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| Tyrannosaur Tops BIFA 2011 Awards Winners |  |
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| Written by Ivan Radford |
| Sunday, 04 December 2011 23:01 |
 Tyrannosaur stomped all over the competition at tonight's BIFA awards. The British Independent Film Awards, which were streamed live on the internet, saw Paddy Considine's superb film pick up three awards, including Best Debut Director, Best Actress (Olivia Colman) and Best British Independent Film. All of them were well deserved - as you can see from their lovely happy faces (image via @PaulPopplewell). Fellow lead nominee Shame picked up Best Actor for Michael Fassbender, while Carey Mulligan was pipped to the Best Supporting Actress post by Coriolanus' Vanessa Redgrave. The other pleasant surprise was Michael Smiley winning Best Supporting Actor for Kill List - an announcement met by cheers from the audience, much like Weekend's two wins for Best Production and Most Promising Newcomer, which went to the wonderful Tom Cullen. Whoops also went out to Chris O'Dowd's drunken hosting. He started the evening off lightly sloshed, then quickly escalated to off his tits. And got funnier as he went along. Until the end, when he could barely speak in words, let alone sentences.
BIFA's Top 5 Drunk Chris O'Dowd Quotes
Other highlights of the evening included Ralph Fiennes picking up the Richard Harris award for outstanding contribution to British film, which he accepted while the in-house BIFA band played the theme from The Avengers, after being introduced by the hilarious Tom Hollander: "I thought I would be tossed aside like the unwanted exfoliant from a gift bag... in Voldemort, I have found my truest friend.") Massive credit should also go to Richard Ayaode for winning Best Screenplay for Submarine, the Oscar-snubbed Senna claiming Best Documentary, and also to Maria Djurkovic for taking home Best Production Design for Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. All the right films got a mention somewhere - even Lynne Ramsay bagged Best Director for We Need to Talk About Kevin. Oh, and Kenneth Branagh popped up to collect The Variety Award.
And that's BIFA 2011. The whole thing was a brilliant success for three reasons. Firstly, it was a celebration of a ridiculously impressive year for British indie productions (look at just how many are heavyweights at bigger ceremonies). Secondly, it was proof that awards can be streamed online - and streamed well. This evening has done wonders for the profile of BIFA, which will only keep getting bigger from now on. And finally, it introduced the internet to drunk Chris O'Dowd. Which we've all wanted to see for a long time. Read on for the full list of winners - and then head over here to read our five-star Tyrannosaur review and our interview with Paddy Considine. (Also, follow @AuntieNubbins on Twitter because he dutifully screen-capped the whole thing and I stole a couple of his images.)
BEST BRITISH INDEPENDENT FILM Sponsored by Moët & Chandon SENNA SHAME TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY TYRANNOSAUR WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN
BEST DIRECTOR Sponsored by The Creative Partnership Ben Wheatley – KILL LIST Steve McQueen – SHAME Tomas Alfredson – TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY Paddy Considine – TYRANNOSAUR Lynne Ramsay – WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN
THE DOUGLAS HICKOX AWARD [BEST DEBUT DIRECTOR] Sponsored by 3 Mills Studios Joe Cornish – ATTACK THE BLOCK Ralph Fiennes – CORIOLANUS John Michael McDonagh – THE GUARD Richard Ayoade – SUBMARINE Paddy Considine – TYRANNOSAUR
BEST SCREENPLAY Sponsored by BBC Films 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 Sponsored by M.A.C 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 Sponsored by STUDIOCANAL Jessica Brown Findlay – ALBATROSS John Boyega – ATTACK THE BLOCK Craig Roberts – SUBMARINE Yasmin Paige – SUBMARINE Tom Cullen – WEEKEND
BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN PRODUCTION Sponsored by Deluxe142 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
THE RAINDANCE AWARD Sponsored by Exile Media ACTS OF GODFREY BLACK POND HOLLOW LEAVING BAGHDAD A THOUSAND KISSES DEEP
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