MTV Movie Award for Best Breakthrough Performance
Year Winners and nominees Film Role
2000 Haley Joel Osment The Sixth Sense Cole Sear
2000 Wes Bentley American Beauty Ricky Fitts
2000 Jason Biggs American Pie Jim Levenstein
2000 Michael Clarke Duncan The Green Mile John Coffey
2000 Jamie Foxx Any Given Sunday Steamin Willie Beamen
2000 Julia Stiles 10 Things I Hate About You Kat Stratford
2000 Selma Blair Cruel Intentions Cecile Duvall
2000 Shannon Elizabeth American Pie Nadia
2000 Carrie-Anne Moss The Matrix Trinity
2000 Hilary Swank Boys Do n't Cry Brandon Teena
2001 Sean Patrick Thomas Save the Last Dance Derek Reynolds
2001 Jack Black High Fidelity Barry
2001 Patrick Fugit Almost Famous William Miller
2001 Tom Green Road Trip Barry Manilow
2001 Hugh Jackman X-Men Wolverine
2001 Ashton Kutcher Dude , Where 's My Car ? Jesse Montgomery III
2001 Erika Christensen Traffic Caroline Wakefield
2001 Aaliyah Romeo Must Die Trish O'Day
2001 Anna Faris Scary Movie Cindy Campbell
2001 Piper Perabo Coyote Ugly Violet Sanford
Winners and nominees -- 2000s
This is a following list of the MTV Movie Award winners and nominees for Best Breakthrough Performance, first awarded in 1992. In 2010 and 2011, it was renamed Best Breakout Star. In 2012, it returned to its original name but was turned into a non-voting category, where an academy of outstanding directors honors a silver screen newcomer with extraordinary talent. In 2017, it was renamed Next Generation and was converted to a voting category. From 1999 to 2005, and in 2009, it was split into two categories: Best Male Breakthrough Performance and Best Female Breakthrough Performance.