BIFA Award for Best British Independent Film

The British Independent Film Award for Best British Independent Film is an annual award given to the best British independent film.[1] The award was introduced in the 1998 ceremony and the current winner is For Sama.

British Independent Film Award for Best British Independent Film
Awarded for	Best Film
Location	United Kingdom
Currently held by	For Sama (2019)
Website	www.bifa.org.uk

Winners and nominees

1990s

Year	Film	Director
1998 (1st)	My Name Is Joe	Ken Loach
	Elizabeth	Shekhar Kapur
	Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels	Guy Ritchie
	Nil by Mouth	Gary Oldman
	Twenty Four Seven	Shane Meadows
1999 (2nd)	Wonderland	Michael Winterbottom
	Gods and Monsters	Bill Condon
	Hilary and Jackie	Anand Tucker
	A Room for Romeo Brass	Shane Meadows
	The War Zone	Tim Roth

2000s

Year	Film	Director
2000 (3rd)	Billy Elliot	Stephen Daldry
	One Day in September	Kevin Macdonald
	Saving Grace	Nigel Cole
	The House of Mirth	Terence Davies
	The Last Resort	Paweł Pawlikowski
2001 (4th)	Sexy Beast	Jonathan Glazer
	Bread and Roses	Ken Loach
	Jump Tomorrow	Joel Hopkins
	South West 9	Richard Parry
	The Warrior	Asif Kapadia
2002 (5th)	Sweet Sixteen	Ken Loach
	Bend It Like Beckham	Gurinder Chadha
	Bloody Sunday	Paul Greengrass
	Morvern Callar	Lynne Ramsay
	Lawless Heart	Tom Hunsinger and Neil Hunter
2003 (6th)	Dirty Pretty Things	Stephen Frears
	28 Days Later	Danny Boyle
	Buffalo Soldiers	Gregor Jordan
	The Magdalene Sisters	Peter Mullan
	Young Adam	David Mackenzie
2004 (7th)	Vera Drake	Mike Leigh
	Dead Man's Shoes	Shane Meadows
	My Summer of Love	Paweł Pawlikowski
	Shaun of the Dead	Edgar Wright
	Touching the Void	Kevin Macdonald
2005 (8th)	The Constant Gardener	Fernando Meirelles
	A Cock and Bull Story	Michael Winterbottom
	Mrs Henderson Presents	Stephen Frears
	The Descent	Neil Marshall
	The Libertine	Laurence Dunmore
2006 (9th)	This Is England	Shane Meadows
	Red Road	Andrea Arnold
	The Last King of Scotland	Kevin Macdonald
	The Queen	Stephen Frears
	The Wind That Shakes the Barley	Ken Loach
2007 (10th)	Control	Anton Corbijn
	And When Did You Last See Your Father?	Anand Tucker
	Eastern Promises	David Cronenberg
	Hallam Foe	David Mackenzie
	Notes on a Scandal	Richard Eyre
2008 (11th)	Slumdog Millionaire	Danny Boyle
	Hunger	Steve McQueen
	In Bruges	Martin McDonagh
	Man on Wire	James Marsh
	Somers Town	Shane Meadows
2009 (12th)	Moon	Duncan Jones
	An Education	Lone Scherfig
	Fish Tank	Andrea Arnold
	In the Loop	Armando Iannucci
	Nowhere Boy	Sam Taylor-Wood

2010s

Year	Film	Director
2010 (13th)	The King's Speech	Tom Hooper
	Four Lions	Chris Morris
	Kick-Ass	Matthew Vaughn
	Monsters	Gareth Edwards
	Never Let Me Go	Mark Romanek
2011 (14th)	Tyrannosaur	Paddy Considine
	Senna	Asif Kapadia
	Shame	Steve McQueen
	Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy	Tomas Alfredson
	We Need To Talk About Kevin	Lynne Ramsay
2012 (15th)	Broken	Rufus Norris
	The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel	John Madden
	The Imposter	Bart Layton
	Sightseers	Ben Wheatley
	Berberian Sound Studio	Peter Strickland
2013 (16th)	Metro Manila	Sean Ellis
	Philomena	Stephen Frears
	The Selfish Giant	Clio Barnard
	Starred Up	David Mackenzie
	Le Week-End	Roger Michell
2014 (17th)	Pride	Matthew Warchus
	71	Yann Demange
	Calvary	John Michael McDonagh
	Mr. Turner	Mike Leigh
	The Imitation Game	Morten Tyldum
2015 (18th)	Ex Machina	Alex Garland
	Amy	Asif Kapadia
	45 Years	Andrew Haigh
	The Lobster	Yorgos Lanthimos
	Macbeth	Justin Kurzel
2016 (19th)	American Honey	Andrea Arnold
	Couple in a Hole	Tom Geens
	I, Daniel Blake	Ken Loach
	Notes on Blindness	James Spinney and Peter Middleton
	Under the Shadow	Babak Anvari
2017 (20th)	God's Own Country	Francis Lee
	The Death of Stalin	Armando Iannucci
	I Am Not a Witch	Rungano Nyoni
	Lady Macbeth	William Oldroyd
	Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri	Martin McDonagh
2018 (21st)	The Favourite	Yorgos Lanthimos
	American Animals	Bart Layton
	Beast	Michael Pearce
	Disobedience	Sebastián Lelio
	You Were Never Really Here	Lynne Ramsay
2019 (22nd)	Bait	Mark Jenkin
	For Sama	Waad Al-Khateab and Edward Watts
	The Personal History of David Copperfield	Armando Iannucci
	The Souvenir	Joanna Hogg
	Wild Rose	Tom Harper

References

1. The British Independent Film Awards Retrieved 28 February 2011