Empire Award for Best Female Newcomer

The Empire Award for Best Female Newcomer is an Empire Award presented annually by the British film magazine Empire to honour an actress who has delivered a breakthrough performance 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. Dafne Keen is the most recent winner in this category for her role in Logan. 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
2012	Felicity Jones 	Like Crazy
2012	Bonnie Wright 	Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2
2012	Céline Buckens 	War Horse
2012	Elle Fanning 	Super 8
2012	Hailee Steinfeld 	True Grit
2012	Laura Haddock 	The Inbetweeners Movie
2013	Samantha Barks 	Les Misérables
2013	Alice Lowe 	Sightseers
2013	Alicia Vikander 	Anna Karenina
2013	Holliday Grainger 	Great Expectations
2013	Quvenzhané Wallis 	Beasts of the Southern Wild
2014	Margot Robbie 	The Wolf of Wall Street
2014	Adèle Exarchopoulos	Blue Is the Warmest Colour
2014	Antonia Thomas 	Sunshine on Leith
2014	Elizabeth Debicki 	The Great Gatsby
2014	Freya Mavor 	Sunshine on Leith
2014	Lupita Nyong'o 	12 Years a Slave
2015	Karen Gillan 	Oculus and Guardians of the Galaxy
2015	Carrie Coon 	Gone Girl
2015	Essie Davis 	The Babadook
2015	Gugu Mbatha-Raw 	Belle
2015	Sophie Cookson 	Kingsman: The Secret Service
2016	Daisy Ridley 	Star Wars: The Force Awakens
2016	Olivia Cooke 	Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
2016	Rebecca Ferguson 	Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation
2016	Maika Monroe 	It Follows
2016	Bel Powley 	The Diary of a Teenage Girl
2017	Anya Taylor-Joy 	The Witch
2017	Sennia Nanua 	The Girl with All the Gifts
2017	Sasha Lane 	American Honey
2017	Hayley Squires 	I, Daniel Blake
2017	Angourie Rice 	The Nice Guys
2018	Dafne Keen 	Logan
2018	Emily Beecham 	Daphne
2018	Florence Pugh 	Lady Macbeth
2018	Tessa Thompson 	Thor: Ragnarok
2018	Kelly Marie Tran 	Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Actress
Category:Film awards for debut actress