Below are the selected finalists for the 2022 British Short Film Awards.
All finalists qualify to purchase a silver finalists medal from the shop.
From these lists of finalists, the nominees will be selected in the coming weeks. Congratulations to all those selected so far.
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PRINCIPLE CATEGORIES
BEST BRITISH SHORT FILM
Adjustments
Everybody Dies…Sometimes
Fist
Leader
Leopard
O, Glory!
Old Windows
One Letter
Salt Water Town
Spinning
SURPRI-!
The Operator
BEST SHORT FILM
Abia
A Last Resort
An Irish Goodbye
Bump
Dying to Survive
Kafkas
Minutes
Night Shift
Pointe Black
The Butternut Squash Gang in… Lapushka!
The Mourning Bird
The Out
BEST DIRECTOR
Anna Sørrig – Dying to Survive
Bim Ajadi – Night Shift
Celine Cotran – Legs
Dan Boaden – Pet Name
Dan Thorburn – I Fall
Diana Mills Smith – My Protector (My Beskermer)
Marcel Ruizendaal – The House in the Middle of the Sea
Mario Theodorou – The Gifted Hypothesis
Nick Blake – Kafkas
Rory Keenan – Bump
Ruby Bell – Tangent
Sam Spruell – Spinning
Tom Berkley, Ross White – An Irish Goodbye
Ugne Jurgaityte – Roots
Ulisses Malta Junior, Gustavo Santos – Look Around
Wallace Chan – The Art of Materials – Martina Margaux Cozzi
Werner Vivier – Walls Like Windows
BEST BRITISH DIRECTOR
Alix Eve, Olivia Dowd – Minutes
Andrew McVicar – Fist
Angus Imrie – Rambler Man
Brian Duffy – One Letter
Charlotte Hamblin – Everybody Dies…Sometimes
Chris Overton – Leader
Dan Thorburn – Salt Water Town
Galina Chakarova – Gliding
George Somner – The Mourning Bird
Harry Brandrick – The Out
Harry Mackrill – Adjustments
James Arden – Leopard
Joe Williams, Charlie Edwards-Moss – O, Glory!
Josie Charles, Phoebe Brooks – The Forfeit
Matt Riley – The Operator
Paul Holbrook – Old Windows
Ryan Loughran – Soul Office
Sam Nutt – Abia
BEST ACTOR
Adam James – This Much, So Far
Allan Mustafa – The Out
Amit Shah – Big Ears
Gary Fanin – Jim
Graham Dickson – The Operator
Jojo Macari – These Spinning Straight Lines
Jonny Phillips – Spinning
Kaynan Jacobs – The Mourning Bird
Larry Lamb – Old Windows
Mutaz Allabadi – Abia
Owen Teale – Salt Water Town
Percelle Ascott – My Favourite Place
Sam Spruell – O, Glory!
Seamus O’Hara – An Irish Goodbye
Tom Glynn-Carney – Regulars
Tom Glynn-Carney – Salt Water Town
Tom York – The Walled Garden
Zaqi Ismail – One Letter
BEST ACTRESS
Ambika Mod – Pet Name
Ann Samuel – Mantis
Aislin McGuckin – The Carer
Chi-Megan Ennis Maclean – Margin
Daisy Moore – 7 Bananas
Doireann May White – Ourselves Alone
Elisha Applebaum – Leopard
Eliza Gerontakis – Fire Born
Emily Stott – O, Glory!
Fiz Marcus – The Walled Garden
Gemma Arterton – Bump
Juliet Stevenson – Walls Like Windows
Laura Bayston – Old Windows
Laura Carmichael – Legs
Maxine Peake – The Butternut Squash Gang in… Lapushka!
Nicola May-Taylor – Adjustments
Ony Uhiara – The Mourning Bird
Patsy Ferran – Kafkas
Raean Al Masri – Abia
Tanya Reynolds – Everybody Dies…Sometimes
Tianah Hodding – Night Shift
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Amit Shah – Legs
Adrian McLoughlin – Fist
Anthony Welsh – Walls Like Windows
Byron Easmon – These Spinning Straight Lines
James Martin – An Irish Goodbye
Jamie Christoferson – The Out
Mark Weinman – Big Ears
Mathew Horne – Everybody dies…Sometimes
Micah Balfour – Bump
Sokari Erekosima – Night Shift
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Amy De Bhrún – The Operator
Amy Green – Big Ears
Ayesha Dharker – SURPRI-!
Eleanor Grace – Leopard
Sarah Kameela Impey – Legs
Stefanie Martini – Kafkas
Michelle Heard – Free Bird
Nicola Holt – The Butternut Squash Gang in… Lapushka!
Ony Uhiara – The Mourning Bird
BEST SCORE
Abia – Jan Willem De With
Big Ears – Roly Witherow
Bump – Conor Curley
Fist – Timothy Williams
Kafkas – Erik Friedlander
Minutes – Fran Amewudah Rivers
Night Shift – Mickey O’Brien
The Gifted Hypothesis – Shane Thomas
The Operator – Andy Russell
Rambler Man – Vivienne Youel
Tangent – Isy Lauf
The Mourning Bird – Michael Llewelyn Barker
Wallace Chan – The Art of Materials
– Tiago Correia Paulo
Walls Like Windows – Andrea Boccadoro
Who Fired That Canon? – Joe Beal
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE SHORT FILM
2020
Abia
David and Diana
Look Around
My Protector (My Berskermer)
The House in the Middle of the Sea
BEST SCREENPLAY
AGAIN
Grando
Kate’s Ballad
Song of the Selkie
Step by Step
The Contract
The F*ck It List
The Performance
The Sustainables Short Film
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
An Irish Goodbye – Chandra Douglas, Katie Ireland
Jim – Edie Moles
My Protector (My Beskermer) – Kendal Devy
O, Glory! – Beth Bullock
Old Windows – Jessica Knight
The Operator – Iona Beresford
The Walled Garden – Christina Cunningham
BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT FILM
A Lost Home
Centred
Claire
Heart Valley
Rhyl From Bygone Era
SCOTT
The Dark Horse of Suffragettes
The Re-education of Ji Zhihao
The Sea and Me- Atop
The Sea and Me- Below
Wallace Chan – The Art of Materials
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
CANNED – Max Reynolds
My Protector (My Beskermer)
NYC! Sound (Back) On – Gilad Avnat, Stav Nahum
Salt Water Town – Dom Old
These Spinning Straight Lines – Mishaal Memon
Wallace Chan – The Art of Materials – Alessandro Sanna
BEST SOUND DESIGN
Abia – Hugh Dwan
An Irish Goodbye – Fred Pearson
ARROWS – Will Berger & Gus Collins
Kafkas – Ed de Lacy
Leopard – Odinn Ingibergsson
Night Shift – Gurdeep Singh
NYC! Sound (Back) On – Gilad Avnat, Stav Nahum
Salt Water Town – Alex Gregson
The Forfeit – Sophie Leader
The Mineshaft – Nick Bridge-Bulter
The Operator – Duncan Mcdonald
Walls Like Windows – Tim Obzud
BEST HAIR & MAKEUP
Abia – Tania Manassa
An Irish Goodbye – Stacey Brown
Chekhov’s: A Work Of Art – Andrea Rosal
Mantis – Charlotte Trendell
My Protector (My Beskermer) – Maya Morgenroth & Sidwena Hobbs
O, Glory! – Elvis Schmoulianoff
Welcome to the Club – Buster Knight, Troy Clarke, Cinta London, Sandra Hahnel
BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM
A Book by its Cover
Chicken Fate Symphony
Cosmo
Cuties
Other Half
So… Yeah, Mental Health
Soul Office
TARDIGRADE
BEST EDITING
Abia – Same Nutt
An Irish Goodbye – Stephen Dunne
Bump – Paul Dingwall
Everybody Dies…Sometimes – Caitlin Spiller
Imbas Forosnai – Philip Shanahan
Jim – Nina Annan
Kafkas – Fin Oates
Night Shift – Vathana Suganya Suppiah
NYC! Sound (Back) On – BONAMAZE
Salt Water Town – Dom Old
These Spinning Straight Lines – Liv Ay
Walls Like Windows – Owen O’Sullivan
‘Who’s Counting?’ – Eve Ashwell
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
Abia – Marian Najjar
An Irish Goodbye – Natasha Mudi
Herd Immunity – Set Sisters
Jim – Ksenia Kulakova
Julia Chacińska – Rave
Kafkas – Theo Boswell
My Protector (My Beskermer) – Rocco Pool
Old Windows – Lee Shaw
One Drop – Hedvig Kovacs
Salt Water Town – Jennifer Muellenbach
The Butternut Squash Gang in… Lapushka! – Kevin Proctor
The Forfeit – Jessica Poon
The Operator – Tom Mitchell
This Much, So Far – Safi Tobi
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Abia – Shafiq Olabi
Adjustments – Rick Joaquim
Kafkas – Charlie Goodger
The Mourning Bird – Courtney Bennett
Finger Prick – Luke J. Colliins
Fist – Kyle Heslop
I Fall – Max Graham
Imbas Forosnai – Stephen Hall
Night Shift – Kia Fern Little
Leader – Ali Farahani
Mantis – Jordan Stephens
My Favourite Place – Christopher Jacobi
An Irish Goodbye – Narayan Van Maele
O, Glory! – Csaba Kondor
Old Windows – James Oldham
My Protector (My Beskermer) – Rick Joaquim
Salt Water town – Max Graham
Bump – Suzie Lavelle
Walls like Windows – Lorena Pagès
BEST SCI-FI
A Trillion Miles West Of Bradford
My Protector (My Beskermer)
The Atomic Dream
The Operator
ADDITIONAL CATEGORIES
BEST HORROR
Eric
Legs
Mantis
Participant
Scatterbrains
ZMORA
BEST DRAMA
Bingo Queens
Free Bird
Good Hair
Leopard
Quietus
Rise and Shine
See the Light
Sugar Babies
The Gifted Hypothesis
BEST COMEDY
Dispel
Only Fandy
Pet Name
Tell Tyler
Thank You so Much
The Butternut Squash Gang in… Lapushka!
The Pitch
The Plan
The Thrill of Missing Out
Who Fired That Cannon?
BEST SHORT-FORM CONTENT / COMMERCIAL
Franciacorta – A Golden Feeling
The Genius
The Mirror
The Pick Up
Thoughts Run Life
BEST ENGLISH SHORT FILM
Big Ears
Free Bird
Hunros Jorna
Minutes
Pointe Black
Tap
The Dark Horse of Suffragettes
BEST SCOTTISH SHORT FILM
A Tale Of Tragedy
Caledonian Dreams
Consumed
Drop
SCOTT
BEST NORTHERN IRISH SHORT FILM
An Irish Goodbye
Dear Body
Ourselves Alone
Soul Office
Torn
BEST WELSH SHORT FILM
amser/time
Annwn
Connection
Diomysus
My Favourite Place
Salt Water Town
Skinny Fat
United
BEST NON-NARRATIVE / EXPERIMENTAL SHORT FILM
amser/time
Awoken Soma
Cinema Now
Flowers
Her Fight
Neon Romance
Sisyphos
The Metamorphosis of the Lizard
The Wayfarer’s Bond
The Promise
Welcome to the Club
BEST MUSIC VIDEO
Sisyphos (Dir. Sorcha Kennedy)
The Consequences of Breaking the Heart (Dir. Shaun O Connor)
The Promise (Dir. Daniel James Baldwin, Chris Egglestone)
See The Light (Dir. Daniya London)
East End Coast (Luis Hindman)
Master Peace – Country Life (Dir. Luis Hindman)
Joesef – Joe (Dir. Luis Hindman)
Neon Romance (Laura Kriefman)
Renova (Short Version) (Dir. Gonçalo Perestrelo)
Teleportation (Dir. Susan Mey Lee Lim)
Timeless (Dir. Susan Mey Lee Lim, Christina Teenz Tan, Samudra Kajal Saikia)
BEST SUPER SHORT FILM
BLACK. BRITISH. MUSLIM. OTHER.
Booksmart
CANNED
Cosmo
Dear Body
Dream of Eternity
Finger Prick
Herd Immunity
Julia.
Koi
Mixed Signals
NYC! Sound (Back) On
Semicolon
SURPRI-!
TARDIGRADE
BEST STUDENT SHORT FILM
Dying to Survive
Elena
Gloves Up
Heart Failure
Over
PUNT
Semicolon;
Small
Starry Eyed
Sunday Roast
The Call
United
Wheels of Fortune
Zagazoon
BEST ACTING ENSEMBLE
Hollow
Hunros Jorna
Tell Tyler
The Atomic Dream
The Butternut Squash Gang In… Lapushka!
The Magician
The Mourning Bird
The Plan
Somewhere I’ve Been
BEST LONG SHORT
A PENNY WORTH LESSON
Hollow
Old He
Rats
The Bulls
The Butternut Squash Gang In…Lapushka!
These Spinning Straight Lines
BEST SHORT FILM FROM THE ARCHIVES
Eggsplosion
Reappear
The Missing
Road Rage
