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    Home » “I, Daniel Blake” Tops British Independent Film Awards With 7 Nominations

    “I, Daniel Blake” Tops British Independent Film Awards With 7 Nominations

    By SHOOTTuesday, November 1, 2016Updated:Tuesday, May 14, 2024No Comments3289 Views
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    "I, Daniel Blake"

    "American Honey," "Adult Life Skills," "Notes on Blindness" and "Under the Shadow" earn 6 nominations each

    LONDON --

    I, Daniel Blake topped the list of nominations for the 2016 British Independent Film Awards (BIFA) announced this morning by British actors Ophelia Lovibond and Douglas Booth at The London EDITION. The film is nominated for Best British Independent Film, Best Director and Best Screenplay. Its stars Hayley Squires and Dave Johns are each nominated twice – for Best Actress and Best Actor, and competing against each other for Most Promising Newcomer.

    The Best British Independent Film nominees for 2016 are American Honey (six nominations), Couple in a Hole (two nominations), I, Daniel Blake (seven nominations), Notes on Blindness (six nominations) and Under The Shadow (six nominations). Over 130 British films were submitted for consideration and 32 different British feature films have been nominated across the awards.

    2016 is a particularly strong year for new talent in the performance categories with Most Promising Newcomer nominees Dave Johns and Hayley Squires (I, Daniel Blake) and Steve Brandon (My Feral Heart) also nominated for Best Actor and Best Actress awards respectively. In the Best Actress category, Jodie Whitaker (Adult Life Skills) and Kate Dickie (Couple in a Hole) receive their second BIFA nominations; other nominees Hayley Squires (I, Daniel Blake), Narges Rashidi (Under the Shadow) and Sasha Lane (American Honey) are all nominated for the first time.

    For Best Actor, Dave Johns (I, Daniel Blake), Max Records (I Am Not a Serial Killer), Shia LaBeouf (American Honey) and Steve Brandon (My Feral Heart) are all first-time nominees. Michael Fassbender (Trespass Against Us) rounds off the Best Actor category, nominated for the third consecutive year with his sixth nomination, having previously won Best Actor for Hunger (2008) and Shame (2011). All those in the Best Supporting Actress and Best Supporting Actor categories are first time nominees with the exception of Sean Harris (Trespass Against Us) who is nominated in this category for the third consecutive year.

    In the Best Director category American Honey director Andrea Arnold receives her fourth BIFA nomination having won in the same category for Fish Tank in 2009. Ken Loach is nominated for I, Daniel Blake, his fifth BIFA nomination. Loach won in this category for My Name Is Joe in 1998 when he was also awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award. Loach has also previously been recognized with a Special Jury Prize in 2006 when The Wind That Shakes the Barley was nominated for four awards and shared in the Special Jury Prize for Sixteen Films/Team Loach in 2013. Ben Wheatley is nominated for Free Fire, his fifth BIFA nomination: Wheatley won the Raindance Award for his feature film debut Down Terrace in 2009. Babak Anvari is nominated for the first time for Under The Shadow for which he is also nominated for The Douglas Hickox Award for Best Debut Director. Directing partners Peter Middleton and James Spinney also receive their first BIFA nominations for both Best Director and The Douglas Hickox Award for their debut Notes on Blindness.

    The Richard Harris Award is to be announced in November. The award, introduced in 2002 in honor of Richard Harris, recognizes outstanding contribution to British film by an actor. Previous winners have been John Hurt, David Thewlis, Bob Hoskins, Jim Broadbent, Daniel Day-Lewis, Helena Bonham Carter, Ralph Fiennes, Michael Gambon, Julie Walters, Emma Thompson and Chiwetel Ejiofor in 2015.

    As previously announced Naomie Harris will receive The Variety Award, which recognizes a director, actor, writer or producer who has made a global impact that 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, Daniel Craig, Dame Helen Mirren and Richard Curtis.

    Winners will be announced at the British Independent Film Award Ceremony on Sunday,December 4, at Old Billingsgate.

    Here’s a rundown of 2016 nominations:

    Best British Independent Film →
    American Honey 
    Couple in a Hole 
    I, Daniel Blake 
    Notes on Blindness 
    Under the Shadow
     

    Best Director →
    Andrea Arnold American Honey 
    Ben Wheatley Free Fire 
    Ken Loach I, Daniel Blake 
    James Spinney & Pete Middleton Notes on Blindness 
    Babak Anvari Under the Shadow 

    Best Screenplay → 
    Adult Life Skills 
    American Honey 
    I Am Not A Serial Killer 
    I, Daniel Blake 
    Under the Shadow 

    Best Actor →
    Shia LaBeouf American Honey 
    Max Records I Am Not A Serial Killer 
    Dave Johns I, Daniel Blake 
    Steve Brandon My Feral Heart 
    Michael Fassbender Trespass Against Us 

    Best Actress → 
    Jodie Whittaker Adult Life Skills 
    Sasha Lane American Honey 
    Kate Dickie Couple in a Hole 
    Hayley Squires I, Daniel Blake 
    Narges Rashidi Under the Shadow 

    Best Supporting Actor →
    Brett Goldstein Adult Life Skills 
    Jamie Dornan Anthropoid 
    Christopher Lloyd I Am Not A Serial Killer 
    Arinzé Kene The Pass 
    Sean Harris Trespass Against Us 

    Best Supporting Actress →
    Gemma Arterton The Girl With All the Gifts 
    Shana Swash My Feral Heart 
    Naomie Harris Our Kind of Traitor 
    Avin Manshadi Under the Shadow 
    Terry Pheto A United Kingdom 

    Most Promising Newcomer → 
    Sennia Nanua The Girl With All the Gifts 
    Hayley Squires I, Daniel Blake 
    Dave Johns I, Daniel Blake 
    Steve Brandon My Feral Heart 
    Letitia Wright Urban Hymn 

    The Douglas Hickox Award (Debut Director) →
    Rachel Tunnard Adult Life Skills 
    Pete Middleton & James Spinney Notes on Blindness 
    Alice Lowe Prevenge 
    Adam Smith Trespass Against Us 
    Babak Anvari Under the Shadow 

    Outstanding Achievement in Craft →
    Robbie Ryan for Cinematography, American Honey 
    Shaheen Baig for Casting, Free Fire 
    Seb Barker for VFX, The Girl With All the Gifts 
    Joakim Sundström for Sound, Notes on Blindness 
    Paul Monaghan & Mat Whitecross for Editing, Supersonic 

    Best Documentary →
    The Confession: Living the War on Terror 
    Dancer 
    The Hard Stop 
    Notes on Blindness 
    Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach
     

    Best International Independent Film →
    Hunt for the Wilderpeople 
    Manchester by the Sea 
    Moonlight 
    Mustang 
    Toni Erdmann 

    Best British Short →
    Jacked 
    Mother 
    Over 
    Rate Me 
    The Wrong End of the Stick 

    The Discovery Award → 
    Black Mountain Poets 
    The Darkest Universe 
    The Ghoul 
    Gozo 
    The Greasy Strangler
     

    Breakthrough Producer →
    Michael Berliner Adult Life Skills 
    Camille Gatin The Girl With All the Gifts 
    Dionne Walker The Hard Stop 
    Mike Brett & Jo Jo Ellison & Steve Jamison Notes on Blindness 
    Paul Fegan Where You’re Meant To Be 

    Debut Screenwriter →
    Rachel Tunnard Adult Life Skills 
    Hope Dickson Leach The Levelling 
    Simon Farnaby & Julian Barratt Mindhorn 
    John Cairns & Michael McCartney A Patch of Fog 
    Ed Talfan Yr Ymadawiad

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