Best Female Lead movies that are award winners or nominees

Actors : Leo Rossi, Bruce Barlow, Bonnie Bedelia, Beau Bridges,
Directors : Jonathan Kaplan,

Shirley Muldowney is determined to be a top-fuel drag racer, although no woman has ever raced them before. Despite the high risks of this kind of racing and the burden it places on her ...

Actors : Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs, Diahann Carroll, Tamu Blackwell, James Earl Jones,
Directors : John Berry,

In the 1970s Harlem, garbage collector Roop feels intimidated by the idea of dating Claudine who is a single mother of six on welfare.

Actors : Deborah Kerr, John Mills, Edith Evans, Hayley Mills,
Directors : Ronald Neame,

A grandmother seeks a governess for her 16 year old granddaughter, Laurel, who manages to drive away each and every one so far by exposing their past, with a record of three in one week! ...

Actors : Lesley-Anne Down, Len Cariou, Diana Rigg, Elizabeth Taylor,
Directors : Harold Prince,

Fredrik Egerman is very happy in his marriage to a seventeen-year-old virgin, Anne. Only she's been a virgin for the whole eleven months of the marriage, and being a bit restless, Fredrik ...

Actors : Roberts Blossom, Ellen Burstyn, Sam Shepard, Richard Farnsworth,
Directors : Daniel Petrie,

Edna Mae Macaulay experiences the afterlife for a brief time after a car accident that kills her husband. As she begins her long process of physical healing, she discovers that she has the ...

Actors : Henry Fonda, Helmut Berger, Keith Baxter, Elizabeth Taylor,
Directors : Larry Peerce,

Barbara gets secret plastic surgery in Switzerland in an attempt to save her marriage to Mark, but he doesn't seem interested in meeting her. She checks in to a ski resort to wait for Mark,...

Actors : Sissy Spacek, William Sanderson, Sam Shepard, Eric Roberts,
Directors : Jack Fisk,

It's 1944 in the small town of Gregory, Texas. Divorcée Nita Longley has been brought into the town by the telephone company to work as its switchboard operator, a job which requires her to...

Actors : Richard Burton, Ewa Aulin, Charles Aznavour, Marlon Brando,
Directors : Christian Marquand,

Candy, an innocent high-schooler, encounters numerous colorful characters and humorous sexual situations while attempting to find meaning in life.

Actors : Ian McShane, Suzanne Pleshette, Murray Hamilton, Vittorio De Sica,
Directors : Mel Stuart,

The humorous adventures of a group of American tourists taking an eighteen-day guided bus tour of nine European countries.

Actors : Leleti Khumalo, Lihle Mvelase, Kenneth Khambula, Harriet Lenabe,
Directors : Darrell Roodt,

After falling ill, Yesterday learns that she is HIV positive. With her husband in denial and young daughter to tend to, Yesterday's one goal is to live long enough to see her child go to school.

Actors : Charles Vanel, Paul Meurisse, Brigitte Bardot, Sami Frey,
Directors : Henri-Georges Clouzot,

Dominique Marceau is on trial for the murder of Gilbert Tellier. The counsels duel relentlessly, elaborating explanations for why the pretty, idle and fickle girl killed the talented and ...

Actors : Joanne Woodward, Nell Potts, Judith Lowry, Roberta Wallach,
Directors : Paul Newman,

From the Pullizer Prize winning play by Paul Zindel, this is the story of Beatrice Hunsdorfer and her daughters, Ruth and Matilda. A middle-aged widowed eccentric, Beatrice is looking for ...

Actors : Elizabeth Ercy, Raf Vallone, Anthony Perkins, Melina Mercouri,
Directors : Jules Dassin,

The powerful Greek shipowner and constructor Thanos proposes to marry Phaedra during the baptism of a ship with her name. Phaedra, who is the daughter of Thanos'greatest competitor, is a ...

Actors : James Fox, Vanessa Redgrave, Jason Robards, John Fraser,
Directors : Karel Reisz,

A biography of the dancer Isadora Duncan, the 1920s dancer who forever changed people's ideas of ballet. Her nude, semi-nude, and pro-Soviet dance projects as well as her attitudes on free ...

Actors : Anne Bancroft, Sissy Spacek, Ed Berke, Carol Robbins,
Directors : Tom Moore,

What would you do if someone you loved sat down with you one night and calmly told you that they were going to end their life before morning? This is Thelma Cates' dilemma. Her daughter, ...

Actors : Deborah Walley, Burl Ives, Hayley Mills, Dorothy McGuire,
Directors : James Neilson,

A Bostonian widow moves with her kids to the country.

Actors : Harry Andrews, Timothy Dalton, Anna Calder-Marshall, Pamela Brown,
Directors : Robert Fuest,

Doomed lovers Catherine and Heathcliff are torn apart by their own selfishness and hate.

Actors : Harry Baird, Edith Evans, Jack Austin, Nanette Newman,
Directors : Bryan Forbes,

The title refers to the creatures a very poor addled old lady (Dame Edith Evans) imagines in her paranoid fantasies. They lurk behind every drip, drip, drip of a leaky faucet. They listen ...

Actors : Didi Perego, Laurent Terzieff, Emmanuelle Riva, Susan Strasberg,
Directors : Gillo Pontecorvo,

A young Jewish girl leads an escape attempt from a concentration camp.

Actors : Jeannette Clift, Robert Rietty, Arthur O'Connell, Julie Harris,
Directors : James F. Collier,

Corrie and Betsie ten Boom are middle-aged sisters working in their father's watchmaker shop in pre-WWII Holland. Their uneventful lives are disrupted with the coming of the Nazis. ...