British Academy Film Award / Best Young Talent
British Academy Film Award: Best Young Talent (Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer)
Winner and nominee for Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer since it was first presented at the British Academy Film Awards (BAFTA Awards) in 1999. The award honors the debut film work of a British director, screenwriter or producer , with the debut film released during the BAFTA nomination period. The film doesn't necessarily have to be a British production, but the Excellent has to be British. The prize honors films from the previous year.
From 1999 to 2001 the award was named “Carl Foreman Award for Most Promising Newcomer in British Film” and from 2002 to 2009 “Carl Foreman Award for Special Achievement by a British Director, Writer or Producer in their first Feature Film” - each in souvenir the American screenwriter and director Carl Foreman . Since 2010 the category has been called “Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer”. The winner is not determined by members of the Academy, but by a jury made up of experts from the film industry.
The best young actors were awarded the BAFTA for the best young actor from 1953 to 1985 and have been awarded the Rising Star Award since 2006 .
1990s
1999
Richard Kwietniowski - Life and Death on Long Island (Love and Death on Long Island)
- Sandra Goldbacher - The Governess
- Shane Meadows - Twenty Four Seven
- Matthew Vaughn - Jack, Queen, King, grass (Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels)
2000s
2000
- Ayub Khan-Din - East is East
- Justin Kerrigan - Human Traffic
- Kirk Jones - Long Live Ned Devine! (Waking Ned)
2001
Paweł Pawlikowski - Last Resort
- Stephen Daldry - Billy Elliot - I Will Dance (Billy Elliot)
- Lee Hall - Billy Elliot - I Will Dance (Billy Elliot)
- Mark Crowdy - Saving Grace (Saving Grace)
- Simon Cellan Jones - Some Voices
2002
Joel Hopkins , Nicola Usborne - Jump Tomorrow - Spring Morgen (Jump Tomorrow)
- Julian Fellowes - Gosford Park
- Jack Lothian - Late Night Shopping
- Steve Coogan , Henry Normal - The B-Team: Restricted and On Parole (The Parole Officer)
- Richard Parry - South West 9
- Ruth Kenley-Letts - Strictly Sinatra
2003
- Duncan Roy - AKA
- Simon Bent - Christie Malry's Bloody Bookkeeping (Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry)
- Lucy Darwin - Lost in La Mancha
2004
- Sergio Casci - American Cousins
- Peter Webber - Girl with a Pearl Earring (Girl with a Pearl Earring)
- Jenny Mayhew - To Kill a King
2005
- Andrea Gibb - AfterLife
- Shona Auerbach - Dear Frankie (Dear Frankie)
- Matthew Vaughn - Layer Cake
- Nira Park - Shaun of the Dead
Joe Wright - Pride and Prejudice (Pride & Prejudice)
- Richard Hawkins - Everything
- Annie Griffin - Festival
- David Belton - Shooting Dogs
- Peter Fudakowski - Tsotsi
- Gary Tarn - Schwarze Sonne (Black Sun)
- Christine Langan - Pierrepoint
- Paul Andrew Williams - London to Brighton
- Julian Gilbey - Rollin 'with the Nines
- Chris Atkins - Taking Liberties
- Mia Bays - Scott Walker: 30 Century Man
- Sarah Gavron - Brick Lane
- Andrew Piddington - The Killing of John Lennon
- Judy Craymer - Mamma Mia!
- Simon Chinn - Man on Wire
- Sol Papadopoulos , Roy Boulter - Of Time and the City
- Garth Jennings - The Son of Rambow (Son of Rambow)
2010s
- Lucy Bailey , Andrew Thompson , Elizabeth Morgan Hemlock , David Pearson - Mugabe and the White African
- Eran Creevy - Shifty
- Stuart Hazeldine - Exam - Fatal Exam (Exam)
- Sam Taylor-Johnson - Nowhere Boy
- Clio Barnard , Tracy O'Riordan - The Arbor
- Banksy , Jaimie D'Cruz - Exit Through the Gift Shop
- Gareth Edwards - Monsters
- Nick Whitfield - Skeletons
Paddy Considine , Diarmid Scrimshaw - Tyrannosaur - A Love Story (Tyrannosaur)
- Joe Cornish - Attack the Block
- Tom Kingsley , Will Sharpe , Sarah Brocklehurst - Black Pond
- Ralph Fiennes - Coriolanus
- Richard Ayoade - Submarine
Bart Layton , Dimitri Doganis - Der Blender (The Imposter)
- David Morris , Jacqui Morris - McCullin
- Dexter Fletcher , Danny King - Wild Bill
- James Bobin - The Muppets (The Muppets)
- Tina Gharavi - I Am Nasrine
Colin Carberry , Glenn Patterson - Good Vibrations
- Scott Graham - Shell
- Kelly Marcel - Saving Mr. Banks
- Paul Wright , Polly Stokes - For Those in Peril
Stephen Beresford , David Livingstone - Pride
- Gregory Burke , Yann Demange - '71
- Elaine Constantine - Northern Soul
- Paul Katis , Andrew de Lotbiniere - Kajaki
- Houng Khaou - Lilting
Naji Abu Nowar , Rupert Lloyd - Theeb
- Stephen Fingleton - The Survivalist
- Alex Garland - Ex Machina
- Debbie Tucker Green - Second Coming
- Sean Mcallister , Elhum Shakerifar - A Syrian Love Story
Babak Anvari , Emily Leo , Oliver Roskill , Lucan Toh - Under the Shadow
- Mike Carey , Camille Gatin - The Girl with All the Gifts
- George Amponsah , Dione Walker - The Hard Stop
- Pete Middleton , Jo-Jo Ellison - Notes on Blindness
- John Donnelly , Ben Williams - The Pass
Rungano Nyoni , Emily Morgan - I am not a Witch
- Gareth Tunley , Jack Healy Guttman , Tom Meeten - The Ghoul
- Johnny Harris , Thomas Napper - Jawbone
- Lucy Cohen - Kingdom of Us
- Alice Birch , William Oldroyd , Fodhla Cronin O'Reilly - Lady Macbeth
Michael Pearce (Director, Screenplay), Lauren Dark (Production) - Beast
- Daniel Kokotajlo (Director, Screenplay) - Apostasy
- Chris Kelly (Director, Writer, Producer) - A Cambodian Spring
- Leanne Welham (director, screenplay), Sophie Harman (production) - Pili
- Richard Billingham (Director, Screenplay), Jacqui Davies (Production) - Ray & Liz