Silver Shell for Best Actress

• Year — Actress — Film title — Ref • 1953 — Julita Martínez — There's a Road on the Right • 1954 — Marisa de Leza — La patrulla • 1956 — Luisa Della Noce — The Railroad Man • 1957 — Giulietta Masina — Nights of Cabiria • 1958 — Jacqueline Sassard — March's Child • 1959 — Audrey Hepburn — The Nun's Story • 1960 — Joanne Woodward — The Fugitive Kind • 1961 — Pina Pellicer — One-Eyed Jacks • 1962 — Anne Bancroft — The Miracle Worker • 1963 — Lee Remick — Days of Wine and Roses • 1964 — Ava Gardner — The Night of the Iguana • 1965 — Lilli Palmer — Operation Crossbow • 1966 — Evangelina Salazar — Arm in Arm Down the Street • 1967 — Serena Vergano — A Love Story • 1968 — Monica Vitti — The Girl with the Pistol • 1969 — Stefania Sandrelli — The Bandit • Lyudmila Chursina — A Little Crane • 1970 — Stéphane Audran — Le Boucher • 1971 — Graciela Borges — Crónica de una Señora • 1972 — Mia Farrow — Follow Me! • 1973 — Glenda Jackson — A Touch of Class • Françoise Fabian — Happy New Year • 1974 — Sophia Loren — The Voyage • 1975 — Gena Rowlands — A Woman Under the Influence • 1976 — Helen Morse — Caddie • 1977 — Katherine Hunter — The Girl's War • 1978 — Carol Burnett — A Wedding • 1979 — Laura Betti — Il piccolo Archimede • 1985 — Mercedes Sampietro — Extramuros • 1986 — Angela Molina — Half of Heaven • 1987 — Victoria Abril — El Lute (Run for Your Life) • 1988 — Cipe Lincovski — The Girlfriend • Liv Ullmann • 1989 — Mirjana Jokovic — Eversmile, New Jersey • 1990 — Margherita Buy — The Week of the Sphinx • 1991 — Deborra-Lee Furness — Waiting • Noni Hazlehurst • Helen Jones • Fiona Press • 1992 — Krystyna Janda — Zwolnieni z zycia • 1993 — Niki Karimi — Sara • 1994 — Ning Jing — Red Firecracker, Green Firecracker • 1995 — Victoria Abril — Nobody Will Speak of Us When We're Dead • 1996 — Norma Aleandro — Autumn Sun • 1997 — Julie Christie — Afterglow • 1998 — Jeanne Balibar — Late August, Early September • 1999 — Aitana Sánchez-Gijón — Volavérunt • 2000 — Carmen Maura — La Comunidad • 2001 — Pilar López de Ayala — Mad Love • 2002 — Mercedes Sampietro — Common Ground • 2003 — Laia Marull — Take My Eyes • 2004 — Connie Nielsen — Brødre • 2005 — Ana Geislerová — Something Like Happiness • 2006 — Nathalie Baye — Mon fils à moi • 2007 — Blanca Portillo — Seven Billiard Tables • 2008 — Melissa Leo — Frozen River • Tsilla Chelton — Pandora's Box • 2009 — Lola Dueñas — Me Too • 2010 — Nora Navas — Black Bread • 2011 — María León — The Sleeping Voice • 2012 — Macarena Garcia — Blancanieves • Katie Coseni — Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang • 2013 — Marian Álvarez — Wounded • 2014 — Paprika Steen — Silent Heart • 2015 — Yordanka Ariosa — The King of Havana • 2016 — Fan Bingbing — I Am Not Madam Bovary • 2017 — Sofia Gala Castiglione — Alanis • 2018 — Pia Tjelta — Blind Spot • 2019 — Greta Fernández — A Thief's Daughter • Nina Hoss — The Audition • 2020 — Ia Sukhitashvili — Beginning