Detroit Film Critics Society Award for Best Breakthrough Performance

This is a list of the annual winners of the Detroit Film Critics Society Award for Best Breakthrough Performance.

2010s

2017: Jordan Peele, Get Out
- Timothée Chalamet
- Gal Gadot
- Tiffany Haddish. Girls Trip
- Caleb Landry Jones
2018: Bo Burnham, Eighth Grade
- Rafael Casal and Daveed Diggs, Blindspotting
- Elsie Fisher, Eighth Grade
- Lady Gaga, A Star Is Born
- Boots Riley, Sorry to Bother You
2019: Florence Pugh
- Ana de Armas, Knives Out
- Jessie Buckley
- Kaitlyn Dever
- Aisling Franciosi, The Nightingale
- Paul Walter Hauser
- Lulu Wang, The Farewell
- Olivia Wilde, Booksmart

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^ Detroit Film Critics winners: 'Nomadland' is top film, 'Minari,', Delory Lindo also score - AwardsWatch
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