Golden Space Needle Award – Best Actress

1998 Seattle International Film Festival - Golden Space Needle Award - Best Actress WinnerThe Opposite of SexChristina RicciA 16-year-old girl visits her gay half-brother and ends up seducing his boyfriend, thus wreaking havoc on all of their lives.Amazon

1999 Seattle International Film Festival - Golden Space Needle Award - Best Actress WinnerThe Mao GamePiper LaurieGrowing up neurotic in a Hollywood family.Amazon

2000 Seattle International Film Festival - Golden Space Needle Award - Best Actress WinnerVenus BeautyNathalie BayeEmployees of a beauty parlor in search of love and happiness.Amazon

2001 Seattle International Film Festival - Golden Space Needle Award - Best Actress WinnerGhost WorldThora BirchWith only the plan of moving in together after high school, two unusually devious friends seek direction in life. As a mere gag, they respond to a man's newspaper ad for a date, only to find it will greatly complicate their lives.Amazon

2002 Seattle International Film Festival - Golden Space Needle Award - Best Actress WinnerThe Piano TeacherIsabelle HuppertA young man romantically pursues his masochistic piano teacher.Amazon

2019 Seattle International Film Festival - Golden Space Needle Award - Best Actress WinnerSibelDamla Sönmez25-year-old Sibel lives with her father and sister in a secluded village in the mountains of Turkey's Black Sea region. Sibel is a mute, but she communicates by using the ancestral whistled...Amazon2019 Seattle International Film Festival - Golden Space Needle Award - Best Actress NomineesAliceEmilie PiponnierAmazonAuroraMimosa WillamoAmazonClemencyAlfre WoodardAmazonThe NightingaleAisling FranciosiAmazon

2004 Seattle International Film Festival - Golden Space Needle Award - Best Actress WinnerMaria Full of GraceCatalina Sandino MorenoA pregnant Colombian teenager becomes a drug mule to make some desperately needed money for her family.Amazon

2005 Seattle International Film Festival - Golden Space Needle Award - Best Actress WinnerYesJoan AllenIn this film, told almost entirely in iambic pentameter, She is a scientist in a loveless marriage to Anthony, a devious politician. He is a Lebanese doctor in self-imposed exile, working ...Amazon

2006 Seattle International Film Festival - Golden Space Needle Award - Best Actress WinnerL'icebergFiona GordonFiona, Julien and their two clone-like children live a life appropriate to the robots they have become, in a style-less, cheerless suburb somewhere in the flatlands of French-speaking ...Amazon2006 Seattle International Film Festival - Golden Space Needle Award - Best Actress NomineesSnow CakeSigourney WeaverAmazon

2007 Seattle International Film Festival - Golden Space Needle Award - Best Actress WinnerLa Vie En RoseMarion CotillardBiopic of the iconic French singer Édith Piaf. Raised by her grandmother in a brothel, she was discovered while singing on a street corner at the age of 19. Despite her success, Piaf's life was filled with tragedy.Amazon