British Independent Film Awards (BIFA) Nominations

Best British Independent Film
American Honey
Couple in a Hole
I, Daniel Blake
Notes on Blindness
Under the Shadow

Best International Independent Film
Hunt for the Wilderpeople
Manchester by the Sea
Moonlight
Mustang
Toni Erdmann

Best Director
Andrea Arnold, American Honey
Babak Anvari, Under the Shadow
Ben Wheatley, Free Fire
Ken Loach, I, Daniel Blake
Peter Middleton, James Spinney, Notes on Blindness

Best Screenplay
Andrea Arnold, American Honey
Babak Anvari, Under the Shadow
Billy O'Brien, Christopher Hyde, I Am Not a Serial Killer
Paul Laverty, I, Daniel Blake
Rachel Tunnard, Adult Life Skills

Best Actress
Hayley Squire,  I, Daniel Blake
Jodie Whittaker, Adult Life Skills
Kate Dickie, Couple in a Hole
Narges Rashidi, Under the Shadow
Sasha Lane, American Honey

Best Actor
Dave Johns, I, Daniel Blake
Max Records, I Am Not a Serial Killer
Michael Fassbender, Trespass Against Us
Shia Labeouf, American Honey
Steve Brandon, My Feral Heart

Best Supporting Actress
Avin Manshadi, Under the Shadow
Gemma Arterton, The Girl With All the Gifts
Naomie Harris, Our Kind of Traitor
Shana Swash, My Feral Heart
Terry Pheto, A United Kingdom

Best Supporting Actor
Arinze Kene, The Pass
Brett Goldstein, Adult Life Skills
Christopher Lloyd, I Am Not a Serial Killer
Jamie Dornan, Anthropoid
Sean Harris, Trespass Against Us

Best Documentary
The Confession: Living the War on Terror
Dancer
The Hard Stop
Notes on Blindness
Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach

The Douglas Hickox Award for Debut Directing
Adam Smith, Trespass Against Us
Alice Lowe, Prevenge
Babak Anvari, Under the Shadow
Peter Middleton, James Spinney, Notes on Blindness
Rachel Tunnard, Adult Life Skills

Debut Screenwriter
Ed Talfan, The Passing (Yr Ymadawiad)
Hope Dickson Leach, The Levelling
John Cairns, Michael McCartney, A Patch of Fog
Rachel Tunnard, Adult Life Skills
Simon Farnaby, Julian Barratt, Mindhorn

Breakthrough Producer
Camille Gatin, The Girl With All the Gifts
Dionne Walker, The Hard Stop
Michael Berliner, Adult Life Skills
Mike Brett, Jo-Jo Ellison, Steve Jamison, Notes on Blindness
Paul Fegan, Where You’re Meant to Be