Pillion di Harry Lighton ha vinto il premio più importante ai BIFA Awards, i riconoscimenti cinematografici assegnati al meglio del cinema britannico indipendente (British Independent Film Awards).
Il film a sfondo LGBTQ+ di Harry Lighton con Alexander Skarsgard e Harry Melling si porta a casa 4 riconoscimenti totali, ex-aequo con Warfare di Alex Garland, che invece trionfa anche per il miglior cast d’insieme.
Di seguito la lista dei vincitori dei British Independent Film Awards 2025:
Best British Independent Film
THE BALLAD OF WALLIS ISLAND – James Griffiths, Tom Basden, Tim Key, Rupert Majendie
I SWEAR – Kirk Jones, Georgia Bayliff, Piers Tempest
MY FATHER’S SHADOW – Akinola Davies Jr., Wale Davies, Rachel Dargavel, Funmbi Ogunbanwo
PILLION – Harry Lighton, Lee Groombridge, Ed Guiney, Andrew Lowe, Emma Norton – WINNER
URCHIN – Harris Dickinson, Archie Pearch, Scott O’Donnell
Best Director
LAURA CARREIRA – On Falling
AKINOLA DAVIES JR. – My Father’s Shadow – WINNER
KIRK JONES – I Swear
HARRY LIGHTON – Pillion
LYNNE RAMSAY – Die My Love
Best Screenplay
TOM BASDEN, TIM KEY – The Ballad of Wallis Island – WINNER
LAURA CARREIRA – On Falling
WALE DAVIES – My Father’s Shadow
KIRK JONES – I Swear
HARRY LIGHTON – Pillion
Best Lead Performance
ROBERT ARAMAYO – I Swear – WINNER
FRANK DILLANE – Urchin
DAVID JONSSON – Wasteman
JENNIFER LAWRENCE – Die My Love
HARRY MELLING – Pillion
CILLIAN MURPHY – Steve
Best Supporting Performance
TOM BLYTH – Wasteman
SCOTT ELLIS WATSON – I Swear
JAY LYCURGO – Steve – WINNER
PETER MULLAN – I Swear
MAXINE PEAKE – I Swear
ALEXANDER SKARSGÅRD – Pillion
Best Joint Lead Performance
EBADA HASSAN, SAFFIYA INGAR – Brides
TIM KEY, TOM BASDEN – The Ballad of Wallis Island – WINNER
ANDREA RISEBOROUGH, BRENDA BLETHYN – Dragonfly
Best Ensemble Performance
WARFARE – D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai, Will Poulter, Cosmo Jarvis, Kit Connor, Finn Bennett, Joseph Quinn, Charles Melton
The Douglas Hickox Award
(Best Debut Director)
sponsored by BBC Film
LAURA CARREIRA – On Falling
AKINOLA DAVIES JR. – My Father’s Shadow
HARRIS DICKINSON – Urchin
HARRY LIGHTON – Pillion
CAL McMAU – Wasteman – WINNER
Breakthrough Producer
WYN BAPTISTE – Shoot the People
CHARLOTTE KNOWLES – Palestine Comedy Club
JOANN KUSHNER – LifeHack [also produced by Timur Bekmambetov, Aleksandr Kletzov]
DHIRAJ MAHEY – Ish [also produced by Bennett McGhee] – WINNER
ARCHIE PEARCH – Urchin [also produced by Scott O’Donnell]
Breakthrough Performance
SCOTT ELLIS WATSON – I Swear
EBADA HASSAN – Brides
SAFIYYA INGAR – Brides
POSY STERLING – Lollipop – WINNER
CONNOR TOMPKINS – The Son and the Sea
Best Debut Screenwriter
HUNTER ANDREWS, EOIN DORAN – Wasteman
TOM BASDEN, TIM KEY – The Ballad of Wallis Island
LAURA CARREIRA – On Falling
WALE DAVIES – My Father’s Shadow
HARRY LIGHTON – Pillion – WINNER
Best Debut Director – Feature Documentary
MYRID CARTEN – A Want in Her – WINNER
CÉCILE EMBLETON, ALYS TOMLINSON – Mother Vera
VICTORIA MAPPLEBECK – Motherboard
The Raindance Maverick Award
FOUL EVIL DEEDS – Richard Hunter
HOLLOWAY – Sophie Compton, Daisy-May Hudson, Stella Heath Keir, Alice Hughes, Polly Creed
MOTHER VERA – Cécile Embleton, Alys Tomlinson, Laura Shacham
MOTHERBOARD – Victoria Mapplebeck
A WANT IN HER – Myrid Carten – WINNER
Best Feature Documentary
ANTIDOTE – James Jones, David Moulton
MOTHER VERA – Cécile Embleton, Alys Tomlinson, Laura Shacham
MOTHERBOARD – Victoria Mapplebeck
THE SHEPHERD AND THE BEAR – Max Keegan, Elizabeth Woodward, Amanda McBaine, Jesse Moss
A WANT IN HER – Myrid Carten, Tadhg O’Sullivan, Roisín Geraghty, Kat Mansoor – WINNER
Best British Short Film
FLOCK – Mac Nixon, Matt Ashwell, Daley Nixon
MAGID / ZAFAR – Luís Hindman, Sufiyaan Salam, Aidan Robert Brooks – WINNER
A SISYPHEAN TASK – Gus Flind-Henry, George Malcher, George Telfer
STOMACH BUG – Matty Crawford, Karima Sammout Kanellopoulou
TWO BLACK BOYS IN PARADISE – Ben Jackson, Baz Sells, Dean Atta
Best International Independent Film
IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT – Jafar Panahi, Phillippe Martin
SENTIMENTAL VALUE – Joachim Trier, Eskil Vogt, Maria Ekerhovd, Andrea Berentsen Ottmar – WINNER
SIRĀT – Oliver Laxe, Santiago Fillol, Domingo Corral, Oriol Maymó, Andrea Queralt, Mani Mortazavi, Xavi Font, Pedro Almodóvar, Agustín Almodóvar, Esther García
SORRY, BABY – Eva Victor, Adele Romanski, Mark Ceryak, Barry Jenkins
SOUND OF FALLING – Mascha Schilinski, Louise Peter, Maren Schmitt, Lucas Schmidt
Best Casting: Lauren Evans, I Swear
Best Cinematography: Seamus McGarvey, Die My Love
Best Costume Design: Grace Snell, Pillion
Best Editing: Fin Oates, Warfare
Best Effects: Simon Stanley-Clamp and Ryan Conder, Warfare
Best Make-Up & Hair Design: Diandra Ferreira, Pillion
Best Music Supervision: Raife Burchell and Ian Neil, Die My Love
Best Original Music: Tom Basden and Adem Ilhan, The Ballad of Wallis Island
Best Production Design: Nathan Parker, Harvest
Best Sound: Glenn Freemantle, Mitch Low, Howard Bargroff, Ben Barker & Richard Spooner – Warfare
Fonte: AwardsWatch
