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**