British Independent Film Awards 2011

The 14th British Independent Film Awards, held on 4 December 2011 at the Old Billingsgate Market in central London, honoured the best British independent films of 2011.

Awards

Best British Independent Film

• Tyrannosaur
• Senna
• Shame
• Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
• We Need to Talk about Kevin

Best Director

• Lynne Ramsay – We Need to Talk about Kevin
• Ben Wheatley – Kill List
• Steve McQueen – Shame
• Tomas Alfredson – Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
• Paddy Considine – Tyrannosaur

The Douglas Hickox Award

Given to a British director on their debut feature

• Paddy Considine – Tyrannosaur
• Joe Cornish – Attack the Block
• Ralph Fiennes – Coriolanus
• John Michael McDonagh – The Guard
• Richard Ayoade – Submarine

Best Actor

• Michael Fassbender – Shame
• Brendan Gleeson – The Guard
• Neil Maskell – Kill List
• Gary Oldman – Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
• Peter Mullan – Tyrannosaur

Best Actress

• Olivia Colman – Tyrannosaur
• Rebecca Hall – The Awakening
• Mia Wasikowska – Jane Eyre
• MyAnna Buring – Kill List
• Tilda Swinton – We Need to Talk about Kevin

Best Supporting Actor

• Michael Smiley – Kill List
• Tom Hardy – Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
• Benedict Cumberbatch – Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
• Eddie Marsan – Tyrannosaur
• Ezra Miller – We Need to Talk about Kevin

Best Supporting Actress

• Vanessa Redgrave – Coriolanus
• Felicity Jones – Albatross
• Carey Mulligan – Shame
• Sally Hawkins – Submarine
• Kathy Burke – Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Best Screenplay

• Richard Ayoade – Submarine
• John Michael McDonagh – The Guard
• Ben Wheatley, Amy Jump – Kill List
• Abi Morgan, Steve McQueen – Shame
• Lynne Ramsay, Rory Stewart Kinnear – We Need to Talk about Kevin

Most Promising Newcomer

• Tom Cullen – Weekend
• Jessica Brown Findlay – Albatross
• John Boyega – Attack the Block
• Craig Roberts – Submarine
• Yasmin Paige – Submarine

Best Achievement in Production

• Weekend
• Kill List
• Tyrannosaur
• Wild Bill
• You Instead

Best Technical Achievement

• Maria Djurkovic – Production Design – Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
• Chris King, Gregers Sall – Editing – Senna
• Sean Bobbitt – Cinematography – Shame
• Joe Walker – Editing – Shame
• Seamus McGarvey – Cinematography – We Need to Talk about Kevin

Best British Documentary

• Senna
• Hell and Back Again
• Life in a Day
• Project Nim
• TT3D: Closer to the Edge

Best British Short

• CHALK
• 0507
• LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT
• RITE
• ROUGH SKIN

Best Foreign Film

• A Separation
• Animal Kingdom
• Drive
• Pina
• The Skin I Live In

The Raindance Award

• LEAVING BAGHDAD
• ACTS OF GODFREY
• BLACK POND
• HOLLOW
• A THOUSAND KISSES DEEP

The Richard Harris Award

• Ralph Fiennes

The Variety Award

• Kenneth Branagh

The Special Jury Prize

• Graham Easton

External links

• BIFA homepage