British Independent Film Award for Best British Independent Film

British Independent Film Award for Best British Independent Film
Awarded for	Best Film
Country	United Kingdom
Presented by	BIFA
First awarded	1998
Currently held by	All of Us Strangers (2023)
Website	www.bifa.org.uk

The British Independent Film Award for Best British Independent Film is an annual award given by the British Independent Film Awards (BIFA) to recognize the best British independent film. The award was first presented in the 1998 ceremony with Ken Loach's romantic drama My Name Is Joe being the first recipient of the award. The current winner is Andrew Haigh's drama film All of Us Strangers.

Elegibility

The award goes to the writers, producers and directors that are fully credited for the film. Co-directors and co-writers are only eligible where there are no lead directors or writers credited. Other producer credits such as associate, executive, and others, as well as individuals credited with "additional material by", "original story by", and similar credits are not elegible for the award or nomination.

According to the rules presented by BIFA, in order for a film to be considered "independent" and therefore be eligible for this award and the other categories, the financing of the film must come from an independent studio or does not exceed a budget of $25 million in case of a production from a major studio. Additionally, the origination of the film will also be taken into account when assessing the independence of studio-backed films, this referring to "whether it was initially conceived inside or outside of a studio system".^[1]

Similarly to the craft categories, the nominees and winner for this award are decided by BIFA voters, unlike the performance categories and the debut awards whichh are decided by a performance jury and a filmmaker jury, respectively.

Winners and nominees

1990s

Year	Film	Recipient(s)
1998 (1st) [2]	My Name Is Joe	Ken Loach
	Elizabeth	Shekhar Kapur
	Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels	Guy Ritchie
	Nil by Mouth	Gary Oldman
	Twenty Four Seven	Shane Meadows
1999 (2nd) [3]	Wonderland	Michael Winterbottom
	Gods and Monsters	Bill Condon
	Hilary and Jackie	Anand Tucker
	A Room for Romeo Brass	Shane Meadows
	The War Zone	Tim Roth

2000s

Year	Film	Recipient(s)
2000 (3rd) [4]	Billy Elliot	Stephen Daldry
	One Day in September	Kevin Macdonald
	Saving Grace	Nigel Cole
	The House of Mirth	Terence Davies
	The Last Resort	Paweł Pawlikowski
2001 (4th) [5]	Sexy Beast	Jonathan Glazer
	Bread and Roses	Ken Loach
	Jump Tomorrow	Joel Hopkins
	South West 9	Richard Parry
	The Warrior	Asif Kapadia
2002 (5th) [6][7]	Sweet Sixteen	Ken Loach
	Bend It Like Beckham	Gurinder Chadha
	Bloody Sunday	Paul Greengrass
	Morvern Callar	Lynne Ramsay
	Lawless Heart	Tom Hunsinger and Neil Hunter
2003 (6th) [8][9]	Dirty Pretty Things	Stephen Frears
	28 Days Later	Danny Boyle
	Buffalo Soldiers	Gregor Jordan
	The Magdalene Sisters	Peter Mullan
	Young Adam	David Mackenzie
2004 (7th) [10]	Vera Drake	Mike Leigh
	Dead Man's Shoes	Shane Meadows
	My Summer of Love	Paweł Pawlikowski
	Shaun of the Dead	Edgar Wright
	Touching the Void	Kevin Macdonald
2005 (8th) [11]	The Constant Gardener	Fernando Meirelles
	A Cock and Bull Story	Michael Winterbottom
	Mrs Henderson Presents	Stephen Frears
	The Descent	Neil Marshall
	The Libertine	Laurence Dunmore
2006 (9th) [12][13]	This Is England	Shane Meadows
	Red Road	Andrea Arnold
	The Last King of Scotland	Kevin Macdonald
	The Queen	Stephen Frears
	The Wind That Shakes the Barley	Ken Loach
2007 (10th) [14][15]	Control	Anton Corbijn
	And When Did You Last See Your Father?	Anand Tucker
	Eastern Promises	David Cronenberg
	Hallam Foe	David Mackenzie
	Notes on a Scandal	Richard Eyre
2008 (11th) [16][17]	Slumdog Millionaire	Danny Boyle
	Hunger	Steve McQueen
	In Bruges	Martin McDonagh
	Man on Wire	James Marsh
	Somers Town	Shane Meadows
2009 (12th) [18][19]	Moon	Duncan Jones
	An Education	Lone Scherfig
	Fish Tank	Andrea Arnold
	In the Loop	Armando Iannucci
	Nowhere Boy	Sam Taylor-Wood

2010s

Year	Film	Recipient(s)
2010 (13th) [20][21]	The King's Speech	Tom Hooper
	Four Lions	Chris Morris
	Kick-Ass	Matthew Vaughn
	Monsters	Gareth Edwards
	Never Let Me Go	Mark Romanek
2011 (14th) [22][23]	Tyrannosaur	Paddy Considine
	Senna	Asif Kapadia
	Shame	Steve McQueen
	Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy	Tomas Alfredson
	We Need To Talk About Kevin	Lynne Ramsay
2012 (15th) [24][25]	Broken	Rufus Norris
	The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel	John Madden
	The Imposter	Bart Layton
	Sightseers	Ben Wheatley
	Berberian Sound Studio	Peter Strickland
2013 (16th) [26][27]	Metro Manila	Sean Ellis
	Philomena	Stephen Frears
	The Selfish Giant	Clio Barnard
	Starred Up	David Mackenzie
	Le Week-End	Roger Michell
2014 (17th) [28][29]	Pride	Matthew Warchus
	71	Yann Demange
	Calvary	John Michael McDonagh
	Mr. Turner	Mike Leigh
	The Imitation Game	Morten Tyldum
2015 (18th) [30][31]	Ex Machina	Alex Garland
	Amy	Asif Kapadia
	45 Years	Andrew Haigh
	The Lobster	Yorgos Lanthimos
	Macbeth	Justin Kurzel
2016 (19th) [32][33]	American Honey	Andrea Arnold, Lars Knudsen, Jay Van Hoy, Pouya Shahbazian, Alice Weinberg, Thomas Benski, Lucas Ochoa
	Couple in a Hole	Tom Geens
	I, Daniel Blake	Ken Loach
	Notes on Blindness	James Spinney, Peter Middleton
	Under the Shadow	Babak Anvari
2017 (20th) [34][35]	God's Own Country	Francis Lee
	The Death of Stalin	Armando Iannucci
	I Am Not a Witch	Rungano Nyoni
	Lady Macbeth	William Oldroyd
	Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri	Martin McDonagh
2018 (21st) [36][37]	The Favourite	Yorgos Lanthimos, Deborah Davis, Tony McNamara, Ceci Dempsey, Ed Guiney, Lee Magiday
	American Animals	Bart Layton, Katherine Butler, Dimitri Doganis, Derrin Schlesinger, Mary Jane Skalski
	Beast	Michael Pearce, Kristian Brodie, Lauren Dark, Ivana Mackinnon
	Disobedience	Sebastián Lelio, Rebecca Lenkiewicz, Ed Guiney, Frida Torresblanco, Rachel Weisz
	You Were Never Really Here	Lynne Ramsay, Pascal Caucheteux, Rosa Attab, James Wilson, Rebecca O'Brien
2019 (22nd) [38][39]	For Sama	Waad Al-Khateab and Edward Watts
	Bait	Mark Jenkin
	The Personal History of David Copperfield	Armando Iannucci
	The Souvenir	Joanna Hogg
	Wild Rose	Tom Harper

2020s

Year	Film	Recipient(s)
2020 (23rd) [40][41]	Rocks	Sarah Gavron, Ameenah Ayub Allen, Faye Ward, Theresa Ikoko, Claire Wilson
	Calm with Horses	Nick Rowland, Joe Murtagh, Daniel Emmerson
	The Father	Florian Zeller, Christopher Hampton, David Parfitt, Jean-Louis Livi, Philippe Carcassonne
	His House	Remi Weekes, Aidan Elliott, Martin Gentles, Arnon Milchan, Edward King, Roy Lee
	Saint Maud	Rose Glass, Andrea Cornwell, Oliver Kassman
2021 (24th) [42]	After Love	Aleem Khan, Matthieu de Braconier
	Ali & Ava	Clio Barnard, Tracy O'Riordan
	Boiling Point	Philip Barantini, James Cummings, Bart Ruspoli, Hester Ruoff
	The Nest	Sean Durkin, Ed Guiney, Derrin Schlesinger, Rose Garnett, Amy Jackson, Christina Piovesan
	The Souvenir Part II	Joanna Hogg, Ed Guiney, Emma Norton, Andrew Lowe, Luke Schiller
2022 (25th) [43]	Aftersun	Charlotte Wells, Barry Jenkins, Mark Ceryak, Adele Romanski, Amy Jackson
	Blue Jean	Georgia Oakley, Hélène Sifre
	Good Luck to You, Leo Grande	Sophie Hyde, Katy Brand, Debbie Gray, Adrian Politowski
	Living	Oliver Hermanus, Kazuo Ishiguro, Stephen Woolley, Elizabeth Karlsen
	The Wonder	Sebastián Lelio, Emma Donoghue, Alice Birch, Juliette Howell, Andrew Lowe, Tessa Ross, Ed Guiney
2023 (26th) [44]	All of Us Strangers	Andrew Haigh, Graham Broadbent, Peter Czernin, and Sarah Harvey
	Femme	Sam H. Freeman, Ng Choon Ping, Myles Payne, and Sam Ritzenberg
	How to Have Sex	Molly Manning Walker, Ivana MacKinnon, Emily Leo, and Konstantinos Kontovrakis
	Rye Lane	Raine Allen-Miller, Nathan Bryon, Tom Melia, Yvonne Isimeme Ibazebo, and Damian Jones
	Scrapper	Charlotte Regan and Theo Barrowclough
2024 (27th) [45]	Kneecap	Rich Peppiatt, Trevor Birney and Jack Tarling
	Love Lies Bleeding	Rose Glass, Weronika Tofilska, Andrea Cornwell and Oliver Kassman
	On Becoming a Guinea Fowl	Rungano Nyoni, Tim Cole, Ed Guiney and Andrew Lowe
	The Outrun	Nora Fingscheidt, Amy Liptrot, Sarah Brocklehurst, Dominic Norris, Jack Lowden and Saoirse Ronan
	Santosh	Sandhya Suri, Mike Goodridge, James Bowsher, Balthazar de Ganay and Alan McAlex

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External links

• Official website