British Academy Film Award for Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer
British Academy Film Awards · 131 nominations across 27 ceremonies · 27 wins
79th BAFTA Film Awards · 2026
- Winner My Father's Shadow · Akinola Davies
- Nominee Wasteman
- Nominee A Want in Her
- Nominee The Ceremony
- Nominee Pillion · Harry Lighton
78th BAFTA Film Awards · 2025
- Winner Kneecap · Rich Peppiatt
- Nominee Monkey Man · Dev Patel
- Nominee Santosh · Sandhya Suri
- Nominee Sister Midnight · Karan Kandhari
- Nominee Hoard · Luna Carmoon
77th BAFTA Film Awards · 2024
- Winner Earth Mama · Savanah Leaf
- Nominee How to Have Sex · Molly Manning Walker
- Nominee Is There Anybody Out There?
- Nominee Bobi Wine: The People's President
- Nominee Blue Bag Life
76th BAFTA Film Awards · 2023
- Winner Aftersun · Charlotte Wells
- Nominee Electric Malady
- Nominee Blue Jean · Georgia Oakley
- Nominee Rebellion
- Nominee Good Luck to You, Leo Grande · Katy Brand
75th BAFTA Film Awards · 2022
- Winner The Harder They Fall · Boaz Yakin
- Nominee Boiling Point · Philip Barantini, Bart Ruspoli
- Nominee After Love · Aleem Khan
- Nominee Keyboard Fantasies
- Nominee Passing · Rebecca Hall
74th BAFTA Film Awards · 2021
- Winner His House
- Nominee Saint Maud
- Nominee Moffie
- Nominee Rocks · Theresa Ikoko
- Nominee Limbo
73rd BAFTA Film Awards · 2020
- Winner Bait · Mark Jenkin
- Nominee Only You · Harry Wootliff
- Nominee Maiden
- Nominee Retablo
- Nominee For Sama · Waad al-Kateab, Edward Watts
71st BAFTA Film Awards · 2018
- Winner I Am Not a Witch · Emily Morgan
- Nominee Kingdom of Us
- Nominee The Ghoul · Tom Meeten
- Nominee Jawbone · Johnny Harris
- Nominee Lady Macbeth · Alice Birch, William Oldroyd, Fodhla Cronin O'Reilly
70th BAFTA Film Awards · 2017
- Winner Under the Shadow · Babak Anvari
- Nominee The Girl with All the Gifts · Mike Carey
- Nominee The Hard Stop
- Nominee Notes on Blindness
- Nominee The Pass
69th BAFTA Film Awards · 2016
- Winner Theeb · Naji Abu Nowar
- Nominee The Survivalist
- Nominee Ex Machina · Alex Garland
- Nominee Second Coming · debbie tucker green
- Nominee A Syrian Love Story · Sean McAllister
68th BAFTA Film Awards · 2015
- Winner Pride · David Livingstone, Stephen Beresford
- Nominee Northern Soul · Elaine Constantine
- Nominee '71 · Gregory Burke, Yann Demange
- Nominee Kajaki
- Nominee Lilting · Hong Khaou
67th BAFTA Film Awards · 2014
- Winner Kelly + Victor · Kieran Evans
- Nominee Good Vibrations · Glenn Patterson
- Nominee Shell
- Nominee Saving Mr. Banks · Kelly Marcel
- Nominee For Those in Peril
66th BAFTA Film Awards · 2013
- Winner The Imposter · Bart Layton
- Nominee The Muppets · James Bobin
- Nominee I Am Nasrine · Tina Gharavi
- Nominee Wild Bill · Dexter Fletcher, Danny King
- Nominee McCullin
65th BAFTA Film Awards · 2012
- Winner Tyrannosaur · Paddy Considine
- Nominee Black Pond · Tom Kingsley, Will Sharpe
- Nominee Submarine · Richard Ayoade
- Nominee Coriolanus · Ralph Fiennes
- Nominee Attack the Block · Joe Cornish
64th BAFTA Film Awards · 2011
- Winner Four Lions · Chris Morris
- Nominee The Arbor · Clio Barnard
- Nominee Exit Through the Gift Shop · Banksy, Jaimie D'Cruz
- Nominee Monsters · Gareth Edwards
- Nominee Skeletons
63rd BAFTA Film Awards · 2010
- Winner Moon · Duncan Jones
- Nominee Shifty · Eran Creevy
- Nominee Nowhere Boy · Sam Taylor-Johnson
- Nominee Mugabe and the White African
- Nominee Exam · Stuart Hazeldine
62nd BAFTA Film Awards · 2009
- Winner Hunger · Steve McQueen
- Nominee Man on Wire · Simon Chinn
- Nominee Of Time and the City · Roy Boulter
- Nominee Son of Rambow · Garth Jennings
- Nominee Mamma Mia! · Judy Craymer
61st BAFTA Film Awards · 2008
- Winner Control · Matt Greenhalgh
- Nominee Brick Lane · Sarah Gavron
- Nominee Taking Liberties · Chris Atkins
- Nominee Scott Walker: 30 Century Man
- Nominee The Killing of John Lennon · Andrew Piddington
60th BAFTA Film Awards · 2007
- Winner Red Road · Andrea Arnold
- Nominee London to Brighton · Paul Andrew Williams
- Nominee Black Sun · Gary Tarn
- Nominee Pierrepoint · Christine Langan
- Nominee Rollin' with the Nines · Julian Gilbey
59th BAFTA Film Awards · 2006
- Winner Pride & Prejudice · Joe Wright
- Nominee Everything
- Nominee Festival · Annie Griffin
- Nominee Tsotsi · Peter Fudakowski
- Nominee Shooting Dogs · David Belton
58th BAFTA Film Awards · 2005
- Winner A Way of Life · Amma Asante
- Nominee AfterLife · Andrea Gibb
- Nominee Dear Frankie · Shona Auerbach
- Nominee Layer Cake · Matthew Vaughn
- Nominee Shaun of the Dead · Nira Park
57th BAFTA Film Awards · 2004
- Winner Kiss of Life · Emily Young
- Nominee To Kill a King
- Nominee Girl with a Pearl Earring · Peter Webber
- Nominee American Cousins
56th BAFTA Film Awards · 2003
- Winner The Warrior · Asif Kapadia
- Nominee Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry · Simon Bent
- Nominee AKA · Duncan Roy
- Nominee Lost in La Mancha
55th BAFTA Film Awards · 2002
- Winner Jump Tomorrow · Joel Hopkins
- Nominee Strictly Sinatra
- Nominee The Parole Officer · Steve Coogan, Henry Normal
- Nominee Gosford Park · Julian Fellowes
- Nominee Late Night Shopping
- Nominee South West 9 · Richard Parry
54th BAFTA Film Awards · 2001
- Winner Last Resort · Paweł Pawlikowski
- Nominee Saving Grace
- Nominee Some Voices · Simon Cellan Jones
- Nominee Billy Elliot · Lee Hall
53rd BAFTA Film Awards · 2000
- Winner Ratcatcher · Lynne Ramsay
- Nominee East Is East · Ayub Khan Din
- Nominee Waking Ned Devine · Kirk Jones
- Nominee Human Traffic · Justin Kerrigan
52nd BAFTA Film Awards · 1999
- Winner Love and Death on Long Island · Richard Kwietniowski
- Nominee The Governess · Sandra Goldbacher
- Nominee Twenty Four Seven · Shane Meadows
- Nominee Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels · Matthew Vaughn