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