Empire Award for Best Male Newcomer

Empire Award for Best Male Newcomer
Awarded for	Best breakthrough performance by an actor
Country	United Kingdom
Presented by	Empire magazine
First awarded	2012
Currently held by	John Boyega - Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2016)

The Empire Award for Best Male Newcomer is an Empire Award presented annually by the British film magazine Empire to honor an actor who has delivered a breakthrough performance^[1] while working within the film industry. The Empire Award for Best Male Newcomer is one of two ongoing awards which were first introduced at the 17th Empire Awards ceremony in 2012 (along with Best Female Newcomer) with Tom Hiddleston receiving the award for his role in Thor. Taron Egerton is the most recent winner in this category for his role in Kingsman: The Secret Service. 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)	Tom Hiddleston	Thor	[2]
	Asa Butterfield	Hugo
	Craig Roberts	Submarine
	Jeremy Irvine	War Horse
	John Boyega	Attack the Block
	Sam Claflin	Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
2013 (18th)	Tom Holland	The Impossible	[3]
	Domhnall Gleeson	Anna Karenina
	Rafe Spall	Life of Pi
	Steve Oram	Sightseers
	Suraj Sharma	Life of Pi
2014 (19th)	Aidan Turner	The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug	[4]
	Barkhad Abdi	Captain Phillips
	George MacKay	Sunshine on Leith
	Oscar Isaac	Inside Llewyn Davis
	Tye Sheridan	Mud
	Will Poulter	We're the Millers
2015 (20th)	Taron Egerton	Kingsman: The Secret Service	[5][6]
	Dan Stevens	The Guest
	Daniel Huttlestone	Into the Woods
	Ellar Coltrane	Boyhood
	Jack O'Connell	Unbroken
2016 (21st)	John Boyega	Star Wars: The Force Awakens	[7]
	Abraham Attah	Beasts of No Nation
	Thomas Mann	Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
	Jason Mitchell	Straight Outta Compton
	Jacob Tremblay	Room

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 Male Newcomer". Empireonline.com. Bauer Consumer Media. 2012. Retrieved August 18, 2014.
3. "Best Male Newcomer". Empireonline.com. Bauer Consumer Media. 2013. Retrieved August 18, 2004.
4. "Best Male Newcomer". Empireonline.com. Bauer Consumer Media. 2014. Retrieved August 18, 2014.
5. "Best Male 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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