Alternative Film Guide

Dutch photographer-turned-filmmaker Anton Corbijn’s Control won five of its ten nominations — including best British Independent Film — at the 10th British Independent Film Awards. Control depicts the short, troubled life of Joy Division singer Ian Curtis, played by "most promising newcomer" Sam Riley.

Best British Independent Film
And When Did You Last See Your Father?
* Control
Eastern Promises
Hallam Foe
Notes on a Scandal

Best Foreign Independent Film
Black Book
La Vie en Rose
Once
Tell No One / Ne le dis à personne
* The Lives of Others

Best British Documentary
Black Gold
Deep Water
Garbage Warrior
In the Shadow of the Moon
* Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten

Best Director of a British Independent Film
Anand Tucker for And When Did You Last See Your Father?
Sarah Gavron for Brick Lane
* Anton Corbijn for Control
David Cronenberg for Eastern Promises
David MacKenzie for Hallam Foe

The Douglas Hickox Award for Best New Director
Mark Francis, Nick Francis for Black Gold
* Anton Corbijn for Control
Oliver Hodge for Garbage Warrior
David Schwimmer for Run, Fat Boy, Run
Steve Hudson for True North

Best Performance by an Actress in a British Independent Film
Anne Hathaway for Becoming Jane
Tannishtha Chatterjee for Brick Lane
Sophia Myles for Hallam Foe
Kierston Wareing for It’s a Free World…
* Judi Dench for Notes on a Scandal

Best Performance by an Actor in a British Independent Film
Jim Broadbent for And When Did You Last See Your Father?
Sam Riley for Control
* Viggo Mortensen for Eastern Promises
Jamie Bell for Hallam Foe
Cillian Murphy for Sunshine

Best Performance by a Supporting Actor or Actress in a British Independent Film
Colin Firth for And When Did You Last See Your Father?
* Toby Kebbell for Control
Samantha Morton for Control
Armin Muehler Stahl for Eastern Promises
Cate Blanchett for Notes on a Scandal

Most Promising Newcomer
Imogen Poots for 28 Weeks Later
Matthew Beard for And When Did You Last See Your Father?
* Sam Riley for Control
Bradley Cole for Exhibit A
Kierston Wareing for It’s a Free World…

Best Screenplay
David Nicholls for And When Did You Last See Your Father?
Matt Greenhalgh for Control
Steve Knight for Eastern Promises
Ed Whitmore, David MacKenzie for Hallam Foe
* Patrick Marber for Notes on a Scandal

Best Achievement In Production
* Black Gold
Control
Exhibit A
Extraordinary Rendition
Garbage Warrior

Best Technical Achievement
Enrique Chediak for 28 Weeks Later
Trevor Waite for And When Did You Last See Your Father?
Martin Ruhe for Control
David MacKenzie for Hallam Foe
* Mark Tildesley for Sunshine

Best British Short Film
A Bout de Truffe - The Truffle Hunter
Cherries
* Dog Altogether
The Girls
What Does Your Daddy Do?

The Raindance Award
Exhibit A
* The Inheritance
Tovarisch: I Am Not Dead

The Richard Harris Award
Ray Winstone

The Variety Award
Daniel Craig

Special Jury Prize:
Andi Engel, Pamela Engel, and Robert Beeson, founders of the arthouse distribution company Artificial Eye