BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role

Bafta Award for Best Actress
Awarded for	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role
Location	United Kingdom
Presented by	British Academy of Film and Television Arts
Currently held by	Brie Larson for Room (2015)
Official website	http://www.bafta.org/

Best Actress in a Leading Role is a British Academy Film Award presented annually by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts to recognize an actress who has delivered an outstanding leading performance in a film.

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

Note: Between 1964–1973, several actresses were nominated for multiple performances in a single year, these each count as one nomination.Scarlett Johansson's two mentions in 2003 count as two separate nominations. The two mentions received by Kate Winslet in both 2004 and 2008, count as two separate nominations each time.

Note: The 2013 ceremony was the first time in the history of BAFTA that two French actress were nominated for French-language performances in the Best Leading Actress category. Marion Cotillard for Rust and Bone and Emmanuelle Riva for Amour.

Note: Meryl Streep and Judi Dench both tie for the record of a total of 15 BAFTA film nominations, with Streep having 12 Best Actress nominations and 3 Best Supporting Actress nkminations. Dench has 9 Best Actress nominations and 4 Best Supporting Actress nominations. Dench's 15th nomination is for Best Newcomer in 1966 (which she won). This gives her 6 BAFTA film wins. In addition, she has won 4 BAFTA television awards (from 12 nominations). In total she has received 27 BAFTA film & TV nominations with 10 wins. Dench also received an honorary BAFTA, the BAFTA Fellowship, in 2001.

Note: Maggie Smith has a total of 13 BAFTA film nominations, for Best Actress (8), Best Supporting Actress (4) and Best Newcomer (1), winning 5. She also has 5 BAFTA television nominations. This gives her a total of 18 BAFTA film & TV nominations. In addition, Smith has received two honorary awards, the BAFTA special award (1993) and the BAFTA Fellowship (1996).

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