British Independent Film Awards 2017

The 20th British Independent Film Awards nominations were announced on 1 November 2017.

Awards and nominations

Best British Independent Film

• God's Own Country
• The Death of Stalin
• I Am Not a Witch
• Lady Macbeth
• Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Best Director

• Rungano Nyoni - I Am Not a Witch
• Armando Iannucci - The Death of Stalin
• Francis Lee - God's Own Country
• Martin McDonagh - Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
• William Oldroyd - Lady Macbeth

Best Actress

• Florence Pugh - Lady Macbeth
• Emily Beecham - Daphne
• Frances McDormand - Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
• Margaret Mulubwa - I Am Not a Witch
• Ruth Wilson - Dark River

Best Actor

• Josh O'Connor - God's Own Country
• Jamie Bell - Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool
• Paddy Considine - Journeyman
• Johnny Harris - Jawbone
• Alec Secareanu - God's Own Country

Best Supporting Actress

• Patricia Clarkson - The Party
• Naomi Ackie - Lady Macbeth
• Kelly Macdonald - Goodbye Christopher Robin
• Andrea Riseborough - The Death of Stalin
• Julie Walters - Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool

Best Supporting Actor

• Simon Russell Beale - The Death of Stalin
• Steve Buscemi - The Death of Stalin
• Woody Harrelson - Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
• Ian Hart - God's Own Country
• Sam Rockwell - Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Most Promising Newcomer

• Naomi Ackie - Lady Macbeth
• Harry Gilby - Just Charlie
• Cosmo Jarvis - Lady Macbeth
• Harry Michell - Chubby Funny
• Lily Newmark - Pin Cushion

The Douglas Hickox Award (Debut Director)

• Rungano Nyoni - I Am Not a Witch
• Deborah Haywood - Pin Cushion
• Francis Lee - God's Own Country
• Thomas Napper - Jawbone
• William Oldroyd - Lady Macbeth

Best Debut Screenwriter

• God's Own Country - Francis Lee
• I Am Not a Witch - Rungano Nyoni
• Jawbone - Johnny Harris
• Lady Macbeth - Alice Birch
• Their Finest - Gaby Chiappe

Breakthrough Producer

• I Am Not a Witch - Emily Morgan
• Bad Day for the Cut - Brendan Mullin and Katy Jackson
• God's Own Country - Jack Tarling and Manon Ardisson
• Lady Macbeth - Fodhla Cronin O'Reilly
• Pin Cushion - Gavin Humphries

Best Screenplay

• Lady Macbeth - Alice Birch
• The Death of Stalin - Armando Iannucci, David Schneider and Ian Martin
• God's Own Country - Francis Lee
• I Am Not a Witch - Rungano Nyoni
• Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri - Martin McDonagh

Best Documentary

• Almost Heaven
• Half Way
• Kingdom of Us
• Uncle Howard
• Williams

Best Foreign Independent Film

• Get Out
• The Florida Project
• I Am Not Your Negro
• Loveless
• The Square

Discovery Award

• In Another Life
• Even When I Fall
• Halfway
• Isolani
• My Pure Land

Best Casting

• The Death of Stalin - Sarah Crowe
• Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool - Debbie McWilliams
• God's Own Country - Shaheen Baig and Layla Merrick-Wolf
• Lady Macbeth - Shaheen Baig
• Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri - Sarah Halley Finn

Best Cinematography

• Lady Macbeth - Ari Wegner
• I Am Not a Witch - David Gallego
• Jawbone - Tat Radcliffe
• Leaning Into the Wind - Thomas Riedelsheimer
• Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri - Ben Davis

Best Costume Design

• Lady Macbeth - Holly Waddington
• The Death of Stalin - Suzie Harman
• How to Talk to Girls at Parties - Sandy Powell
• I Am Not a Witch - Holly Rebecca
• My Cousin Rachel - Dinah Collin

Best Editing

• Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri - Jon Gregory
• The Death of Stalin - Peter Lambert
• Jawbone - David Charap
• Us and Them - Joe Martin
• Williams - Johnny Burke

Best Make-up and Hair Design

• The Death of Stalin - Nicole Stafford
• Breathe - Jan Sewell
• I Am Not a Witch - Julene Paton
• Journeyman - Nadia Stacey
• Lady Macbeth - Sian Wilson

Best Music

• Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri - Carter Burwell
• The Death of Stalin - Christopher Willis
• I Am Not a Witch - Matt Kelly
• Jawbone - Paul Weller
• Leaning Into the Wind - Fred Frith

Best Production Design

• The Death of Stalin - Cristina Casali
• Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool - Eve Stewart
• Final Portrait - James Merifield
• I Am Not a Witch - Nathan Parker
• Lady Macbeth - Jacqueline Abrahams

Best Sound

• God's Own Country - Anna Bertmark
• Breathe - Sound team
• I Am Not a Witch - Maiken Hansen
• Jawbone - Andy Shelley and Steve Griffiths
• Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri - Joakim Sundström

Best Effects

• The Ritual - Nick Allder and Ben White
• The Death of Stalin - Effects team
• Double Date - Dan Martin
• Journeyman - Luke Dodd
• Their Finest - Chris Reynolds

External links

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