St. Louis Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress

The St. Louis Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress is one of the annual awards given by the St. Louis Film Critics Association.

St. Louis Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress
Current recipient: Jessie Buckley
Awarded for	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role
Country	United States
Presented by	St. Louis Film Critics Association
First award	Hilary Swank Million Dollar Baby (2004)
Currently held by	Jessie Buckley Hamnet (2025)
Website	stlfilmcritics.org

Winners

• † – indicates the performance also won the Academy Award for Best Actress
• ‡ – indicates the performance was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress

2000s

Year	Nominee	Film	Role
2004	Hilary Swank †	Million Dollar Baby	Maggie Fitzgerald
2005	Judi Dench ‡	Mrs. Henderson Presents	Laura Henderson
2006	Helen Mirren †	The Queen	Queen Elizabeth II
2007	Elliot Page ‡	Juno	Juno MacGuff
2008	Kate Winslet †	The Reader	Hanna Schmitz
2009	Carey Mulligan ‡	An Education	Jenny Mellor

2010s

Year	Nominee	Film	Role
2010	Natalie Portman †	Black Swan	Nina Sayers
	Nicole Kidman ‡	Rabbit Hole	Rebecca "Becca" Corbett
	Jennifer Lawrence ‡	Winter's Bone	Ree
	Noomi Rapace	The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo	Lisbeth Salander
	Naomi Watts	Fair Game	Valerie Plame
2011	Rooney Mara ‡	The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo	Lisbeth Salander
	Viola Davis ‡	The Help	Aibileen Clarke
	Elizabeth Olsen	Martha Marcy May Marlene	Martha
	Saoirse Ronan	Hanna	Hanna
	Meryl Streep †	The Iron Lady	Margaret Thatcher
	Michelle Williams ‡	My Week with Marilyn	Marilyn Monroe
2012	Jessica Chastain ‡	Zero Dark Thirty	Maya Harris
	Jennifer Lawrence †	Silver Linings Playbook	Tiffany Maxwell
	Helen Mirren	Hitchcock	Alma Reville
	Aubrey Plaza	Safety Not Guaranteed	Darius Britt
	Quvenzhané Wallis ‡	Beasts of the Southern Wild	Hushpuppy
2013	Cate Blanchett †	Blue Jasmine	Jeanette "Jasmine" Francis
	Amy Adams ‡	American Hustle	Sydney Prosser / Lady Edith Greensly
	Sandra Bullock ‡	Gravity	Dr. Ryan Stone
	Judi Dench ‡	Philomena	Philomena Lee
	Meryl Streep ‡	August: Osage County	Violet Weston
	Emma Thompson	Saving Mr. Banks	P. L. Travers
2014	Rosamund Pike ‡	Gone Girl	Amy Elliot Dunne
	Marion Cotillard ‡	Two Days, One Night	Sandra Bya
	Felicity Jones ‡	The Theory of Everything	Jane Hawking
	Julianne Moore †	Still Alice	Alice Daly Howland
	Reese Witherspoon ‡	Wild	Cheryl Strayed
2015	Brie Larson †	Room	Joy "Ma" Newsome
	Cate Blanchett ‡	Carol	Carol Aird
	Saoirse Ronan ‡	Brooklyn	Eilis Lacey
	Charlize Theron	Mad Max: Fury Road	Imperator Furiosa
	Alicia Vikander	The Danish Girl	Gerda Wegener
2016	Isabelle Huppert ‡	Elle	Michèle Leblanc
	Amy Adams	Arrival	Louise Banks
	Ruth Negga ‡	Loving	Mildred Delores Loving
	Natalie Portman ‡	Jackie	Jackie Kennedy
	Emma Stone †	La La Land	Mia Dolan
2017	Frances McDormand †	Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri	Mildred Hayes
	Sally Hawkins ‡	The Shape of Water	Elisa Esposito
	Saoirse Ronan ‡	Lady Bird	Christine "Lady Bird" McPherson
	Kristen Stewart	Personal Shopper	Maureen Cartwright
	Meryl Streep ‡	The Post	Katharine Graham
2018	Toni Collette	Hereditary	Annie Graham
	Glenn Close ‡	The Wife	Joan Castleman
	Olivia Colman †	The Favourite	Queen Anne
	Lady Gaga ‡	A Star is Born	Ally Maine
	Charlize Theron	Tully	Marlo Moreau
2019	Scarlett Johansson ‡	Marriage Story	Nicole Barber
	Cynthia Erivo ‡	Harriet	Harriet Tubman
	Saoirse Ronan ‡	Little Women	Josephine "Jo" March
	Charlize Theron ‡	Bombshell	Megyn Kelly
	Renée Zellweger †	Judy	Judy Garland

2020s

Year	Nominee	Film	Role
2020	Carey Mulligan ‡	Promising Young Woman	Cassandra
	Jessie Buckley	I'm Thinking of Ending Things	Young Woman
	Viola Davis ‡	Ma Rainey's Black Bottom	Ma Rainey
	Vanessa Kirby ‡	Pieces of a Woman	Martha Weiss
	Frances McDormand †	Nomadland	Fern
2021	Kristen Stewart ‡	Spencer	Diana, Princess of Wales
	Jessica Chastain †	The Eyes of Tammy Faye	Tammy Faye Baker
	Olivia Colman ‡	The Lost Daughter	Leda Caruso
	Lady Gaga	House of Gucci	Patrizia Reggiani
	Nicole Kidman ‡	Being the Ricardos	Lucille Ball
2022	Michelle Yeoh †	Everything Everywhere All at Once	Evelyn Wang
	Cate Blanchett ‡	Tár	Lydia Tár
	Danielle Deadwyler	Till	Mamie Till
	Mia Goth	Pearl	Pearl
	Emma Thompson	Good Luck to You, Leo Grande	Nancy Stokes / Susan Robinson
	Michelle Williams ‡	The Fabelmans	Mitzi Fabelman
2023
	Lily Gladstone ‡	Killers of the Flower Moon	Mollie Kyle
	Greta Lee	Past Lives	Nora Moon
	Natalie Portman	May December	Elizabeth Berry
	Margot Robbie	Barbie	Barbie
	Emma Stone †	Poor Things	Bella Baxter
2024	Mikey Madison †	Anora	Anora "Ani" Mikheeva
	Pamela Anderson	The Last Showgirl	Shelly
	Cynthia Erivo ‡	Wicked	Elphaba Thropp
	Marianne Jean-Baptiste	Hard Truths	Pansey
	Demi Moore ‡	The Substance	Elisabeth Sparkle
	Saoirse Ronan	The Outrun	Rona
2025	Jessie Buckley †	Hamnet	Agnes Shakespeare
	Rose Byrne ‡	If I Had Legs I'd Kick You	Linda
	Chase Infiniti	One Battle After Another	Willa Ferguson
	Amanda Seyfried	The Testament of Ann Lee	Ann Lee
	Emma Stone ‡	Bugonia	Michelle Fuller