Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Award for Best Breakthrough Performance

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The Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Award for Best Breakthrough Performance or Best Youth Performance is one of the annual awards given by the Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association.

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Winners

2000s

YearPerformerFilmRole
2005 Terrence Howard Hustle & Flow DJay
2006 Jennifer Hudson Dreamgirls Effie White
2007 Elliot Page [lower-alpha 1] Juno Juno MacGuff
2008 Dev Patel Slumdog Millionaire Jamal Malik
2009 Gabourey Sidibe Precious Claireece "Precious" Jones

2010s

YearPerformerFilmRole
2010 No award
2011
2012 Quvenzhané Wallis Beasts of the Southern Wild Hushpuppy
2013 Tye Sheridan Mud Ellis
2014 Ellar Coltrane Boyhood Mason Evans, Jr.
2015 Jacob Tremblay Room Jack Newsome
2016 Lucas Hedges Manchester by the Sea Patrick Chandler
2017 Brooklynn Prince The Florida Project Moonee
2018 Elsie Fisher Eighth Grade Kayla Day
2019 Roman Griffin Davis Jojo Rabbit Jojo Betzler

2020s

YearPerformerFilmRole
2020 Alan Kim Minari David Yi
2021 Woody Norman C'mon C'mon Jesse
2022 Gabriel LaBelle The Fabelmans Sammy Fabelman

Notes

  1. Credited as Ellen Page

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