Sweet success at BIFAs for American Honey

American Honey won the award for best British film, while Sasha Lane was named best actress at BIFAs

Andrea Arnold's road trip drama American Honey was named Best British independent film at the BIFAs last night, while Arnold picked up the best director accolade. The film also saw Sasha Lane named best actress for her debut in the film and Robbie Ryan pick up the achievement in craft award for his cinematography.

Babak Anvari also made a big impact with his debut, the Tehran-set horror Under The Shadow. The Farsi language film, which tells the story of a mother and daughter terrorised by a djinn saw Anvari pick up the Douglas Hickox Award for best debut film and the screenplay prize. His nine-year-old star Avin Manshadi was named best supporting actress for her first screen role.

The best actor award went to Dave Johns for his role in Ken Loach's benefits drama I, Daniel Blake, while his co-star Hayley Squires won the award for most promising newcomer. Brett Goldstein was named best supporting actor for his role in Rachel Tunnard's debut Adult Life Skills, which also saw the Tunnard pick up the best debut screenplay award.

The documentary award went to Pete Middleton and James Spinney for their adaptation of John Hull's audio diaries, Notes On Blindness.

The short film award went to Rene Pannevis, Ashish Ghadiali and Jennifer Eriksson for Jacked, while Moonlight was named best international film.

Full list of nominees and winners

Best British Independent Film

• WINNER American Honey
• Couple In A Hole
• I, Daniel Blake
• Notes On Blindness
• Under The Shadow

Best International Independent Film

• Hunt For The Wilderpeople
• Manchester By The Sea
• WINNER: Moonlight
• Mustang
• Toni Erdmann

Best Director

• WINNER: Andrea Arnold, American Honey
• Babak Anvari, Under The Shadow
• Ben Wheatley, Free Fire
• Ken Loach, I, Daniel Blake
• Peter Middleton, James Spinney, Notes On Blindness

Best Screenplay

• Andrea Arnold, American Honey
• WINNER: Babak Anvari, Under The Shadow
• Billy O'Brien, Christopher Hyde, I Am Not A Serial Killer
• Paul Laverty, I, Daniel Blake
• Rachel Tunnard, Adult Life Skills

Best Actress

• Hayley Squire, I, Daniel Blake
• Jodie Whittaker, Adult Life Skills
• Kate Dickie, Couple In A Hole
• Narges Rashidi, Under The Shadow
• WINNER: Sasha Lane, American Honey

Best Actor

• WINNER: Dave Johns, I, Daniel Blake
• Max Records, I Am Not A Serial Killer
• Michael Fassbender, Trespass Against Us
• Shie Labeouf, American Honey
• Steve Brandon, My Feral Heart

Best Supporting Actor

• Arinze Kene, The Pass
• WINNER: Brett Goldstein, Adult Life Skills
• Christopher Lloyd, I Am Not A Serial Killer
• Jamie Dornan, Anthropoid
• Sean Harris, Trespass Against Us

Best Supporting Actress

• WINNER: Avin Manshadi, Under The Shadow
• Gemma Arterton, The Girl With All The Gifts
• Naomie Harris, Our Kind Of Traitor
• Shana Swash, My Feral Heart
• Terry Pheto, A United Kingdom

Best Documentary

• The Confession: Living the War On Terror
• Dancer
• The Hard Stop
• Notes On Blindness
• Versus: The Life And Films Of Ken Loach

The Douglas Hickox Award (debut director)

• Adam Smith, Trespass Against Us
• Alice Lowe, Prevenge
• WINNER: Babak Anvari, Under The Shadow
• Peter Middleton, James Spinney, Notes On Blindness
• Rachel Tunnard, Adult Life Skills

Best Debut Screenwriter

• Ed Talfan, The Passing (Yr Ymadawiad)
• Hope Dickson Leach, The Levelling
• John Cairns, Michael McCartney, A Patch Of Fog
• WINNER: Rachel Tunnard, Adult Life Skills
• Simon Farnaby, Julian Barratt, Mindhorn

Breakthrough Producer

• WINNER: Camille Gatin, The Girl With All The Gifts
• Dionne Walker, The Hard Stop
• Michael Berliner, Adult Life Skills
• Mike Brett, Jo-Jo Ellison, Steve Jamison, Notes On Blindness
• Paul Fegan, Where You’re Meant To Be

Discovery Award

• Jamie Adams, Jon Rennie, Black Mountain Poets
• Tom Kingsley, Will Sharpe, Tiani Ghosh, Jo-Jo Ellison, The Darkest Universe
• Gareth Tunley, Jack Healy Guttmann, Tom Meeten, The Ghoul
• Miranda Bowen, Leo Scott, Gozo
• WINNER: Jim Hosking, Toby Harvard, Daniel Noah, Andrew Starke, Ant Timpson, Josh C Waller, Elijah Wood, The Greasy Strangler

Outstanding Achievement in Craft

• Joakim Sundström, sound, Notes On Blindness
• Paul Monaghan, Mat Whitecross, editing, Supersonic
• WINNER: 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
• WINNER: Haley Squires, I, Daniel Blake
• Letitia Wright, Urban Hymn
• Sennia Nanua, The Girl With All The Gifts
• Steve Brandon, My Feral Heart

Best British Short

• WINNER: Rene Pannevis, Ashish Ghadiali, Jennifer Eriksson, Jacked
• Leo Leigh, Scott O’Donnell, Mother
• Jörn Threlfall, Jeremy Bannister, Over
• Fyzal Boulifa, Taina Galis, Rate Me
• Terri Matthews, Chris Cornwell, Sam Bank, The Wrong End Of The Stick