The 19th British Independent Film Awards nominations were announced on 1 November 2016.

Awards

Best British Independent Film American Honey Couple in a Hole I, Daniel Blake Notes on Blindness Under the Shadow

Best Director Andrea Arnold - American Honey Babak Anvari - Under the Shadow Ben Wheatley - Free Fire Ken Loach - I, Daniel Blake Peter Middleton and James Spinney - Notes on Blindness

Best Actress Sasha Lane - American Honey Kate Dickie - Couple in a Hole Narges Rashidi - Under the Shadow Hayley Squires - I, Daniel Blake Jodie Whittaker - Adult Life Skills

Best Actor Dave Johns - I, Daniel Blake Steve Brandon - My Feral Heart Michael Fassbender - Trespass Against Us Shia LaBeouf - American Honey Max Records - I Am Not a Serial Killer

Best Supporting Actress Avin Manshadi - Under the Shadow Gemma Arterton - The Girl With All the Gifts Naomie Harris - Our Kind of Traitor Terry Pheto - A United Kingdom Shana Swash - My Feral Heart

Best Supporting Actor Brett Goldstein - Adult Life Skills Jamie Dornan - Anthropoid Sean Harris - Trespass Against Us Arinze Kene - The Pass Christopher Lloyd - I Am Not a Serial Killer

Most Promising Newcomer Hayley Squires - I, Daniel Blake Steve Brandon - My Feral Heart Dave Johns - I, Daniel Blake Sennia Nanua - The Girl with All the Gifts Letitia Wright - Urban Hymn

The Douglas Hickox Award Under the Shadow - Babak AnvariAdult Life Skills - Rachel Tunnard Notes on Blindness - Peter Middleton and James Spinney Prevenge - Alice Lowe Trespass Against Us - Adam Smith

Best Debut ScreenwriterAdult Life Skills - Rachel TunnardThe Levelling - Hope Dickson Leach Mindhorn - Julian Barratt and Simon Farnaby The Passing - Ed Talfan A Patch of Fog - John Cairns and Michael Lennox

Breakthrough ProducerThe Girl with All the Gifts - Camille GatinAdult Life Skills - Michael Berliner The Hard Stop - Dionne Walker Notes on Blindness - Mike Brett, Jo-Jo Ellison and Steve Jamison Where You’re Meant to Be - Paul Fegan

Best ScreenplayUnder the Shadow - Babak AnvariAdult Life Skills - Rachel Tunnard American Honey - Andrea Arnold I Am Not a Serial Killer - Christopher Hyde and Billy O'Brien I, Daniel Blake - Paul Laverty

Best Achievement in CraftRobbie Ryan - American Honey (cinematography)Shaheen Baig - Free Fire (casting) Seb Barker - The Girl with All the Gifts (visual effects) Joakim Sundström - Notes on Blindness (sound) Paul Monaghan and Mat Whitecross - Supersonic (editing)

Best DocumentaryNotes on Blindness - Mike Brett, Jo-Jo Ellison, Steve Jamison, Peter Middleton, James SpinneyThe Confession: Living the War on Terror - Ashish Ghadiali, James Rogan Dancer - Steven Cantor, Gabrielle Tana The Hard Stop - George Amponsah, Dionne Walker Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach - Rebecca O'Brien, Louise Osmond

Best Foreign Independent FilmMoonlight - Dede Gardner, Barry Jenkins, Jeremy Kleiner, Tarell Alvin McCraney, Adele RomanskiHunt for the Wilderpeople - Carthew Neal, Matt Noonan, Leanne Saunders, Taika Waititi Manchester by the Sea - Lauren Beck, Matt Damon, Kenneth Lonergan, Chris Moore, Kimberly Steward, Kevin J. Wals Mustang - Deniz Gamze Ergüven, Charles Gillibert, Alice Winocour Toni Erdmann - Maren Ade, Jonas Dornbach, Janine Jackowski, Michael Merkt

Discovery AwardThe Greasy Strangler Black Mountain Poets The Darkest Universe The Ghoul Gozo

References

External links Website