The Personal History of David Copperfield leads the nominations for the 2019 British Independent Film Awards (BIFAs). Armando Iannucci’s fresh take on Dickens’ novel about the ups and downs in the life of its eponymous character is recognized for Best British Independent Film and Best Screenplay amongst nine other awards. Dev Patel is nominated for Best Actor, with co-stars Tilda Swinton and Hugh Laurie competing in the respective Supporting categories.
Completing the five Best British Independent Film nominations alongside The Personal History of David Copperfield are Bait (4 nominations), For Sama (5 nominations), The Souvenir (8 nominations) and Wild Rose (10 nominations).
Jessie Buckley returns to BIFA this year in the Best Actress category for Wild Rose, having taken home the trophy for Most Promising Newcomer in 2018 for her role in Beast. The film receives broad recognition alongside its Best British Independent Film nod, with nominations including Best Screenplay, Best Supporting Actress, Debut Screenwriter, Best Casting, Best Costume Design, Best Make Up & Hair Design, Best Music and Best Sound.
Also competing in the Best Actress category is Sally Hawkins, who has previously been nominated at BIFA four times and is nominated this year for Eternal Beauty. Sally Hawkins and Jessie Buckley are nominated alongside first-time BIFA nominees Holliday Grainger (Animals), Renee Zellweger (Judy) and Vicky Knight (Dirty God), who also features in this year’s Most Promising Newcomer Category.
In the Best Actor category, up against Dev Patel for The Personal History of David Copperfield, the field of nominees includes Tom Burke (The Souvenir), Kris Hitchen (Sorry We Missed You), Sam Adewunmi (The Last Tree), also nominated in the Most Promising Newcomer Category, and 2017 Best Actor winner Josh O’Connor (Only You).
Tilda Swinton (The Personal History of David Copperfield), whose daughter Honor Swinton Byrne (The Souvenir) features in this year’s Most Promising Newcomer nominations, is joined by Julie Walters (Wild Rose), Jessica Barden (Scarborough), Elizabeth Debicki (Vita & Virginia) and Ruthxjiah Bellenea (The Last Tree) in being nominated for the Best Supporting Actress award. Swinton and Walters have both previously received The Richard Harris award at BIFA for their contributions to the British film industry.
Chiwetel Ejiofor is nominated for both The Douglas Hickox Award for Debut Director and Best Supporting Actor for The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind. Also nominated in the Best Supporting Actor category are Peter Mullan (The Vanishing), Bluey Robinson (Dirty God), Edlison Manuel Olbera Núñez (Yuli – The Carlos Acosta Story) and Hugh Laurie (The Personal History of David Copperfield).
The 2019 BIFA nominations feature a strong show from documentaries. Waad al-Kateab and Edward Watts are nominated for Best Director sponsored by Broadsword Event House for For Sama, as is Asif Kapadia for Diego Maradona. Both titles picked up five nominations overall; Kapadia continues his long association with BIFA with his fifth nomination, following past recognition for The Warrior and Amy. For Sama marks the first nomination for Al-Kateab and Watts.
Winners will be announced at the British Independent Film Award Ceremony on Sunday December 1, at Old Billingsgate. The ceremony will be hosted by award-winning stand-up, writer and actress Aisling Bea.
BIFA NOMINATIONS 2019
BEST BRITISH INDEPENDENT FILM
BAIT
Mark Jenkin, Kate Byers, Linn Waite
FOR SAMA
Waad al-Kateab, Edward Watts
THE PERSONAL HISTORY OF DAVID COPPERFIELD
Armando Iannucci, Simon Blackwell, Kevin Loader
THE SOUVENIR
Joanna Hogg, Luke Schiller
WILD ROSE
Tom Harper, Nicole Taylor, Faye Ward
BEST DIRECTOR
WAAD AL-KATEAB, EDWARD WATTS
For Sama
OLIVER HERMANUS
Moffie
JOANNA HOGG
The Souvenir
MARK JENKIN
Bait
ASIF KAPADIA
Diego Maradona
BEST SCREENPLAY
JOANNA HOGG
The Souvenir
ARMANDO IANNUCCI, SIMON BLACKWELL
The Personal History of David Copperfield
PAUL LAVERTY
Sorry We Missed You
PETER STRICKLAND
In Fabric
NICOLE TAYLOR
Wild Rose
BEST ACTRESS
JESSIE BUCKLEY
Wild Rose
HOLLIDAY GRAINGER
Animals
SALLY HAWKINS
Eternal Beauty
VICKY KNIGHT
Dirty God
RENEE ZELLWEGER
Judy
BEST ACTOR
SAM ADEWUMNI
The Last Tree
TOM BURKE
The Souvenir
KRIS HITCHEN
Sorry We Missed You
JOSH O’CONNOR
Only You
DEV PATEL
The Personal History of David Copperfield
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
JESSICA BARDEN
Scarborough
RUTHXJIAH BELLENEA
The Last Tree
ELIZABETH DEBICKI
Vita & Virginia
TILDA SWINTON
The Personal History of David Copperfield
JULIE WALTERS
Wild Rose
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
CHIWETEL EJIOFOR
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
HUGH LAURIE
The Personal History of David Copperfield
EDLISON MANUEL OLBERA NÚÑEZ
Yuli – The Carlos Acosta Story
PETER MULLAN
The Vanishing
BLUEY ROBINSON
Dirty God
THE DOUGLAS HICKOX AWARD (DEBUT DIRECTOR)
WILL BECHER, RICHARD PHELAN
A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon
FYZAL BOULIFA
Lynn + Lucy
NINIAN DOFF
Boyz in the Wood
CHIWETEL EJIOFOR
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
HARRY WOOTLIFF
Only You
BREAKTHROUGH PRODUCER
FINN BRUCE Tucked
KATE BYERS, LINN WAITE Bait
JOY GHARORO-AKPOJOTOR Blue Story [also produced by Damian Jones]
BECKY READ Three Identical Strangers [also produced by Grace Hughes-Hallett]
JACK SIDEY Moffie [also produced by Eric Abraham]
DEBUT SCREENWRITER
KIERAN HURLEY Beats
LISA OWENS Days of the Bagnold Summer
NICOLE TAYLOR Wild Rose
EMMA JANE UNSWORTH Animals
HARRY WOOTLIFF Only You
MOST PROMISING NEWCOMER
SAM ADEWUMNI The Last Tree
VICKY KNIGHT Dirty God
LORN MACDONALD Beats
ROXANNE SCRIMSHAW Lynn + Lucy
HONOR SWINTON BYRNE The Souvenir
BEST DOCUMENTARY
COUP 53 Taghi Amirani, Walter Murch, Paul Zaentz
DIEGO MARADONA Asif Kapadia, James Gay-Rees, Paul Martin
FOR SAMA Waad al-Kateab, Edward Watts
SEAHORSE Jeanie Finlay, Andrea Cornwell
TELL ME WHO I AM Ed Perkins, Simon Chinn
THE RAINDANCE DISCOVERY AWARD
A BUMP ALONG THE WAY Shelly Love
CHILDREN OF THE SNOW LAND Zara Balfour, Marcus Stephenson, Mark Hakansson
HERE FOR LIFE Andrea Luka Zimmerman, Adrian Jackson, James Lingwood, Michael Morris, Cressida Day
MUSCLE Gerard Johnson, Matthew James Wilkinson, Richard Wylie, Ed Barratt
THE STREET Zed Nelson
BEST BRITISH SHORT FILM
ANNA Dekel Berenson, Merlin Merton, Olga Beskhmelnitsyna
BOILING POINT Philip Barantini, Bart Ruspoli, James Cummings, Gabriella Callea, Grace Nelder
THE DEVIL’S HARMONY Dylan Holmes Williams, Jess O’Kane, Nathan Craig
GOLDFISH Hector Dockrill, Laura Dockrill, Benedict Turnbull, Harri Kamalanathan
SERIOUS TINGZ Abdou Cissé, Kieran Kenlock, Matt Ellingham
BEST INTERNATIONAL INDEPENDENT FILM
ASH IS PUREST WHITE Jia Zhang-Ke, Shôzô Ichiyama
MARRIAGE STORY Noah Baumbach, David Heyman
MONOS Alejandro Landes, Alexis Dos Santos, Fernando Epstein, Cristina Landes, Santiago A Zapata
PARASITE Bong Joon-ho, Jan Young-Hwan, Moon Yang-kwon, Sin-ae Kwak, Han Jin Won
PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE Céline Sciamma, Véronique Cayla, Bénédicte Couvreur
BEST CASTING
SHAHEEN BAIG In Fabric
SHAHEEN BAIG, AISHA BYWATERS The Last Tree
KAHLEEN CRAWFORD, CAROLINE STEWART Only You
KAHLEEN CRAWFORD Wild Rose
SARAH CROWE The Personal History of David Copperfield
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
OLE BRATT BIRKELAND Judy
BENJAMIN KRACUN Beats
ZAC NICHOLSON The Personal History of David Copperfield
JAMIE D RAMSAY Moffie
ARI WEGNER In Fabric
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
SUZIE HARMAN, ROBERT WORLEY The Personal History of David Copperfield
ANNA MARY SCOTT ROBBINS Wild Rose
GRACE SNELL The Souvenir
JANY TEMIME Judy
JO THOMPSON In Fabric
BEST EDITING
MICK AUDSLEY, PETER LAMBERT The Personal History of David Copperfield
MARK JENKIN Bait
CHRIS KING Diego Maradona
CHLOE LAMBOURNE, SIMON McMAHON For Sama
HELLE LE FEVRE The Souvenir
BEST EFFECTS
HOWARD JONES A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon
PAUL MANN In Fabric
ANDY QUINN The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
BEST MAKE UP & HAIR DESIGN
MORTEN JACOBSEN, ROGIER SAMUELS, LINDELOTTE VAN DER MEER Dirty God
KAREN HARTLEY-THOMAS The Personal History of David Copperfield
EMMA SCOTT In Fabric
JODY WILLIAMS Wild Rose
JEREMY WOODHEAD Judy
BEST MUSIC
JACK ARNOLD Wild Rose
CAVERN OF ANTI-MATTER In Fabric
NAINITA DESAI For Sama
ANTONIO PINTO Diego Maradona
JD TWITCH, PENELOPE TRAPPES, STEPHEN HINDMAN Beats
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
CRISTINA CASALI The Personal History of David Copperfield
STÉPHANE COLLONGE The Souvenir
KAVE QUINN Judy
ANNE SEIBEL The White Crow
PAKI SMITH In Fabric
BEST SOUND
ANNA MY BERTMARK, JONATHAN SEALE, JULES WOODS Gwen
DAVID BOWTLE-McMILLAN, JOAKIM SUNDSTRÖM, ROBERT FARR Beats
STEPHEN GRIFFITHS, TIM CAVAGIN, MAX WALSH, ANDY SHELLEY Diego Maradona
LEE WALPOLE, COLIN NICHOLSON, STUART HILLIKER Wild Rose
MARTIN PAVEY In Fabric
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