2017 British Independent Film Award Nominations

Best British Independent Film
The Death of Stalin
God's Own Country
I Am Not a Witch
Lady Macbeth
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Best International Independent Film
The Florida Project
Get Out
I Am Not Your Negro
Loveless
The Square

Best Director
Armando Iannucci "The Death of Stalin"
Francis Lee "God’s Own Country"
Martin McDonagh "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri"
Runago Nyoni "I Am Not a Witch"
William Oldroyd "Lady Macbeth"

Best Screenplay
Alice Birth "Lady Macbeth"
Armando Iannucci, David Schneider, and Ian Martin "The Death of Stalin"
Francis Lee "God's Own Country"
Martin McDonagh "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri"
Rungano Nyoni "I Am Not a Witch"

Best Actress
Emily Beecham "Daphne"
Frances McDormand "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri"
Margaret Mulubwa "I Am Not a Witch"
Florence Pugh "Lady Macbeth"
Ruth Wilson "Dark River"

Best Actor
Jamie Bell "Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool"
Paddy Considine "Journeyman"
Johnny Harris "Jawbone"
Josh O'Connor "God's Own Country"
Alec Secareanu "God's Own Country"

Best Supporting Actress
Naomi Ackie "Lady Macbeth"
Patricia Clarkson "The Party"
Kelly MacDonald "Goodbye Christopher Robin"
Andrea Riseborough "The Death of Stalin"
Julie Walters "Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool"

Best Supporting Actor
Simon Russell Beale "The Death of Stalin"
Steve Buscemi "The Death of Stalin"
Woody Harrelson "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri"
Ian Hart "God’s Own Country"
Sam Rockwell "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri"

Most Promising Newcomer
Naomi Ackie "Lady Macbeth"
Harry Gilby "Just Charlie"
Cosmo Jarvis "Lady Macbeth"
Harry Michell "Chubby Funny
Lily Newmark "Pin Cushion"

Best Debut Director
Deborah Haywood "Pin Cushion"
Francis Lee "God's Own Country"
Thomas Napper "Jawbone"
Rungano Nyoni "I Am Not a Witch"
William Oldroyd "Lady Macbeth"

Debut Screenwriter
Alice Birch "Lady Macbeth"
Gaby Chiappe "Their Finest"
Johnny Harris "Jawbone"
Francis Lee "God’s Own Country"
Rungano Nyoni "I Am Not a Witch"

Breakthrough Producer
Gavin Humphries "Pin Cushion"
Emily Morgan "I Am Not a Witch"
Brendan Mullin and Katy Jackson "Bad Day for the Cut"
Fodhla Cronin O'Reilly "Lady Macbeth"
Jack Tarling and Manon Ardisson "God’s Own Country"

The Discovery Award
Even When I Fall
Halfway
In Another Life
Isolani R
My Pure Land

Best Documentary
Almost Heaven
Half Way
Kingdom of Us
Uncle Howard
Williams

Best British Short Film
1745
The Entertainer
Fish Story
Work
Wren Boys

Best Cinematography
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
I Am Not a Witch
Jawbone
Leaning Into the Wind
Lady Macbeth

Best Casting
Lady Macbeth
God’s Own Country
The Death of Stalin
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool

Best Costume Design
My Cousin Rachel
The Death of Stalin
How to Talk to Girls at Parties
I Am Not a Witch
Lady Macbeth

Best Editing
Williams
Jawbone
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
The Death of Stalin
Us and Them

Best Effects
The Ritual
Journeyman
The Death of Stalin
Double Date
Their Finest

Best Make Up & Hair Design
I Am Not a Witch
Breathe
Journeyman
The Death of Stalin
Lady Macbeth

Best Music
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Leaning into the Wind
I Am Not a Witch
Jawbone
The Death of Stalin

Best Production Design
Lady Macbeth
The Death of Stalin
Final Portrait
I Am Not a Witch
Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool

Best Sound
God’s Own Country
I Am Not a Witch
Jawbone
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Breathe