Golden Rooster Award for Best Actress

The Golden Rooster Award for Best Actress (中国电影金鸡奖最佳女主角) is the main category of Competition of Golden Rooster Awards, awarding actresses with outstanding performances in leading roles in cinema of China.

Winners & nominees[]

	Indicates winning Hundred Flowers Award for Best Actress for the same role

Year	Actress(es)	Film	Character
1981 1st	Zhang Yu	Evening Rain	Liu Wenying
	Romance on Lushan Mountain	Zhou Jun
	Tian Hua		Shang Qin
	Wang Fuli	Legend of Tianyun Mountain	Song Wei
1982 2nd	Li Xiuming		Xu Xiuyun
	Ren Yexiang		Tian Cuicui
	Zhang Yu		Yu Zhen
1983 3rd	Pan Hong (tie)		Lu Wenting
	Siqin Gaowa (tie)	Rickshaw Boy	Hu Niu
1984 4th			Qin Nan
			Chang Lin
1985 5th			Gong Lingling
			Fanyi
1986 6th	Yue Hong		Guilan
	Fang Shu		Chen Bailu
	Xu Lei		Zhou Lianghui
	Zhang Xiaolei		Zhang Guanyin
1987 7th	Liu Xiaoqing	Hibiscus Town	Hu Yuyin
	Naren Hua		Xiaoxiao
1988 8th	Pan Hong		Xu Lisha
		The Third Party	Sang Yuchen
	Liu Xiaoqing	Savage Land	Jinzi
1989 9th		&	Yusuan
			Qingqing
1990	N/A	N/A	N/A
1991	Xi Meijuan		Wang Yujuan
	Lü Liping		Liang Xiaoqing
			Ai Hong
1992	Song Xiaoying		Wang Shuangling
		Bell of Purity Temple	Aunt Yangjiao
	Zhao Lirong	The Spring Festival	mother
1993	Gong Li	The Story of Qiu Ju	Qiu Ju
	Xu Fan		Lin Zhouyun
1994 14th	Pan Hong		Fan Li
			Luo Naiqian
	Ning Jing	Red Firecracker, Green Firecracker	Chunzhi
1995 15th	Ai Liya	Ermo	Ermo
			Shang Meiju
	Xu Fan		Lin Gege
1996 16th	Song Chunli		Jiuxiang
	Cao Cuifen		Geng Ernu
		Red Cherry	Chuchu
1997	Yu Hui		Xilian
			Shi Hui
	Xi Meijuan		Zhu Zhu
1998	Tao Hong (born 1972)	Colors of the Blind	Ding Lihua
	Ai Liya	Genghis Khan	Hoelun
	Pan Yu		Granny Axi
1999	Ning Jing	Lover's Grief over the Yellow River	An Jie
	Xu Fan	Be There or Be Square	Li Qing
	Yuan Quan	Once Upon a Time in Shanghai	Li Huirong
2000	Gong Li	Breaking the Silence	Sun Liying
			Yeshe Dolma
	Zhang Ziyi	The Road Home	Zhao Di
2001	Song Chunli		Cai Chang
	Wu Jing		Zhuo Liying
	Yuan Quan		Liu Yun
2002	Ni Ping (tie)	Pretty Big Feet	Zhang Meili
	Tao Hong (born 1969) (tie)	Life Show	Lai Shuangyang
	Naren Hua	Heavenly Grassland	Burmaa
2003	Yu Nan	Jingzhe	Guan Ermei
	Jiang Wenli		mother
		Nuan	Nuan
2004	Zhang Ziyi (tie)	Jasmine Women	Mo
	Zheng Zhenyao (tie)	Shanghai Story	mother
	Jiang Qinqin		Niu Hongmei
	Tao Hong (born 1969)		Liu Li
2005	Jin Yaqin	You and Me	grandma
	Li Bingbing	Waiting Alone	Liu Rong
	Mei Ting		Wen Jing
	Zhang Jingchu		Fengmei
2007	Carina Lau (tie)	Curiosity Kills the Cat	Qianyu
	Yan Bingyan (tie)		Qian Yehong
	Li Bingbing	The Knot	Wang Jindi
	Rene Liu		Ho Yuan-chun
	Zhu Yuanyuan	The Forest Ranger	Taohua
2009 27th	Jiang Wenli (tie)	And the Spring Comes	Wang Cailing
	Zhou Xun (tie)	The Equation of Love and Death	Li Mi
	Helen Yao		Yueming
	Zhang Ziyi	Forever Enthralled	Meng Xiaodong
	Zhao Wei	Painted Skin	Peirong
2011 28th	Naren Hua		Tsetsegmaa
	Lü Liping		Luo Sufang
			Amin
	Qin Hailu	The Piano in a Factory	Shuxian
	Xu Fan	Aftershock	Li Yuanni
	Yan Bingyan		Xue Ziying
2013 29th	Song Jia	Falling Flowers	Xiao Hong
	Liang Jing		Liang Zhengzheng
	Yan Bingyan	Feng Shui	Li Baoli
	Yang Zishan	So Young	Zheng Wei
	Zhang Ziyi	The Grandmaster	Gong Er
2015 30th	Badema	Norjmaa	Norjmaa
	Lü Zhong	Red Amnesia	Deng Meijuan
	Zhao Wei	Dearest	Li Hongqin
	Tang Wei	The Golden Era	Xiao Hong
	Xu Fan		Wen Juan
2017 31st	Fan Bingbing	I Am Not Madame Bovary	Li Xuelian
	Bai Baihe	Monster Hunt	Huo Xiaolan
	Yan Ni	Relocate	Liu Chunyan
	Song Jia	When Larry Met Mary	Ma Li
	Zhou Dongyu	Soul Mate	An Sheng
2019 32nd	Yong Mei	So Long, My Son	Wang Liyun
	Bai Baihe	A City Called Macau	Mei Xiao'ou
	Yao Chen	Send Me to the Clouds	Sheng Nan
	Ma Yili	Lost, Found	Li Jie
	Zhou Dongyu	Us and Them	Fang Xiaoxiao
	Zhao Xiaoli	To Live to Sing	manager
2020 33rd	Zhou Dongyu	Better Days	Chen Nian
	Tan Zhuo	Sheep Without a Shepherd	Ayu
	Zhu Xijuan	The Empty Nest	Zhao Yimei
	Ada Liu	My Dear Liar	Yue Miaomiao
	Ren Suxi	Almost a Comedy	Momo
2021 34th[1]	Zhang Xiaofei	Hi, Mom	Li Huanying
	Liu Mintao	Let Life Be Beautiful	Zhou Lan
	Zhang Zifeng	Sister	An Ran
	Liu Haocun	A Little Red Flower	Ma Xiaoyuan

Records[]

• 3 wins: Pan Hong (including 1 tied win)
• 2 wins: Gong Li, Song Chunli
• 5 nominations: Xu Fan (0 win)
• 4 nominations: Zhang Ziyi (1 tied win)
• 3 nominations: Pan Hong, Naren Hua (1 win), Yan Bingyan (1 tied win)
• Oldest winner: Jin Yaqin (80)

References[]