British Independent Film Awards 2022

25th British Independent Film Awards
Awarded for	Best in British independent film
Date	4 December 2022
Site	Old Billingsgate, London
Hosted by	Ben Bailey Smith
Official website	www.bifa.film
Highlights
Best Feature	Aftersun
Most awards	Aftersun (7)
Most nominations	Aftersun (16)
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The British Independent Film Awards 2022 were held on 4 December 2022 to recognise the best in British independent cinema and filmmaking talent from United Kingdom. The nominations were announced on 4 November 2022 by actors Sam Claflin and Kosar Ali during an event in London. Aftersun led the nominations with 16, followed by Blue Jean with 13 and The Wonder with 12. The ceremony took place at Old Billingsgate in London and was hosted by Ben Bailey Smith.

Aftersun won the most awards, winning 7 awards including the top prize, Best British Independent Film.

In July 2022, it was announced that gender-neutral categories would replace the male and female performance categories, introducing Best Lead Performance, Best Supporting Performance, Best Joint Lead Performance and Best Ensemble Performance. Additionally, the creation of Best Debut Director – Feature Documentary and the division of the Best Music category into Best Original Music and Best Music Supervision were also announced.

The longlists for Best International Independent Film, Best Documentary and the Raindance Discovery Award were announced on 21 October, while the longlists for The Douglas Hickox Award (Best Debut Director), Best Debut Director – Feature Documentary, Best Debut Screenwriter, Breakthrough Performance and Breakthrough Producer were announced on 24 October.

Winners and nominees

The nominations were announced on 4 November 2022. The winners of the craft categories were announced on 18 November 2022. The winners for the remaining categories were announced during a ceremony on 4 December 2022.

Best British Independent Film	Best Director
Aftersun – Charlotte Wells, Barry Jenkins, Mark Ceryak, Adele Romanski, Amy Jackson Blue Jean – Georgia Oakley, Hélène Sifre Good Luck to You, Leo Grande – Sophie Hyde, Katy Brand, Debbie Gray, Adrian Politowski Living – Oliver Hermanus, Kazuo Ishiguro, Stephen Woolley, Elizabeth Karlsen The Wonder – Sebastián Lelio, Emma Donoghue, Alice Birch, Juliette Howell, Andrew Lowe, Tessa Ross, Ed Guiney	Aftersun – Charlotte Wells Living – Oliver Hermanus Good Luck to You, Leo Grande – Sophie Hyde The Wonder – Sebastián Lelio Blue Jean – Georgia Oakley
Best Lead Performance	Best Supporting Performance
*Rosy McEwen – Blue Jean* as Jean** Sally Hawkins – The Lost King as Philippa Langley Cosmo Jarvis – It Is In Us All as Hamish Considine Emma Mackey – Emily as Emily Brontë Bill Nighy – Living as Mr. Williams Florence Pugh – The Wonder as Lib Wright Emily Watson – God's Creatures as Aileen O'Hara Hala Zein – Nezouh as Zeina	*Kerrie Hayes – Blue Jean* as Viv** Zoey Deutch – The Outfit as Mable Shaun Aisling Franciosi – God's Creatures as Sarah Murphy Lucy Halliday – Blue Jean as Lois Zainab Joda – Our River... Our Sky as Reema Fatma Mohamed – Flux Gourmet as Elle di Elle Paul Mescal – God's Creatures as Brian O'Hara Fionn Whitehead – Emily as Branwell Brontë Aimee Lou Wood – Living as Margaret
Best Joint Lead Performance	Breakthrough Performance
*Letitia Wright and Tamara Lawrance – The Silent Twins* as June and Jennifer Gibbons** Frankie Corio and Paul Mescal – Aftersun as Sophie and Calum Daryl McCormack and Emma Thompson – Good Luck to You, Leo Grande as Leo Grande / Connor and Nancy Stokes / Susan Robinson Jessie Buckley and Rory Kinnear – Men as Harper Marlowe and Geoffrey	*Safia Oakley-Green – The Origin* as Beyah** Frankie Corio – Aftersun as Sophie Leo Long – I Used to Be Famous as Stevie Kíla Lord Cassidy – The Wonder as Anna O'Donnell Rosy McEwen – Blue Jean as Jean
Best Screenplay	Best Documentary
Aftersun – Charlotte Wells Good Luck to You, Leo Grande – Katy Brand Living – Kazuo Ishiguro The Wonder – Sebastián Lelio, Alice Birch and Emma Donoghue Blue Jean – Georgia Oakley	Nothing Compares – Kathryn Ferguson, Eleanor Emptage, Michael Mallie My Childhood, My Country – 20 Years in Afghanistan – Phil Grabsky, Shoaib Sharifi, Amanda Wilkie My Old School – Jono McLeod, John Archer, Olivia Lichtenstein Nascondino – Victoria Fiore, Jennifer Corcoran, Aleksandra Bilić Young Plato – Neasa Ní Chianáin, Declan McGrath, David Rane
Best International Independent Film	Best Short Film
The Worst Person in the World – Joachim Trier, Eskil Vogt, Andrea Berentsen Ottmar, Thomas Robsahm All the Beauty and the Bloodshed – Laura Poitras, Howard Gertler, John Lyons, Nan Goldin, Yoni Golijov Close – Lukas Dhont, Angelo Tijssens, Michiel Dhont, Dirk Impens Decision to Leave – Park Chan-Wook, Chung Seo-Kyung Everything Everywhere All at Once – Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert, Jonathan Wang, Joe Russo, Anthony Russo, Mike Larocca	Too Rough – Sean Lìonadh, Ross McKenzie, Alfredo Covelli A Fox in the Night – Keeran Anwar Blessie, Benjamin Jacob Smith Honesty – Roxy Rezvany, Emily Renée, Elly Camisa Sandstorm – Seemab Gul, Abid Aziz Merchant Scale – Joseph Pierce, Hélène Mitjavile
Best Casting	Cinematography
Blue Jean – Shaheen Baig Our River... Our Sky – Leila Bertrand The Silent Twins – Kharmel Cochrane Living – Kahleen Crawford Aftersun – Lucy Pardee	Aftersun – Gregory Oke Nascondino – Alfredo de Juan Men – Rob Hardy Kanaval – Joel Honeywell The Wonder – Ari Wegner
Best Costume Design	Best Editing
Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris – Jenny Beavan Flux Gourmet – Saffron Cullane The Wonder – Odile Dicks-Mireaux Aftersun – Frank Gallacher Living – Sandy Powell	Aftersun – Blair McClendon Elizabeth: A Portrait in Parts – Joanna Crickmay Blue Jean – Izabella Curry Flux Gourmet – Mátyás Fekete Nothing Compares – Mich Mahon
Best Effects	Best Make-Up & Hair Design
Men – David Simpson The Feast – Chris Marshall Nezouh – Ahmed Yousry	Medusa Deluxe – Eugene Souleiman, Scarlett O'Connell Aftersun – Oya Aygör, Murat Çağin The Wonder – Morna Ferguson, Lorry Ann King Flux Gourmet – Siobhan Harper-Ryan The Origin – Niamh Morrison
Best Original Music	Best Music Supervision
The Wonder – Matthew Herbert God's Creatures – Danny Bensi, Saunder Jurriaans Aftersun – Oliver Coates The Origin – Adam Janota Bzowski Men – Ben Salisbury, Geoff Barrow	Aftersun – Lucy Bright The Phantom of the Open – Phil Canning Living – Rupert Hollier
Best Production Design	Best Sound
Living – Helen Scott Flux Gourmet – Fletcher Jarvis The Wonder – Grant Montgomery Aftersun – Bailur Turan Medusa Deluxe – Gary Williamson	Flux Gourmet – Tim Harrison, Raoul Brand, Cassandra Rutledge Men – Glenn Freemantle, Ben Barker, Gillian Dodders, Howard Bargoff, Mitch Low Aftersun – Jovan Adjer The Wonder – Hugh Fox, Ben Baird The Feast – Dom Corbisiero, Dai Shell
Douglas Hickox Award (Best Debut Director)	Best Debut Screenwriter
Aftersun – Charlotte Wells The Origin – Andrew Cumming Medusa Deluxe – Thomas Hardiman Emily – Frances O'Connor Blue Jean – Georgia Oakley	Blue Jean – Georgia Oakley God's Creatures – Shane Crowley Brian and Charles – Davi Earl, Chris Hayward The Origin – Ruth Greenberg Aftersun – Charlotte Wells
Breakthrough Producer	The Raindance Discovery Award
Winners – Nadira Murray Nascondino – Aleksandra Bilić, Jennifer Corcoran Nightride – Paul Kennedy Brian and Charles – Rupert Majendie Blue Jean – Hélène Sifre	Winners – Hassan Nazer, Nadira Murray, Paul Welsh Electric Malady – Marie Lidén, Aimara Reques Fadia's Tree – Sarah Beddington, Susan Simnett Off the Rails – Peter Day, Grant Keir, Rob Alexander Rebellion – Elena Sánchez Bellot, Maia Kenworthy, Kat Mansoor
Best Debut Director – Feature Documentary	Best Ensemble Performance
Nothing Compares – Kathryn Ferguson Nascondino – Victoria Fiore Kanaval – Leah Gordon, Eddie Hutton My Old School – Jono McLeod Fashion Reminagined – Becky Hutner	Our River... Our Sky – Zainab Joda, Darina Al Joundi, Amed Hashimi, Mahmoud Abo Al Abbas, Basim Hajar, Labwa Arab, Meriam Abbas, Siham Mustafa Blue Jean – Rosy McEwen, Kerrie Hayes, Lucy Halliday, Lydia Page, Stacy Abalogun, Farrah Cave, Amy Booth-Steel Emily – Amelia Gething, Emma Mackey, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Fionn Whitehead, Alexandra Dowling, Gemma Jones, Adrian Dunbar Flux Gourmet – Makis Papadimitriou, Gwendoline Christie, Asa Butterfield, Fatma Mohamed, Ariane Labed, Richard Bremmer The Wonder – Kíla Lord Cassidy, Florence Pugh, Tom Burke, Toby Jones, Niamh Algar, Elaine Cassidy, Ciarán Hinds, Brían F. O'Byrne, Josie Walker
Richard Harris Award
Samantha Morton

Films with multiple nominations and awards

Films that received multiple nominations
Nominations	Film
16	Aftersun
13	Blue Jean
12	The Wonder
8	Living
7	Flux Gourmet
5	Men
	The Origin
	God's Creatures
4	Good Luck to You, Leo Grande
	Nascondino
	Emily
3	Nothing Compares
	Medusa Deluxe
	Our River... Our Sky
2	My Old School
	The Silent Twins
	Kanaval
	Brian and Charles
	Winners
	Nezouh
	The Feast

Films that received multiple awards
Awards	Film
7	Aftersun
4	Blue Jean
2	Nothing Compares
2	Winners

References

Szalai, Georg (4 November 2022). "British Independent Film Awards: Debut Movies 'Aftersun,' 'Blue Jean' Lead Nominations". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 4 November 2022.
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"BIFA ANNOUNCES NEW CATEGORIES FOR THE 2022 AWARDS". BIFA. 5 July 2022. Retrieved 13 October 2022.
Ramachandran, Naman (21 October 2022). "'All the Beauty and the Bloodshed,' 'Decision to Leave' Among British Independent Film Awards Nominations Longlist". Variety. Retrieved 3 November 2022.
Ramachandran, Naman (24 October 2022). "Phoebe Dynevor, Charlotte Wells Among British Independent Film Awards New Talent Longlists". Variety. Retrieved 3 November 2022.
Ntim, Zac (4 November 2022). "British Independent Film Awards: 'Aftersun,' 'Blue Jean' & 'The Wonder' Lead Nominations". Deadline. Retrieved 4 November 2022.
Ntim, Zac (November 18, 2022). "British Independent Film Awards: 'Aftersun' Leads Craft Winners". Deadline. Retrieved November 19, 2022.
Ntim, Zac (4 December 2022). "British Independent Film Awards: 'Aftersun' Sweeps With 7 Wins Including Best Film". Deadline. Retrieved 4 December 2022.
Dalton, Ben (23 November 2022). "Samantha Morton to receive Bifa 2022 honorary award". Screen Daily. Retrieved 4 December 2022.

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