Wealthy Peppiatt’s Kneecap was the foremost winner on the 2024 British Impartial Movie Awards (Bifas), with seven wins in complete together with finest British impartial movie.
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Going down tonight (December 8), the awards returned to London’s Roundhouse in Camden, with a ceremony hosted by actor and comic Peter Serafinowicz, who joked that the night time was “homegrown decrease finances movies that pay its stars multi of kilos”.
Different winners included Rungano Nyoni’s On Changing into A Guinea Fowl, Sandhya Suri’s Santosh and documentary Grand Theft Hamlet, with two awards every.
Peppiatt’s debut characteristic in regards to the Irish-language hip-hip trio Kneecap additionally took house finest lead efficiency for Liam Óg Ó Hannaidh, Naoise Ó Cairealláin and JJ Ó Dochartaigh, who star within the movie as themselves, and finest debut screenwriter. Ultimately week’s Bifa craft awards, the Belfast-set characteristic additionally gained awards for casting, modifying, authentic music and music supervision.
The movie, Eire’s Oscar entry for finest worldwide characteristic, premiered at Sundance almost a yr in the past.
Peppiatt mentioned in his ultimate acceptance speech tonight: “I’ve to say there may be an irony in one of the best British movie being Irish.” Star Naoise Ó Caireallain added: “We by no means anticipated anybody to have an interest on this story of the Irish language in Belfast. We quickly realised it wasn’t simply in regards to the Irish language, it was about indigenous and native cultures all all over the world.”
Marianne Jean-Baptiste gained finest lead efficiency for her function in Mike Leigh’s Onerous Truths. She paid tribute to the director, calling him ”my pricey pricey good friend and mentor”.
Greatest supporting efficiency went to Franz Rogowski for Andrea Arnold’s Hen.
Nyoni picked up finest director for On Changing into A Guinea Fowl which stars breakthrough efficiency winner Susan Chardy as a Zambian lady uncovering the secrets and techniques of her middle-class household. In 2017, Nyoni gained finest director and the Douglas Hickox award for her debut I Am Not A Witch.
Suri, a 2023 Display screen Star of Tomorrow, gained finest screenplay for her Indian-set drama Santosh a few lady who inherits her husband’s job as a police officer. The movie additionally gained breakthrough producer for Good Chaos’ James Bowsher and Lionsfish Movies’ Balthazar De Ganay.
Greatest worldwide impartial movie went to Sean Baker’s Cannes Palme d’Or winner Anora. Baker mentioned: “I’d prefer to personally thank Take That for permitting us to make use of their tune… fairly certain that’s the explanation we’re up right here now.”
The 2024 Richard Harris Award for excellent contribution by an actor to British movie was introduced to Sophie Okonedo by her good friend and frequent collaborator Ben Daniels.
Okonedo mentioned in her speech: “Once I began, the casting panorama could be very totally different to how it’s now… again then, the factor that fuelled me was that I actually needed to problem the stereotypical roles I used to be being provided.”
Actor Nathan Stewart-Jarrett introduced this yr’s particular jury prize to Absolutely Targeted | The Million Youth Venture, a youth-driven manufacturing firm supporting younger folks from underrepresented communities.
Bifa winners 2024
Greatest British impartial movie
- Kneecap – Wealthy Peppiatt, Trevor Birney, Jack Tarling
- Love Lies Bleeding – Rose Glass, Weronika Tofilska, Andrea Cornwell, Oliver Kassman
- On Changing 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 – Hen
- Nora Fingscheidt – The Outrun
- Rose Glass – Love Lies Bleeding
- Rungano Nyoni – On Changing into A Guinea Fowl
- Wealthy Peppiatt – Kneecap
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 screenplay
- Nora Fingscheidt, Amy Liptrot – The Outrun
- Rose Glass, Weronika Tofilska – Love Lies Bleeding
- Rungano Nyoni – On Changing into A Guinea Fowl
- Wealthy Peppiatt – Kneecap
- Sandhya Suri – Santosh
Greatest lead efficiency
- Radhika Apte – Sister Midnight
- Susan Chardy – On Changing into A Guinea Fowl
- Marianne Jean-Baptiste – Onerous Truths
- Elliot Web page – Shut To You
- Saoirse Ronan – The Outrun
- Alicia Vikander – The Evaluation
Greatest supporting efficiency
- Michele Austin – Onerous Truths
- Elizabeth Chisela – On Changing into A Guinea Fowl
- Barry Keoghan – Hen
- Jack O’Connell – Again To Black
- Franz Rogowski – Hen
- Hayley Squires – Hoard
Greatest debut director
- Christopher Andrews – Convey Them Down
- Luna Carmoon – Hoard
- James Krishna Floyd – Unicorns [Also directed by Sally El Hosaini]
- Karan Kandhari – Sister Midnight
- Wealthy Peppiatt – Kneecap
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]
Breakthrough producer
- Hollie Bryan, Lucy Meer – The Ceremony
- Balthazar De Ganay, James Bowsher – Santosh [also produced by Mike Goodridge, Alan McAlex]
- Jacob Swan Hyam – Convey 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]
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 Yr Of The Rabbit – Joshua Trigg
- Witches – Elizabeth Sankey, Jeremy Warmsley, Chiara Ventura, Manon Ardisson
Greatest debut director – Function 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
Breakthrough efficiency
- Nykiya Adams – Hen
- Susan Chardy – On Changing into A Guinea Fowl
- Saura Lightfoot-Leon – Hoard
- Ruaridh Mollica – Sebastian
- Jason Patel – Unicorns
Greatest characteristic 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 quick 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
Bifa craft winners 2024 (beforehand introduced)
- Casting – Carla Stronge, Kneecap
- Cinematography – Ben Fordesman, Love Lies Bleeding
- Costume design – Michael O’Connor, Firebrand
- Modifying – Julian Ulrichs and Chris Gill, Kneecap
- Results – David Simpson, Civil Warfare
- Music supervision – Chris Welch and Jeanette Rehnstrom, Kneecap
- Make-up & hair design – Lisa Mustafa, Unicorns
- Authentic music – Michael ‘Mikey J’ Asante, Kneecap
- Manufacturing design – Jan Houllevigue, The Evaluation
- Sound – Glenn Freemantle, Mary H Ellis and Howard Bargroff, Civil Warfare
