Simon Stone Elsinorestarring Andrew Scott, leads the nominations at this year’s British Independent Film Awards with 12 nominations. Scroll down for the full list of nominees.
Elsinore earned nominations for Best British Independent Film, Best Director for Simon Stone, Best Screenplay for Simon Beresford, Best Lead Performance for former winner Andrew Scott and Best Supporting Actor for Billie Piper. The film also received seven craft nominations, including Best Cinematography, Best Casting, Best Costume Design, Best Editing, Best Makeup and Hairstyling for Nadia Stacey, Best Original Score, and Best Production Design for Helen Scott.
Clio Barnard I see buildings falling like lightning with eight nominations, including Best British Independent Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay for Enda Walsh and Best Ensemble Performance. Craft nominees for the film include past BIFA winners and nominees Shaheen Baig (Casting), Connie Farr (Music Supervision) and Maya Maffioli (Editing).
Ashley Walters’ first feature film Animol has seven nominations, including Best Directorial Debut for Walters and Breakthrough Producer for Tom Hawkins. The film’s lead actors, Tut Nyuot and Sekou Diaby, each have two nominations: Best Lead and Best Supporting Actor, alongside Breakthrough Performance Netflix.
This year’s nominees for Best International Independent Film are Ryusuke Hamaguchi. Suddenlythat of Lee Chang-dong Love is possibleJavier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo The Black BolaJordan Firstman Children’s Cluband that of Marine Atlan La Gradiva.
The winners of the BIFA professions will be announced on November 24 on BIFA social networks. The full BIFA ceremony will take place on December 6 at the Roundhouse in Camden.
BIFA APPOINTMENTS 2026
Best British Independent Film
EFFI O BLAENAU Marc Evans, Gary Owen, Branwen Cennard
ELSINORE Simon Stone, Stephen Beresford, Andrea Occhipinti, Gabrielle Tana, Pete Shilaimon, Mickey Liddell, Stefano Massenzi, Carolyn Marks Blackwood, Andrew Scott
I SEE BUILDINGS FALLING LIKE LIGHTNING Clio Barnard, Enda Walsh, Tracy O’Riordan
QUEEN AT SEA Lance Hammer, Tristan Goligher
TENDER LOVE CARE Mike Leigh, Georgina Lowe
Cinema of the year supported by Kia
ABBEY CINEMA
WEST CAMPUS
HIPPODROME CINEMA
KINEMA IN THE WOODS
THE ULTIMATE IMAGE PALACE
Best Director
CLIO BARNARD I see the buildings falling like lightning
ANDREW HAIGH A long winter
MARK JENKIN Rose of Nevada
MIKE LEIGH Tender loving care
SIMON STONE Elsinore
Better lead performance
JULIETTE BINOCHE Queen at Sea
ERIN DOHERTY Faith
LEISA GWENLLIAN Effi or Blaenau
JONATHAN JULES Florida
TUT NYUOT Animol ANDREW SCOTT Elsinore
Best screenplay
sponsored by Apple Original Films
STEPHEN BERESFORD Elsinore
LANCE HAMMER Queen at sea
MIKE LEIGH Tender loving care
GARY OWEN Effi O Blaenau
ENDA WALSH I see the buildings falling like lightning
Better support performance
ANNA CALDER-MARSHALL Queen at sea
TOM COURTENAY Queen at sea
SEKOU DIABY Animol
CLAIRE FOY Ink
BILLIE PIPER Elsinore BILL PULLMAN Everyone loves Bill Evans
Best joint performance
SÉAMUS MCLEAN ROSS, SAMUEL BOTTOMLEY California Schemin’
FLORA NICHOLSON, CLARE DUNNE, MIA THARIA The Education of Jane Cumming
MARNI DUGGAN, GALAXY CLEAR Extra Geography CHIMPAYE FLORENCE MARISERENA, BIZIMANA HUSSAIN Little Gods
Best overall performance
I SEE BUILDINGS FALLING LIKE LIGHTNING Anthony Boyle, Joe Cole, Jay Lycurgo, Daryl McCormack, Lola Petticrew
SUNNY DANCER Bella Ramsey, Daniel Quinn-Toye, Ruby Stokes, Earl Cave, Conrad Khan, Jasmine Elcock, Shalom Brune-Franklin, Louis Gaunt, Josie Walker, Jessica Gunning, James Norton, Neil Patrick Harris, James Blunt
TENDER LOVE CARE Marion Bailey, Paul Jesson, Kate O’Flynn, Alice Bailey Johnson
The Douglas Hickox Prize
(Best Debut Director)
sponsored by BBC Film
BILLY LUMBY Florida
MOLLY MANNERS Additional Geography
BERTIL NILSSON Mask
LOUIS PAXTON Arrival ASHLEY WALTERS Animol
Revolutionary producer
sponsored by Pinewood and Shepperton Studios
ITAB AZZAM, JACK MACINNES, WILL ANDERSON, JAMES BLUEMEL, ANDREW PALMER One in a Million (also produced by Raney Aronson-Rath)
BRANWEN CENNARD Effi O Blaenau
TOM HAWKINS Animol (also produced by Joy Gharoro-Akpojotor, Nick Love, Ashley Walters)
OSKAR PIMLOTT Rotten apples
ALEX POLUNIN Black Church Bay (also produced by Tristan Goligher)
Breakthrough performance
sponsored by Netflix
GALAXY CLEAR Geography Extra
SEKOU DIABY Animol
LEISA GWENLLIAN Effi O Blaenau
JONATHAN JULES Florid TUT NYUOT Animol
Best first screenwriter
sponsored by Film4
MIRIAM BATTYE Extra Geography
THEA GAJIĆ Surviving the Earth
RHYS MARC JONES Black Church Bay
JESS O’KANE Rotten Apples LOUIS PAXTON The Arrival
Best First Director – Feature Documentary
JANAY BOULOS, ABD ALKADER HABAK Warbirds
ED SAYERS Super Nature RACHEL TAPARJAN Something familiar
The Raindance Maverick Prize
ACT 3 Christine Molloy, Joe Lawlor, Alex Thiele, Hannah Patterson
CHATLINESNeil Ely, Lloyd Eyre-Morgan, Paul Mortlock
MASC Bertil Nilsson
THE PERIL AT PINCE POINT Jake Kuhn, Noah Stratton-Twine
SOMETHING FAMILIAR Rachel Taparjan, Monica Lăzurean-Gorgan, Elena Martin, Aleksandra Bilic
Best Feature Documentary Sponsored by Intermission Film
ALL RIVERS DISCHARGE THEIR STORIES INTO THE SEA Jeanie Finlay, Charlie Phillips
EVERYONE AT KENMURE STREET Felipe Bustos Sierra, Ciara Barry
ONE IN A MILLION Itab Azzam, Jack MacInnes, Will Anderson, Andrew Palmer, James Bluemel, Raney Aronson-Rath
SOMETHING FAMILIAR Rachel Taparjan, Aleksandra Bilic, Monica Lăzurean-Gorgan
WE, THE HATED Rich Felgate, David Allen
Best British Short Film
ALLIES IN EXILE Hasan Kattan, Orlando von Einsiedel
COYOTES Saïd Zagha, Myriam Sassine, Laura Jumel
FORGOTTEN SPACEMAN Elham Ehsas, Lorraine Bhattachary
UNTITLED WOMAN Camille Summers-Valli, Rosmarie Vind, Sorcha Bacon, Martha McGuirk, David Zander
VOTE GAVIN LYLE Aneil Karia, Scott O’Donnell, Tom Gardner
Best international independent film sponsored by Champagne Taittinger
ALL OF A SUDDEN Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Léa Le Dimna, David Gauquié, Julien Deris, Kôsuke Oshida, Yûji Sadai, Jean-Luc Ormières, Renan Artukmaç, Hiroko Matsuda
CLUB KID Jordan Firstman, Galen Core, Alex Coco
THE BOLA NEGRA Javier Ambrossi, Javier Calvo
LA GRADIVA Marine Atlan, Anne Brouilet, Inès Daïen Dasi POSSIBLE LOVE Lee Chang-dong, Oh Jung-mi
Best casting
SHAHEEN BAIG I see the buildings falling like lightning
HEATHER BASTEN Animol
LARA MANWARING Florida
LUCY PARDEE Additional Geography
JESSICA RONANE Elsinore
Best Cinematography
sponsored by Kodak & Molinare
MIKE ELEY Elsinore
PIERS McGRAIL Everyone loves Bill Evans
CHRISTOPHER RIPLEY Right circle
SIMON TINDALL I see the buildings falling like lightning
ANDRÉ TURPIN A long winter
Best Costume Design
SARAH BLENKINSOP Arrival
ALEX BOVAIRD Maison Sauvage
CAROL CASE A long winter
DARION HING Right Circle MEL PAGE Elsinore
Best editing
VALERIO BONELLI Elsinore
OTTO BURNHAM Black is beautiful: the story of Kwame Brathwaite
FOUAD GABER Right Circle
MAYA MAFFIOLI I see the buildings falling like lightning END OATES Ink
Best effects
JON BIGGINS, JEFF DILLON Shaun the Sheep: The Beast from Mossy Bottom
RUSLAN BORYSOV, RICHARD CHEAL, TIM LEDBURY The Faraway Magic Tree DANIEL MORRIS The Arrival
Best music supervision
CONNIE FARR I see the buildings falling like lightning
CONNIE FARR Queen at Sea PHIL CANNING Sunny Dancer
Best Makeup and Hairstyle
JACQUETTA LEVON Wild House
NADIA STACEY Elsinore
NADIA STACEY Madfabulous
KAREN HARTLEY THOMAS The distant magic tree TRISTAN VERSLUIS Right circle
Best Original Music
sponsored by Universal Music Publishing Group
ROGER GOULA Everyone loves Bill Evans
STEFAN GREGORY Elsinore
MARK JENKIN Rose of Nevada
HANNAH PEEL Underground
SIÔN TREFOR, IOANA SELARU Effi or Blaenau
Best Production Design sponsored by ATC
LUKE MORAN-MORRIS Right circle
GARETH PUGH, CARSON McCOLL Ink
HELEN SCOTT Elsinore
ALEXANDRA WALKER The Faraway Magic Tree
GARY WILLIAMSON Wild House
Best sound sponsored by Bleat
ANDY COLES, JOHN BRENNAN Everybody loves Bill Evans
PAUL COTTERELL, RON OSIOWY, JOAKIM SUNDSTRÖM A long winter
SIMON HAYES, JOHNNIE BURN Ink
MARK JENKIN, IAN WILSON Rose of Nevada
DARIO SWADE, GEORGE ELLIOTT, TOM HARBURT Florid
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