The Empire Award for Best Male Newcomer is an
Empire Award presented annually by the British
film magazine
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''Empire'' to honor an
actor
An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek term is (), li ...
who has delivered a breakthrough performance
while working within the
film industry
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. The Empire Award for Best Male Newcomer is one of two ongoing awards which were first introduced at the
17th Empire Awards
The 17th Empire Awards ceremony (officially known as the Jameson Empire Awards), presented by the British film magazine ''Empire'', honoured the best films of 2011 and took place on 25 March 2012 at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London, England. ...
ceremony in 2012 (along with
Best Female Newcomer) with
Tom Hiddleston
Thomas William Hiddleston (born 9 February 1981) is an English actor. He gained international fame portraying Loki in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), starting with ''Thor'' in 2011 and most recently in the Disney+ series ''Loki'' in 2021 ...
receiving the award for his role in ''
Thor''.
Josh O'Connor
Josh O'Connor (born in 1989/1990) is a British actor. He portrayed a young Charles III (Prince Charles) in the Netflix drama ''The Crown'' (2019–2020), for which he won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Drama and th ...
is the
most recent winner in this category for his role in ''
God's Own Country
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Examples
Australia
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''. 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
References
External links
{{Empire Awards
Actor
An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek term is (), li ...
Film awards for male debut actors