British Independent Film Award nominations are out!

Control, and When Did You Last See Your Father? lead the pack at the BIFAs

By Will Reynolds /

The BIFA nominations were announced today and Control leads the pack with 10 nominations (including nods for Sam Riley, Samantha Morton, Toby Kebbell and director Anton Corbijn). Other films with strong showings are And When Did You Last See Your Father? (seven noms), Hallam Foe (six) and Eastern Promises (five). Ray Winstone is the recipient of the Richard Harris Award for Outstanding Contribution and Daniel Craig the Variety Award for being completely awesome... okay, it's actually for bringing the Brit film industry into the international spotlight. Here's the full list of nominations yanked from the BIFA website:

Best British Independent Film

And When Did You Last See Your Father? Control Eastern Promises Hallam Foe Notes on a Scandal

Best Performance by an Actress in a British Independent Film

Anne Hathaway for Becoming Jane Tannishtha Chatterjee for Brick Lane Sophia Myles for Hallam Foe Kierston Wareing for It's a Free World... Judi Dench for Notes on a Scandal

Best Performance by an Actor in a British Independent Film

Jim Broadbent for And When Did You Last See Your Father? Sam Riley for Control Viggo Mortensen for Eastern Promises Jamie Bell for Hallam Foe Cillian Murphy for Sunshine

Best Performance by a Supporting Actor or Actress in a British Independent Film

Colin Firth for And When Did You Last See Your Father? Tony Kebbell for Control Samantha Morton for Control Armin Muehler Stahl for Eastern Promises Cate Blanchett for Notes on a Scandal

Most Promising Newcomer

Imogen Poots for 28 Weeks Later Matthew Beard for And When Did You Last See Your Father? Sam Riley for Control Bradley Cole for Exhibit A Kierston Wareing for It's a Free World...

Best Screenplay

David Nicholls for And When Did You Last See Your Father? Matt Greenhalgh for Control Steve Knight for Eastern Promises Ed Whitmore, David MacKenzie for Hallam Foe Patrick Marber for Notes on a Scandal

Best Director of a British Independent Film

Anand Tucker for And When Did You Last See Your Father? Sarah Gavron for Brick Lane Anton Corbijn for Control David Cronenberg for Eastern Promises David MacKenzie for Hallam Foe

Best Achievement In Production

Black Gold Control Exhibit A Extraordinary Rendition Garbage Warrior

The Douglas Hickox Award

Nick Francis, Mark Francis for Black Gold Anton Corbijn for Control Oliver Hodge for Garbage Warrior David Schwimmer for Run, Fat Boy, Run Steve Hudson for True North

Best British Documentary

Black Gold Deep Water Garbage Warrior In the Shadow of the Moon Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten

Best Technical Achievement

Enrique Chediak for 28 Weeks Later Trevor Waite for And When Did You Last See Your Father? Martin Ruhe for Control David MacKenzie for Hallam Foe Mark Tildesley for Sunshine

Best British Short Film

A Bout de Truffe - The Truffle Hunter Cherries Dog Altogether The Girls What Does Your Daddy Do?

Best Foreign Independent Film

Black Book La Vie en Rose Once Tell No One The Lives of Others

The Raindance Award

Exhibit A The Inheritance Tovarisch: I Am Not Dead

The Richard Harris Award

Ray Winstone

The Variety Award

Daniel Craig

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