Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Breakthrough Performance

The Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Breakthrough Performance is an annual film award given by the Online Film Critics Society to honor the best breakthrough performance of the year.

Winners

• 2000 Björk

for her role as "Selma Jezkova" in Dancer in the Dark

• 2001: Naomi Watts

for her role as "Betty Elms/Diane Selwyn" in Mulholland Drive

• 2002: Maggie Gyllenhaal

for her role as "Lee Holloway" in Secretary

• 2003: Keisha Castle-Hughes

for her role as "Paikea" in Whale Rider

• 2004: Catalina Sandino Moreno

for her role as "María Álvarez" in Maria Full of Grace

• 2005: Owen Kline

for his role as "Frank Berkman" in The Squid and the Whale

• 2006: Sacha Baron Cohen

for his role as "Borat Sagdiyev" in Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan

• 2007: Nikki Blonsky

for her role as "Tracy Turnblad" in Hairspray

• 2008: Lina Leandersson

for her role as "Eli" in Let the Right One In

• 2011: Jessica Chastain

for her roles as "Mrs. O' Brien" in The Tree of Life , "Celia Foote" in The Help , and "Rachel Singer" in The Debt