Film Awards

1992 Academy Awards - Actress in a Leading Role WinnerThe Silence of the LambsJodie FosterA young F.B.I. cadet must receive the help of an incarcerated and manipulative cannibal killer to help catch another serial killer, a madman who skins his victims.Amazon1992 Academy Awards - Actress in a Leading Role NomineesFor the BoysBette MidlerAmazonRambling RoseLaura DernAmazonThelma & LouiseGeena DavisAmazonThelma & LouiseSusan SarandonAmazon

1993 Academy Awards - Actress in a Leading Role WinnerHowards EndEmma ThompsonA businessman thwarts his wife's bequest of an estate to another woman.Amazon1993 Academy Awards - Actress in a Leading Role NomineesIndochineCatherine DeneuveAmazonLorenzo's OilSusan SarandonAmazonLove FieldMichelle PfeifferAmazonPassion FishMary McDonnellAmazon

1994 Academy Awards - Actress in a Leading Role WinnerThe PianoHolly HunterIn the mid-19th century, a mute woman is sent to New Zealand along with her young daughter and prized piano for an arranged marriage to a wealthy landowner, but is soon lusted after by a local worker on the plantation.Amazon1994 Academy Awards - Actress in a Leading Role NomineesShadowlandsDebra WingerAmazonSix Degrees of SeparationStockard ChanningAmazonThe Remains of the DayEmma ThompsonAmazonWhat's Love Got to Do with ItAngela BassettAmazon

1995 Academy Awards - Actress in a Leading Role WinnerBlue SkyJessica LangeJessica Lange stars in a period drama about a family moving to a military base, and she quickly becomes part of a cover-up involving nuclear bomb tests.Amazon1995 Academy Awards - Actress in a Leading Role NomineesLittle WomenWinona RyderAmazonNellJodie FosterAmazonThe ClientSusan SarandonAmazonTom & VivMiranda RichardsonAmazon

1996 Academy Awards - Actress in a Leading Role WinnerDead Man WalkingSusan SarandonA nun, while comforting a convicted killer on death row, empathizes with both the killer and his victim's families.Amazon1996 Academy Awards - Actress in a Leading Role NomineesCasinoSharon StoneAmazonLeaving Las VegasElisabeth ShueAmazonSense and SensibilityEmma ThompsonAmazonThe Bridges of Madison CountyMeryl StreepAmazon

1997 Academy Awards - Actress in a Leading Role WinnerFargoFrances McDormandJerry Lundegaard's inept crime falls apart due to his and his henchmen's bungling and the persistent police work of the quite pregnant Marge Gunderson.Amazon1997 Academy Awards - Actress in a Leading Role NomineesBreaking the WavesEmily WatsonAmazonMarvin's RoomDiane KeatonAmazonSecrets & LiesBrenda BlethynAmazonThe English PatientKristin Scott ThomasAmazon

1998 Academy Awards - Actress in a Leading Role WinnerAs Good as It GetsHelen HuntA single mother and waitress, a misanthropic author, and a gay artist form an unlikely friendship after the artist is assaulted in a robbery.Amazon1998 Academy Awards - Actress in a Leading Role NomineesAfterglowJulie ChristieAmazonMrs BrownJudi DenchAmazonThe Wings of the DoveHelena Bonham CarterAmazonTitanicKate WinsletAmazon

1999 Academy Awards - Actress in a Leading Role WinnerShakespeare in LoveGwyneth PaltrowThe world's greatest ever playwright, William Shakespeare, is young, out of ideas and short of cash, but meets his ideal woman and is inspired to write one of his most famous plays.Amazon1999 Academy Awards - Actress in a Leading Role NomineesCentral StationFernanda MontenegroAmazonElizabethCate BlanchettAmazonHilary and JackieEmily WatsonAmazonOne True ThingMeryl StreepAmazon

2000 Academy Awards - Actress in a Leading Role WinnerBoys Don't CryHilary SwankA young man named Brandon Teena navigates love, life, and being transgender in rural Nebraska.Amazon2000 Academy Awards - Actress in a Leading Role NomineesAmerican BeautyAnnette BeningAmazonMusic of the HeartMeryl StreepAmazonThe End of the AffairJulianne MooreAmazonTumbleweedsJanet McTeerAmazon

2001 Academy Awards - Actress in a Leading Role WinnerErin BrockovichJulia RobertsAn unemployed single mother becomes a legal assistant and almost single-handedly brings down a California power company accused of polluting a city's water supply.Amazon2001 Academy Awards - Actress in a Leading Role NomineesChocolatJuliette BinocheAmazonRequiem for a DreamEllen BurstynAmazonThe ContenderJoan AllenAmazonYou Can Count on MeLaura LinneyAmazon