The British Independent Film Awards (BIFA) have announced the nominations for their 2023 awards, via hosts Susan Wokoma and Morfydd Clark from One Hundred Shoreditch, London on November 2.
Raine Allen-Miller‘s Rye Lane, which premiered at Sundance back in January, topped the other films with 16 nominations, followed by 14 nominations each for Andrew Haigh‘s All Of Us Strangers and Charlotte Regan‘s Scrapper. Molly Manning Walker’s How to Have Sex — another more recent festival favorite — received 13 nominations, while Sam H. Freeman and Ng Choon Ping Femme received 11.
26 British feature films were recognized by the UK’s equivalent to the Independent Spirit awards, which very much focuses on films made in Great Britain.
Andrew Scott was the sole male nominee for Best Lead Performance in the awards’ genderless acting category, for his performance in All of Us Strangers, with previous BIFA nominees Tilda Swinton, Paul Mescal, Jamie Bell, and Amir El-Masry also being recognized in performance categories.
Rye Lane was helped by director Raine Allen-Miller being nominated both for Best Director and Best Debut Director, as well as the film being nominated for Best Screenplay, Best Debut Screenwriter, and the film’s leads Vivian Oparah and David Jonsson receiving a nomination for Best Joint Lead Performance and Oparah also being nominated for her Breakthrough Performance.
The Richard Harris Award, introduced in 2002 in honor of Richard Harris, will be announced soon, recognizing outstanding contributions to British film by an actor. Previous winners have been Daniel Day-Lewis, Julie Walters, John Hurt, Emma Thompson, Judi Dench, Kristin Scott Thomas, Glenda Jackson, Riz Ahmed, and Samantha Morton in 2022.
The BIFA ceremony host and the juries for the awards will also be announced at a later date.
You can read the full list of BIFA 2023 nominees below:
Best British Independent Film
ALL OF US STRANGERS Andrew Haigh, Graham Broadbent, Pete Czernin, Sarah Harvey
FEMME Sam H Freeman, Ng Choon Ping, Myles Payne, Sam Ritzenberg
HOW TO HAVE SEX Molly Manning Walker, Ivana MacKinnon, Emily Leo, Konstantinos Kontovrakis
RYE LANE Raine Allen-Miller, Nathan Bryon, Tom Melia, Yvonne Isimeme Ibazebo, Damian Jones
SCRAPPER Charlotte Regan, Theo Barrowclough Best International Independent Film sponsored by Champagne Taittinger
ANATOMY OF A FALL Justine Triet, Arthur Harari, Marie-Ange Luciani, David Thion
FALLEN LEAVES Aki Kauriskmäki
FREMONT Babak Jalali, Carolina Cavalli, Marjaneh Moghimi, Sudnya Shroff, Rachael FungMONSTER Hirokazu Kore-Eda, Yuji Sakamoto, Genki Kawamura, Kenji Yamada
PAST LIVES Celine Song, David Hinojosa, Christine Vachon, Pamela Koffler
Best Director, sponsored by Sky Cinema
RAINE ALLEN-MILLER Rye Lane
SAM H FREEMAN, NG CHOON PING Femme
ANDREW HAIGH All of Us Strangers
MOLLY MANNING WALKER How to Have Sex
CHARLOTTE REGAN Scrapper
Best Screenplay, sponsored by Apple Original Films
NATHAN BRYON, TOM MELIA Rye Lane
SAM H FREEMAN, NG CHOON PING Femme
ANDREW HAIGH All of Us Strangers
MOLLY MANNING WALKER How to Have Sex
CHARLOTTE REGAN Scrapper
Best Lead Performance
JODIE COMER The End We Start From
MIA MCKENNA-BRUCE How to Have Sex
TIA NOMORE Earth Mama
NABHAAN RIZWAN In Camera
ANDREW SCOTT All of Us Strangers
TILDA SWINTON The Eternal Daughter
Best Supporting Performance
RITU ARYA Polite Society
JAMIE BELL All of Us Strangers
SAMUEL BOTTOMLEY How to Have Sex
ALEXANDRA BURKE Pretty Red Dress
AMIR EL-MASRY In Camera
CLAIRE FOY All of Us Strangers
PAUL MESCAL All of Us Strangers
ALIA SHAWKAT Drift
SHAUN THOMAS How to Have Sex
KATHERINE WATERSON The End We Start From
Best Joint Lead Performance
LOLA CAMPBELL, HARRIS DICKINSON Scrapper
DAVID JONSSON, VIVIAN OPARAH Rye Lane
NATHAN STEWART-JARRETT, GEORGE MACKAY Femme
The Douglas Hickox Award (Best Debut Director), sponsored by BBC Film
RAINE ALLEN-MILLER Rye Lane
SAM H FREEMAN, NG CHOON PING Femme
SAVANAH LEAF Earth Mama
MOLLY MANNING WALKER How to Have Sex
CHARLOTTE REGAN Scrapper
Breakthrough Producer, sponsored by Pinewood and Shepperton Studios
THEO BARROWCLOUGH Scrapper
GEORGIA GOGGIN Pretty Red Dress
YVONNE ISIMEME IBAZEBO Rye Lane [also produced by Damian Jones]
GANNESH RAJAH If the Streets Were on Fire
CHI THAI Raging Grace
Breakthrough Performance, sponsored by Netflix
LE’SHANTEY BONSU Girl
LOLA CAMPBELL Scrapper
PRIYA KANSARA Polite Society
MIA MCKENNA-BRUCE How to Have Sex
VIVIAN OPARAH Rye Lane
Best Debut Screenwriter, sponsored by Film4
NATHAN BRYON, TOM MELIA Rye Lane
SAM H FREEMAN, NG CHOON PING Femme
MOLLY MANNING WALKER How to Have Sex
NIDA MANZOOR Polite Society
CHARLOTTE REGAN Scrapper
