian
2012	Jessica Chastain	Zero Dark Thirty	Maya
	Marion Cotillard	Rust and Bone	Stéphanie
	Jennifer Lawrence	Silver Linings Playbook	Tiffany Maxwell
	Helen Mirren	Hitchcock	Alma Reville
	Emmanuelle Riva	Amour	Anne Laurent
2013	Cate Blanchett	Blue Jasmine	Jeanette “Jasmine” Francis
	Sandra Bullock	Gravity	Dr. Ryan Stone
	Meryl Streep	August: Osage County	Violet Weston
	Judi Dench	Philomena	Philomena Lee
	Emma Thompson	Saving Mr. Banks	P. L. Travers
2014	Julianne Moore	Still Alice	Dr. Alice Howland
	Scarlett Johansson	Under the Skin	The Female
	Felicity Jones	The Theory of Everything	Jane Hawking
	Rosamund Pike	Gone Girl	Amy Elliott-Dunne
	Reese Witherspoon	Wild	Cheryl Strayed
2015	Saoirse Ronan	Brooklyn	Eilis Lacey
	Cate Blanchett	Carol	Carol Aird
	Brie Larson	Room	Joy “Ma” Newsome
	Sarah Silverman	I Smile Back	Laney Brooks
	Charlize Theron	Mad Max: Fury Road	Imperator Furiosa
2016	Natalie Portman	Jackie	Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
	Amy Adams	Arrival	Dr. Louise Banks
	Annette Bening	20th Century Women	Dorothea Fields
	Ruth Negga	Loving	Mildred Loving
	Emma Stone	La La Land	Mia Dolan