BIFA nominations reveal the best British independent films of the year

Andrea Arnold's American Honey and Ken Loach's I, Daniel Blake were amongst those honoured in the nominations

The nominations for the British Independent Film Awards have been announced - revealing the very best the industry has had to offer in the past year.

Andrea Arnold's dizzying US road movie American Honey and Ken Loach's stirring benefits drama I, Daniel Blake were both honoured in multiple categories; alongside smaller films from debut directors, such as Rachel Tunnard's comedy Adult Life Skills and Babak Anvari's horror Under the Shadow.

The awards also gave notice to international independent fare, with nominations for Taika Waititi's Hunt for the Wilderpeople, Kenneth Lonergan's Manchester By the Sea, Barry Jenkins' Moonlight, Deniz Gamze Ergüven's Mustang, and Maren Ade's Toni Erdmann.

Winners will be announced at a ceremony set to take place on 4 December, held at Old Billingsgate, London.

The full nominations are listed below:

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