 Leigh 's performance in A Streetcar Named Desire won glowing reviews , as well as a second Academy Award for Best Actress , a British Academy of Film and Television Arts ( BAFTA ) Award for Best British Actress , and a New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress . Tennessee Williams commented that Leigh brought to the role " everything that I intended , and much that I had never dreamed of " . Leigh herself had mixed feelings about her association with the character ; in later years , she said that playing Blanche DuBois " tipped me over into madness " . 
