British Independent Film Awards 2016

The 19th British Independent Film Awards nominations were announced on 1 November 2016.

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
 * Babak Anvari - Under the Shadow
 * Ben Wheatley - Free Fire
 * Ken Loach - I, Daniel Blake
 * Peter Middleton and James Spinney - Notes on Blindness

Best Actress

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

Best Actor

 * Dave Johns - I, Daniel Blake
 * Steve Brandon - My Feral Heart
 * Michael Fassbender - Trespass Against Us
 * Shia LaBeouf - American Honey
 * Max Records - I Am Not a Serial Killer

Best Supporting Actress

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

Best Supporting Actor

 * Brett Goldstein - Adult Life Skills
 * Jamie Dornan - Anthropoid
 * Sean Harris - Trespass Against Us
 * Arinze Kene - The Pass
 * Christopher Lloyd - I Am Not a Serial Killer

Most Promising Newcomer

 * Hayley Squires - I, Daniel Blake
 * Steve Brandon - My Feral Heart
 * Dave Johns - I, Daniel Blake
 * Sennia Nanua - The Girl with All the Gifts
 * Letitia Wright - Urban Hymn

The Douglas Hickox Award

 * Under the Shadow - Babak Anvari
 * Adult Life Skills - Rachel Tunnard
 * Notes on Blindness - Peter Middleton and James Spinney
 * Prevenge - Alice Lowe
 * Trespass Against Us - Adam Smith

Best Debut Screenwriter

 * Adult Life Skills - Rachel Tunnard
 * The Levelling - Hope Dickson Leach
 * Mindhorn - Julian Barratt and Simon Farnaby
 * The Passing - Ed Talfan
 * A Patch of Fog - John Cairns and Michael Lennox

Breakthrough Producer

 * The Girl with All the Gifts - Camille Gatin
 * Adult Life Skills - Michael Berliner
 * The Hard Stop - Dionne Walker
 * Notes on Blindness - Mike Brett, Jo-Jo Ellison and Steve Jamison
 * Where You’re Meant to Be - Paul Fegan

Best Screenplay

 * Under the Shadow - Babak Anvari
 * Adult Life Skills - Rachel Tunnard
 * American Honey - Andrea Arnold
 * I Am Not a Serial Killer - Christopher Hyde and Billy O'Brien
 * I, Daniel Blake - Paul Laverty

Best Achievement in Craft

 * Robbie Ryan - American Honey (cinematography)
 * Shaheen Baig - Free Fire (casting)
 * Seb Barker - The Girl with All the Gifts (visual effects)
 * Joakim Sundström - Notes on Blindness (sound)
 * Paul Monaghan and Mat Whitecross - Supersonic (editing)

Best Documentary

 * Notes on Blindness - Mike Brett, Jo-Jo Ellison, Steve Jamison, Peter Middleton, James Spinney
 * The Confession: Living the War on Terror - Ashish Ghadiali, James Rogan
 * Dancer - Steven Cantor, Gabrielle Tana
 * The Hard Stop - George Amponsah, Dionne Walker
 * Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach - Rebecca O'Brien, Louise Osmond

Best Foreign Independent Film

 * Moonlight - Dede Gardner, Barry Jenkins, Jeremy Kleiner, Tarell Alvin McCraney, Adele Romanski
 * Hunt for the Wilderpeople - Carthew Neal, Matt Noonan, Leanne Saunders, Taika Waititi
 * Manchester by the Sea - Lauren Beck, Matt Damon, Kenneth Lonergan, Chris Moore, Kimberly Steward, Kevin J. Wals
 * Mustang - Deniz Gamze Ergüven, Charles Gillibert, Alice Winocour
 * Toni Erdmann - Maren Ade, Jonas Dornbach, Janine Jackowski, Michael Merkt

Discovery Award

 * The Greasy Strangler
 * Black Mountain Poets
 * The Darkest Universe
 * The Ghoul
 * Gozo