The BIFA announce craft category winners, including best cinematography

The British Independent Film Awards (BIFA) announced the winners of its ten film craft categories.

Andrew Haigh’s beautifully unsettling tale of a writer drawn back to his past and towards a mysterious new relationship, All of Us Strangers, which received 16 BIFA nominations, has won three craft awards: Best Cinematography sponsored by Harbor & Kodak for Jamie D. Ramsay, Best Editing for Jonathan Alberts and Best Music Supervision for Connie Farr. This is Connie’s second BIFA, following a win for her work on Clio Barnard’s Ali & Ava in 2021.

Nominated for 11 BIFAs, Femme, Sam H Freeman and Ng Choon Ping’s tense, taut thriller in which the desire for revenge turns into something more for a victim of a homophobic attack, wins Best Costume Design for Buki Ebiesuwa and Best Make-Up & Hair Design for Marie Deehan.

Daniel Kaluuya and Kibwe Tavares’ future-set story of a dystopian London The Kitchen takes two craft awards: Best Production Design sponsored by ATC & Broadsword for Nathan Parker and Best Effects for Richard Baker and the late Jonathan Gales.

Best Original Music sponsored by Universal Music Publishing Group goes to Kwes for his work on debut director Raine Allen-Miller’s Peckham-set love story Rye Lane, which was nominated in a total of 16 categories.

Mark Jenkin, nominated in 2019 for Best Director and Best Editing for Bait, wins Best Sound supported by Halo for his 1970s-set remote island mystery Enys Men.

Best Casting sponsored by Casting Society & Spotlight goes to Isabella Odoffin for Molly Manning Walker’s debut feature How to Have Sex, which follows three teenage girls navigating a wild summer holiday in Malia. The film received 11 BIFA nominations.

BIFA introduced these categories in 2017 to better recognise the wealth of exceptional talent working on British independent films, with Best Music Supervision introduced in 2022. The nominees and winners have been chosen by BIFA voters over the course of three rounds of viewing, discussion and voting.

The winners in all remaining categories will be announced at the 26^th BIFA ceremony on Sunday 3 December at Old Billingsgate.

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Best Cinematography sponsored by Harbor & Kodak

OLAN COLLARDY Rye Lane

SUZIE LAVELLE The End We Start From

MOLLY MANNING WALKER Scrapper

JAMIE D. RAMSAY All of Us Strangers

JAMES RHODES Femme

Best Casting sponsored by Casting Society & Spotlight

SHAHEEN BAIG Scrapper

KHARMEL COCHRANE Rye Lane

KAHLEEN CRAWFORD All of Us Strangers

ISABELLA ODOFFIN How to Have Sex

SALOME OGGENFUSS, GERALDINE BARÓN, ABBY HARRI Earth Mama

Best Costume Design

GEORGE BUXTON How to Have Sex

OLIVER CRONK Scrapper

BUKI EBIESUWA Femme

CYNTHIA LAWRENCE-JOHN Rye Lane

PC WILLIAMS The End We Start From

Best Editing

JONATHAN ALBERTS All of Us Strangers

VICTORIA BOYDELL Rye Lane

PAUL CARLIN Bobi Wine: The People’s President

AVDHESH MOHLA High & Low – John Galliano

ARTTU SALMI The End We Start From

Best Effects

PADDY EASON Polite Society

THEODOR FLO-GROENEBOOM The End We Start From

JONATHAN GALES, RICHARD BAKER The Kitchen

Best Music Supervision

CIARA ELWIS Femme

CONNIE FARR All of Us Strangers

DAVID FISH Rye Lane

Best Make-Up & Hair Design

ZOE CLARE BROWN All of Us Strangers

CLAIRE CARTER Polite Society

MARIE DEEHAN Femme

NATASHA LAWES How to Have Sex

BIANCA SIMONE SCOTT Rye Lane

Best Original Music sponsored by Universal Music Publishing Group

ADAM JANOTA BZOWSKI Femme

PATRICK JONSSON Scrapper

KWES Rye Lane

ANNA MEREDITH The End We Start From

RÉ OLUNUGA Girl

Best Production Design sponsored by ATC & Broadsword

LAURA ELLIS CRICKS The End We Start From

SARAH FINLAY All of Us Strangers

ELENA MUNTONI Scrapper

NATHAN PARKER The Kitchen

ANNA RHODES Rye Lane

Best Sound supported by Halo

BEN BAIRD, JACK WENSLEY, ADAM FLETCHER, ALEXEJ MUNGERSDORFF Scrapper

STEVE FANAGAN, NIKOS KONSTANTINOU, LEVI MERCURIO How to Have Sex

JOAKIM SUNDSTRÖM, PER BOSTRÖM, STEVIE HAYWOOD All of Us Strangers

MARK JENKIN Enys Men

JENS ROSENLUND PETERSEN, AMY FELTON, JOE JACKSON, TIM CAVAGIN, LORI DOVI The End We Start From