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Multiple winners

2 wins

• Helen Mirren (Elizabeth I, Phil Spector)
• Queen Latifah (Life Support, Bessie)
• Kate Winslet (Mildred Pierce, Mare of Easttown)
• Alfre Woodard (The Piano Lesson, Miss Evers' Boys)

Multiple nominees

Note: Winners are indicated in bold type.

2 nominations

• Patricia Arquette (Escape at Dannemora, The Act)
• Anne Bancroft (Homecoming, The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone)
• Angela Bassett (Ruby's Bucket of Blood, Betty & Coretta)
• Ellen Burstyn (Oprah Winfrey Presents: Mitch Albom's For One More Day, Flowers in the Attic)
• Judy Davis (A Cooler Climate, Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows)
• Laura Dern (Recount, Big Little Lies)
• Anjelica Huston (Buffalo Girls, The Mists of Avalon)
• Jessica Lange (Grey Gardens, Feud: Bette and Joan)
• Queen Latifah (Life Support, Bessie)
• Sissy Spacek (Midwives, A Place for Annie)
• Emma Thompson (Wit, Angels in America)
• Kerry Washington (Confirmation, Little Fires Everywhere)
• Emily Watson (Appropriate Adult, Chernobyl)
• Kate Winslet (Mildred Pierce, Mare of Easttown)
• Joanne Woodward (Breathing Lessons, Empire Falls)

3 nominations

• Kathy Bates (The Late Shift, Annie, My Sister's Keeper)
• Glenn Close (Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story, In the Gloaming, The Lion in Winter)
• Sally Field (A Woman of Independent Means, A Cooler Climate, David Copperfield)
• Vanessa Redgrave (If These Walls Could Talk 2, The Gathering Storm, The Fever)
• Cicely Tyson (Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All, The Road to Galveston, The Trip to Bountiful)
• Sigourney Weaver (Snow White: A Tale of Terror, Prayers for Bobby, Political Animals)
• Alfre Woodard (The Piano Lesson, Miss Evers' Boys, Steel Magnolias)

4 nominations

• Stockard Channing (A Unexpected Family, The Baby Dance, The Truth About Jane, The Matthew Shepard Story)
• Nicole Kidman (Hemingway & Gellhorn, Grace of Monaco, Big Little Lies, The Undoing)
• Susan Sarandon (Bernard and Doris, You Don't Know Jack, The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe, Feud: Bette and Joan)

5 nominations

• Helen Mirren (The Passion of Ayn Rand, Door to Door, The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone, Elizabeth I, Phil Spector)