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

SAG Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture
The 2023 recipient: Lily Gladstone
Awarded for	Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role in a Motion Picture
Location	Los Angeles, California
Presented by	SAG-AFTRA
First awarded	Jodie Foster for Nell (1994)
Currently held by	Lily Gladstone for Killers of the Flower Moon (2023)
Website	sagawards.org

The Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role in a Motion Picture is an award presented annually by the Screen Actors Guild. It has been presented since the 1st Screen Actors Guild Awards in 1995 to a female actor who has delivered an outstanding performance in a leading role in a film released that year.

The award has been presented 30 times, and 27 actresses have won the award. Jodie Foster was the award's first winner for Nell (1994). The most recent winner is Lily Gladstone who won for her performance in Killers of the Flower Moon (2023). Frances McDormand, Renée Zellweger, and Viola Davis have all won the award twice. Meryl Streep has the most nominations with ten.