The British Independent Film Awards (Bifas) winners will be unveiled tonight (November 30) at a ceremony at London’s Roundhouse, starting at 20:00 GMT.
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Comedians Lou Sanders and Harriet Kemsley, who both appeared on Prime Video’s hit Last One Laughing, will be hosting.
Screen will be updating this page live from the ceremony as the winners are announced - refresh this page for the latest winners. Scroll down for the full nominations and craft winners.
Akinola Davies Jr’s My Father’s Shadow leads the way with 12 nominations, with Harry Lighton’s Pillion and Kirk Jones’s I Swear just behind on 10.
The 10 craft winners were revealed previously earlier this month, with Warfare collecting three prizes, added to its already-announced best ensemble performance Bifa win
Warp Films will receive the honorary special jury prize, and Emily Watson is receiving the Richard Harris award.
Bifa winners 2025
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Best British Independent Film
- The Ballad Of Wallis Island - James Griffiths, Tom Basden, Tim Key, Rupert Majendie
- I Swear - Kirk Jones, Georgia Bayliff, Piers Tempest
- My Father’s Shadow - Akinola Davies Jr, Wale Davies, Rachel Dargavel, Funmbi Ogunbanwo
- Pillion - Harry Lighton, Lee Groombridge, Ed Guiney, Andrew Lowe, Emma Norton
- Urchin - Harris Dickinson, Archie Pearch, Scott O’donnell
Cinema Of The Year
- Depot Cinema
- The Magic Lantern Cinema
- Montrose Playhouse
- Queen’s Film Theatre
- Watershed
Best Director
- Laura Carreira - On Falling
- Akinola Davies Jr - My Father’s Shadow
- Kirk Jones - I Swear
- Harry Lighton - Pillion
- Lynne Ramsay - Die My Love
Best Screenplay
- Tom Basden, Tim Key - The Ballad Of Wallis Island
- Laura Carreira - On Falling
- Wale Davies - My Father’s Shadow
- Kirk Jones - I Swear
- Harry Lighton - Pillion
Best Lead Performance
- Robert Aramayo - I Swear
- Frank Dillane - Urchin
- David Jonsson - Wasteman
- Jennifer Lawrence - Die My Love
- Harry Melling - Pillion
- Cillian Murphy - Steve
Best Supporting Performance
- Tom Blyth - Wasteman
- Scott Ellis Watson - I Swear
- Jay Lycurgo - Steve
- Peter Mullan - I Swear
- Maxine Peake - I Swear
- Alexander Skarsgard - Pillion
Best Joint Lead Performance
- Ebada Hassan, Saffiya Ingar - Brides
- Tim Key, Tom Basden - The Ballad Of Wallis Island
- Andrea Riseborough, Brenda Blethyn - Dragonfly
Best Ensemble Performance - Winner
- Warfare - D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai, Will Poulter, Cosmo Jarvis, Kit Connor, Finn Bennett, Joseph Quinn, Charles Melton
The Douglas Hickox Award (Best Debut Director)
- Laura Carreira - On Falling
- Akinola Davies Jr - My Father’s Shadow
- Harris Dickinson - Urchin
- Harry Lighton - Pillion
- Cal McMau - Wasteman
Breakthrough Producer
- Wyn Baptiste - Shoot The People
- Charlotte Knowles - Palestine Comedy Club
- Joann Kushner - LifeHack [also produced by Timur Bekmambetov, Aleksandr Kletzov]
- Dhiraj Mahey - Ish [also produced by Bennett McGhee]
- Archie Pearch - Urchin [also produced by Scott O’Donnell]
Breakthrough Performance
- Scott Ellis Watson - I Swear
- Ebada Hassan - Brides
- Safiyya Ingar - Brides
- Posy Sterling - Lollipop
- Connor Tompkins - The Son And The Sea
Best Debut Screenwriter
- Hunter Andrews, Eoin Doran - Wasteman
- Tom Basden, Tim Key - The Ballad Of Wallis Island
- Laura Carreira - On Falling
- Wale Davies - My Father’s Shadow
- Harry Lighton - Pillion
Best Debut Director – Feature Documentary
- Myrid Carten - A Want In Her
- Cecile Embleton, Alys Tomlinson - Mother Vera
- Victoria Mapplebeck - Motherboard
The Raindance Maverick Award
- Foul Evil Deeds - Richard Hunter
- Holloway - Sophie Compton, Daisy-May Hudson, Stella Heath Keir, Alice Hughes, Polly Creed
- Mother Vera - Cecile Embleton, Alys Tomlinson, Laura Shacham
- Motherboard - Victoria Mapplebeck
- A Want In Her - Myrid Carten
Best Feature Documentary Sponsored By Intermission Film
- Antidote - James Jones, David Moulton
- Mother Vera - Cecile Embleton, Alys Tomlinson, Laura Shacham
- Motherboard - Victoria Mapplebeck
- The Shepherd And The Bear - Max Keegan, Elizabeth Woodward, Amanda McBaine, Jesse Moss
- A Want In Her - Myrid Carten, Tadhg O’Sullivan, Roisin Geraghty, Kat Mansoor
Best British Short Film
- Flock - Mac Nixon, Matt Ashwell, Daley Nixon
- Magid / Zafar - Luis Hindman, Sufiyaan Salam, Aidan Robert Brooks
- A Sisyphean Task - Gus Flind-Henry, George Malcher, George Telfer
- Stomach Bug - Matty Crawford, Karima Sammout Kanellopoulou
- Two Black Boys In Paradise - Ben Jackson, Baz Sells, Dean Atta
Best International Independent Film
- It Was Just An Accident - Jafar Panahi, Phillippe Martin
- Sentimental Value - Joachim Trier, Eskil Vogt, Maria Ekerhovd, Andrea Berentsen Ottmar
- Sirāt - Oliver Laxe, Santiago Fillol, Domingo Corral, Oriol Maymo, Andrea Queralt, Mani Mortazavi, Xavi Font, Pedro Almodovar, Agustin Almodovar, Esther García
- Sorry, Baby - Eva Victor, Adele Romanski, Mark Ceryak, Barry Jenkins
- Sound Of Falling - Mascha Schilinski, Louise Peter, Maren Schmitt, Lucas Schmidt
Bifa Craft Winners (previously announced)
- Casting – Lauren Evans, I Swear
- Cinematography – Seamus McGarvey, Die My Love
- Costume design – Grace Snell, Pillion
- Editing – Fin Oates, Warfare
- Effects – Simon Stanley-Clamp and Ryan Conder, Warfare
- Music supervision – Raife Burchell and Ian Neil, Die My Love
- Make-up and hair design – Diandra Ferreira, Pillion
- Original music – Tom Basden and Adem Ilhan, Ballad Of Wallis Island
- Production design – Nathan Parker, Harvest
- Sound – Glenn Freemantle, Mitch Low, Howard Bargroff, Ben Barker and Richard Spooner, Warfare
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