Mike Leigh’s final film, Tender Loving Care and the London Film Festival opener, Elsinore, are among the most nominated films at this year’s British Independent Film Awards.
The BIFAs are one of the earliest film awards of the season, but very specifically targeting the British independent sector, they’re not particularly indicative of where other awards bodies might go, although a handful of the nominees are likely to turn up again at the BAFTAs, and perhaps even the Oscars.
Tender Loving Care and Elsinore will be fighting for the top prize – Best British Independent Film – against Clio Barnard’s I See buildings Fall Like Lightening, Lancer Hammer’s Queen at Sea and Marc Evans’ Effi o Blaenau.
Elsinore’s Andrew Scott and Queen at Sea’s Juliette Binoche are up for the unisex Best Lead Performance Award, with Scott’s co-star Billie Piper up against two of Binoche’s co-stars, Sir Tom Courtenay and Anna Calder-Marshall in the best supporting category.
BIFA also has separate categories for the best “joint lead” performance and the best ensemble cast; the latter sees Tender Loving Care and I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning back in contention against each other.
Elsinore, Tender Loving Care and I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning are also up against each other in the directing and screenplay categories, with Andrew Haigh and Mark Jenkin also in contention for the best director award for A Long Winter and Rose of Nevada, respectively. Queen At Sea and Effi O Blaenau are the other screenplay nominees.
Here is the full list of BIFA nominations, from which the winners will be announced, at the Roundhouse in London, on 6th December.
Best British Independent Film
-EFFI O BLAENAU Marc Evans, Gary Owen, Branwen Cennard
-ELSINORE Simon Stone, Stephen Beresford, Andrea Occhipinti, Gabrielle Tana, Pete Shilaimon, Mickey Liddell, Stefano Massenzi, Carolyn Marks Blackwood, Andrew Scott
-I SEE BUILDINGS FALL LIKE LIGHTNING Clio Barnard, Enda Walsh, Tracy O’Riordan
-QUEEN AT SEA Lance Hammer, Tristan Goligher
-TENDER LOVING CARE Mike Leigh, Georgina Lowe
Best Lead Performance
-JULIETTE BINOCHE Queen at Sea
-ERIN DOHERTY Faith
-LEISA GWENLLIAN Effi o Blaenau
-JONATHAN JULES Florid
-TUT NYUOT Animol
-ANDREW SCOTT Elsinore
Best Supporting Performance
-ANNA CALDER-MARSHALL Queen at Sea
-TOM COURTENAY Queen at Sea
-SEKOU DIABY Animol
-CLAIRE FOY Ink
-BILLIE PIPER Elsinore
-BILL PULLMAN Everybody Digs Bill Evans
Best Joint Lead Performance
-SÉAMUS MCLEAN ROSS, SAMUEL BOTTOMLEY California Schemin’
-FLORA NICHOLSON, CLARE DUNNE, MIA THARIA The Education of Jane Cumming
-MARNI DUGGAN, GALAXIE CLEAR Extra Geography
-CHIMPAYE FLORENCE MARISERENA, BIZIMANA HUSSAIN Small Gods
Best Ensemble Performance
-I SEE BUILDINGS FALL LIKE LIGHTNING Anthony Boyle, Joe Cole, Jay Lycurgo, Daryl McCormack, Lola Petticrew
-SUNNY DANCER Bella Ramsey, Daniel Quinn-Toye, Ruby Stokes, Earl Cave, Conrad Khan, Jasmine Elcock, Shalom Brune-Franklin, Louis Gaunt, Josie Walker, Jessica Gunning, James Norton, Neil Patrick Harris, James Blunt
-TENDER LOVING CARE Marion Bailey, Paul Jesson, Kate O’Flynn, Alice Bailey Johnson
Best Director
-CLIO BARNARD I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning
-ANDREW HAIGH A Long Winter
-MARK JENKIN Rose of Nevada
-MIKE LEIGH Tender Loving Care
-SIMON STONE Elsinore
Best Screenplay
-STEPHEN BERESFORD Elsinore
-LANCE HAMMER Queen at Sea
-MIKE LEIGH Tender Loving Care
-GARY OWEN Effi O Blaenau
-ENDA WALSH I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning
Best Cinematography
-MIKE ELEY Elsinore
-PIERS McGRAIL Everybody Digs Bill Evans
-CHRISTOPHER RIPLEY Straight Circle
-SIMON TINDALL I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning
-ANDRÉ TURPIN A Long Winter
Best Editing
-VALERIO BONELLI Elsinore
-OTTO BURNHAM Black Is Beautiful: The Kwame Brathwaite Story
-FOUAD GABER Straight Circle
-MAYA MAFFIOLI I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning
-FIN OATES Ink
Best Effects
-JON BIGGINS, JEFF DILLON Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom
-RUSLAN BORYSOV, RICHARD CHEAL, TIM LEDBURY The Magic Faraway Tree
-DANIEL MORRIS The Incomer
Best Sound sponsored by Bleat
-ANDY COLES, JOHN BRENNAN Everybody Digs Bill Evans
-PAUL COTTERELL, RON OSIOWY, JOAKIM SUNDSTRÖM A Long Winter
-SIMON HAYES, JOHNNIE BURN Ink
-MARK JENKIN, IAN WILSON Rose of Nevada
-DARIO SWADE, GEORGE ELLIOTT, TOM HARBURT Florid
Best Original Music
-ROGER GOULA Everybody Digs Bill Evans
-STEFAN GREGORY Elsinore
-MARK JENKIN Rose of Nevada
-HANNAH PEEL Underland
-SIÔN TREFOR, IOANA SELARU Effi o Blaenau
Best Music Supervision
-CONNIE FARR I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning
-CONNIE FARR Queen at Sea
-PHIL CANNING Sunny Dancer
Best Production Design
-LUKE MORAN-MORRIS Straight Circle
-GARETH PUGH, CARSON McCOLL Ink
-HELEN SCOTT Elsinore
-ALEXANDRA WALKER The Magic Faraway Tree
-GARY WILLIAMSON Savage House
Best Costume Design
-SARAH BLENKINSOP The Incomer
-ALEX BOVAIRD Savage House
-CAROL CASE A Long Winter
-DARION HING Straight Circle
-MEL PAGE Elsinore
Best Make-Up & Hair Design
-JACQUETTA LEVON Savage House
-NADIA STACEY Elsinore
-NADIA STACEY Madfabulous
-KAREN HARTLEY THOMAS The Magic Faraway Tree
-TRISTAN VERSLUIS Straight Circle
Best Casting
-SHAHEEN BAIG I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning
-HEATHER BASTEN Animol
-LARA MANWARING Florid
-LUCY PARDEE Extra Geography
-JESSICA RONANE Elsinore
The Douglas Hickox Award (Best Debut Director)
-BILLY LUMBY Florid
-MOLLY MANNERS Extra Geography
-BERTIL NILSSON Masc
-LOUIS PAXTON The Incomer
-ASHLEY WALTERS Animol
Breakthrough Producer
-ITAB AZZAM, JACK MACINNES, WILL ANDERSON, JAMES BLUEMEL, ANDREW PALMER One in a Million [also produced Raney Aronson-Rath]
-BRANWEN CENNARD Effi O Blaenau
-TOM HAWKINS Animol [also produced by Joy Gharoro-Akpojotor, Nick Love, Ashley Walters]
-OSKAR PIMLOTT Bad Apples
-ALEX POLUNIN Black Church Bay [also produced by Tristan Goligher]
Breakthrough Performance
-GALAXIE CLEAR Extra Geography
-SEKOU DIABY Animol
-LEISA GWENLLIAN Effi O Blaenau
-JONATHAN JULES Florid
-TUT NYUOT Animol
Best Debut Screenwriter
-MIRIAM BATTYE Extra Geography
-THEA GAJIĆ Surviving Earth
-RHYS MARC JONES Black Church Bay
-JESS O’KANE Bad Apples
-LOUIS PAXTON The Incomer
Best Debut Director – Feature Documentary
-JANAY BOULOS, ABD ALKADER HABAK Birds of War
-ED SAYERS Super Nature
-RACHEL TAPARJAN Something Familiar
The Raindance Maverick Award
-ACT 3 Christine Molloy, Joe Lawlor, Alex Thiele, Hannah Patterson
-CHATLINES Neil Ely, Lloyd Eyre-Morgan, Paul Mortlock
-MASC Bertil Nilsson
-THE PERIL AT PINCER POINT Jake Kuhn, Noah Stratton-Twine
-SOMETHING FAMILIAR Rachel Taparjan, Monica Lăzurean-Gorgan, Elena Martin, Aleksandra Bilic
Best Feature Documentary
-ALL RIVERS SPILL THEIR STORIES TO THE SEA Jeanie Finlay, Charlie Phillips
-EVERYBODY TO KENMURE STREET Felipe Bustos Sierra, Ciara Barry
-ONE IN A MILLION Itab Azzam, Jack MacInnes, Will Anderson, Andrew Palmer, James Bluemel, Raney Aronson-Rath
-SOMETHING FAMILIAR Rachel Taparjan, Aleksandra Bilic, Monica Lăzurean-Gorgan
-WE, THE HATED Rich Felgate, David Allen
Best British Short Film
-ALLIES IN EXILE Hasan Kattan, Orlando von Einsiedel
-COYOTES Said Zagha, Myriam Sassine, Laura Jumel
-FORGOTTEN SPACEMAN Elham Ehsas, Lorraine Bhattachary
-UNTITLED WOMAN Camille Summers-Valli, Rosmarie Vind, Sorcha Bacon, Martha McGuirk, David Zander
-VOTE GAVIN LYLE Aneil Karia, Scott O’Donnell, Tom Gardner
Best International Independent Film
-ALL OF A SUDDEN Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Léa Le Dimna, David Gauquié, Julien Deris, Kôsuke Oshida, Yûji Sadai, Jean-Luc Ormières, Renan Artukmaç, Hiroko Matsuda
-CLUB KID Jordan Firstman, Galen Core, Alex Coco
-LA BOLA NEGRA Javier Ambrossi, Javier Calvo
-LA GRADIVA Marine Atlan, Anne Brouilet, Inès Daïen Dasi
-POSSIBLE LOVE Lee Chang-dong, Oh Jung-mi
Cinema of the Year
-ABBEYGATE CINEMA
-CAMPUS WEST
-HIPPODROME CINEMA
-THE KINEMA IN THE WOODS
-THE ULTIMATE PICTURE PALACE