National Board of Review Award for Breakthrough Performance explained

The National Board of Review Award for Breakthrough Performance is one of the annual film awards given by the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures since 1995.

Winners

1990s

Year	Winner	Film	Role
1995	Alicia Silverstone	Clueless	Cher Horowitz	[1]
1996	Renée Zellweger	Jerry Maguire	Dorothy Boyd	[2]
1997	Bai Ling	Red Corner	Shen Yuelin	[3]
1998	Angelina Jolie	Playing by Heart	Joan	[4]
	Billy Crudup	The Hi-Lo Country	Pete Calder
1999	Hilary Swank	Boys Don't Cry		[5]
	Wes Bentley	American Beauty	Ricky Fitts

2000s

Year	Winner	Film(s)	Role(s)
2000	Michelle Rodriguez	Girlfight	Diana Guzman	[6]
	Jamie Bell	Billy Elliot	Billy Elliot
2001	Naomi Watts	Mulholland Drive	Betty Elms / Diane Selwyn	[7]
	Hayden Christensen	Life as a House	Sam Monroe
2002	Maggie Gyllenhaal	Secretary	Lee Holloway	[8]
	Derek Luke	Antwone Fisher	Antwone Fisher
2003	Charlize Theron	Monster		[9]
	Paul Giamatti	American Splendor	Harvey Pekar
2004	Emmy Rossum	The Phantom of the Opera		[10]
	Topher Grace	In Good Company / P.S.	Carter Duryea / F. Scott Feinstadt
2005	Q'orianka Kilcher	The New World		[11]
	Terrence Howard	Crash / Get Rich or Die Tryin' / Hustle & Flow	Cameron Thayer / Bama / Djay
2006	Jennifer Hudson	Dreamgirls		[12]
	Rinko Kikuchi	Babel	Chieko Wataya
	Ryan Gosling	Half Nelson	Dan Dunne
2007	Elliot Page	Juno	Juno MacGuff	[13]
	Emile Hirsch	Into the Wild	Chris McCandless
2008	Viola Davis	Doubt	Mrs. Miller	[14]
	Dev Patel	Slumdog Millionaire	Jamal Malik
2009	Gabourey Sidibe	Precious	Claireece "Precious" Jones	[15]
	Jeremy Renner	The Hurt Locker	Sergeant First Class William James

2010s

Year	Winner	Film(s)	Role(s)
2010	Jennifer Lawrence	Winter's Bone	Ree Dolly	[16]
2011	Rooney Mara	The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo		[17]
	Felicity Jones	Like Crazy	Anna Gardner
2012	Quvenzhané Wallis	Beasts of the Southern Wild	Hushpuppy	[18]
	Tom Holland	The Impossible	Lucas Bennett
2013	Adèle Exarchopoulos	Blue Is the Warmest Colour	Adèle	[19]
	Michael B. Jordan	Fruitvale Station	Oscar Grant
2014	Jack O'Connell	Starred Up / Unbroken		[20]
2015	Abraham Attah	Beasts of No Nation	Agu	[21]
	Jacob Tremblay	Room	Jack Newsome
2016	Royalty Hightower	The Fits	Toni	[22]
	Lucas Hedges	Manchester by the Sea	Patrick Chandler
2017	Timothée Chalamet	Call Me by Your Name	Elio Perlman	[23]
2018	Thomasin McKenzie	Leave No Trace	Tom	[24]
2019	Paul Walter Hauser	Richard Jewell		[25]

2020s

Year	Winner	Film	Role
2020	Sidney Flanigan	Never Rarely Sometimes Always	Autumn Callahan	[26]
2021	Alana Haim	Licorice Pizza	Alana Kane	[27]
	Cooper Hoffman		Gary Valentine
2022	Danielle Deadwyler	Till		[28]
Gabriel LaBelle	The Fabelmans	Sammy Fabelman
2023	Teyana Taylor	A Thousand and One	Inez de la Paz	[29]

External links

• Breakthrough Performance Archives at National Board of Review
• Breakthrough Performance Actor Archives at National Board of Review
• Breakthrough Performance Actress Archives at National Board of Review

Notes and References

1. Web site: 1995 Award Winners . National Board of Review.
2. Web site: 1996 Award Winners . National Board of Review.
3. Web site: 1997 Award Winners . National Board of Review.
4. Web site: 1998 Award Winners . National Board of Review.
5. Web site: 1999 Award Winners . National Board of Review.
6. Web site: 2000 Award Winners . National Board of Review.
7. Web site: 2001 Award Winners . National Board of Review.
8. Web site: 2002 Award Winners . National Board of Review.
9. Web site: 2003 Award Winners . National Board of Review.
10. Web site: 2004 Award Winners . National Board of Review.
11. Web site: 2005 Award Winners . National Board of Review.
12. Web site: 2006 Award Winners . National Board of Review.
13. Web site: 2007 Award Winners . National Board of Review.
14. Web site: 2008 Award Winners . National Board of Review.
15. Web site: 2009 Award Winners . National Board of Review.
16. Web site: 2010 Award Winners . National Board of Review.
17. Web site: 2011 Award Winners . National Board of Review.
18. Web site: 2012 Award Winners . National Board of Review.
19. Web site: 2013 Award Winners . National Board of Review.
20. Web site: 2014 Award Winners . National Board of Review.
21. Web site: 2015 Award Winners . National Board of Review.
22. Web site: 2016 Award Winners . National Board of Review.
23. Web site: 2017 Award Winners . National Board of Review.
24. Web site: 2018 Award Winners . National Board of Review.
25. Web site: 2019 Award Winners . National Board of Review.
26. Web site: 2020 Award Winners . National Board of Review.
27. Web site: 2021 Award Winners . National Board of Review.
28. Web site: 2022 Award Winners . National Board of Review.
29. Web site: National Board of Review Names ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Best Film of 2023 . The Hollywood Reporter.