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Kneecap leads nominations for British independent film awards
Belfast-set rap comedy leads the charge with 14 nominations, with Love Lies Bleeding and The Outrun close behind
Some of the year’s higher-profile British independent films failed to register in a big way: Mike Leigh’s Hard Truths, which is yet to release in the UK after premiering successfully at the Toronto film festival, scored two nominations (for best lead performance for Marianne Jean-Baptiste and supporting for Michele Austin), but was overlooked for the other major categories, including best director, while the Amy Winehouse biopic Back to Black saw Jack O’Connell nominated for best supporting performance (as Winehouse’s ex-husband Blake Fielder-Civil) and nods for music supervision and hair and make-up, but was also left out of the other major award categories. The Douglas Hickox award for best debut director Christopher Andrews, Bring Them Down Luna Carmoon, Hoard James Krishna Floyd, Unicorns [also directed by Sally El Hosaini] Karan Kandhari, Sister Midnight Rich Peppiatt, Kneecap Best debut director for a feature documentary Pinny Grylls, Sam Crane, Grand Theft Hamlet Manon Ouimet, Jacob Perlmutter, Two Strangers Trying Not to Kill Each Other Rachel Ramsay, Copa 71 [also directed by James Erskine] Clair Titley, The Contestant
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