# British Independent Film Awards 2017

The 20th British Independent Film Awards nominations were announced on 1 November 2017.

## Awards and nominations
### Best British Independent Film

* God's Own Country
* The Death of Stalin
* I Am Not a Witch
* Lady Macbeth
* Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

### Best Director

* Rungano Nyoni - I Am Not a Witch
* Armando Iannucci - The Death of Stalin
* Francis Lee - God's Own Country
* Martin McDonagh - Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
* William Oldroyd - Lady Macbeth

### Best Actress

* Florence Pugh - Lady Macbeth
* Emily Beecham - Daphne
* Frances McDormand - Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
* Margaret Mulubwa - I Am Not a Witch
* Ruth Wilson - Dark River

### Best Actor

* Josh O'Connor - God's Own Country
* Jamie Bell - Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool
* Paddy Considine - Journeyman
* Johnny Harris - Jawbone
* Alec Secareanu - God's Own Country

### Best Supporting Actress

* Patricia Clarkson - The Party
* Naomi Ackie - Lady Macbeth
* 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

* Naomi Ackie - Lady Macbeth
* Harry Gilby - Just Charlie
* Cosmo Jarvis - Lady Macbeth
* Harry Michell - Chubby Funny
* Lily Newmark - Pin Cushion

### The Douglas Hickox Award (Debut Director)

* Rungano Nyoni - I Am Not a Witch
* Deborah Haywood - Pin Cushion
* Francis Lee - God's Own Country
* Thomas Napper - Jawbone
* William Oldroyd - Lady Macbeth

### Best Debut Screenwriter

* God's Own Country - Francis Lee
* I Am Not a Witch - Rungano Nyoni
* Jawbone - Johnny Harris
* Lady Macbeth - Alice Birch
* Their Finest - Gaby Chiappe

### Breakthrough Producer

* I Am Not a Witch - Emily Morgan
* Bad Day for the Cut - Brendan Mullin and Katy Jackson
* God's Own Country - Jack Tarling and Manon Ardisson
* Lady Macbeth - Fodhla Cronin O'Reilly
* Pin Cushion - Gavin Humphries

### Best Screenplay

* Lady Macbeth - Alice Birch
* The Death of Stalin - Armando Iannucci, David Schneider and Ian Martin
* God's Own Country - Francis Lee
* I Am Not a Witch - Rungano Nyoni
* Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri - Martin McDonagh

### Best Documentary

* Almost Heaven
* Half Way
* Kingdom of Us
* Uncle Howard
* Williams

### Best Foreign Independent Film

* Get Out
* The Florida Project
* I Am Not Your Negro
* Loveless
* The Square

### Discovery Award

* In Another Life
* Even When I Fall
* Halfway
* Isolani
* My Pure Land

### Best Casting

* The Death of Stalin - Sarah Crowe
* Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool - Debbie McWilliams
* God's Own Country - Shaheen Baig and Layla Merrick-Wolf
* Lady Macbeth - Shaheen Baig
* Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri - Sarah Halley Finn

### Best Cinematography

* Lady Macbeth - Ari Wegner
* I Am Not a Witch - David Gallego
* Jawbone - Tat Radcliffe
* Leaning Into the Wind - Thomas Riedelsheimer
* Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri - Ben Davis

### Best Costume Design

* Lady Macbeth - Holly Waddington
* The Death of Stalin - Suzie Harman
* How to Talk to Girls at Parties - Sandy Powell
* I Am Not a Witch - Holly Rebecca
* My Cousin Rachel - Dinah Collin

### Best Editing

* Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri - Jon Gregory
* The Death of Stalin - Peter Lambert
* Jawbone - David Charap
* Us and Them - Joe Martin
* Williams - Johnny Burke

### Best Make-up and Hair Design

* The Death of Stalin - Nicole Stafford
* Breathe - Jan Sewell
* I Am Not a Witch - Julene Paton
* Journeyman - Nadia Stacey
* Lady Macbeth - Sian Wilson

### Best Music

* Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri - Carter Burwell
* The Death of Stalin - Christopher Willis
* I Am Not a Witch - Matt Kelly
* Jawbone - Paul Weller
* Leaning Into the Wind - Fred Frith

### Best Production Design

* The Death of Stalin - Cristina Casali
* Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool - Eve Stewart
* Final Portrait - James Merifield
* I Am Not a Witch - Nathan Parker
* Lady Macbeth - Jacqueline Abrahams

### Best Sound

* God's Own Country - Anna Bertmark
* Breathe - Sound team
* I Am Not a Witch - Maiken Hansen
* Jawbone - Andy Shelley and Steve Griffiths
* Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri - Joakim Sundström

### Best Effects

* The Ritual - Nick Allder and Ben White
* The Death of Stalin - Effects team
* Double Date - Dan Martin
* Journeyman - Luke Dodd
* Their Finest - Chris Reynolds