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Best British Independent Film

Sponsored by Screen UK

Kneecap
Rich Peppiatt  /  Trevor Birney  /  Jack Tarling
Love Lies Bleeding
Rose Glass  /  Weronika Tofilska  /  Andrea Cornwell  /  Oliver Kassman
On Becoming a Guinea Fowl
Rungano Nyoni  /  Tim Cole  /  Ed Guiney  /  Andrew Lowe
The Outrun
Nora Fingscheidt  /  Amy Liptrot  /  Saoirse Ronan  /  Sarah Brocklehurst  /  Dominic Norris  /  Jack Lowden
Santosh
Sandhya Suri  /  Mike Goodridge  /  James Bowsher  /  Balthazar de Ganay  /  Alan McAlex

Best Screenplay

Sponsored by Apple Original Films

Kneecap
Rich Peppiatt
Love Lies Bleeding
Rose Glass  /  Weronika Tofilska
On Becoming a Guinea Fowl
Rungano Nyoni
The Outrun
Nora Fingscheidt  /  Amy Liptrot
Santosh
Sandhya Suri

Best Director

Sponsored by Sky Cinema

Bird
Andrea Arnold
Kneecap
Rich Peppiatt
Love Lies Bleeding
Rose Glass
On Becoming a Guinea Fowl
Rungano Nyoni
The Outrun
Nora Fingscheidt

Best British Short

Delivery
Ben Lankester  /  Joe Binks  /  Bophanie Lun
Housewarming
Liam White  /  Guy Lindley
Meat Puppet
Eros Vlahos  /  Masha Thorpe  /  Leah Draws
A Move
Elahe Esmaili  /  Hossein Behboudi Rad
Wander to Wonder
Nina Gantz  /  Stienette Bosklopper  /  Simon Cartwright  /  Daan Bakker  /  Maarten Swart

Best Lead Performance

The Assessment
Alicia Vikander
Close to You
Elliot Page
Hard Truths
Marianne Jean-Baptiste
On Becoming a Guinea Fowl
Susan Chardy
The Outrun
Saoirse Ronan
Sister Midnight
Radhika Apte

Best Joint Lead Performance

Hoard
Joseph Quinn  /  Saura Lightfoot-Leon
Kneecap
Naoise Ó Cairealláin  /  Liam Óg Ó Hannaidh  /  JJ Ó Dochartaigh
Love Lies Bleeding
Kristen Stewart  /  Katy O’Brian
Unicorns
Ben Hardy  /  Jason Patel

Best Supporting Performance

Back to Black
Jack O’Connell
Bird
Barry Keoghan
Bird
Franz Rogowski
Hard Truths
Michele Austin
Hoard
Hayley Squires
On Becoming a Guinea Fowl
Elizabeth Chisela

Breakthrough Performance

Sponsored by Netflix

Bird
Nykiya Adams
Hoard
Saura Lightfoot-Leon
On Becoming a Guinea Fowl
Susan Chardy
Sebastian
Ruaridh Mollica
Unicorns
Jason Patel

The Raindance Maverick Award

 

The Ceremony
Jack King  /  Hollie Bryan  /  Lucy Meer
Grand Theft Hamlet
Pinny Grylls  /  Sam Crane  /  Rebecca Wolff  /  Julia Ton
Restless
Benedict Turnbull  /  Jed Hart
Satu – Year of the Rabbit
Joshua Trigg
Witches
Elizabeth Sankey  /  Jeremy Warmsley  /  Chiara Ventura  /  Manon Ardisson

The Douglas Hickox Award (Best Debut Director)

Sponsored by BBC Film

Bring Them Down
Christopher Andrews
Hoard
Luna Carmoon
Kneecap
Rich Peppiatt
Sister Midnight
Karan Kandhari
Unicorns
James Krishna Floyd
also directed by Sally El Hosaini

Best Debut Screenwriter

Sponsored by Film4

The Assessment
Mrs Thomas  /  Mr Thomas
also written by John Donnelly
Kneecap
Rich Peppiatt
Santosh
Sandhya Suri
Sister Midnight
Karan Kandhari
Unicorns
James Krishna Floyd

Best Debut Director – Feature Documentary

The Contestant
Clair Titley
COPA 71
Rachel Ramsay
also directed by James Erskine
Grand Theft Hamlet
Pinny Grylls  /  Sam Crane
Two Strangers Trying Not to Kill Each Other
Manon Ouimet  /  Jacob Perlmutter

Breakthrough Producer

Sponsored by Pinewood and Shepperton Studios

Bring Them Down
Jacob Swan Hyam
also produced by Julianne Ford, Ivana MacKinnon, Jean-Yves Roubin, Ruth Treacey, Cassandre Warnauts
The Ceremony
Hollie Bryan  /  Lucy Meer
Grand Theft Hamlet
Rebecca Wolff
also produced by Julia Ton
Santosh
Balthazar de Ganay  /  James Bowsher
also produced by Mike Goodridge, Alan McAlex
Treading Water
Ben Toye

Best Feature Documentary

Sponsored by Intermission Film

The Contestant
Clair Titley  /  Ian Bonhôte  /  Megumi Inman  /  Andee Ryder  /  Amit Dey
Grand Theft Hamlet
Sam Crane  /  Pinny Grylls  /  Rebecca Wolff  /  Julia Ton
Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story
Ian Bonhôte  /  Peter Ettedgui  /  Lizzie Gillett  /  Robert Ford
Two Strangers Trying Not to Kill Each Other
Jacob Perlmutter  /  Manon Ouimet  /  Signe Byrge Sørensen
Witches
Elizabeth Sankey  /  Jeremy Warmsley  /  Chiara Ventura  /  Manon Ardisson

Best International Independent Film

Sponsored by Champagne Taittinger

All We Imagine As Light
Payal Kapadia  /  Thomas Hakim  /  Julien Graff
Anora
Sean Baker  /  Alex Coco  /  Samantha Quan
La Chimera
Alice Rohrwacher  /  Carlo Cresto-Dina  /  Paolo Del Brocco
No Other Land
Yuval Abraham  /  Basel Adra  /  Hamdan Ballal  /  Fabien Greenberg  /  Bård Kjøge Rønning  /  Rachel Szor
The Seed of the Sacred Fig
Mohammad Rasoulof  /  Rozita Hendijanian  /  Amin Sadraei  /  Jean-Christophe Simon  /  Mani Tilgner

Best Casting

Sponsored by Casting Society & Spotlight

Bird
Lucy Pardee
Hoard
Heather Basten
Kneecap
Carla Stronge
Love Lies Bleeding
Mary Vernieu  /  Lindsay Graham Ahanonu
On Becoming a Guinea Fowl
Isabella Odoffin

Best Cinematography

Sponsored by Kodak & Molinare

Civil War
Rob Hardy
Kneecap
Ryan Kernaghan
Lee
Pawel Edelman
Love Lies Bleeding
Ben Fordesman
The Outrun
Yunus Roy Imer

Best Costume Design

Civil War
Meghan Kasperlink
Firebrand
Michael O’Connor
Kneecap
Zjena Glamocanin
Love Lies Bleeding
Olga Mill
Unicorns
Nirage Mirage

Best Editing

Bird
Joe Bini
Civil War
Jake Roberts
Kneecap
Julian Ulrichs  /  Chris Gill
Made In England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger
Margarida Cartaxo  /  Stuart Davidson
The Outrun
Stephan Bechinger

Best Make-Up & Hair Design

Back to Black
Peta Dunstall
Firebrand
Jenny Shircore
Love Lies Bleeding
Megan Daum  /  Frieda Valenzuela
The Outrun
Kat Morgan
Unicorns
Lisa Mustafa

Best Music Supervision

Back to Black
Iain Cooke  /  Giles Martin
Kneecap
Gary Welch  /  Jeanette Rehnstrom
Sister Midnight
Kle Savidge

Best Original Music

Sponsored by Universal Music Publishing Group

Bird
Burial
Kneecap
Michael ‘Mikey J’ Asante
Love Lies Bleeding
Clint Mansell
The Outrun
John Gürtler  /  Jan Miserre
Unicorns
Stuart Earl

Best Production Design

Sponsored by ATC & Broadsword

The Assessment
Jan Houllevigue
Civil War
Caty Maxey
Hoard
Bobbie Cousins
Kneecap
Nicola Moroney
Love Lies Bleeding
Katie Hickman

Best Sound

Civil War
Glenn Freemantle  /  Mary H Ellis  /  Howard Bargroff
Kneecap
Louise Burton  /  Brendan Rehill  /  Aza Hand  /  Chris Woodcock
Lee
Mike Prestwood Smith  /  Csaba Major  /  Jimmy Boyle
Love Lies Bleeding
Paul Davies  /  Andrew Stirk  /  Linda Forsen  /  Rose Bladh  /  Tim Burns
The Outrun
Dominik Leube  /  Oscar Stiebitz  /  Jonathan Schorr  /  Gregor Bonse

Best Effects

Civil War
David Simpson
Lee
Ingo Putze  /  Glen McGuigan
Love Lies Bleeding
James Allen

Best Ensemble Performance

Wicked Little Letters
Jessie Buckley  /  Olivia Colman  /  Anjana Vasan  /  Joanna Scanlan  /  Gemma Jones  /  Timothy Spall  /  Eileen Atkins  /  Lolly Adefope  /  Malachi Kirby  /  Hugh Skinner