BAFTA Award for Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer facts for kids
Quick facts for kids BAFTA Award for Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer |
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| Presented by | British Academy of Film and Television Arts |
| Location | London |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| First awarded | 1998 |
| Currently held by | Rich Peppiatt for Kneecap (2024) |
The BAFTA Award for Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer is a special prize given out every year at the British Academy Film Awards in London. This award celebrates the amazing first films made by new British writers, directors, or producers.
The award is given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA). BAFTA is a famous British group that gives out awards for great work in film, TV, children's shows, and video games. This specific award honors the memory of a talented writer and producer named Carl Foreman. It helps new filmmakers get noticed for their very first movies shown in cinemas.
The name of this award has changed a few times:
- From 1998 to 2000, it was called the Carl Foreman Award for Most Promising Newcomer in British Film.
- From 2001 to 2008, it was known as the Carl Foreman Award for Special Achievement by a British Director, Writer or Producer in their first Feature Film.
- Since 2009, it has been called the Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer.
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How the Winners Are Chosen
Unlike many other BAFTA Awards, which are voted on by all BAFTA members, the Outstanding Debut Award is chosen by a special group of experts. This group is called a jury. These jury members are film industry professionals.
They watch and think about all the eligible first films throughout the year. The jury can pick any combination of a new writer, director, or producer from a film to be nominated. They then decide who the winner will be.
Many important people have led this jury over the years. Some past winners of the award, like Asif Kapadia and Mark Jenkin, have even become jury members themselves. This shows how much they care about helping new talent.
History of the Award
The very first idea for this award started in 1991. Back then, it was a scholarship. This scholarship helped promising young British students study filmmaking in the United States.
The award we know today began in 1997. It was created to support British filmmaking. It aimed to find and celebrate the most promising new British talent in writing, producing, or directing. The first award was given in 1998. Until 2009, the award was managed by both the Foreman Williams Jones Foundation and BAFTA. Now, BAFTA runs the award all by itself. It still honors Carl Foreman and his contributions to film.
Winners and Nominees
indicates the winner
1990s
| Year | Work | Recipient |
|---|---|---|
| Carl Foreman Award for Most Promising Newcomer in British Film | ||
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(52nd) |
Love and Death on Long Island | Richard Kwietniowski |
| The Governess | Sandra Goldbacher | |
| Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels | Matthew Vaughn | |
| Twenty Four Seven | Shane Meadows | |
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(53rd) |
Ratcatcher | Lynne Ramsay |
| East is East | Ayub Khan-Din | |
| Human Traffic | Justin Kerrigan | |
| Waking Ned | Kirk Jones | |
2000s
| Year | Work | Recipient |
|---|---|---|
|
(54th) |
Last Resort | Pawel Pawlikowski |
| Billy Elliot | Stephen Daldry | |
| Lee Hall | ||
| Saving Grace | Mark Crowdy | |
| Some Voices | Simon Cellan Jones | |
| Carl Foreman Award for Special Achievement by a British Director, Writer or Producer in their first Feature Film | ||
|
(55th) |
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 | |
|
(56th) |
The Warrior | Asif Kapadia |
| AKA | Duncan Roy | |
| Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry | Simon Bent | |
| Lost in La Mancha | Lucy Darwin | |
|
(57th) |
Kiss of Life | Emily Young |
| American Cousins | Sergio Casci | |
| Girl with a Pearl Earring | Peter Webber | |
| To Kill a King | Jenny Mayhew | |
|
(58th) |
A Way of Life | Amma Asante |
| AfterLife | Andrea Gibb | |
| Dear Frankie | Shona Auerbach | |
| Layer Cake | Matthew Vaughn | |
| Shaun of the Dead | Nira Park | |
|
(59th) |
Pride & Prejudice | Joe Wright |
| Everything | Richard Hawkins | |
| Festival | Annie Griffin | |
| ... Dogs | David Belton | |
| Tsotsi | Peter Fudakowski | |
|
(60th) |
Red Road | Andrea Arnold |
| Black Sun | Gary Tarn | |
| London to Brighton | Paul Andrew Williams | |
| Pierrepoint | Christine Langan | |
| Rollin' with the Nines | Julian Gilbey | |
|
(61st) |
Control | Matt Greenhalgh |
| Taking Liberties | Chris Atkins | |
| Scott Walker: 30 Century Man | Mia Bays | |
| Brick Lane | Sarah Gavron | |
| The Killing of John Lennon | Andrew Piddington | |
|
(62nd) |
Hunger | Steve McQueen (writer/director) |
| Mamma Mia! | Judy Craymer (producer) | |
| Man on Wire | Simon Chinn (producer) | |
| Of Time and the City | Roy Boulter; Sol Papadopoulos (producer) | |
| Son of Rambow | Garth Jennings (writer) | |
| Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer | ||
|
(63rd) |
Moon | Duncan Jones (writer/director) |
| Exam | Stuart Hazeldine (writer/director/producer) | |
| Mugabe and the White African | Lucy Bailey (director); Andrew Thompson (director); Elizabeth Morgan Hemlock (producer); David Pearson (producer) | |
| Nowhere Boy | Sam Taylor-Wood (director) | |
| Shifty | Eran Creevy (writer/director) | |
2010s
| Year | Work | Recipient |
|---|---|---|
|
(64th) |
Four Lions | Chris Morris (writer/director) |
| The Arbor | Clio Barnard (director); Tracy O'Riordan (producer) | |
| Exit Through the Gift Shop | Banksy (director); Jaimie D'Cruz (producer) | |
| Monsters | Gareth Edwards (writer/director) | |
| Skeletons | Nick Whitfield (writer/director) | |
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(65th) |
Tyrannosaur | Paddy Considine (director); Diarmid Scrimshaw (producer) |
| Attack the Block | Joe Cornish (director) | |
| Black Pond | Tom Kingsley (director); Will Sharpe (director); Sarah Brocklehurst (producer) | |
| Coriolanus | Ralph Fiennes (director) | |
| Submarine | Richard Ayoade (director) | |
|
(66th) |
The Imposter | Bart Layton (director); Dimitri Doganis (producer) |
| I Am Nasrine | Tina Gharavi (writer/director) | |
| McCullin | David Morris (director); Jacqui Morris (director/producer) | |
| The Muppets | James Bobin (director) | |
| Wild Bill | Dexter Fletcher (writer/director); Danny King (writer) | |
|
(67th) |
Kelly + Victor | Kieran Evans (director/writer) |
| For Those in Peril | Paul Wright (director/writer); Polly Stokes (producer) | |
| Good Vibrations | Colin Carberry (writer); Glenn Patterson (writer) | |
| Saving Mr. Banks | Kelly Marcel (writer) | |
| Shell | Scott Graham (director/writer) | |
|
(68th) |
Pride | Stephen Beresford (writer); David Livingstone (producer) |
| '71 | Gregory Burke (writer); Yann Demange (director) | |
| Kajaki | Paul Katis (director/producer); Andrew de Lotbiniere (producer) | |
| Lilting | Hong Khaou (director/writer) | |
| Northern Soul | Elaine Constantine (director/writer) | |
|
(69th) |
Theeb | Naji Abu Nowar (writer/director); Rupert Lloyd (producer) |
| Ex Machina | Alex Garland (director) | |
| Second Coming | Debbie Tucker Green (writer/director) | |
| The Survivalist | Stephen Fingleton (writer/director) | |
| A Syrian Love Story | Sean McAllister (director/producer); Elhum Shakerifar (producer) | |
|
(70th) |
Under the Shadow | Babak Anvari (writer/director); Emily Leo (producer); Oliver Roskill (producer); Lucan Toh (producer) |
| The Girl with All the Gifts | Mike Carey (writer/director); Camille Gatin (producer) | |
| The Hard Stop | George Amponsah (director); Dionne Walker (producer) | |
| Notes on Blindness | Pete Middleton (director); James Spinney (director); Jo-Jo Ellison (producer) | |
| The Pass | John Donnelly (writer); Ben A Williams (director) | |
|
(71st) |
I Am Not a Witch | Rungano Nyoni (writer/director); Emily Morgan (producer) |
| The Ghoul | Gareth Tunley (writer/director/producer); Jack Healy Guttman (producer); Tom Meeten (producer) | |
| Jawbone | Johnny Harris (writer/producer); Thomas Napper (director) | |
| Kingdom of Us | Lucy Cohen (director) | |
| Lady Macbeth | Alice Birch (writer); William Oldroyd (director); Fodhla Cronin O'Reilly (producer) | |
|
(72nd) |
Beast | Michael Pearce (writer/director); Lauren Dark (producer) |
| Apostasy | Daniel Kokotajilo (writer/director) | |
| A Cambodian Spring | Chris Kelly (writer/director/producer) | |
| Pili | Leanne Welham (writer/director); Sophie Harman (producer) | |
| Ray & Liz | Richard Billingham (writer/director); Jacqui Davies (producer) | |
|
(73rd) |
Bait | Mark Jenkin (writer/director); Kate Byers (producer); Lynn Waite (producer) |
| For Sama | Waad Al-Khateab (director/producer); Edward Watts (director) | |
| Maiden | Alex Holmes (director) | |
| Only You | Harry Wootliff (writer/director) | |
| Retablo | Alvaro Delgado-Aparicio (writer/director) |
2020s
| Year | Work | Recipient |
|---|---|---|
|
(74th) |
His House | Remi Weekes (writer/director) |
| Limbo | Ben Sharrock (writer/director); Irune Gurtubai (producer) | |
| Moffie | Jack Sidney (writer/producer) | |
| Rocks | Theresa Ikoko (writer); Claire Wilson (writer) | |
| Saint Maud | Rose Glass (writer/director); Oliver Kassman (producer) | |
|
(75th) |
The Harder They Fall | Jeymes Samuel (writer/director) [also written by Boaz Yakin] |
| After Love | Aleem Khan (writer/director) | |
| Boiling Point | James Cummings (writer); Hester Ruoff (producer) [also written by Philip Barantini and produced by Bart Ruspoli] | |
| Keyboard Fantasies | Posy Dixon (writer/director); Liv Proctor (producer) | |
| Passing | Rebecca Hall (writer/director) | |
|
(76th) |
Aftersun | Charlotte Wells (writer/director) |
| Blue Jean | Georgia Oakley (writer/director); Hélène Sifre (producer) | |
| Electric Malady | Marie Lidén (director) | |
| Good Luck to You, Leo Grande | Katy Brand (writer) | |
| Rebellion | Elena Sánchez Bellot (director); Maia Kenworthy (director) | |
|
(77th) |
Earth Mama | Savanah Leaf (writer/director/producer); Shirley O'Connor (producer); Medb Riordan (producer) |
| Blue Bag Life | Lisa Selby (director); Rebecca Lloyd-Evans (director/producer); Alex Fry (producer) | |
| Bobi Wine: The People's President | Christopher Sharp (director) [also directed Moses Bwayo] | |
| How to ... | Molly Manning Walker (writer/director) | |
| Is There Anybody Out There? | Ella Glendining (director) | |
|
(78th) |
Kneecap | Rich Peppiatt (director/writer) |
| Hoard | Luna Carmoon (writer/director) | |
| Monkey Man | Dev Patel (director) | |
| Santosh | Sandhya Suri (writer/director), James Bowsher (producer), and Balthazar De Ganay (producer) [also produced by Alan Mcalex and Mike Goodridge] | |
| Sister Midnight | Karan Kandhari (writer/director) |
There were other BAFTA awards for new talent in the past. From 1952 to 1984, there was a Newcomer Award for actors. You can find more about it at BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles.
Since 2006, there's also a separate award for new actors called the Rising Star Award. Learn more about it at BAFTA Rising Star Award.
See also
In Spanish: Anexo:BAFTA al mejor director, guionista o productor británico novel para niños
