Critics' Choice Movie Award / Best Young Actor

The BFCA has been honoring the best young actor of the previous film year since 1997 .

Award winners

year	Award winners	Movie
1997	Jonathan Lipnicki	Jerry Maguire - Game of Life
	Renée Zellweger	Jerry Maguire - Game of Life
1998	Jurnee Smollett	Eve's Bayou
	Matt Damon	Good Will Hunting
1999	Ian Michael Smith	Simon Birch
	Joseph Fiennes	Elizabeth and Shakespeare in Love
2000	Haley Joel Osment	The Sixth Sense
	Spike Jonze	Being John Malkovich and Three Kings - It's nice to be king
2001	Jamie Bell	Billy Elliot - I Will Dance
	Kate Hudson	Almost Famous
2002	Dakota Fanning	I'm sam
2003	Kieran Culkin	Igby
2004	Keisha Castle-Hughes	Whale rider
2005	Freddie Highmore	when dreams learn to fly
	Emmy Rossum	The Phantom of the Opera
2006	Freddie Highmore	Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
	Dakota Fanning	war of the Worlds
2007	Paul Dano	Little Miss Sunshine
	Abigail Breslin	Little Miss Sunshine
2008	Ahmad Khan Mahmoodzada	Kite runner
	Nikki Blonsky	Hairspray
2009	Dev Patel	Slumdog millionaire
2010	Saoirse Ronan	In my heaven
2011	Hailee Steinfeld	True grit
2012	Thomas Horn	Extremely loud & incredibly close
2013	Quvenzhané Valais	Beasts of the Southern Wild
2014	Adèle Exarchopoulos	Blue is a warm color (La vie d'Adèle)
2015	Ellar Coltrane	Boyhood
2016 (Jan.)	Jacob Tremblay	Room (Room)
2016 (Dec.)	Lucas Hedges	Manchester by the Sea
2018	Brooklynn Prince	The Florida Project
2019	Elsie Fisher	Eighth grade
2020	Roman Griffin Davis	Jojo Rabbit