BAFTA Award for Best Newcomer

The BAFTA Award for Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer is presented each year at the British Academy Film Awards in London. The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA), is a British organisation that hosts the awards shows for movie, television, children's movie and television, and interactive media. The Outstanding Debut award recognises the work of writers, directors and producers. It is presented in honour of screenwriter and producer Carl Foreman.

Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer

2011 - Tyrannosaur - Paddy Considine (director); Diarmid Scrimshaw (producer)
Attack the Block – Joe Cornish (director)
Black Pond – Tom Kingsley (director); Will Sharpe (director); Sarah Brocklehurst (producer)
Coriolanus – Ralph Fiennes (director)
Submarine – Richard Ayoade (director)

2010 - Four Lions - Chris Morris (writer/director)
The Arbor – Clio Barnard (director); Tracy O’Riordan (producer)
Exit Through the Gift Shop – Banksy (director); Jaimie D’Cruz (producer)
Monsters – Gareth Edwards (writer/director)
Skeletons – Nick Whitfield (writer/director)

2009 - Moon - Duncan Jones (writer/director)
Mugabe and the White African – Lucy Bailey (director); Andrew Thompson (director); Elizabeth Morgan Hemlock (producer); David Pearson (producer)
Shifty – Eran Creevy (writer/director)
Exam – Stuart Hazeldine (writer/director/producer)
Nowhere Boy – Sam Taylor-Wood (director)

The Carl Foreman Award for Special Achievement by a British Writer, Director or Producer in their First Feature Film

2006 - Red Road - Andrea Arnold
Black Sun – Gary Tarn
Pierrepoint – Christine Langan
London to Brighton – Paul Andrew Williams
Rollin' with the Nines – Julian Gilbey

2005 - Pride & Prejudice - Joe Wright
Everything – Richard Hawkins 
Festival – Annie Griffin
Shooting Dogs – David Belton
Tsotsi – Peter Fudakowski

2004 - A Way of Life - Amma Asante
AfterLife – Andrea Gibb 
Dear Frankie – Shona Auerbach
Layer Cake – Matthew Vaughn
Shaun of the Dead – Nira Park

2003 - Kiss of Life - Emily Young
American Cousins – Sergio Casci
Girl with a Pearl Earring – Peter Webber
To Kill a King – Jenny Mayhew

2002 - The Warrior - Asif Kapadia
AKA – Duncan Roy
Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry – Simon Bent
Lost in La Mancha – Lucy Darwin

2001 - Jump Tomorrow - Joel Hopkins Nicola Usborne
Gosford Park – Julian Fellowes
Late Night Shopping – Jack Lothian
The Parole Officer – Steve Coogan Henry Normal
South West 9 – Richard Parry
Strictly Sinatra – Ruth Kenley-Letts

2000 - Last Resort - Pawel Pawlikowski
Billy Elliot – Stephen Daldry
Billy Elliot – Lee Hall
Saving Grace – Mark Crowdy
Some Voices – Simon Cellan Jones

1999 - Ratcatcher -  Lynne Ramsay
East Is East – Ayub Khan-Din
Human Traffic – Justin Kerrigan
Waking Ned – Kirk Jones 

1998 - Love and Death on Long Island - Richard Kwietniowski
The Governess – Sandra Goldbacher
Twenty Four Seven – Shane Meadows
Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels – Matthew Vaughn

Best Leading Newcomer
1984 - The Killing Fields - Haing S. Ngor
The Hit – Tim Roth
Cal – John Lynch 
Another Country – Rupert Everett

1983 - Another Time, Another Place - Phyllis Logan 
Educating Rita – Julie Walters
Heat and Dust – Greta Scacchi
Sophie's Choice – Kevin Kline

1982 - Gandhi - Ben Kingsley
Body Heat – Kathleen Turner
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial – Drew Barrymore
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial – Henry Thomas

1981 - Raging Bull - Joe Pesci
Ordinary People – Timothy Hutton
Cathy Moriarty – Raging Bull
Klaus Maria Brandauer – Mephisto

1980 - My Brilliant Career - Judy Davis
Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands – Sonia Braga
Gregory's Girl – John Gordon Sinclair
Urban Cowboy – Debra Winger

1979 - Breaking Away - Dennis Christopher and The Buddy Holly Story - Gary Busey
Sigourney Weaver - Alien
Ray Winstone - That Summer

1978 - Superman - Christopher Reeve
Melanie Mayron - Girlfriends
Mary Beth Hurt - Interiors
Brad Davis - Midnight Express

1977 - The Lacemaker - Isabelle Huppert

1976 - Taxi Driver, Bugsy Malone - Jodie Foster

1975 - Lenny - Valerie Perrine

1974 - Mahler - Georgina Hale

1973 - The Hireling - Peter Egan

1972 - Cabaret - Joel Grey

1971 - The Go-Between - Dominic Guard

1970 - Kes - Dai Bradley

1969 - Midnight Cowboy - Jon Voight

1968 - The Graduate - Dustin Hoffman

1967 -  Bonnie and Clyde - Michael J. Pollard and Faye Dunaway

1966 - Alfie - Vivien Merchant

1965 - Four in the Morning - Judi Dench

1964 - Mary Poppins - Julie Andrews

1963 - The Servant - James Fox

1962 - The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner - Tom Courtenay

1961 - A Taste of Honey - Rita Tushingham

1960 - Saturday Night and Sunday Morning - Albert Finney

1959 - Tiger Bay - Hayley Mills

1958 - Orders to Kill - Paul Massie

1957 - Brothers in Law - Eric Barker

1956 - Baby Doll - Eli Wallach

1955 - That Lady - Paul Scofield

1954 - The Young Lovers - David Kossoff

1953 - Trouble in Store - Norman Wisdom

1952 - Limelight - Claire Bloom

References

BAFTA Awards