Ken Loach's I, Daniel Blake leads BIFA nominations

Ken Loach’s searing social drama ‘I, Daniel Blake’, has cleaned up in the nominations for this year’s British Independent Film Awards.

It’s topped the list with seven nominations in all, including Best British Independent Film, Best Director, and Best Screenplay.

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Stars Dave Johns and Hayley Squires also received nominations in the Best Actor and Best Actress categories.

Andrea Arnold’s ‘American Honey’, starring Shia LaBeouf, has also been nominated in the Best Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Actor and Best Actress categories.

The recipient of this year’s Richard Harris Award, given for outstanding contribution to the British film industry, will be announced later this month. Past winners have included Kenneth Branagh, Sir Michael Caine, and Dame Helen Mirren.

The ceremony will take place on December 4 at Old Billingsgate Market in London.

Here are the nominations in full:

Best British Independent Film
American Honey
Couple in the Hole
I, Daniel Blake
Notes on Blindness
Under the Shadow

Best Director
Andrea Arnold, American Honey
Ben Wheatley, Free Fire
Ken Loach, I, Daniel Blake
James Spinney & Pete Middleton, Notes on Blindness
Babak Anvari, Under the Shadow

Best Screenplay
Adult Life Skills
American Honey
I Am Not a Serial Killer
I, Daniel Blake
Under the Shadow

Best Actor
Shia LaBeouf, American Honey
Max Records, I Am Not A Serial Killer
Dave Johns, I, Daniel Blake
Steve Brandon, My Feral Heart
Michael Fassbender, Trespass Against Us

Best Actress
Jodie Whittaker, Adult Life Skills
Sasha Lane, American Honey
Kate Dickie, Couple in a Hole
Hayley Squires, I, Daniel Blake
Narges Rashidi, Under the Shadow

Best Supporting Actor
Brett Goldstein, Adult Life Skills
Jamie Dornan, Anthropoid
Christopher Lloyd, I Am Not A Serial Killer
Arinze Kene, The Pass
Sean Harris, Trespass Against Us

Best Supporting Actress
Gemma Arterton, The Girl With All the Gifts
Shana Swash, My Feral Heart
Naomie Harris, Our Kind of Traitor
Avin Manshadi, Under the Shadow
Terry Pheto, A United Kingdom

Most Promising Newcomer
Sennia Nanua, The Girl With All the Gifts
Hayley Squires, I, Daniel Blake
Dave Johns, I, Daniel Blake
Steven Brandon, My Feral Heart
Letitia Wright, Urban Hymn

The Douglas Hickox Award (Debut Director)
Rachel Tunnard, Adult Life Skills
Pete Middleton & James Spinney, Notes on Blindness
Alice Lowe, Prevenge
Adam Smith, Trespass Against Us
Babak Anvari, Under the Shadow

Outstanding Achievement in Craft
Robbie Ryan, American Honey
Shaheen Baig, Free Fire
Seb Barker, The Girl With All the Gifts
Joakim Sundström, Notes on Blindness
Paul Monaghan & Mat Whitecross, Supersonic

Best Documentary
The Confession: Living the War on Terror
Dancer
The Hard Stop
Notes on Blindness
Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach

Best International Independent Film
Hunt for the Wilderpeople
Manchester By the Sea
Moonlight
Mustang
Toni Erdmann

Best British Short
Jacked
Mother
Over
Rate Me
The Wrong End of the Stick

The Discovery Award
Black Mountain Poets
The Darkest Universe
The Ghoul
Gozo
The Greasy Strangler

Breakthrough Producer
Michael Berliner, Adult Life Skills
Camille Gatin, The Girl With All the Gifts
Dionne Walker, The Hard Stop
Mike Brett & Jo Jo Ellison & Steve Jamison, Notes On Blindness
Paul Fegan, Where You’re Meant To Be

Debut Screenwriter
Rachel Tunnard, Adult Life Skills
Hope Dickson Leach, The Levelling
Simon Farnaby & Julian Barratt, Mindhorn
John Cairns & Michael McCartney, A Patch of Fog
Ed Talfan, Yr Ymadawiad