The nominations for the 15th annual Moët British Independent Film Awards were announced today and leading the pack with nine nominations is “Broken,” which scored nods for Best Film, Best Director and Best Debut Director for Rufus Norris, Best Actor for Tim Roth and two Best Supporting Actor nominations for Cillian Murphy and Rory Kinnear.
Close behind Norris’ murky tale of intertwining households in a north London suburb, which opened Critic’s Week at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, are “Sightseers” and “Berberian Sound Studio,” each picking up seven nominations. Among “Sightseers”‘ tally are Best Actor and Actress nods for Steve Oram and Alice Lowe, Best Screenplay for Oram, Lowe and Amy Jump and Best Director for Ben Wheatley (who was also nominated last year for “Kill List,” our TOH! interview with Wheatley is here). In their black comedy, Oram and Lowe play an oddball British couple who embark on a murder spree during a caravan holiday around Britain. “Berberian Sound Studio” received nominations for Best British Independent Film, Best Director for Peter Strickland and Best Actor for Toby Jones, who stars as a fastidious British sound engineer working on an Italian exploitation film in the 1970s.
The other names up for Best Actress are Andrea Riseborough for “Shadow Dancer,” Elle Fanning for “Ginger & Rosa,” Judi Dench for “The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel” and Meryl Streep for “The Iron Lady,” while Roth, Oram and Jones will be competing against Riz Ahmed for “Ill Manors” and Terence Stamp for “Song For Marion.” Vying with Norris for the Douglas Hickox Award for Best Debut Director are Bart Layton for “The Imposter,” Ben Drew for “Ill Manors,” Rowan Athale for “Wasteland” and Sally El Hosaini for “My Brother The Devil.”
Best Supporting Actor nods went to Billy Connolly for “Quartet,” Domhnall Gleeson for “Shadow Dancer,” Tom Wilkinson for “The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel” as well as the aforementioned Murphy and Kinnear, while the Best Supporting Actress category is made up of Alice Englert for “Ginger & Rosa,” Eileen Davies for “Sightseers,” Maggie Smith for “The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel,” Olivia Colman for “Hyde Park On Hudson” and Vanessa Redgrave for “Song For Marion.”
The complete list of nominations is below. This year’s Moët BIFA winners will be decided by a jury that includes producers Alison Owen and Iain Canning, actors Tom Hiddleston, John Boyega and Lesley Sharp and screenwriter Adrian Hodges, and will be announced at an awards ceremony on 9 December hosted by BIFA patron (and star of Peter Jackson’s upcoming “Hobbit”) James Nesbitt. Full list of nominations below.
BEST BRITISH INDEPENDENT FILM
Berberian Sound Studio
Broken
Sightseers
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
The Imposter
BEST DIRECTOR
Bart Layton – The Imposter
Ben Wheatley – Sightseers
John Madden – The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Peter Strickland – Berberian Sound Studio
Rufus Norris – Broken
THE DOUGLAS HICKOX AWARD [BEST DEBUT DIRECTOR]
Bart Layton – The Imposter
Ben Drew – Ill Manors
Rowan Athale – Wasteland
Rufus Norris – Broken
Sally El Hosaini – My Brother The Devil
BEST SCREENPLAY
Abi Morgan – The Iron Lady
Alice Lowe, Steve Oram, Amy Jump – Sightseers
Mark O’Rowe – Broken
Paul Andrew Williams – Song For Marion
Peter Strickland – Berberian Sound Studio
BEST ACTRESS
Alice Lowe – Sightseers
Andrea Riseborough – Shadow Dancer
Elle Fanning – Ginger & Rosa
Judi Dench – The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Meryl Streep – The Iron Lady
BEST ACTOR
Riz Ahmed – Ill Manors
Steve Oram – Sightseers
Terence Stamp – Song For Marion
Tim Roth – Broken
Toby Jones – Berberian Sound Studio
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Alice Englert – Ginger & Rosa
Eileen Davies – Sightseers
Maggie Smith – The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Olivia Colman – Hyde Park On Hudson
Vanessa Redgrave – Song For Marion
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Billy Connolly – Quartet
Cillian Murphy – Broken
Domhnall Gleeson – Shadow Dancer
Rory Kinnear – Broken
Tom Wilkinson – The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
MOST PROMISING NEWCOMER
Elliott Tittensor – Spike Island
Eloise Laurence – Broken
James Floyd – My Brother The Devil
Paul Brannigan – The Angels’ Share
Zawe Ashton – Dreams Of A Life
BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN PRODUCTION
Berberian Sound Studio
Ill Manors
Sightseers
The Imposter
The Sweeney
BEST TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT
Nic Knowland – Cinematography – Berberian Sound Studio
Joakim Sundström, Stevie Haywood – Sound Design – Berberian Sound Studio
Electric Wave Bureau – Music – Broken
Robbie Ryan – Cinematography – Ginger & Rosa
Andrew Hulme – Editing – The Imposter
BEST DOCUMENTARY
Dreams Of A Life
London: The Modern Babylon
Marley
Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir
The Imposter
BEST BRITISH SHORT
Friday
Junk
Skyborn
Swimmer
Volume
BEST INTERNATIONAL INDEPENDENT FILM
Amour
Beasts Of The Southern Wild
Rust & Bone
Searching For Sugar Man
The Hunt
THE RAINDANCE AWARD
Frank
Strings
Love Tomorrow
City Slacker
Jason Becker: Not Dead Yet
