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
David di Donatello for Best Actress holder in this category with six awards, followed by Margherita Buy and Monica Vitti with five awards each. In the list below, winners are listed first in the colored row, followed by the other nominees. David di Donatello for Best Actress The David di Donatello for Best Actress (Italian: "David di Donatello per la migliore attrice protagonista") is a film award, one of the David di Donatello Awards, presented annually by the Accademia del Cinema Italiano (ACI, "Academy of Italian Cinema") to recognize the outstanding performance in a leading role of an actress who has worked within the Italian film