# British Independent Film Awards 2016

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

## Awards
### 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