British Independent Film Awards 2016

The 18th British Independent Film Awards nominations were announced on 1 November 2016.^[1]

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

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

Best Actor

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

Best Supporting Actress

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

Best Supporting Actor

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

Most Promising Newcomer

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

The Douglas Hickox Award

• Adult Life Skills - Rachel Tunnard
• Notes on Blindness - Peter Middleton and James Spinney
• Prevenge - Alice Lowe
• Trespass Against Us - Adam Smith
• Under the Shadow - Babak Anvari

Best Debut Screenwriter

• Adult Life Skills - Rachel Tunnard
• The Levelling - Hope Dickson Leach
• Mindhorn - Julian Barratt and Simon Farnaby
• The Passing - Ed Talfan
• A Patch of Fog - John Cairns and Michael Lennox

Breakthrough Producer

• Adult Life Skills - Michael Berliner
• The Girl With All the Gifts - Camille Gatin
• 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 Screenplay

• Adult 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
• Under the Shadow - Babak Anvari

Best Achievement in Craft

• Robbie 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 Documentary

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

Best Foreign Independent Film

• Hunt 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
• Moonlight - Dede Gardner, Barry Jenkins, Jeremy Kleiner, Tarell Alvin McCraney, Adele Romanski
• Mustang - Deniz Gamze Ergüven, Charles Gillibert, Alice Winocour
• Toni Erdmann - Maren Ade, Jonas Dornbach, Janine Jackowski, Michael Merkt

Discovery Award

• Black Mountain Poets
• The Darkest Universe
• The Ghoul
• Gozo
• The Greasy Strangler

References

External links

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