Silver Shell for Best Actress

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]

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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
1969	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]
1973	Françoise Fabian	La bonne année	^[18]
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]
1988	Liv Ullmann	The Girlfriend	^[26]
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]
2008	Tsilla Chelton	Pandora's Box	^[44]
2009	Lola Dueñas	Me Too	^[45]
2010	Nora Navas	Black Bread	^[46]
2011	María León	The Sleeping Voice	^[47]
2012	Macarena Garcia	Blancanieves	^[48]
2012	Katie Coseni	Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang	^[48]
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]
2019	Nina Hoss	The Audition	^[54]^[55]
2020	Ia Sukhitashvili	Beginning	^[56]

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Keslassy, Elsa; De Pablos, Emiliano (2014-09-27). "'Magical Girl' Tops San Sebastian Fest". Variety. Retrieved 2020-01-20.
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Mayorga, Emilio; Hopewell, John (2015-09-26). "Runar Runarsson's 'Sparrows' Tops San Sebastian". Variety. Retrieved 2020-01-20.
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"Official Awards - FIAPF". 2020-09-26. Retrieved 2020-09-26.

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Tom Grater (22 June 2021). "San Sebastian Becomes Latest Festival To Introduce Gender Neutral Acting Awards". deadline.com. Retrieved 2021-06-22.

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Heatley, Michael (May 2017). Audrey Hepburn: In Words and Pictures. Book Sales. ISBN 978-0-7858-3534-9.

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Shelley, Peter (2019-09-06). Joanne Woodward: Her Life and Career. McFarland. ISBN 978-1-4766-3697-9.

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Shelley, Peter (2017-07-21). Anne Bancroft: The Life and Work. McFarland. ISBN 978-1-4766-2858-5.

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Ohmart, Ben (2012-11-15). Mel Blanc: The Man of a Thousand Voices. BearManor Media.

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Bentley, Bernard P. E. (2008). A Companion to Spanish Cinema. Boydell & Brewer Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85566-176-9.

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"Italian Film Wins Top Prize At San Sebastian Festiva". The New York Times. 1970-07-15. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-01-20.

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"Mia Farrow turns 70: Her career in pics". www.msn.com. Retrieved 2020-01-20.

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Holland, Jonathan; Hopewell, John (2007-09-29). "'Good Prayers' wins Golden Shell". Variety. Retrieved 2020-01-20.

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Hopewell, John (2009-09-26). "'City' scoops up the Golden Shell". Variety. Retrieved 2020-01-20.

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"Spanish actress Nora Navas receives the best actress Silver Shell..." Getty Images. Retrieved 2020-01-20.

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"Spanish actress Maria Leon is kissed by Chinese actress Bai Ling..." Getty Images. Retrieved 2020-01-20.

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Keslassy, Elsa; De Pablos, Emiliano (2014-09-27). "'Magical Girl' Tops San Sebastian Fest". Variety. Retrieved 2020-01-20.

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Mayorga, Emilio; Hopewell, John (2015-09-26). "Runar Runarsson's 'Sparrows' Tops San Sebastian". Variety. Retrieved 2020-01-20.

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