BAFTA Award for Best Newcomer

=Best British Director, Producer or Writer in the First Film=

*2006 - "Red Road" - Andrea Arnold
**"Black Sun" – Gary Tarn
**"Pierrepoint" – Christine Langan
**"London to Brighton" – Paul Andrew Williams
**"Rollin' with the Nines" – Julian Gilbey

*2005 - "Pride & Prejudice" - Joe Wright
**"Everything" – Richard Hawkins
**"Festival" – Annie Griffin
**"Shooting Dogs" – David Belton
**"Tsotsi" – Peter Fudakowski

*2004 - "A Way of Life" - Amma Asante
**"AfterLife" – Andrea Gibb
**"Dear Frankie" – Shona Auerbach
**"Layer Cake" – Matthew Vaughn
**"Shaun of the Dead" – Nira Park

*2003 - "Kiss of Life" - Emily Young
**"American Cousins" – Sergio Casci
**"Girl with a Pearl Earring" – Peter Webber
**"To Kill a King" – Jenny Mayhew

*2002 - "The Warrior" - Asif Kapadia
**"AKA" – Duncan Roy
**"Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry" – Simon Bent
**"Lost in La Mancha" – Lucy Darwin

*2001 - "Jump Tomorrow" - Joel Hopkins Nicola Usborne
**"Gosford Park" – Julian Fellowes
**"Late Night Shopping" – Jack Lothian
**"The Parole Officer" – Steve Coogan Henry Normal
**"South West 9" – Richard Parry
**"Strictly Sinatra" – Ruth Kenley-Letts

*2000 - "Last Resort" - Pawel Pawlikowski
**"Billy Elliot" – Stephen Daldry
**"Billy Elliot" – Lee Hall
**"Saving Grace" – Mark Crowdy
**"Some Voices" – Simon Cellan Jones

*1999 - "Ratcatcher" - Lynne Ramsay
**"East Is East" – Ayub Khan-Din
**"Human Traffic" – Justin Kerrigan
**"Waking Ned" – Kirk Jones

*1998 - "Love and Death on Long Island" - Richard Kwietniowski
**"The Governess" – Sandra Goldbacher
**"Twenty Four Seven" – Shane Meadows
**"Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels" – Matthew Vaughn

Best Leading Newcomer

*1984 - "The Killing Fields" - Haing S. Ngor
**"The Hit" – Tim Roth
**"Cal" – John Lynch
**"Another Country" – Rupert Everett

*1983 - "Another Time, Another Place" - Phyllis Logan
**"Educating Rita" – Julie Walters
**"Heat and Dust" – Greta Scacchi
**"Sophie's Choice" – Kevin Kline

*1982 - "Gandhi" - Ben Kingsley
**"Body Heat" – Kathleen Turner
**"E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial" – Drew Barrymore
**"E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial" – Henry Thomas

*1981 - "Joe Pesci" - Raging Bull
**"Ordinary People" – Timothy Hutton
**Cathy Moriarty – "Raging Bull"
**Klaus Maria Brandauer – "Mephisto"

*1980 - "My Brilliant Career" - Judy Davis
**"Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands" – Sonia Braga
**"Gregory's Girl" – John Gordon Sinclair
**"Urban Cowboy" – Debra Winger

*1979 - "Sigourney Weaver" - Alien (film)