BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles | |
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Country | United Kingdom |
Presented by | British Academy of Film and Television Arts |
First awarded | 1952 (presented 1953) |
Last awarded | 1984 (presented 1985) |
Website | http://www.bafta.org/ |
The British Academy Award for Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles is a discontinued British Academy Film Award presented annually by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) until 1984.
The category has had several name changes throughout its history, as detailed on the recipient's list below:
Note: The BAFTA site differs on what the category title is for the 1980s, with the actors own pages on the site using the titles given above, while other pages use Most Promising Newcomer to Film. [1]
A similar award honoring new acting talent, the Rising Star Award, was introduced in 2006. Even though its nominees are selected by the BAFTA juries, the eventual Rising Star winner is decided by public votes via text, internet, or phone.
In the following lists, the titles and names in bold with a gold background are the winners and recipients respectively; those not in bold are the nominees. The years given are those in which the films under consideration were released, not the year of the ceremony, which always takes place the following year.
Year | Actor | Film | Character |
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Most Outstanding Newcomer to Leading Film Roles | |||
1980 (34th) | Judy Davis | My Brilliant Career | Sybylla Melvyn |
Sônia Braga | Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands | Flor | |
John Gordon Sinclair | Gregory's Girl | Gregory Underwood | |
Debra Winger | Urban Cowboy | Sissy Davis | |
1981 (35th) | Joe Pesci | Raging Bull | Joey LaMotta |
Klaus Maria Brandauer | Mephisto | Hendrik Hoefgen | |
Timothy Hutton | Ordinary People | Conrad Jarrett | |
Cathy Moriarty | Raging Bull | Vicki Thailer | |
1982 (36th) | Ben Kingsley | Gandhi | Mahatma Gandhi |
Drew Barrymore | E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial | Gertie | |
Henry Thomas | Elliott | ||
Kathleen Turner | Body Heat | Matty Walker | |
Most Outstanding Newcomer to Film | |||
1983 (37th) | Phyllis Logan | Another Time, Another Place | Janie |
Kevin Kline | Sophie's Choice | Nathan Landau | |
Greta Scacchi | Heat and Dust | Olivia Rivers | |
Julie Walters | Educating Rita | Susan "Rita" White | |
Haing S. Ngor | The Killing Fields | Pran | |
Rupert Everett | Another Country | Guy Bennett | |
John Lynch | Cal | Cal | |
Tim Roth | The Hit | Myron |
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