The winners of the British Independent Film Awards have just been revealed!
The 2025 BIFA was held on Sunday (November 30) at The Roundhouse in London, England.
The awards ceremony honors the best in British independent cinema and filmmaking talent from the United Kingdom. The most nominated film of the evening was My Father’s Shadow with 12, and the most awarded of the evening was Warfare with 4.
Pillion took the highest honor of the evening!
Find out what was nominated and what won at the awards ceremony this year…
Keep reading to find out more…
BEST BRITISH INDEPENDENT FILM
The Ballad of Wallis Island
I Swear
My Father’s Shadow
Pillion – WINNER
Urchin
BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE
Robert Aramayo, I Swear – WINNER
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 – WINNER
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 – WINNER
Andrea Riseborough, Brenda Blethyn, Dragonfly
BEST DIRECTOR
Laura Carreira, On Falling
Akinola Davies Jr, My Father’s Shadow – WINNER
Kirk Jones, I Swear
Harry Lighton, Pillion
Lynne Ramsay, Die My Love
BEST SCREENPLAY
Tom Basden, Tim Key, The Ballad of Wallis Island – WINNER
Laura Carreira, On Falling
Wale Davies, My Father’s Shadow
Kirk Jones, I Swear
Harry Lighton, Pillion
THE DOUGLAS HICKOX AWARD FOR BEST DEBUT DIRECTOR
Laura Carreira, On Falling
Akinola Davies Jr, My Father’s Shadow
Harris Dickinson, Urchin
Harry Lighton, Pillion
Cal Mcmau, Wasteman – WINNER
BREAKTHROUGH PRODUCER
Wyn Baptiste, Shoot the People
Charlotte Knowles, Palestine Comedy Club
Joann Kushner, Lifehack
Dhiraj Mahey, Ish – WINNER
Archie Pearch, Urchin
BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE
Scott Ellis Watson, I Swear
Ebada Hassan, Brides
Safiyya Ingar, Brides
Posy Sterling, Lollipop – WINNER
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 – WINNER
BEST FEATURE DOCUMENTARY
Antidote
Mother Vera
Motherboard
The Shepherd and the Bear
A Want in Her – WINNER
BEST DEBUT DIRECTOR – FEATURE DOCUMENTARY
Myrid Carten, A Want in Her – WINNER
Cecile Embleton, Alys Tomlinson, Mother Vera
Victoria Mapplebeck, Motherboard
THE RAINDANCE MAVERICK AWARD
Foul Evil Deeds
Holloway
Mother Vera
Motherboard
A Want in Her – WINNER
BEST INTERNATIONAL INDEPENDENT FILM
It Was Just an Accident
Sentimental Value – WINNER
Sirat
Sorry, Baby
Sound of Falling
BEST CASTING
Shaheen Baig, Brides
Shaheen Baig, Urchin
Kharmel Cochrane, Warfare
Lauren Evans, I Swear – WINNER
Robert Sterne, Steve
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Charlotte Bruus Christensen, H Is for Hawk
Jermaine Edwards, My Father’s Shadow
Cecile Embleton, Mother Vera
Seamus Mcgarvey, Die My Love – WINNER
Piotr Niemyjski, A Pale View of Hills
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Susie Coulthard, 100 Nights of Hero
Kirsty Halliday, Tornado
Grace Snell, Pillion – WINNER
Sayaka Takahashi, Matthew Price, A Pale View of Hills
PC Williams, My Father’s Shadow
BEST EDITING
Ronan Corrigan, Aleksandr Kletsov, Lifehack
Omar Guzman Castro, My Father’s Shadow
Fin Oates, Warfare – WINNER
Sam Rice-Edwards, One to One: John & Yoko
Gareth C. Scales, Pillion
BEST EFFECTS
Simon Stanley-Clamp, Ryan Conder, Warfare – WINNER
Victor Tomi, Die My Love
Hayley Williams, Conor O’Sullivan, Martin Malmqvist, The Thing With Feathers
BEST MUSIC SUPERVISION
Phil Canning, Wasteman
Ian Neil, Raife Burchell, Die My Love – WINNER
Bridget Samuels, Urchin
BEST MAKE-UP and HAIR DESIGN
Kehinde Are, Feyzo Oyebisi, My Father’s Shadow
Diandra Ferreira, Pillion – WINNER
Paul Gooch, Tristan Versluis, Warfare
Colleen Labaff, Miho Suzuki, Die My Love
Natasha Lawes, 100 Nights of Hero
BEST ORIGINAL MUSIC
Tom Basden, Adem Ilhan, The Ballad of Wallis Island – WINNER
Bobby Krlic, Anemone
Jed Kurzel, Tornado
CJ Mirra, Duval Timothy, My Father’s Shadow
Steven Price, Ocean With David Attenborough
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
Jennifer Anti, Pablo Anti, My Father’s Shadow
Mark Digby, Warfare
Tim Grimes, Die My Love
Nathan Parker, Harvest – WINNER
Sofia Sacomani, 100 Nights of Hero
BEST SOUND
Steve Fanagan, Stevie Haywood, Anemone
Tim Burns, Paul Davies, Linda Forsen, Andrew Stirk, Ron Osiowy, Die My Love
Nina Hartstone, Jake Whitelee, Jens Petersen, Mike Tehrani, Rob Davidson, Ish
CJ Mirra, James Ridgway, Joe Jackson, Adele Fletcher, Pius Fatoke, My Father’s Shadow
Glenn Freemantle, Mitch Low, Howard Bargroff, Ben Barker, Richard Spooner, Warfare – WINNER
BEST BRITISH SHORT FILM
Flock
Magid Zafar – WINNER
A Sisyphean Task
Stomach Bug
Two Black Boys in Paradise
CINEMA OF THE YEAR
Depot Cinema
The Magic Lantern Cinema – WINNER
Montrose Playhouse
Queen’s Film Theatre
Watershed
See 60+ photos from the awards show inside…
