Chlotrudis Award for Best Actress

The Chlotrudis Award for Best Actress is an award given by the Chlotrudis Society for Independent Film to the actress or actresses whose winning performance is voted by participating members. The Chlotrudis Awards is an annual ceremony where the best of the previous year's independent and international film are honored.

Winners and nominees

1990s

Year	Actress	Film	Role
1994
	Judy Davis	The New Age	Katherine Witner
		The Ref	Caroline Chasseur
	Linda Fiorentino	The Last Seduction	Bridget Gregory / Wendy Kroy
	Gong Li	To Live	Xu Jiazhen
	Julianne Moore	Vanya on 42nd Street	Yelena
	Winona Ryder	Little Women	Josephine 'Jo' March
	Kathleen Turner	Serial Mom	Beverly Sutphin
1995	Susan Sarandon	Dead Man Walking	Sister Helen Prejean
	Kathy Bates	Dolores Claiborne	Dolores Claiborne
	Nicole Kidman	To Die For	Suzanne Stone Maretto
	Julianne Moore	Safe	Carol White
	Elisabeth Shue	Leaving Las Vegas	Sera
	Emma Thompson	Sense and Sensibility	Elinor Dashwood
1996	Frances McDormand	Fargo	Marge Gunderson
	Brenda Blethyn	Secrets & Lies	Cynthia Rose Purley
	Linda Henry	Beautiful Thing	Sandra Gangel
	Catherine Keener	Walking and Talking	Amelia
	Heather Matarazzo	Welcome to the Dollhouse	Dawn Wiener
	Lili Taylor	I Shot Andy Warhol	Valerie Solanas
	Emily Watson	Breaking the Waves	Bess McNeill
1997
	Helena Bonham Carter	The Wings of the Dove	Kate Croy
		Margaret's Museum	Margaret MacNeil
	Judy Davis	Children of the Revolution	Joan
	Minnie Driver	Grosse Pointe Blank	Debi Newberry
	Alison Folland	All Over Me	Claude
	Helen Hunt	As Good as It Gets	Carol Connelly
	Sarah Polley	The Sweet Hereafter	Nicole Burnell
	Emma Thompson	The Winter Guest	Frances
1998	Cate Blanchett	Elizabeth	Queen Elizabeth I
	Drew Barrymore	Ever After	Danielle de Barbarac
		The Wedding Singer	Julia Sullivan
	Fernanda Montenegro	Central Station	Dora
	Christina Ricci	The Opposite of Sex	Dede Truitt
		Buffalo '66	Layla
	Ally Sheedy	High Art	Lucy Berliner
	Emily Watson	Hilary and Jackie	Jackie
1999	Hilary Swank	Boys Don't Cry	Brandon Teena
	Annette Bening	American Beauty	Carolyn Burnham
	Élodie Bouchez	The Dreamlife of Angels	Isabelle 'Isa' Tostin
	Julianne Moore	The End of the Affair	Sarah Miles
		An Ideal Husband	Mrs. Laura Cheveley
	Sandra Oh	Last Night	Sandra
	Rebecca Pidgeon	The Winslow Boy	Catherine Winslow
	Sarah Polley	Go	Ronna Martin
		Guinevere	Harper Sloane
	Franka Potente	Run Lola Run	Lola
	Reese Witherspoon	Election	Tracy Flick

2000s

Year	Actress	Film	Role
2000	Karine Vanasse	Set Me Free	Hanna
	Björk	Dancer in the Dark	Selma Ježková
	Ellen Burstyn	Requiem for a Dream	Sara Goldfarb
	Ayesha Dharker	The Terrorist	Malli
	Laura Linney	You Can Count on Me	Samantha 'Sammy' Prescott
	Michelle Rodriguez	Girlfight	Diana Guzman
	Cecilia Roth	All About My Mother	Manuela
	Michelle Yeoh	Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon	Yu Shu Lien
2001	Naomi Watts	Mulholland Dr.	Betty Elms / Diane Selwyn
	Gillian Anderson	The House of Mirth	Lily Bart
	Maggie Cheung	In the Mood for Love	Su Li-zhen / Mrs. Chan
	Lena Endre	Faithless	Marianne
	Franka Potente	The Princess and the Warrior	Simone 'Sissi' Schmidt
	Charlotte Rampling	Under the Sand	Marie Drillon
	Sissy Spacek	In the Bedroom	Ruth Fowler
	Tilda Swinton	The Deep End	Margaret Hall
2002	Isabelle Huppert	The Piano Teacher	Erika Kohut
	Jacqueline Bisset	The Sleepy Time Gal	Frances
	Emmanuelle Devos	Read My Lips	Carla Behm
	Maggie Gyllenhaal	Secretary	Lee Holloway
	Lena Headey	Aberdeen	Kaisa
	Catherine Keener	Lovely & Amazing	Michelle Marks
	Julianne Moore	Far from Heaven	Cathy Whitaker
	Maribel Verdú	Y Tu Mamá También	Luisa Cortés
2003	Sarah Polley	My Life Without Me	Ann
	Oksana Akinshina	Lilya 4-Ever	Lilya
	Keisha Castle-Hughes	Whale Rider	Paikea Apirana
	Zooey Deschanel	All the Real Girls	Noel
	Scarlett Johansson	Lost in Translation	Charlotte
	Frances McDormand	Laurel Canyon	Jane
	Samantha Morton	Morvern Callar	Morvern Callar
	Charlotte Rampling	Swimming Pool	Sarah Morton
2004	Imelda Staunton	Vera Drake	Vera Drake
	Sinitta Boonyasak	Last Life in the Universe	Noi
	Toni Collette	Japanese Story	Sandy Edwards
	Fatoumata Coulibaly	Moolaadé	Collé Gallo Ardo Sy
	Anne Reid	The Mother	May
	Isabella Rossellini	The Saddest Music in the World	Lady Port-Huntly
	Catalina Sandino Moreno	Maria Full of Grace	María Álvarez
2005	Marilou Berry	Look at Me	Lolita Cassard
	Emmanuelle Devos	Kings and Queen	Nora Cotterelle
	Kate Dollenmayer	Funny Ha Ha	Marnie
	Ronit Elkabetz	Or (My Treasure)	Ruthie
	Natalie Press	My Summer of Love	Mona
2006	Robin Wright Penn	Sorry, Haters	Phoebe
	Maggie Cheung	Clean	Emily Wang
	Laura Dern	Inland Empire	Nikki Grace / Susan Blue
	Shareeka Epps	Half Nelson	Drey
	Sandra Hüller	Requiem	Michaela Klingler
	Ellen Page	Hard Candy	Hayley Stark
2007	Kate Dickie	Red Road	Jackie Morrison
	Julie Christie	Away from Her	Fiona Anderson
	Mirjana Karanovic	Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams	Esma
	Ellen Page	Juno	Juno MacGuff
	Sarah Polley	The Secret Life of Words	Hanna
	Parker Posey	Fay Grim	Fay Grim
2008	Kristin Scott Thomas	I've Loved You So Long	Juliette Fontaine
	Sally Hawkins	Happy-Go-Lucky	Poppy Cross
	Lina Leandersson	Let the Right One In	Eli
	Anamaria Marinca	4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days	Otilia
	Michelle Williams	Wendy and Lucy	Wendy Carroll
2009	Gabourey Sidibe	Precious	Claireece 'Precious' Jones
	Abbie Cornish	Bright Star	Fanny Brawne
	Nisreen Faour	Amreeka	Muna Farah
	Charlotte Gainsbourg	Antichrist	She
	Yolande Moreau	Séraphine	Séraphine Louis
	Carey Mulligan	An Education	Jenny Mellor
	Catalina Saavedra	The Maid	Raquel

2010s

Year	Actress	Film	Role
2010	Kim Hye-ja	Mother	Mother
	Anne Dorval	I Killed My Mother	Chantale Lemming
	Katie Jarvis	Fish Tank	Mia Williams
	Jennifer Lawrence	Winter's Bone	Ree Dolly
	Paprika Steen	Applause	Thea Barfoed

External links

• Chlotrudis Society for Independent Film
• Chlotrudis Awards at IMDB