Bifa unveils 2024 nominations

Wealthy Peppiatt’s Kneecap, Rose Glass’ Love Lies Bleeding and Nora Fingscheidt’s The Outrun headed the nominations for the 2024 British Impartial Movie Awards (Bifas).

Comedy Kneecap in regards to the eponymous west Belfast hip-hop trio scored essentially the most nominations with 14, together with director, screenplay and finest British impartial movie for Peppiatt – the latter alongside producers Trevor Birney and Jack Tarling – and joint lead efficiency for its stars Liam Óg Ó Hannaidh, Naoise Ó Cairealláin and JJ Ó Dochartaigh.

Scroll down for the total record of Bifa 2024 nominations

Glass – a Bifa finest debut director winner in 2020 for Saint Maud – has scored 12 nominations together with her US-set second function Love Lies Bleeding, a neo-noir starring Kristen Stewart and Katy O’Brian. The actors are nominated for joint lead efficiency, with additional nods in British impartial movie, director, and screenplay.

The Outrun, tailored from Amy Liptrot’s memoir about coming to phrases together with her troubled previous on the Scottish island the place she grew up, took 9 nominations. It was chosen in British impartial movie, for Fingscheidt, Liptrot and producers Sarah Brocklehurst, Dominic Norris, Jack Lowden and Saoirse Ronan; plus lead efficiency for Ronan, director for Fingscheidt and screenplay for Fingscheidt and Liptrot.

Three movies secured seven nominations: Chook, together with supporting efficiency for Barry Keoghan; On Turning into A Guinea Fowl; and Unicorns.

Hoard obtained six nominations together with debut director for Luna Carmoon; whereas Alex Garland’s Civil Struggle additionally took six, all in craft classes together with enhancing.

Amongst documentaries, Pinny Grylls and Sam Crane’s Grand Theft Hamlet scored 4 nominations: function documentary, the Raindance Maverick award, debut director – function documentary and breakthrough producer for Rebecca Wolff.

Whereas final yr’s nominations leant on three London-set movies (Rye Lane, Scrapper and All Of Us Strangers), the 2024 set has a decidedly worldwide really feel. All 5 British Impartial Movie nominees are predominantly set exterior of not simply London however England, with 4 of the 5 going down exterior of the UK.

5 of the six lead efficiency nominees had been born exterior of the UK, together with Shut To You star Elliot Web page and The Evaluation’s Alicia Vikander, indicating the lure of UK impartial movie to worldwide expertise.

The devoted worldwide class consists of 4 Cannes premieres: Palme d’Or winner Anora, All We Think about As Gentle, The Seed Of The Sacred Fig and 2023’s La Chimera; plus Palestinian-Israeli collective documentary No Different Land, a Berlinale premiere.

The nominations had been unveiled this morning (Tuesday, November 5) at One Hundred Shoreditch by Mia McKenna-Bruce and Vivian Oparah. McKenna-Bruce received the lead efficiency award final yr for How To Have Intercourse, whereas Oparah received the breakthrough efficiency award and was nominated for joint lead efficiency alongside David Jonsson for Rye Lane.

The winners shall be revealed on the Bifa ceremony on the Roundhouse on Sunday, December 8.

Bifa 2024 nominations

Greatest British impartial movie

Kneecap – Wealthy Peppiatt, Trevor Birney, Jack Tarling

Love Lies Bleeding – Rose Glass, Weronika Tofilska, Andrea Cornwell, Oliver Kassman

On Turning into A Guinea Fowl – Rungano Nyoni, Tim Cole, Ed Guiney, Andrew Lowe

The Outrun – Nora Fingscheidt, Amy Liptrot, Sarah Brocklehurst, Dominic Norris, Jack Lowden, Saoirse Ronan

Santosh – Sandhya Suri, Mike Goodridge, James Bowsher, Balthazar de Ganay, Alan McAlex

Greatest worldwide impartial movie

All We Think about As Gentle – Payal Kapadia, Thomas Hakim, Julien Graff

Anora – Sean Baker, Alex Coco, Samantha Quan

La Chimera – Alice Rohrwacher, Carlo Cresto-Dina, Paolo Del Brocco

No Different Land – Basel Adra, Rachel Szor, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, Fabrien Greenberg, Bård Kjøge Rønning

The Seed Of The Sacred Fig – Mohammad Rasoulof, Rozita Hendijanian, Amin Sadraei, Jean-Christophe Simon, Mani Tilgner

Greatest director

Andrea Arnold – Chook

Nora Fingscheidt – The Outrun

Rose Glass – Love Lies Bleeding

Rungano Nyoni – On Turning into A Guinea Fowl

Wealthy Peppiatt – Kneecap 

Greatest screenplay

Nora Fingscheidt, Amy Liptrot – The Outrun

Rose Glass, Weronika Tofilska – Love Lies Bleeding

Rungano Nyoni – On Turning into A Guinea Fowl

Wealthy Peppiatt – Kneecap

Sandhya Suri – Santosh

Greatest lead efficiency

Radhika Apte – Sister Midnight

Susan Chardy – On Turning into A Guinea Fowl

Marianne Jean-Baptiste – Exhausting Truths

Elliot Web page – Shut To You

Saoirse Ronan – The Outrun

Alicia Vikander – The Evaluation

Greatest supporting efficiency

Michele Austin – Exhausting Truths

Elizabeth Chisela – On Turning into A Guinea Fowl

Barry Keoghan – Chook

Jack O’Connell – Again To Black

Franz Rogowski – Chook

Hayley Squires – Hoard

Greatest joint lead efficiency

Joseph Quinn, Saura Lightfoot Leon – Hoard

Katy O’Brian, Kristen Stewart – Love Lies Bleeding

Liam Óg Ó Hannaidh, Naoise Ó Cairealláin, JJ Ó Dochartaigh – Kneecap

Jason Patel, Ben Hardy – Unicorns

Greatest debut director

Christopher Andrews – Deliver Them Down

Luna Carmoon – Hoard

James Krishna Floyd – Unicorns [Also directed by Sally El Hosaini]

Karan Kandhari – Sister Midnight

Wealthy Peppiatt – Kneecap

Breakthrough producer

Hollie Bryan, Lucy Meer – The Ceremony

Balthazar De Ganay, James Bowsher – Santosh [also produced by Mike Goodridge, Alan McAlex]

Jacob Swan Hyam – Deliver Them Down [also produced by also produced by Julianne Ford, Ivana MacKinnon, Jean-Yves Roubin, Ruth Treacey, Cassandre Warnauts]

Ben Toye – Treading Water

Rebecca Wolff – Grand Theft Hamlet [also produced by Julia Ton]

Breakthrough efficiency

Nykiya Adams – Chook

Susan Chardy – On Turning into A Guinea Fowl

Saura Lightfoot-Leon – Hoard

Ruaridh Mollica – Sebastian

Jason Patel – Unicorns

Greatest debut screenwriter

James Krishna Floyd – Unicorns

Karan Kandhari – Sister Midnight

Wealthy Peppiatt – Kneecap

Sandhya Suri – Santosh

Mrs & Mr Thomas – The Evaluation [also written by John Donnelly]

Greatest debut director – Characteristic Documentary

Pinny Grylls, Sam Crane – Grand Theft Hamlet

Manon Ouimet, Jacob Perlmutter – Two Strangers Attempting Not To Kill Every Different

Rachel Ramsay – Copa 71 [also directed by James Erskine]

Clair Titley – The Contestant

Raindance maverick award

The Ceremony – Jack King, Hollie Bryan, Lucy Meer

Grand Theft Hamlet – Pinny Grylls, Sam Crane, Julia Ton, Rebecca Wolff

Stressed – Jed Hart, Benedict Turnbull

Satu – The 12 months Of The Rabbit – Joshua Trigg

Witches – Elizabeth Sankey, Jeremy Warmsley, Chiara Ventura, Manon Ardisson

Greatest function documentary

The Contestant – Clair Titley, Megumi Inman, Andee Ryder, Amit Dey, Ian Bonhôte

Grand Theft Hamlet – Pinny Grylls, Sam Crane, Julia Ton, Rebecca Wolff

Tremendous/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story – Ian Bonhôte, Peter Ettedgui, Lizzie Gillett, Robert Ford

Two Strangers Attempting Not To Kill Every Different – Jacob Perlmutter, Manon Ouimet, Signe Byrge Sorensen

Witches – Elizabeth Sankey, Jeremy Warmsley, Chiara Ventura, Manon Ardisson

Greatest British brief movie

Supply – Ben Lankester, Bophanie Lun, Joe Binks

Housewarming – Liam White, Man Lindley

Meat Puppet – Eros V, Masha Thorpe, Leah Attracts

A Transfer – Elahe Esmaili, Hossein Behboudi Rad

Wander To Marvel – Nina Gantz, Stienette Bosklopper, Simon Cartwright, Daan Bakker, Maarten Swart

Greatest casting 

Heather Basten – Hoard

Isabella Odoffin – On Turning into A Guinea Fowl

Lucy Pardee – Chook

Carla Stronge – Kneecap

Mary Vernieu, Lindsay Graham Ahanonu – Love Lies Bleeding

Greatest cinematography

Pawel Edelman – Lee

Ben Fordesman – Love Lies Bleeding

Rob Hardy – Civil Struggle

Yunus Roy Imer – The Outrun

Ryan Kernaghan – Kneecap

Greatest costume design

Zjena Glamocanin – Kneecap

Meghan Kasperlik – Civil Struggle

Olga Mill – Love Lies Bleeding

Nirage Mirage – Unicorns

Michael O’Connor – Firebrand

Greatest enhancing

Stephen Bechinger – The Outrun

Joe Bini – Chook

Margarida Cartaxo, Stuart Davidson – Made In England: The Movies Of Powell And Pressburger

Jake Roberts – Civil Struggle

Julian Ulrichs, Chris Gill – Kneecap

Greatest results

James Allen – Love Lies Bleeding

Glen Mcguigan, Ingo Putze – Lee

David Simpson – Civil Struggle

Greatest music supervision

Iain Cooke, Giles Martin – Again To Black

Kle Savidge – Sister Midnight

Gary Welch, Jeanette Rehnstrom – Kneecap

Greatest make-up & hair design

Megan Daum, Frieda Valenzuela – Love Lies Bleeding

Peta Dunstall – Again To Black

Kat Morgan – The Outrun

Lisa Mustafa – Unicorns

Jenny Shircore – Firebrand

Greatest authentic music

Michael ‘Mikey J’ Asante – Kneecap

Burial – Chook

Stuart Earl – Unicorns

John Gurtler, Jan Miserre – The Outrun

Clint Mansell – Love Lies Bleeding

Greatest manufacturing design

Bobbie Cousins – Hoard

Jan Houllevigue – The Evaluation

Katie Hickman – Love Lies Bleeding

Caty Maxey – Civil Struggle

Nicola Moroney – Kneecap

Greatest sound

Louise Burton, Brendan Rehill, Aza Hand, Simon Kerr – Kneecap

Paul Davies, Andrew Stirk, Linda Forsén, Rose Bladh, Tim Burns – Love Lies Bleeding

Glen Freemantle – Civil Struggle

Dominik Leube, Oscar Stiebitz, Jonathan Schorr, Gregor Bonse – The Outrun

Mike Prestwood Smith, Csaba Main, Jimmy Boyle – Lee