18th Youth in Film Awards


The 18th Youth in Film Awards ceremony, presented by the Youth in Film Association, honored outstanding youth performers under the age of 21 in the fields of film, television, music and radio for the 1995-1996 season, and took place in 1997 in Hollywood, California.
Established in 1978 by long-standing Hollywood Foreign Press Association member, Maureen Dragone, the Youth in Film Association was the first organization to establish an awards ceremony specifically set to recognize and award the contributions of performers under the age of 21 in the fields of film, television, theatre and music.

Categories

Bold indicates the winner in each category.

Best Young Performer in a Feature Film

Best Performance in a Feature Film: Leading Young Actor

Lucas Black - Sling Blade
Michelle Trachtenberg - Harriet the Spy
Blake Bashoff - Big Bully
Vanessa Lee Chester - Harriet the Spy

Claire Danes - To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday
Jonathan Lipnicki - Jerry Maguire
Mae Whitman - One Fine Day

Best Performance in a Foreign Film

Andrei Chalimon - Kolya

Best Performance in a TV Movie / Mini Series: Young Actor

Kenny Vadas - Captains Courageous
Jena Malone - Bastard Out of Carolina

Best Performance in a TV Drama Series: Young Actor

Shawn Toovey - Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman
Beverley Mitchell - 7th Heaven
Michael Galeota - Bailey Kipper's P.O.V.
Melissa Joan Hart - Sabrina the Teenage Witch
Billy L. Sullivan - Something So Right
Curtis Williams Jr. - The Parent 'Hood
Ashli Amari Adams - The Parent 'Hood
Ben Salisbury - Promised Land
Scarlett Pomers - Touched By An Angel
Seth Adkins - Sabrina the Teenage Witch

tie) Courtney Peldon - Home Improvement
Kyle Sabihy - The Bold and the Beautiful
Landry Albright - The Bold and the Beautiful

Best Performance in a Voice-Over: Young Artist

Jonathan Taylor Thomas - The Adventures of Pinocchio

Best Performance in a TV Movie / Home Video: Young Ensemble

What Love Sees

Outstanding Host: Television or Radio

Lindsay - Radio AAHS

Best Male Entertainer

Adam Wylie
Kristi McClave

Best Family TV Movie or Mini Series: Network

What Love Sees - CBS
Captains Courageous - Family Channel
7th Heaven - WB
' - WB'
Nick News - Nickelodeon
Kolya -
James and the Giant Peach - Walt Disney
One Fine Day - 20th Century Fox
Fly Away Home - Columbia Pictures

The Jackie Coogan Award

Outstanding Contribution to Youth Through Motion Pictures

The Reppies - For Best Musical and Inspirational Show for Children

The Michael Landon Award

Outstanding Contribution to Youth Through Television

Dana Lightstone - Producer, Children's Productions

Former Child Star Lifetime Achievement Award

Paul Petersen - The Donna Reed Show

Outstanding Young Performer in a Television Commercial

Travis Tedford - Welch's Grape Juice & Jelly

Scholarship Recipients

Gabby and Katie Gillette

Aimee Walker