2025 British Independent Film Awards: Surprise Drama Tops Nominations with 12 nods

2025 British Independent Film Awards: Surprise Drama Tops Nominations with 12 nods

2025 British Independent Film Awards: Surprise Drama Tops Nominations with 12 nods

Best British Independent Film

THE BALLAD OF WALLIS ISLAND

I SWEAR 

MY FATHER’S SHADOW 

PILLION 

URCHIN

Best Director 

LAURA CARREIRA On Falling

AKINOLA DAVIES JR My Father’s Shadow

KIRK JONES I Swear

HARRY LIGHTON Pillion

LYNNE RAMSAY Die My Love

Best Lead Performance

ROBERT ARAMAYO I Swear

FRANK DILLANE Urchin

DAVID JONSSON Wasteman

JENNIFER LAWRENCE Die My Love

HARRY MELLING Pillion

CILLIAN MURPHY Steve

Best Screenplay

TOM BASDEN, TIM KEY The Ballad of Wallis Island

LAURA CARREIRA On Falling

WALE DAVIES My Father’s Shadow

KIRK JONES I Swear

HARRY LIGHTON Pillion

Best Supporting Performance

TOM BLYTH Wasteman

SCOTT ELLIS WATSON I Swear

JAY LYCURGO Steve

PETER MULLAN I Swear

MAXINE PEAKE I Swear

ALEXANDER SKARSGÅRD Pillion

Best Joint Lead Performance

EBADA HASSAN, SAFFIYA INGAR Brides

TIM KEY, TOM BASDEN The Ballad of Wallis Island

ANDREA RISEBOROUGH, BRENDA BLETHYN Dragonfly

Best Ensemble Performance

WARFARE D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai, Will Poulter, Cosmo Jarvis, Kit Connor, Finn Bennett, Joseph Quinn, Charles Melton

The Douglas Hickox Award (Best Debut Director)

LAURA CARREIRA On Falling

AKINOLA DAVIES JR My Father’s Shadow

HARRIS DICKINSON Urchin

HARRY LIGHTON Pillion

CAL McMAU Wasteman

Breakthrough Producer

WYN BAPTISTE Shoot the People

CHARLOTTE KNOWLES Palestine Comedy Club

JOANN KUSHNER LifeHack [also produced by Timur Bekmambetov, Aleksandr Kletzov]

DHIRAJ MAHEY Ish [also produced by Bennett McGhee]

ARCHIE PEARCH Urchin [also produced by Scott O’Donnell]

Breakthrough Performance

SCOTT ELLIS WATSON I Swear

EBADA HASSAN Brides

SAFIYYA INGAR Brides

POSY STERLING Lollipop

CONNOR TOMPKINS The Son and the Sea

Best Debut Screenwriter

HUNTER ANDREWS, EOIN DORAN Wasteman

TOM BASDEN, TIM KEY The Ballad of Wallis Island

LAURA CARREIRA On Falling

WALE DAVIES My Father’s Shadow

HARRY LIGHTON Pillion

Best Debut Director – Feature Documentary

MYRID CARTEN A Want in Her

CÉCILE EMBLETON, ALYS TOMLINSON Mother Vera

VICTORIA MAPPLEBECK Motherboard

The Raindance Maverick Award

FOUL EVIL DEEDS Richard Hunter

HOLLOWAY Sophie Compton, Daisy-May Hudson, Stella Heath Keir, Alice Hughes, Polly Creed

MOTHER VERA Cécile Embleton, Alys Tomlinson, Laura Shacham

MOTHERBOARD Victoria Mapplebeck

A WANT IN HER Myrid Carten

Best Feature Documentary

ANTIDOTE James Jones, David Moulton

MOTHER VERA Cécile Embleton, Alys Tomlinson, Laura Shacham

MOTHERBOARD Victoria Mapplebeck

THE SHEPHERD AND THE BEAR Max Keegan, Elizabeth Woodward, Amanda McBaine, Jesse Moss

A WANT IN HER Myrid Carten, Tadhg O’Sullivan, Roisín Geraghty, Kat Mansoor

Best British Short Film

FLOCK Mac Nixon, Matt Ashwell, Daley Nixon

MAGID / ZAFAR Luís Hindman, Sufiyaan Salam, Aidan Robert Brooks

A SISYPHEAN TASK Gus Flind-Henry, George Malcher, George Telfer

STOMACH BUG Matty Crawford, Karima Sammout Kanellopoulou

TWO BLACK BOYS IN PARADISE Ben Jackson, Baz Sells, Dean Atta

Best International Independent Film 

IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT Jafar Panahi, Phillippe Martin

SENTIMENTAL VALUE Joachim Trier, Eskil Vogt, Maria Ekerhovd, Andrea Berentsen Ottmar

SIRĀT Oliver Laxe, Santiago Fillol, Domingo Corral, Oriol Maymó, Andrea Queralt, Mani Mortazavi, Xavi Font, Pedro Almodóvar, Agustín Almodóvar, Esther García

SORRY, BABY Eva Victor, Adele Romanski, Mark Ceryak, Barry Jenkins

SOUND OF FALLING Mascha Schilinski, Louise Pete, Maren Schmitt, Lucas Schmidt

Best Casting

SHAHEEN BAIG Brides

SHAHEEN BAIG Urchin

KHARMEL COCHRANE Warfare

LAUREN EVANS I Swear

ROBERT STERNE Steve

Best Cinematography

CHARLOTTE BRUUS CHRISTENSEN H Is for Hawk

JERMAINE EDWARDS My Father’s Shadow

CÉCILE EMBLETON Mother Vera

SEAMUS McGARVEY Die My Love

PIOTR NIEMYJSKI A Pale View of Hills

Best Costume Design

SUSIE COULTHARD 100 Nights of Hero

KIRSTY HALLIDAY Tornado

GRACE SNELL Pillion

SAYAKA TAKAHASHI, MATTHEW PRICE A Pale View of Hills

PC WILLIAMS My Father’s Shadow

Best Editing

RONAN CORRIGAN, ALEKSANDR KLETSOV LifeHack

OMAR GUZMÁN CASTRO My Father’s Shadow

FIN OATES Warfare

SAM RICE-EDWARDS One to One: John & Yoko

GARETH C. SCALES Pillion

Best Effects

Simon Stanley-Clamp, Ryan Conder Warfare

VICTOR TOMI Die My Love

HAYLEY WILLIAMS, CONOR O’SULLIVAN, MARTIN MALMQVIST The Thing With Feathers

Best Music Supervision

PHIL CANNING Wasteman

IAN NEIL, RAIFE BURCHELL Die My Love

BRIDGET SAMUELS Urchin

Best Make-Up & Hair Design

KEHINDE ARE, FEYZO OYEBISI My Father’s Shadow

DIANDRA FERREIRA Pillion

PAUL GOOCH, TRISTAN VERSLUIS Warfare

COLLEEN LABAFF, MIHO SUZUKI Die My Love

NATASHA LAWES 100 Nights of Hero

Best Original Music

TOM BASDEN, ADEM ILHAN The Ballad of Wallis Island

BOBBY KRLIC Anemone

JED KURZEL Tornado

CJ MIRRA My Father’s Shadow

STEVEN PRICE Ocean With David Attenborough

Best Production Design

JENNIFER ANTI, PABLO ANTI My Father’s Shadow

MARK DIGBY Warfare

TIM GRIMES Die My Love

NATHAN PARKER Harvest

SOFIA SACOMANI 100 Nights of Hero

Best Sound

STEVE FANAGAN, STEVIE HAYWOOD Anemone

TIM BURNS, PAUL DAVIES, LINDA FORSÉN, ANDREW STIRK, RON OSIOWY Die My Love

NINA HARTSTONE, JAKE WHITELEE, JENS PETERSEN, MIKE TEHRANI, ROB DAVIDSON Ish

CJ MIRRA, JAMES RIDGWAY, JOE JACKSON, ADELE FLETCHER, PIUS FATOKE My Father’s Shadow

SOUND TEAM Warfare

 

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