The Golden Goblet Award for Best Actress is a prize given to actresses in the main category of competition at the Shanghai International Film Festival.
| Year | Film | Actress | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sopyonje | |||
| Red Cherry |  Guo Keyu | ||
| Sur un air de mambo |  Catherine Jacob | ||
| Settlement | Pan Yu | ||
| Genghis Khan | Ai Liya | ||
| Money Is Not Everything | |||
| The Full Moon | |||
| Life Show | |||
| no award this year | |||
| Shanghai Story | |||
| 2005[1] | A Time to Love | ||
| Love Belongs to Everyone | |||
| According to the Plan |  Corinna Harfouch, Dagmar Manzel, Kirsten Block, Christine Schorn | ||
| Václav | |||
| 2009[2] | Aching Hearts | ||
| Kiss Me Again | |||
| Folk Songs Singing | |||
| 2012[3] | El sueño de Lu | ||
| 2013[4] | Unbeatable | ||
| 2014[5] | Little England | ||
| 2015[6] | Wildeye | ||
| 2016[7] | The Projects | ||
| 2017[8] | Yellow | ||
| 2018[9] | Tadoussac |  Isabelle Blais | |
| Inhale-Exhale |  Salome Demuria | ||
| Amateurs |  Marzena Gajewska | ||
| Yoko |  Rinko Kikuchi | ||
| The Divorce |  Omaroa Nira |