The Silver Shell for Best Actress (Spanish: Concha de Plata a la Mejor Interpretacion Femenina; Basque: Aktore onenaren Zilarrezko Maskorra) was one of the main awards presented at the San Sebastián International Film Festival to the Best Actress of a competing film.[1] The last of this award was given out in 2020, after which it was replaced with a gender-neutral Silver Shell for Best Leading Performance and Silver Shell for Best Supporting Performance the following year.[2]

Winners

Year Actress Film Title Ref
1953 Julita Martínez There's a Road on the Right
1954 Marisa de Leza La patrulla [3]
1956 Luisa Della Noce The Railroad Man [4]
1957 Giulietta Masina Nights of Cabiria [5]
1958 Jacqueline Sassard March's Child [6]
1959 Audrey Hepburn The Nun's Story [7]
1960 Joanne Woodward The Fugitive Kind [8]
1961 Pina Pellicer One-Eyed Jacks [9]
1962 Anne Bancroft The Miracle Worker [10]
1963 Lee Remick Days of Wine and Roses [11]
1964 Ava Gardner The Night of the Iguana [12]
1965 Lilli Palmer Operation Crossbow [13]
1966 Evangelina Salazar Arm in Arm Down the Street
1967 Serena Vergano A Love Story [14]
1968 Monica Vitti The Girl with the Pistol
1969 Stefania Sandrelli L'amante di Gramigna
Ludmila Tchoursina Zhuravusha
1970 Stéphane Audran Le Boucher [15]
1971 Graciela Borges Crónica de una Señora [16]
1972 Mia Farrow Follow Me! [17]
1973 Glenda Jackson A Touch of Class [18]
Françoise Fabian La bonne année
1974 Sophia Loren The Voyage [19]
1975 Gena Rowlands A Woman Under the Influence [20]
1976 Helen Morse Caddie [21]
1977 Katherine Hunter The Girl's War
1978 Carol Burnett A Wedding [22]
1979 Laura Betti Il piccolo Archimede [23]
1985 Mercedes Sampietro Extramuros [24]
1986 Angela Molina Half of Heaven
1987 Victoria Abril El Lute (Run for Your Life) [25]
1988 Cipe Lincovski The Girlfriend [26]
Liv Ullmann
1989 Mirjana Jokovic Eversmile, New Jersey [27]
1990 Margherita Buy The Week of the Sphinx [28]
1991 Deborra-Lee Furness Waiting
Noni Hazlehurst
Helen Jones
Fiona Press
1992 Krystyna Janda Zwolnieni z zycia [29]
1993 Niki Karimi Sara [30]
1994 Ning Jing Red Firecracker, Green Firecracker [31]
1995 Victoria Abril Nobody Will Speak of Us When We're Dead [25][32]
1996 Norma Aleandro Autumn Sun [16]
1997 Julie Christie Afterglow [33]
1998 Jeanne Balibar Late August, Early September [34]
1999 Aitana Sánchez-Gijón Volavérunt [35]
2000 Carmen Maura La Comunidad [36]
2001 Pilar López de Ayala Mad Love [37]
2002 Mercedes Sampietro Common Ground [38]
2003 Laia Marull Take My Eyes [39]
2004 Connie Nielsen Brødre [40]
2005 Ana Geislerová Something Like Happiness [41]
2006 Nathalie Baye Mon fils à moi [42]
2007 Blanca Portillo Seven Billiard Tables [43]
2008 Melissa Leo Frozen River [44]
Tsilla Chelton Pandora's Box
2009 Lola Dueñas Me Too [45]
2010 Nora Navas Black Bread [46]
2011 María León The Sleeping Voice [47]
2012 Macarena Garcia Blancanieves [48]
Katie Coseni Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang
2013 Marian Álvarez Wounded [49]
2014 Paprika Steen Silent Heart [50]
2015 Yordanka Ariosa The King of Havana [51]
2016 Fan Bingbing I Am Not Madam Bovary [52]
2017 Sofia Gala Castiglione Alanis [53]
2018 Pia Tjelta Blind Spot [26]
2019 Greta Fernández A Thief's Daughter [54][55]
Nina Hoss The Audition
2020 Ia Sukhitashvili Beginning [56]

See also

References

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