Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Actress in a Comedy Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Actress in a Comedy The Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Actress in a Comedy is one of the awards given to people working in the motion picture industry by the Broadcast Film Critics Association at their annual Critics' Choice Movie Awards. 2012: Jennifer Lawrence – "Silver Linings Playbook" as Tiffany Maxwell † 2013: Amy Adams – "American Hustle" as Sydney Prosser / Lady Edith Greensly ‡ "'2014: Jenny Slate – "Obvious Child" as Donna Stern 2015: Amy Schumer – "Trainwreck" as Amy Townsend 2016: Meryl Streep – "Florence Foster Jenkins" as Florence Foster
César Award for Best Actress the only actress to have won both awards, but for two different performances. Two actresses have won both the Best Actress César and the Best Actress Award of the Cannes Film Festival for the same performance: Isabelle Adjani for "Possession" and Elodie Bouchez for "The Dreamlife of Angels". In addition, Simone Signoret, Jeanne Moreau, Isabelle Huppert and Juliette Binoche have won both awards as well, but not for the same role. Following the Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma (AATC)'s practice, the films below are listed by year of ceremony, which corresponds to the year following the film's year