‘Tyrannosaur’ Reigns Supreme at British Independent Film Awards

Posted on Monday, December 5, 2011 at 8:22 pm by Danny King in the Awards category

Paddy Considine’s Tyrannosaur cleaned up nicely at this year’s 14th annual British Independent Film Awards. In addition to being named Best British Independent Film, Considine’s debut was awarded in the fields of Best Actress (Olivia Colman) and Best Debut Director. Considine was also nominated in the Best Director field, alongside such heavyweights as Steve McQueen, Lynne Ramsay (who won the category), and Tomas Alfredson.

McQueen’s film, the NC-17 rated sex-addiction drama Shame, earned Best Actor honors for Michael Fassbender. The supporting categories were won by Vanessa Redgrave (Coriolanus) and Michael Smiley (Kill List), the latter of whom, in particular, reigned supreme in a truly stacked lineup.

Apart from the Best Newcomer citation for Tom Cullen, who gives a wonderful co-leading turn in Andrew Haigh’s lovingly conceived Weekend, the biggest delights for me were found in the BIFA’s Best Technical Achievement realm. The stellar craft contributions put forth by British cinema this year become ever-so-obvious when an achievement as aesthetically and thematically engrossing as Hoyte van Hoytema’s lensing of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy is left off the list of nominees. That sour note aside, Shame was justly cited twice in the field, for its equally subversive cinematography (Sean Bobbitt) and editing (Joe Walker). Maria Djurkovic’s win, meanwhile, for her production design on Tinker, Tailor, is, in hindsight, kind of a no-brainer — her intoxicating, stylish accomplishments within the film are as responsible for its atmospheric success as any other element of the picture.

Check out the full list of nominees below, with the winners underlined. For a reminder of all of the precursor groups that have announced their winners thus far, click here.

Best British Independent Film

  • Senna
  • Shame
  • Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
  • Tyrannosaur
  • We Need to Talk About Kevin

    • Best Director

  • Ben Wheatley (Kill List)
  • Steve McQueen (Shame)
  • Tomas Alfredson (Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy)
  • Paddy Considine (Tyrannosaur)
  • Lynne Ramsay (We Need to Talk About Kevin)

    • Best Debut Director

  • Joe Cornish (Attack the Block)
  • Ralph Fiennes (Coriolanus)
  • John Michael McDonagh (The Guard)
  • Richard Ayoade (Submarine)
  • Paddy Considine (Tyrannosaur)

    • Best Screenplay

  • John Michael McDonagh (The Guard)
  • Ben Wheatley, Amy Jump (Kill List)
  • Abi Morgan, Steve McQueen (Shame)
  • Richard Ayoade (Submarine)
  • Lynne Ramsay, Rory Kinnear (We Need to Talk About Kevin)

    • Best Actress

  • Rebecca Hall (The Awakening)
  • Mia Wasikowska (Jane Eyre)
  • MyAnna Buring (Kill List)
  • Olivia Colman (Tyrannosaur)
  • Tilda Swinton (We Need to Talk About Kevin)

    • Best Actor

  • Brendan Gleeson (The Guard)
  • Neil Maskell (Kill List)
  • Michael Fassbender (Shame)
  • Gary Oldman (Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy)
  • Peter Mullan (Tyrannosaur)

    • Best Supporting Actress

  • Felicity Jones (Albatross)
  • Vanessa Redgrave (Coriolanus)
  • Carey Mulligan (Shame)
  • Sally Hawkins (Submarine)
  • Kathy Burke (Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy)

    • Best Supporting Actor

  • Michael Smiley (Kill List)
  • Tom Hardy (Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy)
  • Benedict Cumberbatch (Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy)
  • Eddie Marsan (Tyrannosaur)
  • Ezra Miller (We Need to Talk About Kevin)

    • Most Promising Newcomer

  • Jessica Brown Findlay (Albatross)
  • John Boyega (Attack the Block)
  • Craig Roberts (Submarine)
  • Yasmin Paige (Submarine)
  • Tom Cullen (Weekend)

    • Best Achievement in Production

  • Kill List
  • Tyrannosaur
  • Weekend
  • Wild Bill
  • You Instead

    • Best Technical Achievement

  • Chris King, Gregers Sall (Editing — Senna)
  • Sean Bobbitt (Cinematography — Shame)
  • Joe Walker (Editing — Shame)
  • Maria Djurkovic (Production Design — Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy)
  • Seamus McGarvey (Cinematography — We Need to Talk About Kevin)

    • Best Documentary

  • Hell and Back Again
  • Life in a Day
  • Project Nim
  • Senna
  • TT3D: Closer to the Edge

    • Best British Short

  • 0507
  • Chalk
  • Love at First Sight
  • Rite
  • Rough Skin

    • Best Foreign Independent Film

  • Animal Kingdom
  • Drive
  • Pina
  • A Separation
  • The Skin I Live In

    • Radiance Award

  • Acts of Godfrey
  • Black Pond
  • Hollow
  • Leaving Baghdad
  • A Thousand Kisses Deep

    • Richard Harris Award (Outstanding contribution by an actor to British Film)

  • Ralph Fiennes

    • Variety Award

  • Kenneth Branagh

    • Special Jury Prize

  • Graham Easton

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