Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role - Motion Picture

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The Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role is an award given by the Screen Actors Guild to honor the finest acting achievements in film.

Note: "†" indicates the Academy Award winner.

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Winners and nominees

1990s

1994: Jodie Foster - Nell as Nell Kellty

1995: Susan Sarandon - Dead Man Walking as Helen Prejean

1996: Frances McDormand - Fargo as Marge Gunderson

1997: Helen Hunt - As Good as It Gets as Carol Connelly

1998: Gwyneth Paltrow - Shakespeare in Love as Viola De Lesseps

1999: Annette Bening - American Beauty as Carolyn Burnham

2000s

2000: Julia Roberts - Erin Brockovich as Erin Brockovich

2001: Halle Berry - Monster's Ball as Leticia Musgrove

2002: Renée Zellweger - Chicago as Roxie Hart

2003: Charlize Theron - Monster as Aileen Wuornos

2004: Hilary Swank - Million Dollar Baby as Maggie Fitzgerald

2005: Reese Witherspoon - Walk the Line as June Cash

2006: Helen Mirren - The Queen as Queen Elizabeth II

2007: Julie Christie - Away From Her as Fiona Anderson

2008: Anne Hathaway - Rachel Getting Married as Kym
Meryl Streep - Doubt as Aloysius Beauvier

Trivia

This SAG Award is a pretty good predictor for the Academy Awards. Only on four occasions over the past 14 years did the winner of the SAG Award for Best Leading Actress didn't win the Academy Award for Best Actress. This happened in: