Empire Award for Best Female Newcomer explained

Empire Award for Best Female Newcomer
Awarded For:	Best breakthrough performance by an actress
Presenter:	Empire magazine
Country:	United Kingdom
Year:	2012
Holder:	Dafne Keen – Logan (2018)
Main:	Empire Awards

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^[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. 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	^[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	Samantha Barks	Les Misérables	^[3]
	Alice Lowe	Sightseers
	Alicia Vikander	Anna Karenina
	Holliday Grainger	Great Expectations
	Quvenzhané Wallis	Beasts of the Southern Wild
2014	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	Karen Gillan	Oculus and Guardians of the Galaxy	^[5] ^[6]
	Carrie Coon	Gone Girl
	Essie Davis	The Babadook
	Gugu Mbatha-Raw	Belle
	Sophie Cookson
2016	Daisy Ridley		^[7]
	Olivia Cooke	Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
	Rebecca Ferguson
	Maika Monroe	It Follows
	Bel Powley	The Diary of a Teenage Girl
2017	Anya Taylor-Joy	The Witch	^[8]
	Sennia Nanua	The Girl with All the Gifts
	Sasha Lane	American Honey
	Hayley Squires	I, Daniel Blake
	Angourie Rice	The Nice Guys
2018	Dafne Keen	Logan	^[9]
	Emily Beecham	Daphne
	Florence Pugh	Lady Macbeth
	Tessa Thompson
	Kelly Marie Tran

Notes and References

1. News: O'Hara . Helen . Jameson Empire Award Nominations 2012. The nominees are here! . . 26 March 2012 . 10 October 2014 . 30 October 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20131030221605/http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=33488 . live .
2. Web site: Best Female Newcomer . . 2012 . 18 August 2014 . 24 September 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150924045430/http://www.empireonline.com/awards2012/winners/femalenewcomer.asp . live .
3. Web site: Best Female Newcomer . . 2013 . 18 August 2004 . 5 November 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20131105111810/http://www.empireonline.com/awards2013/winners/bestfemalenewcomer.asp . live .
4. Web site: Best Female Newcomer . . 2014 . 18 August 2014 . 19 August 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140819102848/http://www.empireonline.com/awards2014/winners/best-female-newcomer.asp . live .
5. Web site: Best Female Newcomer . . 2015 . 1 April 2015 . 2 April 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150402113606/http://www.empireonline.com/awards2015/winners/best-female-newcomer.asp . live .
6. News: Barraclough . Leo . 'Interstellar' wins Film, Director at Empire Awards . . . 30 March 2015 . 30 March 2015 . 12 March 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160312130035/http://variety.com/2015/film/global/interstellar-wins-film-director-at-empire-awards-1201462423/ . live .
7. Web site: Jameson Empire Awards 2016: Star Wars and Mad Max lead the nominations . 5 March 2016 . 5 March 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160305014837/http://www.empireonline.com/movies/news/star-wars-mad-max-empire-awards-2016-nominations-2/ . live .
8. Web site: Empireonline.com. Three Empire Awards 2017: Rogue One, Tom Hiddleston And Patrick Stewart Win Big . 10 February 2018 . 20 March 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170320011913/https://www.empireonline.com/movies/news/three-empire-awards-2017-rogue-one-tom-hiddleston-patrick-stewart-win-big/ . live .
9. Web site: Empireonline.com. Star Wars The Last Jedi and Thor Ragnarok Lead Empire Awards 2018 Nominations . 10 February 2018 . 3 February 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180203010204/https://www.empireonline.com/movies/news/star-wars-last-jedi-thor-ragnarok-lead-empire-awards-2018-nominations/ . live .