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

2020s

 * 2020: Maria Bakalova, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
 * Jasmine Batchelor, The Surrogate
 * Radha Blank, The Forty-Year-Old Version
 * Orion Lee, First Cow
 * Wunmi Mosaku, His House


 * 2021: Woody Norman, C'mon C'mon and Emma Seligman, Shiva Baby
 * Alana Haim, Licorice Pizza
 * Emilia Jones, CODA
 * Agathe Rousselle, Titane