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
Candango for Best Actress Candango for Best Actress Candango for Best Actress is an award given to movie actresses annually at the Brasilia Film Festival (Festival de Brasília do Cinema Brasileiro). Besides the statuette "Candango" winning receive a prize of R$ 15 000. The first actress to win the award was Fernanda Montenegro in 1965 for her performance in the film "A Falecida" Since then, 51 women have received the accolade in the 45 years of the award. The difference is not justified by the festival between the years 1972 and 1972 and on six occasions (1986, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991 and 1995) the