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	In and Out of Court	Shang Qin
	Wang Fuli	Legend of Tianyun Mountain	Song Wei
1982 2nd	Li Xiuming	Xu Mao and His Daughters	Xu Xiuyun
	Ren Yexiang	Longing for Home	Tian Cuicui
	Zhang Yu	On a Small Street	Yu Zhen
1983 3rd	Pan Hong (tie)	At Middle Age	Lu Wenting
	Siqin Gaowa (tie)	Rickshaw Boy	Hu Niu
1984 4th	Gong Xue	Under the Bridge	Qin Nan
	Li Ling	Ward 16	Chang Lin
1985 5th	Li Ling	Girl from Huangshan Mountain	Gong Lingling
	Gu Yongfei	Thunderstorm	Fanyi
1986 6th	Yue Hong	Wild Mountains	Guilan
	Fang Shu	Sunrise	Chen Bailu
	Xu Lei	Spring into Autumn	Zhou Lianghui
	Zhang Xiaolei	Xiangsi Woman's Hotel	Zhang Guanyin
1987 7th	Liu Xiaoqing	Hibiscus Town	Hu Yuyin
	Naren Hua	Married to a Child	Xiaoxiao
1988 8th	Pan Hong	The Well	Xu Lisha
	Li Kechun	The Third Party	Sang Yuchen
	Liu Xiaoqing	Savage Land	Jinzi
1989 9th	Xu Shouli	The Happy Hero & The Dead and the Living	Yusuan
	Wu Yujuan	Obsession	Qingqing
1990	—	—	—
1991 11th	Xi Meijuan	A False Woman's True Love	Wang Yujuan
	Lü Liping	Unexpected Passion	Liang Xiaoqing
	Ma Xiaoqing	Good Morning, Beijing	Ai Hong
1992 12th	Song Xiaoying	Her Smile Through the Candlelight	Wang Shuangling
	Ding Yi	Bell of Purity Temple	Aunt Yangjiao
	Zhao Lirong	The Spring Festival	mother
1993 13th	Gong Li	The Story of Qiu Ju	Qiu Ju
	Xu Fan	After Separation	Lin Zhouyun
1994 14th	Pan Hong	Shanghai Fever	Fan Li
	Bai Han	Romance in Metropolitan Shanghai	Luo Naiqian
	Ning Jing	Red Firecracker, Green Firecracker	Chunzhi
1995 15th	Ai Liya	Ermo	Ermo
	Pu Chaoying	Women Flowers	Shang Meiju
	Xu Fan	Gone Forever with My Love	Lin Gege
1996 16th	Song Chunli	Jiuxiang	Jiuxiang
	Cao Cuifen	Orphan's Tears	Geng Ernu
	Guo Keyu	Red Cherry	Chuchu
1997 17th	Yu Hui	Xilian	Xilian
	Gai Ke	After Divorce	Shi Hui
	Xi Meijuan	A Tree	Zhu Zhu
1998 18th	Tao Hong (born 1972)	Colors of the Blind	Ding Lihua
	Ai Liya	Genghis Khan	Hoelun
	Pan Yu	Live in Peace and Contentment	Granny Axi
1999 19th	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 20th	Gong Li	Breaking the Silence	Sun Liying
	Tenzin Dolkar	Song of Tibet	Yeshe Dolma
	Zhang Ziyi	The Road Home	Zhao Di
2001 21st	Song Chunli	To Be With You Forever	Cai Chang
	Wu Jing	Sunshine Days	Zhuo Liying
	Yuan Quan	A Love of Blueness	Liu Yun
2002 22nd	Ni Ping (tie)	Pretty Big Feet	Zhang Meili
	Tao Hong (born 1969) (tie)	Life Show	Lai Shuangyang
	Naren Hua	Heavenly Grassland	Burmaa
2003 23rd	Yu Nan	Jingzhe	Guan Ermei
	Jiang Wenli	My Bitter Sweet Taiwan	mother
	Li Jia	Nuan	Nuan
2004 24th	Zhang Ziyi (tie)	Jasmine Women	Mo
	Zheng Zhenyao (tie)	Shanghai Story	mother
	Jiang Qinqin	My Sister's Dictionary	Niu Hongmei
	Tao Hong (born 1969)	Taekwondo	Liu Li
2005 25th	Jin Yaqin	You and Me	grandma
	Li Bingbing	Waiting Alone	Liu Rong
	Mei Ting	Aspirin	Wen Jing
	Zhang Jingchu	Huayao Bride in Shangri-la	Fengmei
2007 26th	Carina Lau (tie)	Curiosity Kills the Cat	Qianyu
	Yan Bingyan (tie)	Teeth of Love	Qian Yehong
	Li Bingbing	The Knot	Wang Jindi
	Rene Liu	Kidnap	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	Blossom	Yueming
	Zhang Ziyi	Forever Enthralled	Meng Xiaodong
	Zhao Wei	Painted Skin	Peirong
2011 28th	Naren Hua	Mother	Tsetsegmaa
	Lü Liping	City Monkey	Luo Sufang
	Qian Peiyi	Eternal Watch	Amin
	Qin Hailu	The Piano in a Factory	Shuxian
	Xu Fan	Aftershock	Li Yuanni
	Yan Bingyan	Close to Me	Xue Ziying
2013 29th	Song Jia	Falling Flowers	Xiao Hong
	Liang Jing	Son of the Stars	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	When a Peking Family Meets Aupair	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	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)