- Frances McDormand – Nomadland
- Viola Davis – Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
- Carey Mulligan – Promising Young Woman
- Vanessa Kirby – Pieces of a Woman
- Zendaya – Malcolm and Marie
- Andra Day – The United States vs. Billie Holiday
- Michelle Pfeiffer – French Exit
- Amy Adams – Hillbilly Elegy
- Meryl Streep – The Prom
- Sophia Loren – The Life Ahead
- Sidney Flanigan – Never Rarely Sometimes Always
- Anya Taylor-Joy – Emma.
- Elisabeth Moss – The Invisible Man
- Jo Ellen Pellman – The Prom
- Kate Winslet – Ammonite
- Rashida Jones – On The Rocks
- Elisabeth Moss – Shirley
- Kristen Stewart – Happiest Season
- Evan Rachel Wood – Kajillionaire
- Cristin Milioti – Palm Springs
- Jessie Buckley – I’m Thinking Of Ending Things
- Lily James – Rebecca
- Elizabeth Debicki – Tenet
- Mackenzie Davis – Happiest Season