Best Female Lead movies of 2022 that are oscar winners or nominees

Turning Red(2022)

Combined Rating:
89
Combined Critics Rating: 87

A 13-year-old girl named Meilin turns into a giant red panda whenever she gets too excited.



Black Panther: Wakanda Forever(2022)

Combined Rating:
85
Combined Critics Rating: 81

The people of Wakanda fight to protect their home from intervening world powers as they mourn the death of King T'Challa.



Everything Everywhere All at Once(2022)

Combined Rating:
84
Combined Critics Rating: 85

An aging Chinese immigrant is swept up in an insane adventure, where she alone can save the world by exploring other universes connecting with the lives she could have led.



Blonde(2022)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 71

A fictionalized chronicle of the inner life of Marilyn Monroe.



Causeway(2022)

Combined Rating:
63
Combined Critics Rating: 72

A US soldier suffers a traumatic brain injury while fighting in Afghanistan and struggles to adjust to life back home.



Tár(2022)

Combined Rating:
46
Combined Critics Rating: 46

Set in the international world of Western classical music, the film centers on Lydia Tár, widely considered one of the greatest living composer-conductors and first-ever female music director of a major German orchestra.



Close(2022)

Combined Rating:
41
Combined Critics Rating: 59

The intense friendship between two thirteen-year old boys Leo and Remi suddenly gets disrupted. Struggling to understand what has happened, Léo approaches Sophie, Rémi's mother. "Close" is a film about friendship and responsibility.



Empire of Light(2022)

Combined Rating:
40
Combined Critics Rating: 57

A drama about the power of human connection during turbulent times, set in an English coastal town in the early 1980s.