The nominees for this year’s British Independent Film Awards (BIFA) have been revealed, and two of Searchlight Picture’s have picked up multiple nominations, with “Rye Lane” getting 16 nominations, with the upcoming “All Of Us Strangers” being nominated in 14 categories including Best Director sponsored by Sky Cinema and Best Screenplay.  With National Geographic’s “Bobi Wine: The People’s President” also picked up multiple nominations.

Susan Wokoma and Morfydd Clark made the announcement at One Hundred Shoreditch, London.  The winners will be announced at a ceremony on Sunday, 3rd December 2023.

“Rye Lane” tells the story of two youngsters reeling from bad break-ups who connect over a particularly eventful day in South London.  The film is available to stream on Disney+ now.  

“All Of Us Strangers” is about what happens one night in his near-empty London tower block; screenwriter Adam has a chance encounter with mysterious neighbour Harry, puncturing the rhythm of his everyday life. As a relationship develops between them, Adam finds himself drawn back to his childhood home, where his parents appear to be living just as they were on the day they died 30 years ago.  “All Of Us Strangers” is coming out in cinemas in the UK on January 26th 2024, and will be coming to Disney+ later in 2024.

Here’s the complete nomination list:

Best British Independent Film

• ALL OF US STRANGERS Andrew Haigh, Graham Broadbent, Pete Czernin, Sarah Harvey
• FEMME Sam H Freeman, Ng Choon Ping, Myles Payne, Sam Ritzenberg
• HOW TO HAVE SEX Molly Manning Walker, Ivana MacKinnon, Emily Leo, Konstantinos Kontovrakis
• RYE LANE Raine Allen-Miller, Nathan Bryon, Tom Melia, Yvonne Isimeme Ibazebo, Damian Jones
• SCRAPPER Charlotte Regan, Theo Barrowclough

Best International Independent Film sponsored by Champagne Taittinger

• ANATOMY OF A FALL Justine Triet, Arthur Harari, Marie-Ange Luciani, David Thion
• FALLEN LEAVES Aki Kauriskmäki
• FREMONT Babak Jalali, Carolina Cavalli, Marjaneh Moghimi, Sudnya Shroff, Rachael Fung
• MONSTER Hirokazu Kore-Eda, Yuji Sakamoto, Genki Kawamura, Kenji Yamada
• PAST LIVES Celine Song, David Hinojosa, Christine Vachon, Pamela Koffler

Best Director sponsored by Sky Cinema

• RAINE ALLEN-MILLER Rye Lane
• SAM H FREEMAN, NG CHOON PING Femme
• ANDREW HAIGH All of Us Strangers
• MOLLY MANNING WALKER How to Have Sex
• CHARLOTTE REGAN Scrapper

Best Screenplay sponsored by Apple Original Films

• NATHAN BRYON, TOM MELIA Rye Lane
• SAM H FREEMAN, NG CHOON PING Femme
• ANDREW HAIGH All of Us Strangers
• MOLLY MANNING WALKER How to Have Sex
• CHARLOTTE REGAN Scrapper

Best Lead Performance

• JODIE COMER The End We Start From
• MIA MCKENNA-BRUCE How to Have Sex
• TIA NOMORE Earth Mama
• NABHAAN RIZWAN In Camera
• ANDREW SCOTT All of Us Strangers
• TILDA SWINTON The Eternal Daughter

Best Supporting Performance

• RITU ARYA Polite Society
• JAMIE BELL All of Us Strangers
• SAMUEL BOTTOMLEY How to Have Sex
• ALEXANDRA BURKE Pretty Red Dress
• AMIR EL-MASRY In Camera
• CLAIRE FOY All of Us Strangers
• PAUL MESCAL All of Us Strangers
• ALIA SHAWKAT Drift
• SHAUN THOMAS How to Have Sex
• KATHERINE WATERSTON The End We Start From

Best Joint Lead Performance

• LOLA CAMPBELL, HARRIS DICKINSON Scrapper
• DAVID JONSSON, VIVIAN OPARAH Rye Lane
• NATHAN STEWART-JARRETT, GEORGE MACKAY Femme

The Douglas Hickox Award (Best Debut Director) sponsored by BBC Film

• RAINE ALLEN-MILLER Rye Lane
• SAM H FREEMAN, NG CHOON PING Femme
• SAVANAH LEAF Earth Mama
• MOLLY MANNING WALKER How to Have Sex
• CHARLOTTE REGAN Scrapper

Breakthrough Producer sponsored by Pinewood and Shepperton Studios

• THEO BARROWCLOUGH Scrapper
• GEORGIA GOGGIN Pretty Red Dress
• YVONNE ISIMEME IBAZEBO Rye Lane [also produced by Damian Jones]
• GANNESH RAJAH If the Streets Were on Fire
• CHI THAI Raging Grace

Breakthrough Performance sponsored by Netflix

• LE’SHANTEY BONSU Girl
• LOLA CAMPBELL Scrapper
• PRIYA KANSARA Polite Society
• MIA MCKENNA-BRUCE How to Have Sex
• VIVIAN OPARAH Rye Lane

Best Debut Screenwriter sponsored by Film4

• NATHAN BRYON, TOM MELIA Rye Lane
• SAM H FREEMAN, NG CHOON PING Femme
• MOLLY MANNING WALKER How to Have Sex
• NIDA MANZOOR Polite Society
• CHARLOTTE REGAN Scrapper

Best Debut Director – Feature Documentary

• CHLOE ABRAHAMS The Taste of Mango
• SOPHIE COMPTON, REUBEN HAMLYN Another Body
• ELLA GLENDINING Is There Anybody Out There?
• ALICE RUSSELL If the Streets Were on Fire
• CHRISTOPHER SHARP Bobi Wine: The People’s President [also directed by Moses Bwayo]

The Raindance Maverick Award

• IF THE STREETS WERE ON FIRE Alice Russell, Gannesh Rajah
• IS THERE ANYBODY OUT THERE? Ella Glendining, Janine Marmot
• NAME ME LAWAND Edward Lovelace
• RAGING GRACE Paris Zarcilla, Chi Thai
• RED HERRING Kit Vincent, Ed Owles

Best Feature Documentary sponsored by Intermission Film

• ANOTHER BODY Sophie Compton, Reuben Hamlyn, Isabel Freeman, Elizabeth Woodward
• BOBI WINE: THE PEOPLE’S PRESIDENT Moses Bwayo, Christopher Sharp, John Battsek
• IF THE STREETS WERE ON FIRE Alice Russell, Gannesh Rajah
• LYRA Alison Millar, Jackie Doyle
• OCCUPIED CITY Steve McQueen, Bianca Stitger, Floor Onrust, Anna Smith-Tenser

Best British Short Film

• CHRISTOPHER AT SEA Tom C J Brown, Laure Desmazières, Emmanuel-Alain Raynal, Pierre Baussaron, Amanda Miller, Hannah Stolarski, Nick Read, Emily-Jane Brown
• FESTIVAL OF SLAPS Abdou Cissé, Cheri Darbon, George Telfer
• LIONS Beru Tessema, Ama Ampadu
• MUNA Warda Mohamed, Angela Moneke, Simon Hatton
• THE TALENT Thomas May Bailey, Emma D’Arcy, Ellen Spence

Best Casting sponsored by Casting Society & Spotlight

• SHAHEEN BAIG Scrapper
• KHARMEL COCHRANE Rye Lane
• KAHLEEN CRAWFORD All of Us Strangers
• ISABELLA ODOFFIN How to Have Sex
• SALOME OGGENFUSS, GERALDINE BARÓN, ABBY HARRI Earth Mama

Best Cinematography sponsored by Harbor & Kodak

• OLAN COLLARDY Rye Lane
• SUZIE LAVELLE The End We Start From
• MOLLY MANNING WALKER Scrapper
• JAMIE D. RAMSAY All of Us Strangers
• JAMES RHODES Femme

Best Costume Design

• GEORGE BUXTON How to Have Sex
• OLIVER CRONK Scrapper
• BUKI EBIESUWA Femme
• CYNTHIA LAWRENCE-JOHN Rye Lane
• PC WILLIAMS The End We Start From

Best Editing

• JONATHAN ALBERTS All of Us Strangers
• VICTORIA BOYDELL Rye Lane
• PAUL CARLIN Bobi Wine: The People’s President
• AVDHESH MOHLA High & Low – John Galliano
• ARTTU SALMI The End We Start From

Best Effects

• PADDY EASON Polite Society
• THEODOR FLO-GROENEBOOM The End We Start From
• JONATHAN GALES, RICHARD BAKER The Kitchen

Best Music Supervision

• CIARA ELWIS Femme
• CONNIE FARR All of Us Strangers
• DAVID FISH Rye Lane

Best Make-Up & Hair Design sponsored by The Wall Group

• ZOE CLARE BROWN All of Us Strangers
• CLAIRE CARTER Polite Society
• MARIE DEEHAN Femme
• NATASHA LAWES How to Have Sex
• BIANCA SIMONE SCOTT Rye Lane

Best Original Music sponsored by Universal Music Publishing Group

• ADAM JANOTA BZOWSKI Femme
• PATRICK JONSSON Scrapper
• KWES Rye Lane
• ANNA MEREDITH The End We Start From
• RÉ OLUNUGA Girl

Best Production Design sponsored by ATC & Broadsword

• LAURA ELLIS CRICKS The End We Start From
• SARAH FINLAY All of Us Strangers
• ELENA MUNTONI Scrapper
• NATHAN PARKER The Kitchen
• ANNA RHODES Rye Lane

Best Sound supported by Halo

• BEN BAIRD, JACK WENSLEY, ADAM FLETCHER, ALEXEJ MUNGERSDORFF Scrapper
• STEVE FANAGAN How to Have Sex
• STEVIE HAYWOOD, JOAKIM SUNDSTRÖM, PER BOSTROM All of Us Strangers
• MARK JENKIN Enys Men
• JENS ROSENLUND-PETERSEN, AMY FELTON, JOE JACKSON, TIM CAVAGIN, LORI DOVI
  The End We Start From

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