Empire Award for Best Female Newcomer

Empire Award for Best Female Newcomer
Awarded for Best breakthrough performance by an actress
Country United Kingdom
Presented by Empire magazine
First awarded 2012
Currently held by Daisy Ridley - Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2016)

The Empire Award for Best Female Newcomer is an Empire Award presented annually by the British film magazine Empire to honor an actress who has delivered a breakthrough performance[1] while working within the film industry. The Empire Award for Best Female Newcomer is one of two ongoing awards which were first introduced at the 17th Empire Awards ceremony in 2012 (along with Best Male Newcomer) with Felicity Jones receiving the award for her role in Like Crazy. Karen Gillan is the most recent winner in this category for her roles in Oculus and Guardians of the Galaxy. Winners are voted by the readers of Empire magazine.

Winners and nominees

In the list below, winners are listed first in boldface, followed by the other nominees. The number of the ceremony (1st, 2nd, etc.) appears in parentheses after the awards year, linked to the article (if any) on that ceremony.

2010s

Year Actor Film Ref.
2012
(17th)		 Felicity Jones Like Crazy [2]
Bonnie Wright Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2
Céline Buckens War Horse
Elle Fanning Super 8
Hailee Steinfeld True Grit
Laura Haddock The Inbetweeners Movie
2013
(18th)		 Samantha Barks Les Misérables [3]
Alice Lowe Sightseers
Alicia Vikander Anna Karenina
Holliday Grainger Great Expectations
Quvenzhané Wallis Beasts of the Southern Wild
2014
(19th)		 Margot Robbie The Wolf of Wall Street [4]
Adèle Exarchopoulos Blue Is the Warmest Colour
Antonia Thomas Sunshine on Leith
Elizabeth Debicki The Great Gatsby
Freya Mavor Sunshine on Leith
Lupita Nyong'o 12 Years a Slave
2015
(20th)		 Karen Gillan Oculus and Guardians of the Galaxy [5][6]
Carrie Coon Gone Girl
Essie Davis The Babadook
Gugu Mbatha-Raw Belle
Sophie Cookson Kingsman: The Secret Service
2016
(21st)		 Daisy Ridley Star Wars: The Force Awakens [7]
Olivia Cooke Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
Rebecca Ferguson Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation
Maika Monroe It Follows
Bel Powley The Diary of a Teenage Girl

References

  1. ↑ O'Hara, Helen (March 26, 2012). "Jameson Empire Award Nominations 2012. The nominees are here!". Empireonline.com. Bauer Consumer Media. Retrieved October 10, 2014.
  2. ↑ "Best Female Newcomer". Empireonline.com. Bauer Consumer Media. 2012. Retrieved August 18, 2014.
  3. ↑ "Best Female Newcomer". Empireonline.com. Bauer Consumer Media. 2013. Retrieved August 18, 2004.
  4. ↑ "Best Female Newcomer". Empireonline.com. Bauer Consumer Media. 2014. Retrieved August 18, 2014.
  5. ↑ "Best Female Newcomer". Empireonline.com. Bauer Consumer Media. 2015. Retrieved April 1, 2015.
  6. ↑ Barraclough, Leo (March 30, 2015). "‘Interstellar’ wins Film, Director at Empire Awards". Variety.com. Penske Business Media. Retrieved March 30, 2015.
  7. ↑ Jameson Empire Awards 2016: Star Wars and Mad Max lead the nominations
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