Honored with 10 victories, The Favourite sets a record for the most wins in the history of the British Independent Film Awards.
Best British Independent Film
- The Favourite
Best Director
- Yorgos Lanthimos (The Favourite)
Best Screenplay
- Deborah Davis, Tony McNamara (The Favourite)
Best Actress
- Olivia Colman (The Favourite)
Best Supporting Actress
- Rachel Weisz (The Favourite)
Best Actor
- Joe Cole (A Prayer Before Dawn)
Best Supporting Actor
- Alessandro Nivola (Disobedience)
Most Promising Newcomer
- Jessie Buckley (Beast)
The Douglas Hickox Award – Best Debut Director
- Richard Billingham (Ray & Liz)
Debut Screenwriter
- Bart Layton (American Animals)
Breakthrough Producer
- Jacqui Davies (Ray & Liz)
The Discovery Award
- Voyageuse
Best Documentary
- Evelyn
Best British Short Film
- The Big Day
Best International Independent Film
- Roma
Best Casting
- Dixie Chassay (The Favourite)
Best Cinematography
- Robbie Ryan (The Favourite)
Best Costume Design
- Sandy Powell (The Favourite)
Best Editing
- Nick Fenton, Julian Hart, Chris Gill (American Animals)
Best Effects
- Howard Jones (“Early Man”)
The Variety Award
- Felicity Jones
The Special Jury Prize
- Horace Ové
Excited to see “The Favourite”. Lanthimos is one of my favorite directors! Love the win for Nivola! I wish Weisz and McAdams and Nivola were getting more heat for that film. All three of them were really great. I hate any win for “American Animals”. What a horrible film.
Seeing The Favourite this weekend. Can’t wait. Have enjoyed Lanthimos before.
I wonder if The Favourite could be a lot of people’s 2nd or 3rd pick (if not first) on ballots.
It’ll have actors support, big time. It’ll have branch support, big time.
It looks like an Old Academy – and Brit bloc – type of film. But it also seems filthy fun/edgy enough to appeal to the younger voters.
The Favourite swept Atlanta (Picture, Actress, Supporting Actress and Screenplay), while Roma won Picture and Director in Washington DC.
Do you have a link to the Atlanta list?
That’s the way it should go at The Oscars if it was the indeed the acknowledgment of “the best”. The brilliance of Lanthimos’ film is just mesmerizing. Really, really happy for these wins and love the other films recognized as well. American Animals for Debut and Editing, Nivola for Supporting Actor, so good. Disobedience btw deserves so much more recognition than it gets thus far.
1. THE FAVOURITE sweep is well-deserved, excellent film in all aspects.
2. Nice to see DISOBEDIENCE here, still hoping for a McAdams Oscar nod in supporting actress.
3. JESSIE BUCKLEY aka Most Promising Newcomer is sooo getting a Best Actress nod here next year for her star-making turn in Wild Rose.
Costume epics usually run rampant at the British version of the indie spirits.
I’m not sure why, but my list is missing four categories. They are as follows:
Best Make Up & Hair Design — The Favourite
Best Music — You Were Never Really Here
Best Production Design — The Favourite
Best Sound — You Were Never Really Here
I guess they really favored THE FAVOURITE! Good to see AMERICAN ANIMALS and YOU WERE NEVER
REALLY HERE win a couple of awards each. And, Nivola is an inspired
choice, too.
Not my favourite.
i want to see this soooo bad. those costumes looks SHARP! pretty much 100% sold on Colman and Weisz and probably even Stone making it in and this one being in for best pic!
According to AwardsWatch, this is the most number of wins any film has ever had at the BIFAs. Make of that what you will.
Is this the first time we’ve seen a preference for one Favourite supporting actress over the other in the form of Weisz’ win? Either in terms of one winning, or one being the only nomination? If so, for those who have seen the movie, does it make sense that its Weisz over Stone?
Yes, Weisz winning makes perfect sense. Her character is a lot more likable.
Weisz being British might have had something to do with it with BIFA. She probably has the more transformative part than Stone, who still seems to have some of the young starlett thing going on, but Stone probably has more screentime and general “presence” so it really is largely a matter of preference.
Nice bump for Weisz
So happy for RAY & LIZ. such an outstanding movie. great mixture of early mike leigh & classic jean pierre jeunet