BAM Award Winners: Best Performance by a Young Actress in a Leading Role

This is a newly-siphoned off post from the original Young Actors post. This category came into being in the 2011 BAM Awards as part of the start of the diversification of the Youth Categories. This division of the category was necessary because while there were female winners, most of the time that was not the case and even nominations were hard to come by. This year’s nominees not only validated this decision, while hard to find as many titles the quality was high, the Supporting categories, which was a gamble, also provided great candidates.

2022 Rakel Lenora Fløttum The Innocents

2021 McKenna Grace Ghostbusters: Afterlife

2020 McKenna Grace Troop Zero

2019 Shahadi Wright Joseph Us

2018 Elsie Fisher Eighth Grade

2017 Sophia Lillis It

2016 Madison Wolfe The Conjuring 2

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2015 Olivia Dejonge The Visit

The Visit (2015, Universal)

2014 Giulia Salerno Misunderstood

Misunderstood (2014, Good Films)

2013 Lika Babulani In Bloom

In Bloom (2013, Big World Pictures)

2012 Sophie Nélisse Monsieur Lazhar

Monsieur Lazhar (2011, Music Box Films)

2011 Elle Fanning Super 8

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