Best Female Lead movies that are award winners or nominees

Actors : Haley Lu Richardson, Blake Jenner, Hailee Steinfeld, Kyra Sedgwick,
Directors : Kelly Fremon Craig,

High-school life gets even more unbearable for Nadine when her best friend, Krista, starts dating her older brother.

Actors : Idina Menzel, Kristen Bell, Josh Gad, Jonathan Groff,

Anna, Elsa, Kristoff, Olaf and Sven leave Arendelle to travel to an ancient, autumn-bound forest of an enchanted land. They set out to find the origin of Elsa's powers in order to save their kingdom.

Actors : Emma Stone, Paul Walter Hauser, Emma Thompson, Joel Fry,
Directors : Craig Gillespie,

A live-action prequel feature film following a young Cruella de Vil.

Actors : Michelle Yeoh, Stephanie Hsu, Ke Huy Quan, James Hong,

An aging Chinese immigrant is swept up in an insane adventure, where she alone can save the world by exploring other universes connecting with the lives she could have led.

Actors : Julia Roberts, Albert Finney, David Brisbin, Dawn Didawick,
Directors : Steven Soderbergh,

An unemployed single mother becomes a legal assistant and almost single-handedly brings down a California power company accused of polluting a city's water supply.

Actors : Philip Seymour Hoffman, Peter Friedman, Laura Linney, Philip Bosco,
Directors : Tamara Jenkins,

A sister and brother face the realities of familial responsibility as they begin to care for their ailing father.

Actors : Amy Adams, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Meryl Streep, Viola Davis,
Directors : John Patrick Shanley,

A Catholic school principal questions a priest's ambiguous relationship with a troubled young student.

Actors : Elliot Cowan, Sally Hawkins, Alexis Zegerman, Samuel Roukin,
Directors : Mike Leigh,

A look at a few chapters in the life of Poppy, a cheery, colorful, North London schoolteacher whose optimism tends to exasperate those around her.

Actors : Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin, Maxim Gaudette, Lubna Azabal, Mustafa Kamel,
Directors : Denis Villeneuve,

Twins journey to the Middle East to discover their family history, and fulfill their mother's last wishes.

Actors : Mia Wasikowska, Michael Fassbender, Su Elliot, Jamie Bell,
Directors : Cary Fukunaga,

A mousy governess who softens the heart of her employer soon discovers that he's hiding a terrible secret.

Actors : Timothy Spall, Freddie Spry, Jack Nielen, Kristen Stewart,
Directors : Pablo Larraín,

During her Christmas holidays with the royal family at the Sandringham estate in Norfolk, England, Diana Spencer, struggling with mental health problems, decides to end her decade-long marriage to Prince Charles.

Actors : María Cecilia Botero, Stephanie Beatriz, John Leguizamo, Mauro Castillo,

A young Colombian girl has to face the frustration of being the only member of her family without magical powers.

Actors : Judy Parfitt, Tom Wilkinson, Scarlett Johansson, Colin Firth,
Directors : Peter Webber,

A young peasant maid working in the house of painter Johannes Vermeer becomes his talented assistant and the model for one of his most famous works.

Actors : Anne Hathaway, Adrian Grenier, Meryl Streep, Emily Blunt,
Directors : David Frankel,

A smart but sensible new graduate lands a job as an assistant to Miranda Priestly, the demanding editor-in-chief of a high fashion magazine.

Actors : Cate Blanchett, Tom Georgeson, Andrew Simpson, Judi Dench,
Directors : Richard Eyre,

A veteran high school teacher befriends a younger art teacher, who is having an affair with one of her 15-year-old students. However, her intentions with this new "friend" also go well beyond platonic friendship.

Actors : Amy Adams, Chris Messina, Meryl Streep, Stanley Tucci,
Directors : Nora Ephron,

Julia Child's story of her start in the cooking profession is intertwined with blogger Julie Powell's 2002 challenge to cook all the recipes in Child's first book.

Actors : Patrick Wilson, Elizabeth Reaser, Patton Oswalt, Charlize Theron,
Directors : Jason Reitman,

Soon after her divorce, a fiction writer returns to her home in small-town Minnesota, looking to rekindle a romance with her ex-boyfriend, who is now happily married and has a newborn daughter.

Actors : Angelina Jolie, Elle Fanning, Lesley Manville, Sharlto Copley,
Directors : Robert Stromberg,

A vengeful fairy is driven to curse an infant princess, only to discover that the child may be the one person who can restore peace to their troubled land.

Actors : Mackenzie Davis, Asher Miles Fallica, Ron Livingston, Charlize Theron,
Directors : Jason Reitman,

A mother of three hires a night nanny to help with her newborn.

Actors : Mia Goth, Johnny Flynn, Anya Taylor-Joy, Angus Imrie,
Directors : Autumn de Wilde,

In 1800s England, a well meaning but selfish young woman meddles in the love lives of her friends.