
My Father’s Shadow leads the nominations for the 2025 British Independent Film Awards with 12, including Best British Independent Film, along with Best Director and Best Debut Director for Akinola Davies Jr.
Pillion followed with 10 nominations, also including Best British Independent Film, along with Best Director and Best Debut Director for Harry Lighton.
Also nominated for Best British Independent Film are The Ballad of Wallis Island, I Swear and Urchin.
The winners of the 2025 British Independent Film Awards will be announced at the ceremony on November 30, 2025
2025 British Independent Film Awards Nominees
Best British Independent Film
The Ballad of Wallis Island
James Griffiths / Tom Basden / Tim Key / Rupert Majendie
I Swear
Kirk Jones / Georgia Bayliff / Piers Tempest
My Father’s Shadow
Akinola Davies Jr / Wale Davies / Rachel Dargavel / Funmbi Ogunbanwo
Pillion
Harry Lighton / Lee Groombridge / Ed Guiney / Andrew Lowe / Emma Norton
Urchin
Harris Dickinson / Archie Pearch / Scott O’Donnell
Best Screenplay
The Ballad of Wallis Island
Tom Basden / Tim Key
I Swear
Kirk Jones
My Father’s Shadow
Wale Davies
On Falling
Laura Carreira
Pillion
Harry Lighton
Best Director
Die My Love
Lynne Ramsay
I Swear
Kirk Jones
My Father’s Shadow
Akinola Davies Jr
On Falling
Laura Carreira
Pillion
Harry Lighton
Best Lead Performance
Die My Love
Jennifer Lawrence
I Swear
Robert Aramayo
Pillion
Harry Melling
Steve
Cillian Murphy
Urchin
Frank Dillane
Wasteman
David Jonsson
Best Ensemble Performance
Warfare
D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai / Will Poulter / Cosmo Jarvis / Kit Connor / Finn Bennett / Joseph Quinn / Charles Melton
Best Joint Lead Performance
The Ballad of Wallis Island
Tim Key / Tom Basden
Brides
Ebada Hassan / Safiyya Ingar
Dragonfly
Andrea Riseborough / Brenda Blethyn
Best Supporting Performance
I Swear
Maxine Peake
I Swear
Peter Mullan
I Swear
Scott Ellis Watson
Pillion
Alexander Skarsgård
Steve
Jay Lycurgo
Wasteman
Tom Blyth
Breakthrough Performance
Brides
Ebada Hassan
Brides
Safiyya Ingar
I Swear
Scott Ellis Watson
Lollipop
Posy Sterling
The Son and the Sea
Connor Tompkins
The Douglas Hickox Award (Best Debut Director)
My Father’s Shadow
Akinola Davies Jr
On Falling
Laura Carreir
Pillion
Harry Lighton
Urchin
Harris Dickinson
Wasteman
Cal McMau
Best Debut Screenwriter
The Ballad of Wallis Island
Tom Basden / Tim Key
My Father’s Shadow
Wale Davies
On Falling
Laura Carreira
Pillion
Harry Lighton
Wasteman
Hunter Andrews / Eoin Doran
Best Debut Director – Feature Documentary
Mother Vera
Cécile Embleton / Alys Tomlinson
Motherboard
Victoria Mapplebeck
A Want In Her
Myrid Carten
Breakthrough Producer
Ish
Dhiraj Mahey
also produced by Bennett McGhee
LifeHack
Joann Kushner
also produced by Timur Bekmambetov, Aleksandr Kletzov
Palestine Comedy Club
Charlotte Knowles
Shoot the People
Wyn Baptiste
Urchin
Archie Pearch
also produced by Scott O’Donnell
Best Feature Documentary
Antidote
James Jones / David Moulton
Mother Vera
Cécile Embleton / Alys Tomlinson / Laura Shacham
Motherboard
Victoria Mapplebeck
The Shepherd and the Bear
Max Keegan / Elizabeth Woodward / Amanda McBaine / Jesse Moss
A Want In Her
Myrid Carten / Tadhg O’Sullivan / Roisín Geraghty / Kat Mansoor
The Raindance Maverick Award
Foul Evil Deeds
Richard Hunter
Holloway
Sophie Compton / Daisy-May Hudson / Alice Hughes / Polly Creed / Stella Heath Keir
Mother Vera
Cécile Embleton / Alys Tomlinson / Laura Shacham
Motherboard
Victoria Mapplebeck
A Want In Her
Myrid Carten
Best International Independent Film
It Was Just an Accident
Jafar Panahi / Phillippe Martin
Sentimental Value
Joachim Trier / Eskil Vogt / Maria Ekerhovd / Andrea Berentsen Ottmar
Sirāt
Oliver Laxe / Santiago Fillol / Domingo Corral / Oriol Maymó / Andrea Queralt / Mani Mortazavi / Xavi Font / Pedro Almodóvar / Agustín Almodóvar / Esther García
Sorry, Baby
Adele Romanski / Mark Ceryak / Barry Jenkins / Eva Victor
Sound of Falling
Mascha Schilinski / Louise Peter / Maren Schmitt / Lucas Schmidt
Best British Short
Flock
Mac Nixon / Matt Ashwell / Daley Nixon
MAGID / ZAFAR
Luís Hindman / Sufiyaan Salam / Aidan Robert Brooks
A Sisyphean Task
George Telfer / Gus Flind-Henry / George Malcher
Stomach Bug
Matty Crawford / Karima Sammout Kanellopoulou
Two Black Boys in Paradise
Ben Jackson / Baz Sells / Dean Atta
Best Casting
Brides
Shaheen Baig
I Swear
Lauren Evans
Steve
Robert Sterne
Urchin
Shaheen Baig
Warfare
Kharmel Cochrane
Best Cinematography
Die My Love
Seamus McGarvey
H is for Hawk
Charlotte Bruus Christensen
Mother Vera
Cécile Embleton
My Father’s Shadow
Jermaine Edwards
A Pale View of Hills
Piotr Niemyjski
Best Costume Design
100 Nights of Hero
Susie Coulthard
My Father’s Shadow
PC Williams
A Pale View of Hills
Sayaka Takahashi / Matthew Price
Pillion
Grace Snell
Tornado
Kirsty Halliday
Best Editing
LifeHack
Ronan Corrigan / Aleksandr Kletsov
My Father’s Shadow
Omar Guzmán Castro
One to One: John & Yoko
Sam Rice-Edwards
Pillion
Gareth C. Scales
Warfare
Fin Oates
Best Make-Up & Hair Design
100 Nights of Hero
Natasha Lawes
Die My Love
Colleen LaBaff / Miho Suzuki
My Father’s Shadow
Kehinde Are / Feyzo Oyebisi
Pillion
Diandra Ferreira
Warfare
Paul Gooch / Tristan Versluis
Best Music Supervision
Die My Love
Ian Neil / Raife Burchell
Urchin
Bridget Samuels
Wasteman
Phil Canning
Best Original Music
Anemone
Bobby Krlic
The Ballad of Wallis Island
Tom Basden / Adem Ilhan
My Father’s Shadow
CJ Mirra / Duval Timothy
Ocean With David Attenborough
Steven Price
Tornado
Jed Kurzel
Best Production Design
100 Nights of Hero
Sofia Sacomani
Die My Love
Tim Grimes
Harvest
Nathan Parker
My Father’s Shadow
Jennifer Anti / Pablo Anti
Warfare
Mark Digby
Best Sound
Anemone
Steve Fanagan / Stevie Haywood
Die My Love
Tim Burns / Paul Davies / Linda Forsén / Andrew Stirk / Ron Osiowy
Ish
Nina Hartstone / Jake Whitelee / Jens Petersen / Mike Tehrani / Rob Davidson
My Father’s Shadow
CJ Mirra / James Ridgway / Joe Jackson / Adele Fletcher / Pius Fatoke
Warfare
Sound Team
Best Effects
Die My Love
Victor Tomi
The Thing With Feathers
Conor O’Sullivan / Martin Malmqvist / Hayley Williams
Warfare
Simon Stanley-Clamp / Ryan Conder

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