Winners & Nominations

The Awards 2021

Winners & Nominations

Best British Independent Film

After Love
Aleem Khan  /  Matthieu de Braconier
Ali & Ava
Clio Barnard  /  Tracy O’Riordan
Boiling Point
Philip Barantini  /  James Cummings  /  Bart Ruspoli  /  Hester Ruoff
The Nest
Sean Durkin  /  Ed Guiney  /  Derrin Schlesinger  /  Rose Garnett  /  Amy Jackson  /  Christina Piovesan
The Souvenir Part II
Joanna Hogg  /  Ed Guiney  /  Emma Norton  /  Andrew Lowe  /  Luke Schiller

Debut Screenwriter

Sponsored by Film4

Breakthrough Producer

Sponsored by Pinewood Studios Group

Sweetheart
Michelle Antoniades
Censor
Helen Jones
She Will
Jessica Malik
also produced by Bob Last
Boiling Point
Hester Ruoff
also produced by Bart Ruspoli
The Power
Rob Watson
also produced by Matthew James Wilkinson

Best Documentary

Sponsored by Intermission Film

Cow
Andrea Arnold  /  Kat Mansoor
Dying to Divorce
Chloe Fairweather  /  Sinead Kirwan
I Am Belmaya
Sue Carpenter  /  Christopher Hird
Keyboard Fantasies
Posy Dixon  /  Liv Proctor
Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché
Paul Sng  /  Celeste Bell  /  Zoe Howe  /  Rebecca Mark-Lawson  /  Matthew Silverman  /  Daria Nitsche

The Raindance Discovery Award

Bank Job
Daniel Edelstyn  /  Hilary Powell  /  Christopher Hird
The Bike Thief
Matt Chambers  /  PK Fellowes  /  Sophia Gibber  /  Lene Bausager
I Am Belmaya
Sue Carpenter  /  Christopher Hird
Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché
Paul Sng  /  Celeste Bell  /  Zoe Howe  /  Rebecca Mark-Lawson  /  Matthew Silverman  /  Daria Nitsche
Rebel Dykes
Harri Shanahan  /  Siân A. Williams  /  Siobhan Fahey

Best British Short

Supported by BFI NETWORK

Egúngún (Masquerade)
Olive Nwosu  /  Alex Polunin
FEMME
Sam H. Freeman  /  Ng Choon Ping  /  Sam Ritzenberg  /  Hayley Williams  /  Rienkje Attoh
Night of the Living Dread
Ida Melum  /  Laura Jayne Tunbridge  /  Hannah Kelso  /  Danielle Goff
Play It Safe
Mitch Kalisa  /  Chris Toumazou
Precious Hair & Beauty
John Ogunmuyiwa  /  Sophia Gibber  /  Tony Longe  /  Lene Bausager

Best International Independent Film

Sponsored by Champagne Taittinger

Best Music

Sponsored by Universal Music Publishing Group

Best Sound

Supported by Halo Post

Best Effects

Censor
Gary Brown  /  István Molnár  /  Dan Martin
The Electrical Life of Louis Wain
Rupert Davies  /  Nick Rideout
Dashcam
Mike Knights  /  Steven Bray  /  Dan Martin  /  Leigh Cranston