Pencho for Best Actress/Supporting Actress
by Pencho15 | created - 27 Aug 2015 | updated - 16 Jan 2023 | PublicWinners and nominees for my personal Pencho award in the Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress categories.
Actors by points, a win in best actress means 60 points, a nomination 20. A win in supporting actress means 40 points, a nomination 10. *means a win in actress ° a win in supporting actress:
Kate Winslet** (120)
Helen Mirren*° (110)
Cate Blanchett° (100)
Nicole Kidman* (100)
Natalie Portman* (90)
Meryl Streep° (80)
Viola Davis° (70)
Julianne Moore° (70)
Carey Mulligan* (70)
Hale Berry* (60)
Marion Cotillard* (60)
Leila Hatami* (60)
Sandra Hüller* (60)
Agata Kulesza* (60)
Laura Linney° (60)
Rooney Mara* (60)
Laia Marull* (60)
Frances McDormand° (60)
Ellen Page* (60)
Emmanuelle Riva* (60)
Emma Stone° (60)
Charlize Theron* (60)
Judy Dench (50)
Amy Adams° (40)
Shohreh Aghdashloo° (40)
Samantha Barks° (40)
Melissa Leo° (40)
Susanne Lothar° (40)
Janet McTeer° (40)
Lupita N'Yongo° (40)
Rachel Shelley° (40)
Maribel Verdú (40)
Isabelle Huppert (30)
Tilda Swinton (30)
Michelle Williams (30)
Renée Zellweger (30)
Hiam Abbass (20)
Norma Aleandro (20)
Lubna Azabal (20)
Maria Bello (20)
Annette Bening (20)
Monica Bleibtreu (20)
Abigail Breslin (20)
Keisha Castle-Hugues (20)
Jessica Chastain (20)
Glenn Close (20)
Jennifer Connelly (20)
Julia Louis-Dreyfuss (20)
Ronit Elkabetz (20)
Catherine Frot (20)
Anna Geislerová (20)
Greta Gerwig (20)
Scarlett Johansson (20)
Felicity Jones (20)
Brie Larson (20)
Jennifer Lawrence (20)
Bárbara Lennie (20)
Alison Lohman (20)
Greisy Mena (20)
Reham Mohammed (20)
Michelle Monaghan (20)
Samantha Morton (20)
Nora-Jane Noone (20)
Danny Perea (20)
Noomi Rapace (20)
Julia Roberts (20)
Saoirse Ronan (20)
Belén Rueda (20)
Keri Russell (20)
Stephanie Sigman (20)
Hailee Steinfield (20)
Hilary Swank (20)
Nancy Talamantes (20)
Audrey Tatou (20)
Agata Trzebuchowzka (20)
Alicia Vikander (20)
Soledad Villamil (20)
Emily Watson (20)
Naomi Watts (20)
Olivia Williams (20)
Reese Whiterspoon (20)
Evan Rachel Wood (20)
Jaroslava Adamová (10)
Adriana Barraza (10)
Sareh Bayat (10)
Bérénice Bejo (10)
Ingrid Bisu (10)
Helena Bonham Carter (10)
Julie Christie (10)
Patricia Clarkson (10)
Toni Collette (10)
Yaya DaCosta (10)
Mélissa Désourmeaux-Poulin (10)
Vera Farmiga (10)
Sally Field (10)
Fionnula Flanagan (10)
Jennifer Garner (10)
Maggie Gyllenhall (10)
Marcia Gay Harden (10)
Naomie Harris (10)
Anne Hathaway (10)
Taraji P. Henson (10)
Anna Kendrick (10)
Rinko Kikuchi (10)
Keira Knightley (10)
Lili Koshashvili (10)
Mila Kunis (10)
Kelly MacDonald (10)
Virginia Madsen (10)
Gugu Mbatah-Raw (20)
Rachel McAdams (10)
Geraldine McEwan (10)
Clementine Mellor (10)
Samantha Morton (10)
Sophie Okonedo (10)
Alicia Quiñones (10)
Kelly Reilly (10)
Érica Rivas (10)
Margot Robbie (10)
Rene Russo (10)
Amy Ryan (10)
Sonja Savic (10)
Kyra Sedgwick (10)
Adrienne Shelly (10)
Maggie Smith (10)
Octavia Spencer (10)
June Squibb (10)
Tabu (10)
Marisa Tomei (10)
Mia Wasikowska (10)
Catherine Zeta-Jones (10)
1. Sandra Hüller
Actress | Anatomie d'une chute
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2. Viola Davis
Actress | Fences
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Naomie Harris (Moonlight)
Gugu Mbatha-Raw (Free State of Jones)
Michelle Williams (Manchester by the Sea)
3. Rooney Mara
Actress | The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Actress and philanthropist Rooney Mara was born on April 17, 1985 in Bedford, New York. She made her screen debut in the slasher film Urban Legends: Bloody Mary (2005), went on to have a supporting role in the independent coming-of-age drama Tanner Hall (2009), and has since starred in the horror ...
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Nominees:
Cate Blanchett (Carol)
Brie Larson (Room)
Saoirse Ronan (Brooklyn)
Nancy Talamantes (Las elegidas)
4. Helen Mirren
Actress | The Queen
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Felicity Jones (True Story)
Rachel McAdams (Spotlight)
Alicia Quiñones (Las elegidas)
Tabu (Drishyam)
5. Marion Cotillard
Actress | La Môme
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Reham Mohammed (Ana Nojoom bent alasherah wamotalagah)
Julianne Moore (Still Alice)
Alicia Vikander (Ex Machina)
6. Emma Stone
Actress | La La Land
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Nominees:
Felicity Jones (The Theory of Everything)
Keira Knightley (The Imitation Game)
Érica Rivas (Relatos salvajes)
Rene Russo (Nightcrawler)
7. Agata Kulesza
Actress | Ida
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Best Actress in 2013 for Ida
Nominees:
Cate Blanchett (Blue Jasmine)
Judi Dench (Philomena)
Julia Louis-Dreyfuss (Enough Said)
Agata Trzebuchowzka (Ida)
8. Lupita Nyong'o
Actress | 12 Years a Slave
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Nominees:
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Margot Robbie (The Wolf of Wall Street)
June Squibb (Nebraska)
Mia Wasikowska (Only Lovers Left Alive)
9. Emmanuelle Riva
Actress | Hiroshima mon amour
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Best Actress in 2012 for Amour
Nominees:
Greta Gerwig (Frances Ha)
Jennifer Lawrence (Silver Linings)
Greisy Mena (La Vida Precoz y Breve de Sabina Rivas)
Maribel Verdú (Blancanieves)
10. Samantha Barks
Actress | Les Misérables
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Best Supporting Actress in 2012 for Les Miserables
Nominees:
Sally Field (Lincoln)
Anne Hathaway (Les Misèrables)
Isabelle Huppert (Amour)
Kelly Reilly (Flight)
11. Leila Hatami
Actress | Jodaeiye Nader az Simin
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Best Actress in 2011 for Jodaeiye Nader az Simin
Nominees:
Glenn Close (Albert Nobbs)
Viola Davis (The Help)
Stephanie Sigman (Miss Bala)
Tilda Swinton (We Need to Talk About Kevin)
12. Janet McTeer
Actress | Albert Nobbs
Janet McTeer was born on August 5, 1961 in Newcastle, England, UK to parents Jean and Allan McTeer. She was raised in York from the age of 6. She attended Queen Anne Grammar School for Girls, where there was not much opportunity for drama. She became interested in acting at age 16, when she saw "...
Best Supporting Actress in 2011 for Albert Nobbs
Nominees:
Sareh Bayat (Jodaeiye Nader az Simin)
Bérénice Bejo (The Artist)
Judy Dench (J. Edgar)
Marisa Tomei (The Ides of March)
13. Natalie Portman
Actress | Black Swan
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Best Actress in 2010 for Black Swan
Nominees:
Lubna Azabal (Incendies)
Annette Bening (The Kids Are All Right)
Hailee Steinfeld (True Grit)
Michelle Williams (Blue Valentine)
14. Melissa Leo
Actress | The Fighter
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Best Supporting Actress in 2010 for The Fighter
Nominees:
Helena Bonham Carter (The King's Speech)
Mélissa Désourmeaux-Poulin (Incendies)
Mila Kunis (Black Swan)
Olivia Williams (The Ghost Writer)
15. Carey Mulligan
Actress | Never Let Me Go
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Best Actress in 2009 for An Education
Nominees:
Samantha Morton (The Messenger)
Noomi Rapace (Män som hatar)
Soledad Villamil (El Secreto de sus Ojos)
Evan Rachel Wood (Whatever Works)
16. Susanne Lothar
Actress | Funny Games
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Best Supporting Actress in 2009 for Das weiße Band - Eine deutsche Kindergeschichte
Nominees:
Yaya DaCosta (The Messenger)
Vera Farmiga (Up in the Air)
Anna Kendrick (Up in the Air)
Olivia Williams (An Education)
17. Kate Winslet
Actress | Titanic
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Best Actress in 2008 for Revolutionary Road
Nominees:
Hiam Abbass (Etz Limon)
Cate Blanchett (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button)
Frances McDormand (Burn After Reading)
Meryl Streep (Doubt)
18. Amy Adams
Actress | Arrival
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Best Supporting Actress 2008 for Doubt
Nominees:
Viola Davis (Doubt)
Maggie Gyllenhaal (The Dark Knight)
Taraji P. Henson (The Curious Case if Benjamin Button)
Tilda Swinton (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button)
19. Elliot Page
Actor | Juno
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Best Actress in 2007 for Juno (era Ellen Page)
Nominees:
Michelle Monaghan (Gone Baby Gone)
Belén Rueda (El orfanato)
Keri Russell (Waitress)
Naomi Watts (Eastern Promises)
20. Cate Blanchett
Actress | Carol
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Best Supporting Actress in 2007 for I'm Not There.
Nominees:
Jennifer Garner (Juno)
Kelly McDonald (No Country for Old Men)
Amy Ryan (Gone Baby Gone)
Adrienne Shelly (Waitress)
21. Helen Mirren
Actress | The Queen
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Best Actress in 2006 for The Queen
Nominees:
Monica Bleibtreu (Vier Minuten)
Abigail Breslin (Little Miss Sunshine)
Catherine Frot (La tourneuse de pages)
Maribel Verdú (El laberinto del fauno)
22. Julianne Moore
Actress | Far from Heaven
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Best Supporting Actress in 2006 for Children of Men
Nominees:
Adriana Barraza (Babel)
Toni Collette (Little Miss Sunshine)
Rinko Kikuchi (Babel)
Clementine Mellor (2:37)
23. Charlize Theron
Producer | Monster
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Best Actress in 2005 for North Country
Nominees:
Maria Bello (A History of Violence)
Scarlett Johansson (Match Point)
Natalie Portman (V for Vendetta)
Reese Whiterspoon (Walk the Line)
24. Frances McDormand
Actress | Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Frances Louise McDormand was born on June 23, 1957, in Gibson City, Illinois. She was adopted by Canadian-born parents Noreen Eloise (Nickleson), a nurse from Ontario, and Rev. Vernon Weir McDormand, a Disciples of Christ minister from Nova Scotia, who raised her in the suburbs of Pittsburgh. She ...
Best Supporting Actress in 2005 for North Country
Nominees:
Laura Linney (The Squid and the Whale) Samantha Morton (Lassie)
Sonja Savic (Odgrobadogroba)
Renée Zellweger (Cinderella Man)
25. Kate Winslet
Actress | Titanic
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Best Actress in 2004 for Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Nominees:
Judy Dench (Ladies in Lavender)
Danny Perea (Temporada de patos)
Julia Roberts (Closer)
Hilary Swank (Million Dollar Baby)
26. Laura Linney
Actress | The Big C
Laura Leggett Linney was born in New York City on February 5, 1964, into a theatre family. Her father was prominent playwright Romulus Linney, whose own great-grandfather was a congressman from North Carolina. Her mother, Miriam Anderson (Leggett), is a nurse. Although she did not live in her ...
Best Supporting Actress in 2004 for Kinsey
Nominees:
Julie Christie (Finding Neverland)
Virginia Madsen (Sideways)
Sophie Okonedo (Hotel Rwanda)
Natalie Portman (Closer)
27. Laia Marull
Actress | Te doy mis ojos
Laia Marull was born on January 4, 1973 in Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. She is an actress, known for Take My Eyes (2003), Fugitivas (2000) and La Xirgu (2015).
Best Actress in 2003 for Te doy mis ojos
Nominees:
Jennifer Connelly (House of Sand and Fog)
Anna Geislerová (Želary)
Nicole Kidman (Dogville)
Alison Lohman (Matchstick Men)
28. Shohreh Aghdashloo
Actress | House of Sand and Fog
Shohreh Aghdashloo was born Shohreh Vaziri-Tabar on May 11, 1952 in Tehran, Iran. In the 1970s at age 20, she achieved nationwide stardom in her homeland of Iran, starring in some prominent pictures such as The Report (1977) directed by the renowned Abbas Kiarostami, which won critics awards at the...
Best Supporting Actress in 2003 for House of Sand and Fog
Nominees:
Jaroslava Adamová (Želary)
Patricia Clarkson (Pieces of April)
Marcia Gay Harden (Mystic River)
Laura Linney (Mystic River)
29. Nicole Kidman
Actress | Moulin Rouge!
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Best Actress in 2002 for The Hours
Nominees:
Keisha Castle-Hughes (Whale Rider)
Nora-Jane Noone (The Magdalene Sisters)
Emily Watson (Punch-Drunk Love)
Renée Zellweger (Chicago)
30. Meryl Streep
Actress | Out of Africa
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Best Supporting Actress 2002 for Adaptation.
Nominees:
Geraldine McEwan (The Magdalene Sisters)
Juliane Moore (The Hours)
Kyra Sedgwick (Personal Velocity: Three Portraits)
Catherine Zeta-Jones (Chicago)
31. Halle Berry
Actress | Catwoman
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Best Actress 2001 for Monster's Ball
Nominees:
Norma Aleandro (El hijo de la novia)
Ronit Elkabetz (Hatuna Meuheret)
Nicole Kidman (Moulin Rouge!)
Audrey Tautou (Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain)
32. Rachel Shelley
Actress | Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India
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Best Supporting Actress 2001 for Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India
Nominees:
Fionnula Flanagan (The Others)
Lili Koshashvili (Hatuna Meuheret)
Helen Mirren (Gosford Park)
Maggie Smith (Gosford Park)
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