02/11/2016 - American Honey, Adult Life Skills, Notes on Blindness and Under the Shadow score six nominations each

Ken Loach’s Cannes winner I, Daniel Blake [+see also:
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Andrea Arnold’s American Honey [+see also:
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The winners will be announced at the British Independent Film Award 4 December.

The nominees: 

Best British Independent Film
American Honey [+see also:
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Couple in a Hole [+see also:
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interview: Tom Geens
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I, Daniel Blake [+see also:
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Notes on Blindness [+see also:
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Under the Shadow [+see also:
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Best International Independent Film
Hunt for the Wilderpeople – Taika Waititi (New Zealand)
Manchester by the Sea – Kenneth Lonergan (US)
Moonlight – Barry Jenkins (US)
Mustang [+see also:
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Toni Erdmann [+see also:
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Q&A: Maren Ade
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Best Director
Andrea Arnold - American Honey
Babak Anvari - Under the Shadow
Ben Wheatley - Free Fire [+see also:
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Ken Loach - I, Daniel Blake
Peter Middleton and James Spinney - Notes on Blindness

Best Screenplay
Andrea Arnold - American Honey
Babak Anvari - Under the Shadow
Billy O’Brien, Christopher Hyde - I Am Not a Serial Killer [+see also:
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Paul Laverty - I, Daniel Blake
Rachel Tunnard - Adult Life Skills [+see also:
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Best Actress
Hayley Squire - I, Daniel Blake
Jodie Whittaker - Adult Life Skills
Kate Dickie - Couple in a Hole
Narges Rashidi - Under the Shadow
Sasha Lane - American Honey

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

Best Supporting Actress
Avin Manshadi - Under the Shadow
Gemma Arterton - The Girl With All the Gifts [+see also:
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Naomie Harris - Our Kind of Traitor [+see also:
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Shana Swash - My Feral Heart
Terry Pheto - A United Kingdom [+see also:
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Best Supporting Actor
Arinze Kene - The Pass [+see also:
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Brett Goldstein - Adult Life Skills
Christopher Lloyd - I Am Not a Serial Killer
Jamie Dornan - Anthropoid [+see also:
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Sean Harris - Trespass Against Us [+see also:
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Best Documentary
The Confession: Living the War on Terror – Ashish Ghadiali
Dancer [+see also:
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The Hard Stop [+see also:
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Notes on Blindness - Peter Middleton and James Spinney
Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach - Louise Osmond, Rebecca O’Brien

The Douglas Hickox Award for Debut Director
Adam Smith - Trespass Against Us
Alice Lowe - Prevenge [+see also:
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Babak Anvari - Under the Shadow
Peter Middleton and James Spinney - Notes on Blindness
Rachel Tunnard - Adult Life Skills

Debut Screenwriter
Ed Talfan - The Passing
Hope Dickson Leach - The Levelling [+see also:
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John Cairns and Michael McCartney - A Patch of Fog [+see also:
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Rachel Tunnard - Adult Life Skills
Simon Farnaby and Julian Barratt – Mindhorn

Breakthrough Producer
Camille Gatin - The Girl With All the Gifts
Dionne Walker - The Hard Stop
Michael Berliner - Adult Life Skills
Mike Brett, Jo-Jo Ellison and Steve Jamison - Notes on Blindness
Paul Fegan - Where You’re Meant to Be

Outstanding Achievement in Craft
Joakim Sundstrom – Sound – Notes on Blindness
Paul Monaghan, Mat Whitecross – Editing – Supersonic
Robbie Ryan – Cinematography – American Honey
Seb Barker – Visual Effects – The Girl With All the Gifts
Shaheen Baig – Casting – Free Fire

Most Promising Newcomer
Dave Johns - I, Daniel Blake
Hayley Squires - I, Daniel Blake
Letitia Wright – Urban Hymn
Sennia Nanua - The Girl With All the Gifts
Steve Brandon – My Feral Heart

The Discovery Award
Black Mountain Poets [+see also:
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The Darkest Universe - Tom Kingsley, Will Sharpe, Tiani Ghosh, Jo-Jo Ellison
The Ghoul [+see also:
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Gozo - Miranda Bowen, Leo Scott
The Greasy Strangler - Jim Hosking, Toby Harvard, Daniel Noah, Andrew Starke, Ant Timpson, Josh C Waller, Elijah Wood

Best British Short
Jacked - Rene Pannevis, Ashish Ghadiali, Jennifer Eriksson
Mother - Leo Leigh, Scott O’Donnell
Over - Jörn Threlfall, Jeremy Bannister
Rate Me - Fyzal Boulifa, Taina Galis
The Wrong End of the Stick - Terri Matthews, Chris Cornwell, Sam Bank