Lady Macbeth has won the most prizes at the 20th British Independent Film Awards, the ceremony run by the Raindance organisation.

The 5 BIFAs awarded to the BBC Films production included Best Actress for Florence Pugh, Most Promising Newcomer for Naomi Ackie and Alice Birch’s script won the Best Screenplay award, sponsored by BBC Films.s

It’s other awards were for cinematography and costume design, previously announced at BIFA’s technical awards ceremony last month, the first time BIFA have held a separate ceremony to recognise a full range of creative behind-the-scenes roles.

The top award of the night, Best British Independent Film, went to the gay drama God’s Own Country, which won a total of 4 BIFAs, including Best Actor for Josh O’Connor, Best Sound and Best Debut Screenwriter for director Francis Lee.

He was pipped to the post in both the Best Director and Best Debut Director categories by Rungano Nyoni, for her highly acclaimed I Am Not a Witch, which is credited as a Zambian film at the upcoming Independent Spirit Awards, where it’s up for the Best International Film Award. BIFA gave the corresponding prize to Get Out, starring the British actor Daniel Kaluuya.

Armando Iannucci’s  Russian political satire The Death of Stalin matched God’s Own Country’s 4 wins, with Simon Russell Beale beating co-star Steve Buscemi to the Best Supporting Actor award, while it also took the technical prizes for production design, hair & make-up and casting.

Other honours handed out at the ceremony at Old Billingsgate saw the Best Supporting Actress prize go to Patricia Clarkson for The Party,  Almost Heaven was named the Best Documentary and the Best Short award went to Fish Story. 

There were also some broader honours handed out, including the Special Jury Prize for Femi Oguns, for work to tackle the lack of diversity on screen, Vanessa Redgrave was handed the Richard Harris Award recognising the outstanding contribution to British Film by an actor and Gary Oldman, soon to be seen as Winston Churchill in The Darkest Hour, was given the Variety Award to honour a British director, actor, writer or producer who’s made a global impact and focused international attention to the UK’s film industry.

And here is the full list of winners of the 20th BIFA Awards: