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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