Empire Award for Best Male Newcomer
# Empire Award for Best Male Newcomer

The Empire Award for Best Male Newcomer is an Empire Award presented annually by the British film magazine Empire to honor an actor who has delivered a breakthrough performance while working within the film industry. The Empire Award for Best Male Newcomer is one of two ongoing awards which were first introduced at the 17th Empire Awards ceremony in 2012 (along with Best Female Newcomer) with Tom Hiddleston receiving the award for his role in Thor. Josh O'Connor is the most recent winner in this category for his role in God's Own Country. Winners are voted by the readers of Empire magazine.

## Winners and nominees

In the list below, winners are listed first in boldface, followed by the other nominees. The number of the ceremony (1st, 2nd, etc.) appears in parentheses after the awards year, linked to the article (if any) on that ceremony.

### 2010s

| Year | Actor | Film |
| - | - | - |
| 2012 (17th) | Tom Hiddleston | Thor |
| 2012 (17th) | Asa Butterfield | Hugo |
| 2012 (17th) | Craig Roberts | Submarine |
| 2012 (17th) | Jeremy Irvine | War Horse |
| 2012 (17th) | John Boyega | Attack the Block |
| 2012 (17th) | Sam Claflin | Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides |
| 2013 (18th) | Tom Holland | The Impossible |
| 2013 (18th) | Domhnall Gleeson | Anna Karenina |
| 2013 (18th) | Rafe Spall | Life of Pi |
| 2013 (18th) | Steve Oram | Sightseers |
| 2013 (18th) | Suraj Sharma | Life of Pi |
| 2014 (19th) | Aidan Turner | The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug |
| 2014 (19th) | Barkhad Abdi | Captain Phillips |
| 2014 (19th) | George MacKay | Sunshine on Leith |
| 2014 (19th) | Oscar Isaac | Inside Llewyn Davis |
| 2014 (19th) | Tye Sheridan | Mud |
| 2014 (19th) | Will Poulter | We're the Millers |
| 2015 (20th) | Taron Egerton | Kingsman: The Secret Service |
| 2015 (20th) | Dan Stevens | The Guest |
| 2015 (20th) | Daniel Huttlestone | Into the Woods |
| 2015 (20th) | Ellar Coltrane | Boyhood |
| 2015 (20th) | Jack O'Connell | Unbroken |
| 2016 (21st) | John Boyega | Star Wars: The Force Awakens |
| 2016 (21st) | Abraham Attah | Beasts of No Nation |
| 2016 (21st) | Thomas Mann | Me and Earl and the Dying Girl |
| 2016 (21st) | Jason Mitchell | Straight Outta Compton |
| 2016 (21st) | Jacob Tremblay | Room |
| 2017 (22nd) | Dave Johns | I, Daniel Blake |
| 2017 (22nd) | Julian Dennison | Hunt for the Wilderpeople |
| 2017 (22nd) | Lewis MacDougall | A Monster Calls |
| 2017 (22nd) | Riz Ahmed | Rogue One: A Star Wars Story |
| 2017 (22nd) | Tom Holland | Captain America: Civil War |
| 2018 (23rd) | Josh O'Connor | God's Own Country |
| 2018 (23rd) | Fionn Whitehead | Dunkirk |
| 2018 (23rd) | Ansel Elgort | Baby Driver |
| 2018 (23rd) | Daniel Kaluuya | Get Out |
| 2018 (23rd) | Timothée Chalamet | Call Me by Your Name |
