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| I, Daniel Blake |
Ken Loach's Cannes hit I, Daniel Blake, which has been condemned by some politicians but celebrated by others and has sparked a public outcry about the UK's welfare system, has been nominated in seven categories at this year's British Independent Film Awards (BIFAs). It's closely followed by Andrea Arnold's American Honey, Peter Middleton and James Spinney Notes On Blindness, Rachel Tunnard's Adult Life Skills and Babak Anvari's Under The Shadow, each of which has six nominations.
The winners will receive their awards at a ceremony in Old Billingsgate, London, on December 4.
Those nominations in full:-
Best British independent film
Best international independent film
Best director
- 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
- 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
- Sasha Lane, American Honey
Best Actor
- 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
- Brett Goldstein, Adult Life Skills
- Christopher Lloyd, I Am Not A Serial Killer
- Jamie Dornan, Anthropoid
- Sean Harris, Trespass Against Us
Best supporting actress
- 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
- 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
- Rachel Tunnard, Adult Life Skills
- Simon Farnaby, 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, 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
