Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role

The Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role in a Motion Picture is an award given by the Screen Actors Guild to honor the finest acting achievements in film.

Winners and nominees

Legend:
:

1990s

2000s

2010s

2020s

Superlatives

Multiple winners

;2 wins
* Viola Davis (''The Help'' (2011), ''Ma Rainey's Black Bottom'' (2020))
* Frances McDormand (''Fargo'' (1996), ''Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri'' (2017))
* Renée Zellweger (''Chicago'' (2002), ''Judy'' (2019))

Multiple nominees

Note: Winners are indicated in bold type.

;Two nominations
* Amy Adams (''Arrival'' (2016), ''Hillbilly Elegy'' (2020))
* Joan Allen (''Nixon'' (1995), ''The Contender'' (2000))
* Emily Blunt (''The Girl On The Train'' (2016), ''Mary Poppins Returns'' (2018))
* Sandra Bullock (''The Blind Side'' (2009), ''Gravity'' (2013))
* Jessica Chastain (''Zero Dark Thirty'' (2012), ''The Eyes of Tammy Faye'' (2021))
* Glenn Close (''Albert Nobbs'' (2011), ''The Wife'' (2018))
* Olivia Colman (''The Favourite'' (2018), ''The Lost Daughter'' (2021))
* Marion Cotillard (''La Vie en Rose'' (2007), ''Rust and Bone'' (2012))
* Viola Davis (''The Help'' (2011), ''Ma Rainey's Black Bottom'' (2020))
* Lady Gaga (''A Star is Born'' (2018), ''House of Gucci'' (2021))
* Angelina Jolie (''A Mighty Heart'' (2007), ''Changeling'' (2008))
* Diane Keaton (''Marvin's Room'' (1996), ''Something's Gotta Give'' (2003))
* Jennifer Lawrence (''Winter's Bone'' (2010), ''Silver Linings Playbook'' (2012))
* Carey Mulligan (''An Education'' (2009), ''Promising Young Woman'' (2020))
* Natalie Portman (''Black Swan'' (2010), ''Jackie'' (2016))
* Saoirse Ronan (''Brooklyn'' (2015), ''Lady Bird'' (2017))
* Susan Sarandon (''The Client'' (1994), ''Dead Man Walking'' (1995))
* Emma Thompson (''Sense and Sensibility'' (1995), ''Saving Mr. Banks'' (2013))
* Naomi Watts (''21 Grams'' (2003), ''The Impossible'' (2012))
* Reese Witherspoon (''Walk the Line'' (2005), ''Wild'' (2014))

;Three nominations
* Annette Bening (''American Beauty'' (1999), ''Being Julia'' (2004), ''The Kids Are All Right'' (2010))
* Nicole Kidman (''The Hours'' (2002), ''Rabbit Hole'' (2010), ''Being the Ricardos'' (2021))
* Frances McDormand (''Fargo'' (1996), ''Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri'' (2017), ''Nomadland'' (2020))
* Julianne Moore (''The End of the Affair'' (1999), ''Far from Heaven'' (2002), ''Still Alice'' (2014))
* Hilary Swank (''Boys Don't Cry'' (1999), ''Million Dollar Baby'' (2004), ''Conviction'' (2010))
* Charlize Theron (''Monster'' (2003), ''North Country'' (2005), ''Bombshell'' (2019))
* Renée Zellweger (''Bridget Jones's Diary'' (2001), ''Chicago'' (2002), ''Judy'' (2019))

;Four nominations
* Cate Blanchett (''Elizabeth'' (1998), ''Elizabeth: The Golden Age'' (2007), ''Blue Jasmine'' (2013), ''Carol'' (2015))
* Helen Mirren (''The Queen'' (2006), ''The Last Station'' (2009), ''Hitchcock'' (2012), ''Woman in Gold'' (2015))
* Kate Winslet (''Titanic'' (1997), ''Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind'' (2004), ''Little Children'' (2006), ''Revolutionary Road'' (2008))

;Six nominations
* Judi Dench (''Mrs Brown'' (1997), ''Iris'' (2001), ''Mrs Henderson Presents'' (2005), ''Notes on a Scandal'' (2006), ''Philomena'' (2013), ''Victoria & Abdul'' (2017))

;Ten nominations
* Meryl Streep (''The River Wild'' (1994), ''The Bridges of Madison County'' (1995), ''One True Thing'' (1998), ''Music of the Heart'' (1999), ''The Devil Wears Prada'' (2006), ''Doubt'' (2008), ''Julie & Julia'' (2009), ''The Iron Lady'' (2011), ''August: Osage County'' (2013), ''Florence Foster Jenkins'' (2016))

See also

* Academy Award for Best Actress
* BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role
* Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Actress
* Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead
* Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
* Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical

External links

SAG Awards official site

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Female Actor Leading Role

Film awards for lead actress