1978 Cannes Film Festival – Best Actress Winner
![An Unmarried Woman Jill Clayburgh](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/an-unmarried-woman-paul-mazursky-image.jpg)
An Unmarried Woman
Jill Clayburgh
A wealthy woman from Manhattan’s Upper East Side struggles to deal with her new identity and her sexuality after her husband of sixteen years leaves her for a younger woman.
![Violette Isabelle Huppert](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/violette-claude-chabrol-image.jpg)
Violette
Isabelle Huppert
In an interwar France struggling with profound social and political change, 18-year-old Violette Noziere rebels against the constraints of her claustrophobic, working-class (and possibly incestuous) family, with troubling consequences.