BAFTA Award for Best Short Film
British film industry award
This page lists the winners and nominees for the BAFTA Award for Best British Short Film for each year. The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA), is a British organisation that hosts annual awards shows for film, television, children's film and television, and interactive media. Since 1960, selected films have been awarded with the BAFTA award for Best Short Film at an annual ceremony.
In the following lists, the titles and names in bold with a gold background are the winners and recipients respectively; those not in bold are the nominees. The years given are those in which the films under consideration were released, not the year of the ceremony, which always takes place the following year.
Winners and nominees
indicates the winner
1950s
Year
Film
Recipient(s)
Best Short Film
Seven Cities of Antarctica
Winston Hibler
Rodin
1960s
1970s
Year
Film
Recipient(s)
The Shadow of Progress
Derek Williams
Blake
Bill Mason
The Gallery
Philip Mark Law
The Winds of Fogo
Colin Low
Alaska: The Great Land
Derek Williams
Big Horn
Bill Schmalz
The Long Memory
John Phillips
John Grierson Award (Short Film)
Memorial
History of the Motor Car
The Tide of Traffic
Caring for History
Artistry in Tureens
The Scene from Melbury House
Without Due Care
Location North Sea
John Armstrong
Acting in Turn
Facets of Glass
The Quiet Land
Sea Area Forties
John Armstrong
Leaving Lily
Graham Baker
The Living Woodland
Ronald Eastman
Waiting On Weather
Ron Granville
Best Short Factual Film
The End of the Road
John Amstrong
Energy in Perspective
Peter De Normanville
The Speed Sailors
John Spencer
Best Short Factual Film
Not awarded
Best Short Fictional Film
Bead Game
Ishu Patel
The Chinese Word for House
Kate Canning
The Sand Castle
Co Hoedeman
Best Short Factual Film
Hokusai: An Animated Sketchbook
Tony White
I'll Find a Way
Beverly Shaffer
Planet Water
Derek Williams
Sunday Muddy Sunday
Lindsay Dale
Best Short Fictional Film
Not awarded
Best Short Film
Butch Minds the Baby
Peter Webb
Dilemma
Clive Mitchell
Dream Doll
Bob Godfrey
Mr. Pascal
Alison De Vere
1980s
1990s
Year
Film
Recipient(s)
Say Good-bye
Michele Carmada, John Roberts
An der Grenze
Max Linder, Michael Drexler
Chicken
Jo Shoop, Julian Nott
Dear Rosie
Peter Cattaneo , Barnaby Thompson
The Harmfulness of Tobacco
Nick Hamm , Bary Palin
Breath of Life
Navin Thapar
Man Descending
Neil Grieve, Ray Lorenz
Trauma
Gerhard Johannes Rekel
Omnibus
Anne Bennett, Sam Karmann
Two Chimney Sweeps In A Singer's House (Deux Ramoneurs Chez Une Cantatrice)
Michel Cauléa
Heartsongs
Caroline Hewitt, Sue Clayton
Sense of History
Mike Leigh , Simon Channing Williams
Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life
Ruth Kenley-Letts, Peter Capaldi
A Small Deposit
Eleanor Yule , Paul Holmes , Barry Ackroyd
One Night Stand
Bill Britten, Georgia Masters
Syrup
Paul Unwin , Anita Overland
Zinky Boys Go Underground
Paul Tickell, Tatianna Kennedy
Lost Mojave
Jonathan Cordish, Vladimir Perlovich
Marooned
Jonas Grimås , Andrea Calderwood
That Sunday
Damiano Vukotic, Dan Zeff
It's Not Unusual
Asmaa Pirzada, Kfir Yefet
Cabbage
Noelle Pickford, David Stewart
Hello, Hello, Hello
David Thewlis , Helen Booth, James Roberts
The Last Post
Ed Blum , Neris Thomas
Majorettes In Space (Des Majorettes Dans L'Espace)
Carole Scotta, David Fourier
Butterfly Man
Robin Macpherson, Barry Ackroyd
Dual Balls
Laurence Bowen , Dan Zeff
Machinations
Alice Beckmann, Ralph Seiler
Everything Must Go (Tout Doit Disparaître)
François Barat, Jean-Marc Moutout
The Deadness of Dad
Philippa Cousins, Mandy Sprague, Stephen Volk
Crocodile Snap
Joe Wright , James Greville
Gas Man
Lynne Ramsay , Gavin Emerson
Little Sisters
Andy Goddard , Nic Muirson
Home
Morag McKinnon, Hannah Lewis, Colin McLaren
Anthrakitis
Sara Sugarman , Natasha Dack
Eight
Stephen Daldry , Jon Finn, Tim Clague
In Memory of Dorothy Bennett
Catherine McArthur, Martin Radich
Who's My Favourite Girl
Joern Utkilen, Kara Johnston, Adrian McDowall
Bait
Tom Shankland , Soledad Gatti-Pascual, Jane Harris
Perdie
Faye Gilbert, Rachel Shadick
The Tale Of The Rat That Wrote
Billy O'Brien, Ruth Kenley-Letts, Lisa-Marie Russo, Murilo Pasta
2000s
Year
Film
Recipient(s)
Shadowscan
Gary Holding, Justine Leahy, Tinge Krishnan
Je t'aime John Wayne
Luke Morris, Toby MacDonald, Luke Ponte
Going Down
Tom Shankland , Soledad Gatti-Pascual, Jane Harris
The Last Post
Dominic Santana, Lee Santana
Sweet
James Pilkington, Rob Mercer
About a Girl
Brian Percival , Janey de Nordwall, Julie Rutterford
Inferno
Paul Kousoulides , Teun Hilte, Sharat Sardana
The Red Peppers
Dominic Santana, Lee Santana
Skin Deep
Yousaf Ali Khan , Andy Porter
Tattoo
Jules Williamson, Arabella Page Croft, Sara Putt, Jemma Field
My Wrongs #8245–8249 & 117
Chris Morris , Mark Herbert
Bouncer
Michael Baig Clifford, Natasha Carlish, Sophie Morgan , Geoff Thompson
Rank
Andrew O'Connell, David Yates , Robbie McCallum
Candy Bar Kid
Shah Khan , Benjamin Johns
Good Night
Sun-Young Chun, Yoav Factor
The Most Beautiful Man in the World
Alicia Duffy, Hugh Welchman
Brown Paper Bag
Natasha Carlish, Mark Leveson, Michael Baig Clifford, Geoff Thompson
Bye Child
Andrew Bonner, Bernard MacLaverty
Nits
George Isaac, Harry Wootliff
Sea Monsters
Matt Delargy, Mark Walker, Raphael Smith
Talking with Angels
Yousaf Ali Khan , Michael Knowles , Janey de Nordwall
The Banker
Hattie Dalton , Kelly Broad
Can't Stop Breathing
Amy Neil, Ravinder Basra
Elephant Boy
Rene Mohandas, Durdana Shaikh
Knitting a Love Song
Debbie Ballin, Annie Watson
Six Shooter
Martin McDonagh , Mia Bays, Kenton Allen
Antonio's Breakfast
Daniel Mulloy , Amber Templemore-Finlayson , Daniel Mulloy
Call Register
Ed Roe, Kit Hawkins , Adam Tudhope
Heavy Metal Drummer
Toby MacDonald, Luke Morris, Amanda Boyle
Heydar, An Afghan in Tehran
Babak Jalali , Homayoun Assadian
Lucky
Avie Luthra , Bex Hopkins
Do Not Erase
Asitha Ameresekere
Care
Corinna Faith, Rachel Bailey, Tracy Bass, Corinna Faith
Cubs
Tom Harper , Lisa Williams
Hikikomori
Paul Wright, Karley Duffy
Kissing, Tickling and Being Bored
Jim McRoberts, David Smith
Dog Altogether
Paddy Considine , Diarmid Scrimshaw
Hesitation
Julien Berlan, Michelle Eastwood, Virginia Gilbert
The One and Only Herb McGwyer Plays Wallis Island
James Griffith , Charlie Henderson, Tim Key , Tom Basden
Soft
Simon Ellis , Jane Hooks
The Stronger
Lia Williams , Dan McCulloch , Frank McGuinness
September
Esther May Campbell , Stewart Le Marechal
Kingsland #1: The Dreamer
Tony Grisoni , Kate Ogborn
Love You More
Sam Taylor-Wood , Adrian Sturges , Patrick Marber
Ralph
Alex Winckler, Olivier Kaempfer
Voyage d'Affaires (The Business Trip)
Sean Ellis , Celine Quideau
I Do Air
James Bolton, Martina Amati
Jade
Daniel Elliott, Samm Haillay, Duane Hopkins
Mixtape
Luke Snellin , Luti Fagbenle
Off Season
Jacob Jaffke, Shrihari Sathe, Jonathan van Tulleken
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Asitha Ameresekere
2010s
Year
Film
Recipient(s)
Until the River Runs Red
Poss Kondeatis, Paul Wright
Lin
Piers Thompson, Simon Hessel, Mila Kirova
Connect
Beau Gordon, Samuel Abrahams
Rite
Michael Pearce, Ross McKenzie, Paul Welsh
Turning
Kat Armour-Brown, Alison Sterling, Karni Arieli, Saul Freed
Pitch Black Heist
John Maclean, Gerardine O'Flynn
Chalk
Martina Amati , Gavin Emerson, Ilaria Bernardini
Mwansa The Great
Rungano Nyoni , Gabriel Gauchet
Only Sound Remains
Arash Ashtiani
Two & Two
Babak Anvari , Kit Fraser, Gavin Cullen
Swimmer
Lynne Ramsay , Peter Carlton, Diarmid Scrimshaw
The Curse
Fyzal Boulifa
Good Night
Muriel d'Ansembourg, Eva Sigurdardottir
Tumult
Rhianna Andrews, Johnny Barrington
The Voorman Problem
Lee Thomas, David Mitchell , Baldwin Li , Mark Gill
Best British Short Film
Room 8
James W. Griffiths, Sophie Venner
Island Queen
Ben Mallaby, Emma Hughes, Nat Luurtsema
Keeping Up with the Joneses
Michael Pearce, Megan Rubens, Selina Lim
Orbit Ever After
Jamie Magnus Stone , Chee-Lan Chan, Len Rowles
Sea View
Anna Duffield, Jane Linfoot
Boogaloo and Graham
Michael Lennox , Brian J. Falconer, Richard Irwin, Ronan Blaney
Emotional Fusebox
Rachel Tunnard, Paul Ashton, Michael Berliner
The Kármán Line
Oscar Sharp , Campbell Beaton , Dawn King, Tiernan Hanby
Slap
Michelangelo Fano, Islay Bell-Webb, Nick Rowland
Three Brothers
Matthieu de Braconier, Stephanie Paeplow, Aleem Khan
Operator
Rebecca Morgan, Caroline Bartleet
Elephant
Nick Helm , Esther Smith
Mining Poems or Odes
Jack Cocker, Callum Rice, Robert Fullerton
Over
Jörn Threlfall, Jeremy Bannister
Samuel-613
Cheyenne Conway, Billy Lumby
Home
Daniel Mulloy , Shpat Deda, Afolabi Kuti, Scott O'Donnell
Consumed
Richard John Seymour
Mouth of Hell
Bart Gavigan, Samir Mehanović , Allie Smith, Michael Wilson
The Party
Farah Abushwesha, Emmet Fleming, Andrea Harkin, Conor MacNeill
Standby
Charlotte Regan, Jack Hannon
Cowboy Dave
Colin O'Toole, Mathias Gilay, Jonas Mortensen
Amir
Vika Evdokimenko, Emma Stone, Oliver Shuster
A Drowning Man
Mahdi Fleifel , Signe Byrge Sørensen , Patrick Campbell
Work
Aneil Karia, Scott O'Donnell
Wren Boys
Harry Lighton, Sorcha Bacon, John Fitzpatrick
73 Cows
Alex Lockwood
Bachelor, 38
Angela Clarke
The Blue Door
Paul Taylor, Ben Clark, Megan Pugh
The Field
Sandhya Suri , Thomas Bidegain , Balthazar de Ganay
Wale
Barnaby Blackburn, Sophie Alexander, Catherine Slater, Edward Speleers
Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (If You're a Girl)
Carol Dysinger, Elena Andreicheva
Azaar
Myriam Raja, Nathanael Baring
Goldfish
Hector Dockrill, Harri Kamalanathan, Benedict Turnbull, Laura Dockrill
Kamali
Sasha Rainbow, Rosalind Croad
The Trap
Lena Headey , Anthony Fitzgerald
2020s
Year
Film
Recipient(s)
The Present
Farah Nabulsi
Eyelash
Jesse Lewis Reece, Ike Newman
Lizard
Akinola Davies, Rachel Dargavel, Wale Davies
Lucky Break
John Addis, Rami Sarras Pantoja
Miss Curvy
Ghada Eldemellawy
The Black Cop
Cherish Oleka
Femme
Sam H. Freeman, Ng Choon Ping, Sam Ritzenberg, Hayley Williams
The Palace
Jo Prichard
Stuffed
Joss Holden-Rea, Theo Rhys
Three Meetings of the Extraordinary Committee
Max Barron, Daniel Wheldon, Michael Woodward
An Irish Goodbye
Tom Berkeley, Ross White
The Ballad of Olive Morris
Alex Kayode-kay
Bazigaga
Jo Ingabire Moys , Stephanie Charmail
Bus Girl
Jessica Henwick, Louise Palmkvist Hansen
A Drifting Up
Jacob Lee
Jellyfish and Lobster
Yasmin Afifi, Elizabeth Rufai
Festival of Slaps
Abdou Cissé, Cheri Darbon, George Telfer
Gorka
Joe Weiland, Alex Jefferson
Such a Lovely Day
Simon Woods , Polly Stokes, Emma Norton, Kate Phibbs
Yellow
Elham Ehsas, Dina Mousawi , Azeem Bhati, Yiannis Manolopoulos
See also
References
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