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Lady Macbeth topped the list of nominations for the 2017 British Independent Film Awards (BIFA) with 15 nominations including Best British Independent Film.
The Death of Stalin,
I Am Not a Witch follow with 13 nominations each; and
God’s Own Country and
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri each nominated 11 times. Overall, debut features dominate the nominations list, with the first-time writers, producers and directors of Lady Macbeth, I Am Not a Witch and God’s Own Country all recognized in the three newcomer categories – Debut Screenwriter, Breakthrough Producer and The Douglas Hickox Award for Best Debut Director – as well as Best Screenplay, Best Director and Best British Independent Film.
Past BIFA winners Armando Iannucci and Martin McDonagh are the writer-directors of this year’s other two Best British Independent Film nominees, The Death of Stalin and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. Both films have two nominees in the Best Supporting Actor category, with The Death of Stalin’s Simon Russell Beale and Steve Buscemi taking on Three Billboards’ Woody Harrelson and Sam Rockwell. Frances McDormand is nominated for Best Actress for her performance in Three Billboards and Andrea Riseborough for Supporting Actress for The Death of Stalin. Both films also have nominations for Best Director, Best Screenplay.
Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool has four nominations including two for past BIFA winners Jamie Bell and Julie Walters, nominated for Best Actor and Best Supporting Actress.
Gary Oldman will receive The Variety Award at the ceremony.The Variety Award recognizes a director, actor, writer or producer who has made a global impact and helped to focus the international spotlight on the UK. Past winners include Kate Winslet, Benedict Cumberbatch, Paul Greengrass, Jude Law, Kenneth Branagh, Liam Neeson, Sir Michael Caine, Naomie Harris, Daniel Craig, Helen Mirren and Richard Curtis.
Winners will be announced by host Mark Gatiss at the British Independent Film Awards Ceremony on Sunday December 10 at Old Billingsgate.
Best British Independent Film
The Death of Stalin
God’s Own Country
I Am Not a Witch
Lady Macbeth
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Best International Independent Film
The Florida Project
Get Out
I Am Not Your Negro
Loveless
The Square
Best Director
Armando Iannucci (The Death of Stalin)
Francis Lee (God’s Own Country)
Martin McDonagh (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri)
Rungano Nyoni (I Am Not a Witch)
William Oldroyd (Lady Macbeth)
Best Screenplay
Alice Birch (Lady Macbeth)
Armando Iannucci, David Schneider, Ian Martin (The Death of Stalin)
Francis Lee (God’s Own Country)
Martin McDonagh (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri)
Rungano Nyoni (I Am Not a Witch)
Best Actress
Emily Beecham (Daphne)
Frances McDormand (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri)
Margaret Mulubwa (I Am Not a Witch)
Florence Pugh (Lady Macbeth)
Ruth Wilson (Dark River)
Best Actor
Jamie Bell (Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool)
Paddy Considine (Journeyman)
Johnny Harris (Jawbone)
Josh O’Connor (God’s Own Country)
Alec Secareanu (God’s Own Country)
Best Supporting Actress
Naomi Ackie (Lady Macbeth)
Patricia Clarkson (The Party)
Kelly MacDonald (Goodbye Christopher Robin)
Andrea Riseborough (The Death of Stalin)
Julie Walters (Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool)
Best Supporting Actor
Simon Russell Beale (The Death of Stalin)
Steve Buscemi (The Death of Stalin)
Woody Harrelson (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri)
Ian Hart (God’s Own Country)
Sam Rockwell (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri)
Most Promising Newcomer sponsored by The London EDITION
Naomi Ackie (Lady Macbeth)
Harry Gilby (Just Charlie)
Cosmo Jarvis (Lady Macbeth)
Harry Michell (Chubby Funny)
Lily Newmark (Pin Cushion)
The Douglas Hickox Award (Best Debut Director)
Deborah Haywood (Pin Cushion)
Francis Lee (God’s Own Country)
Thomas Napper (Jawbone)
Rungani Nyoni (I Am Not a Witch)
William Oldroyd (Lady Macbeth)
Debut Screenwriter
Alice Birch (Lady Macbeth)
Gaby Chiappe (Their Finest)
Johnny Harris (Jawbone)
Francis Lee (God’s Own Country)
Rungani Nyoni (I Am Not a Witch)
Breakthrough Producer
Gavin Humphries (Pin Cushion)
Emily Morgan (I Am Not a Witch)
Brendan Mullin, Katy Jackson (Bad Day For The Cut)
Fodhla Cronin O’Reilly (Lady Macbeth)
Jack Tarling, Manon Ardisson (God’s Own Country)
The Discovery Award
Even When I Fall
Halfway
In Another Life
Isolani R
My Pure Land
Best Documentary
Almost Heaven
Half Way
Kingdom Of Us
Uncle Howard
Williams
Best British Short Film
1745
Fish Story
The Entertainer
Work
Wren Boys
Best Cinematography
Ben Davis (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri)
David Gallego (I Am Not a Witch)
Tat Radcliffe (Jawbone)
Thomas Riedelsheimer (Leaning Into the Wind)
Ari Wegner (Lady Macbeth)
Best Casting
Shaheen Baig (Lady Macbeth)
Shaheen Baig, layla Merrick-Wolf (God’s Own Country)
Sarah Crowe (The Death of Stalin)
Sarah Halley Finn (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri)
Debbie McWilliams (Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool)
Best Costume Design
Dinah Collin (My Cousin Rachel)
Suzie Harman (The Death of Stalin)
Sandy Powell (How to Talk to Girls at Parties)
Holly Rebecca (I Am Not a Witch)
Holly Waddington (Lady Macbeth)
Best Editing
Johnny Burke (Williams)
David Charap (Jawbone)
Jon Gregory (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri)
Peter Lambert (The Death of Stalin)
Joe Martin (Us And Them)
Best Effects
Nick Allder, Ben White (The Ritual)
Luke Dodd (Journeyman)
Effects team (The Death of Stalin)
Dan Martin (Double Date)
Chris Reynolds (Their Finest)
Best Make Up & Hair Design
Julene Paton (I Am Not a Witch)
Jan Sewell (Breathe)
Nadia Stacey (Journeyman)
Nicole Stafford (The Death of Stalin)
Sian Wilson (Lady Macbeth)
Best Music
Carter Burwell (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri)
Fred Frith (Leaning Into The Wind)
Matt Kelly (I Am Not a Witch)
Paul Weller (Jawbone)
Christopher Willis (The Death of Stalin)
Best Production Design
Jacqueline Abrahams (Lady Macbeth)
Cristina Casali (The Death of Stalin)
James Merifield (Final Portrait)
Nathan Parker (I Am Not a Witch)
Eve Stewart (Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool)
Best Sound
Anna Bertmark (God’s Own Country)
Maiken Hansen (I Am Not a Witch)
Andy Shelley, Steve Griffiths (Jawbone)
Joakim Sundström (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri)
Sound team (Breathe)
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One hundred sixty-six features have been submitted for consideration in the Documentary Feature category for the 91st Academy Awards®. Several of the films have not yet had their required Los Angeles and New York qualifying releases. Submitted features must fulfill the theatrical release requirements and comply with all of the category’s other qualifying rules in order to advance in the voting process. This year, for the first time, films that have won a qualifying award at a competitive film festival or have been submitted in the Foreign Language Film category as their country’s official selection, are also eligible in the category. A shortlist of 15 films will be announced on December 17.
Films submitted in the Documentary Feature category may also qualify for Academy Awards in other categories, including Best Picture.
Nominations for the 91st Academy Awards will be announced on Tuesday, January 22, 2019.
The 91st Oscars® will be held on Sunday, February 24, 2019, at the Dolby Theatre® at Hollywood & Highland Center® in Hollywood, and will be televised live on the ABC Television Network. The Oscars also will be televised live in more than 225 countries and territories worldwide.
The submitted features, listed in alphabetical order, are:
“Above and Beyond: NASA’S Journey to Tomorrow”
“Active Measures”
“Amazing Grace”
“American Chaos”
“Andy Irons: Kissed by God”
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“Antonio Lopez 1970: Sex Fashion & Disco”
“Avicii: True Stories”
“Bali: Beats of Paradise”
“Bathtubs over Broadway”
“Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché”
“Believer”
“Better Angels”
“Bill Coors: The Will to Live”
“Bisbee ’17”
“The Bleeding Edge”
“Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat”
“Breaking Point: The War for Democracy in Ukraine”
“Call Her Ganda”
“Charm City”
“Chef Flynn”
“The China Hustle”
“Christian Audigier The Vif”
“The Cleaners”
“Communion”
“Crime + Punishment”
“Dark Money”
“Daughters of the Sexual Revolution: The Untold Story of the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders”
“The Dawn Wall”
“The Distant Barking of Dogs”
“Divide and Conquer: The Story of Roger Ailes”
“Drug$”
“Eating Animals”
“Eldorado”
“Fahrenheit 11/9”
“Fail State”
“Family in Transition”
“Far from the Tree”
“Filmworker”
“The First Patient”
“Foreign Land”
“40 Years in the Making: The Magic Music Movie”
“Free Solo”
“Garry Winogrand: All Things Are Photographable”
“Generation Wealth”
“Ghost Hunting”
“Ghosthunter”
“The Gilligan Manifesto”
“The Gospel According to André”
“Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami”
“Graves without a Name”
“The Great Buster: A Celebration”
“Hal”
“Hale County This Morning, This Evening”
“Half the Picture”
“The Heart of Nuba”
“Hillbilly”
“The Homeless Chorus Speaks”
“Hondros”
“Howard”
“In Search of Greatness”
“In the Land of Pomegranates”
“Inventing Tomorrow”
“Invisible Hands”
“Itzhak”
“Jane Fonda in Five Acts”
“John McEnroe: In the Realm of Perfection”
“The Judge”
“Kangaroo: A Love Hate Story”
“Killer Bees”
“The King”
“King in the Wilderness”
“Kusama – Infinity”
“The Last Race”
“Leaning into the Wind: Andy Goldsworthy”
“Letter from Masanjia”
“Licu, a Romanian Story”
“Living in the Future’s Past”
“Liyana”
“Lots of Kids, a Monkey and a Castle”
“Love & Bananas: An Elephant Story”
“Love, Cecil”
“Love, Gilda”
“Love Is Tolerance – Tolerance Is Love – Make Tolerance Great Again!”
“Making The Five Heartbeats”
“Maria by Callas”
“Matangi / Maya / M.I.A.”
“McQueen”
“Minding the Gap”
“Monrovia, Indiana”
“The Most Unknown”
“New Moon”
“93Queen”
“Nossa Chape”
“Of Fathers and Sons”
“Of Love & Law”
“On Her Shoulders”
“Opera about Poland”
“The Opera House”
“The Oslo Diaries”
“The Other Side of Everything”
“The Panama Papers”
“Path of Blood”
“People’s Republic of Desire”
“Philosopher King – Lee Teng-hui’s Dialogue”
“Pick of the Litter”
“Piripkura”
“Police Killing”
“Pope Francis – A Man of His Word”
“The Price of Everything”
“The Price of Free”
“Qiu (Inmates)”
“Quincy”
“RBG”
“The Rachel Divide”
“The Raft”
“Recovery Boys”
“Restoring Tomorrow”
“Reversing Roe”
“The Road Movie”
“Robin Williams: Come inside My Mind”
“Ruben Blades Is Not My Name”
“Samouni Road”
“Saving Brinton”
“Say Her Name: The Life and Death of Sandra Bland”
“Science Fair”
“Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood”
“Searching for Ingmar Bergman”
“Seeing Allred”
“The Sentence”
“Shirkers”
“Shot in the Dark”
“The Silence of Others”
“Sisters of the Wilderness”
“A Son of Man”
“Songwriter”
“Stan”
“Studio 54”
“Summer in the Forest”
“Tea with the Dames”
“That Summer”
“That Way Madness Lies…”
“They Fight”
“They’ll Love Me When I’m Dead”
“This Is Congo”
“This Is Home: A Refugee Story”
“Three Identical Strangers”
“To Be Continued”
“Transformer”
“Travel Ban”
“The Trial”
“Triumph: The Untold Story of Perry Wallace”
“Trust Machine”
“Under the Wire”
“United Skates”
“Unknown Distance”
“Up Down and Sideways”
“The Waldheim Waltz”
“We Could Be Heroes”
“Weed the People”
“What Haunts Us”
“What Lies Upstream”
“Whitney”
“Wonderful Losers: A Different World”
“Won’t You Be My Neighbor?”
“Yellow Is Forbidden”
“Yellowing”
The Portland International Film Festival (PIFF 41) has revealed the lineup for this year’s 41st edition of the Festival, which begins on Thursday, February 15th and runs through Thursday, March 1st. The Opening Night selection is the new comedy 
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The Edinburgh International Film Festival today announced the Award Winners for this year’s 71st edition, with the winner of the prestigious Michael Powell Award for Best British Feature Film going to British filmmaker Francis Lee’s directorial debut,