Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards / Best Offspring

Since 1976, promising young actors in the film industry have also been honored with the New Generation Award at the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards . 1984–1985, 1987–1988, 1990 and 1992 no prizes were awarded in this category.

Excellent

year	Award winners	Type of activity	Movie
1976	Martin Scorsese	Director	Taxi driver
1976	Jodie Foster	actress	Taxi driver
1977	Joan Micklin Silver	Writer / director	Between the lines
1978	Gary Busey	actor	The Buddy Holly Story
1979	John Carpenter	Writer / director	Halloween - The night of horror
1980	Carroll Ballard	Director	The black stallion
1981	John Guare	author	Atlantic City, USA
1982	Melissa Mathison	Author	ET - The Alien
1983	Sean Penn	actor	Bad Boys - Small and dangerous I think I'm in the woods
1984- 1985	Prize not awarded
1986	Spike Lee	Director, writer, producer, editor and actor	Nola darling
1987- 1988	Prize not awarded
1989	Laura San Giacomo	actress	Sex, lies and video
1990	No award ceremony in this category
1991	Carl Franklin	Director	One false move
1992	No award ceremony in this category
1993	Leonardo DiCaprio	actor	Gilbert Grape - Somewhere in Iowa
1994	John Dahl	Writer / director	The final seduction
1995	Alfonso Cuarón	Director	Little Princess - The little princess
1996	Emily Watson	actress	Breaking the waves
1997	Paul Thomas Anderson	Writer / director	Last Exit Reno Boogie Nights
1998	Wes Anderson	Writer / director	Rushmore
1999	Alexander Payne	Writer / director	Baby Business Election
1999	Jim Taylor	author	Baby Business Election
2000	Mark Ruffalo	actor	You Can Count on Me
2001	John Cameron Mitchell	Director	Hedwig and the Angry Inch
2002	Lynne Ramsay	Author / director	Morvern Callar
2003	Scarlett Johansson	actress	Lost in Translation
2004	Joshua Marston	Director	Mary full of grace
2004	Catalina Sandino Moreno	actress	Mary full of grace
2005	Terrence Howard	actor	LA crash
2006	Michael Arndt	Screenwriter	Little Miss Sunshine
2006	Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris	Director	Little Miss Sunshine
2007	Sarah Polley	Author / director	At your side
2008	Steve McQueen	Writer / director	hunger
2009	Neill Blomkamp	Writer / director	District 9
2010	Lena Dunham	Author / director	Tiny furniture
2011	Antonio Campos Sean Durkin Josh Moon Elizabeth Olsen	Producer Director / Screenplay Production Actress	Martha Marcy May Marlene
2012	Benh Zeitlin	Writer / director	Beasts of the Southern Wild
2013	Megan Ellison	Producer	Her American Hustle
2014	Ava DuVernay	Director	Selma
2015	Ryan Coogler	Writer / director	Creed - Rocky's Legacy
2016	Trey Edward Shults Krisha Fairchild	Director actress	Krisha
2017	Greta Gerwig	Author / director	Lady Bird
2018	Chloé Zhao	Author / director	The Rider
2018	Joe Talbot Jimmie Fails Jonathan Majors	Writer / director actor actor	The Last Black Man In San Francisco