Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Young Performer

The Critics' Choice Award for Best Young Performer (Actor/Actress) is one of the awards given to people working in the motion picture industry by the Broadcast Film Critics Association. It is given for the best performance by a child actor in a motion picture.

List of winners and nominees

Best Child Performer (1996-2003)

• 1996: Jonathan Lipnicki in Jerry Maguire
• 1997: Jurnee Smollett in Eve's Bayou
• 1998: Ian Michael Smith in Simon Birch
• 1999: Haley Joel Osment in The Sixth Sense
• 2000: Jamie Bell in Billy Elliot
• 2001: Dakota Fanning in I Am Sam
  • Haley Joel Osment in A.I. Artificial Intelligence
  • Daniel Radcliffe in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
• 2002: Kieran Culkin in Igby Goes Down
  • Tyler Hoechlin in Road to Perdition
  • Nicholas Hoult in About a Boy
  • Daniel Radcliffe in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
• 2003: Keisha Castle-Hughes in Whale Rider
  • Evan Rachel Wood in Thirteen
  • Sarah Bolger in In America
  • Emma Bolger in In America

Best Young Actor (2004-2007)

• 2004: Freddie Highmore in Finding Neverland
  • Liam Aiken in Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
  • Cameron Bright in Birth
  • Daniel Radcliffe in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
  • William Ullrich in Beyond the Sea
• 2005: Freddie Highmore in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
  • Jesse Eisenberg in The Squid and the Whale
  • Alex Etel in Millions
  • Owen Kline in The Squid and the Whale
  • Daniel Radcliffe in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
• 2006: Paul Dano in Little Miss Sunshine
  • Cameron Bright in Thank You for Smoking
  • Joseph Cross in Running with Scissors
  • Freddie Highmore in A Good Year
  • Jaden Smith in The Pursuit of Happyness
• 2007: Ahmad Khan Mahmoodzada in The Kite Runner
  • Michael Cera in Juno
  • Freddie Highmore in August Rush
  • Josh Hutcherson in Bridge to Terabithia
  • Edward Sanders in Sweeney Todd

Best Young Actress (2004-2007)

• 2004: Emmy Rossum in The Phantom of the Opera
  • Emily Browning in Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
  • Dakota Fanning in Man on Fire
  • Lindsay Lohan in Mean Girls
  • Emma Watson in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
• 2005: Dakota Fanning in War of the Worlds
  • Flora Cross in Bee Season
  • Georgie Henley in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
  • Q'orianka Kilcher in The New World
  • Emma Watson in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
• 2006: Abigail Breslin in Little Miss Sunshine
  • Ivana Baquero in Pan's Labyrinth
  • Shareeka Epps in Half Nelson
  • Dakota Fanning in Charlotte's Web
  • Keke Palmer in Akeelah and the Bee
• 2007: Nikki Blonsky in Hairspray
  • Dakota Blue Richards in The Golden Compass
  • Abigail Breslin in No Reservations
  • AnnaSophia Robb in Bridge to Terabithia
  • Saoirse Ronan in Atonement

Best Young Performer (2008)

• 2008: Dev Patel in Slumdog Millionaire
  • Dakota Fanning in The Secret Life of Bees
  • David Kross in The Reader
  • Saoirse Ronan in Death Defying Acts
  • Brandon Walters in Australia

Best Young Actor/Actress (2009- )

• 2009: Saoirse Ronan in The Lovely Bones
  • Jae Head - The Blind Side
  • Bailee Madison - Brothers
  • Max Records - Where the Wild Things Are
  • Kodi Smit-McPhee - The Road

• 2010: Hailee Steinfeld - True Grit
  • Elle Fanning - Somewhere
  • Jennifer Lawrence - Winter's Bone
  • Chloë Moretz - Kick-Ass/Let Me In
  • Kodi Smit-McPhee - Let Me In

• 2011: TBA
  • Asa Butterfield - Hugo
  • Elle Fanning - Super 8
  • Thomas Horn - Extremly Loud and Incredibly Close
  • Ezra Miller - We Need to Talk about Kevin
  • Shailene Woodley - The Descendents