Critically acclaimed Female Lead movies that are award winners or nominees

I, Tonya(2017)

Combined Rating:
85
Combined Critics Rating: 86

Competitive ice skater Tonya Harding rises amongst the ranks at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, but her future in the activity is thrown into doubt when her ex-husband intervenes.





Far from Heaven(2002)

Combined Rating:
85
Combined Critics Rating: 86

In 1950s Connecticut, a housewife faces a marital crisis and mounting racial tensions in the outside world.



Atonement(2007)

Combined Rating:
90
Combined Critics Rating: 86

Fledgling writer Briony Tallis, as a thirteen-year-old, irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's lover of a crime he did not commit.



Black Swan(2010)

Combined Rating:
90
Combined Critics Rating: 86

A committed dancer wins the lead role in a production of Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake" only to find herself struggling to maintain her sanity.



Moana(2016)

Golden Globe 1
Combined Rating:
89
Combined Critics Rating: 86

In Ancient Polynesia, when a terrible curse incurred by the Demigod Maui reaches Moana's island, she answers the Ocean's call to seek out the Demigod to set things right.



Gosford Park(2001)

Combined Rating:
87
Combined Critics Rating: 85

The lives of upstairs guests and downstairs servants at a party in 1932 in a country house in England as they investigate a murder involving one of them.



Persepolis(2007)

Combined Rating:
87
Combined Critics Rating: 85

A precocious and outspoken Iranian girl grows up during the Islamic Revolution.



Crazy Rich Asians(2018)

Combined Rating:
85
Combined Critics Rating: 85

This contemporary romantic comedy, based on a global bestseller, follows native New Yorker Rachel Chu to Singapore to meet her boyfriend's family.



Everything Everywhere All at Once(2022)

Combined Rating:
84
Combined Critics Rating: 85

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.



The Savages(2007)

Combined Rating:
83
Combined Critics Rating: 84

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



Rachel Getting Married(2008)

Combined Rating:
85
Combined Critics Rating: 84

A young woman who has been in and out of rehab for the past ten years, returns home for the weekend for her sister's wedding.



Wolfwalkers(2020)

Golden Globe 1
Combined Rating:
82
Combined Critics Rating: 84

A young apprentice hunter and her father journey to Ireland to help wipe out the last wolf pack. But everything changes when she befriends a free-spirited girl from a mysterious tribe rumored to transform into wolves by night.



Spencer(2021)

Combined Rating:
83
Combined Critics Rating: 84

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.



Volver(2006)

Combined Rating:
86
Combined Critics Rating: 83

After her death, a mother returns to her home town in order to fix the situations she couldn't resolve during her life.



Happy-Go-Lucky(2008)

Combined Rating:
83
Combined Critics Rating: 83

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.



Blue Jasmine(2013)

Combined Rating:
87
Combined Critics Rating: 83

A New York socialite, deeply troubled and in denial, arrives in San Francisco to impose upon her sister. She looks a million, but isn't bringing money, peace, or love...



Tully(2018)

Combined Rating:
82
Combined Critics Rating: 83

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



Raya and the Last Dragon(2021)

Combined Rating:
87
Combined Critics Rating: 83

In a realm known as Kumandra, a re-imagined Earth inhabited by an ancient civilization, a warrior named Raya is determined to find the last dragon.



The Lost Daughter(2021)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 83

A woman's beach vacation takes a dark turn when she begins to confront the troubles of her past.




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