Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Tyrannosaur and Steve McQueen’s upcoming Shame have each picked up seven nominations at this year’s British Independent Film Awards.
We Need to Talk About Kevin and Kill List each have six nominations, while Richard Ayoade’s Submarine is up for five awards.
There’s a particularly high profile field in the contest for the Douglas Hickox Award for the best first-time director, with the actors Ralph Fiennes (Coriolanus) and Paddy Considine (Tyrannosaur) in the running with the comedian Joe Cornish (Attack the Block), among others.
Elliot Grove, who founded the awards in 1998, said the nominees showed that British independent filmmakers were rising to the creative challenge of making astounding movies in the midst of economic chaos.
A committee of seventy members selected the nominations from nearly two hundred films. The winners – to be honoured at a ceremony at Old Billingsgate in London on December 4th – will be decided by a jury including the director Josh Appignanesi, the actor David Thewlis and the actress Ruth Wilson.
THE NOMINATIONS:
BEST BRITISH INDEPENDENT FILM (Sponsored by Moët & Chandon)
SENNA
SHAME
TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY
TYRANNOSAUR
WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN
BEST DIRECTOR (Sponsored by The Creative Partnership)
Ben Wheatley KILL LIST
Steve McQueen SHAME
Tomas Alfredson TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY
Paddy Considine TYRANNOSAUR
Lynne Ramsay WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN
THE DOUGLAS HICKOX AWARD [BEST DEBUT DIRECTOR] (Sponsored by 3 Mills Studios)
Joe Cornish ATTACK THE BLOCK
Ralph Fiennes CORIOLANUS
John Michael McDonagh THE GUARD
Richard Ayoade SUBMARINE
Paddy Considine TYRANNOSAUR
BEST SCREENPLAY (Sponsored by BBC Films)
John Michael McDonagh THE GUARD
Ben Wheatley, Amy Jump KILL LIST
Abi Morgan, Steve McQueen SHAME
Richard Ayoade SUBMARINE
Lynne Ramsay, Rory Kinnear WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN
BEST ACTRESS (Sponsored by M.A.C)
Rebecca Hall THE AWAKENING
Mia Wasikowska JANE EYRE
MyAnna Buring KILL LIST
Olivia Colman TYRANNOSAUR
Tilda Swinton WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN
BEST ACTOR
Brendan Gleeson THE GUARD
Neil Maskell KILL LIST
Michael Fassbender SHAME
Gary Oldman TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY
Peter Mullan TYRANNOSAUR
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Felicity Jones ALBATROSS
Vanessa Redgrave CORIOLANUS
Carey Mulligan SHAME
Sally Hawkins SUBMARINE
Kathy Burke TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Michael Smiley KILL LIST
Tom Hardy TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY
Benedict Cumberbatch TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY
Eddie Marsan TYRANNOSAUR
Ezra Miller WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN
MOST PROMISING NEWCOMER (Sponsored by STUDIOCANAL)
Jessica Brown Findlay ALBATROSS
John Boyega ATTACK THE BLOCK
Craig Roberts SUBMARINE
Yasmin Paige SUBMARINE
Tom Cullen WEEKEND
BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN PRODUCTION (Sponsored by Deluxe142)
KILL LIST
TYRANNOSAUR
WEEKEND
WILD BILL
YOU INSTEAD
BEST TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT
Chris King, Gregers Sall Editing SENNA
Sean Bobbitt Cinematography SHAME
Joe Walker Editing SHAME
Maria Djurkovic Production Design TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY
Seamus McGarvey Cinematography WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN
BEST DOCUMENTARY
HELL AND BACK AGAIN
LIFE IN A DAY
PROJECT NIM
SENNA
TT3D: CLOSER TO THE EDGE
BEST BRITISH SHORT
0507
CHALK
LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT
RITE
ROUGH SKIN
BEST FOREIGN INDEPENDENT FILM
ANIMAL KINGDOM
DRIVE
PINA
A SEPARATION
THE SKIN I LIVE IN
THE RAINDANCE AWARD (Sponsored by Exile Media)
ACTS OF GODFREY
BLACK POND
HOLLOW
LEAVING BAGHDAD
A THOUSAND KISSES DEEP