As awards season creeps up on us all, this morning at the Regent Street Cinema, The British Independent Film Awards have announced their line-up of nominees for 2019.

The Personal History of David Copperfield leads the list of nominations for the 2019 British Independent Film Awards (BIFAs), which was announced by British actors Naomi Ackie and Joe Cole. Armando Iannucci’s fresh take on Dickens’ novel about the ups and downs in the life of its eponymous character is recognised for Best British Independent Film and Best Screenplay sponsored by BBC Films, amongst nine other awards including Dev Patel for Best Actor, with co-stars Tilda Swinton and Hugh Laurie competing in the respective Supporting categories.

Completing the five Best British Independent Film nominations alongside The Personal History of David Copperfield are Bait (4 nominations), For Sama (5 nominations), The Souvenir (8 nominations) and Wild Rose (10 nominations). There are 38 British feature films nominated across the awards, which have been narrowed down from a field of over 80 entries this year by 250 of BIFA’s voters.

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Sally Hawkins and Jessie Buckley join Holliday Grainger and Renee Zellweger in the line-up for Best Actress while Dev Patel joins Josh O’Connor, Tom Burke, Kris Hitchen and Sam Adewunmi for Best Actor. Supporting nominations go to Tilda Swinton for her role in ‘The Personal History of David Copperfield, Julie Walters for Wild Rose and Elizabeth Debicki for Vita and Virginia. Hugh Laurie and Chiwetel Ejiofor also appear in the list for Supporting Actor.

We were on the ground at this morning’s announcement ceremony to talk to a few of the lucky nomination recipients’ You can watch all our interviews below.

Joe Cole & Naomi Ackie BIFA Nominations 2019

The list of nominations includes;

Best British Independent Film

BAIT – Mark Jenkin, Kate Byers, Linn Waite

FOR SAMA – Waad al-Kateab, Edward Watts

THE PERSONAL HISTORY OF DAVID COPPERFIELD – Armando Iannucci, Simon Blackwell, Kevin Loader

THE SOUVENIR – Joanna Hogg, Luke Schiller

WILD ROSE – Tom Harper, Nicole Taylor, Faye Ward

Best Actress

JESSIE BUCKLEY – Wild Rose

HOLLIDAY GRAINGER – Animals

SALLY HAWKINS – Eternal Beauty

VICKY KNIGHT – Dirty God

RENEE ZELLWEGER – Judy

Best Actor

SAM ADEWUNMI – The Last Tree

TOM BURKE – The Souvenir

KRIS HITCHEN – Sorry We Missed You

JOSH O’CONNOR – Only You

DEV PATEL – The Personal History of David Copperfield

Best Supporting Actress

JESSICA BARDEN – Scarborough

RUTHXJIAH BELLENEA – The Last Tree

ELIZABETH DEBICKI – Vita & Virginia

TILDA SWINTON – The Personal History of David Copperfield

JULIE WALTERS – Wild Rose

Best Supporting Actor

CHIWETEL EJIOFOR – The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind

HUGH LAURIE – The Personal History of David Copperfield

EDLISON MANUEL OLBERA NÚÑEZ Yuli – The Carlos Acosta Story

PETER MULLAN – The Vanishing

BLUEY ROBINSON – Dirty God

Best Director (sponsored by Broadsword Event House)

WAAD AL-KATEAB, EDWARD WATTS – For Sama

OLIVER HERMANUS – Moffie

JOANNA HOGG – The Souvenir

MARK JENKIN – Bait

ASIF KAPADIA – Diego Maradona

Best Screenplay (sponsored by BBC Films)

JOANNA HOGG – The Souvenir

ARMANDO IANNUCCI, SIMON BLACKWELL – The Personal History of David Copperfield

PAUL LAVERTY – Sorry We Missed You

PETER STRICKLAND – In Fabric

NICOLE TAYLOR – Wild Rose

The Douglas Hickox Award (Debut Director) (sponsored by Kodak & Pinewood)

WILL BECHER, RICHARD PHELAN – A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon

FYZAL BOULIFA – Lynn + Lucy

NINIAN DOFF – Boyz in the Wood

CHIWETEL EJIOFOR – The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind

HARRY WOOTLIFF – Only You

Best Documentary

COUP 53 – Taghi Amirani, Walter Murch, Paul Zaentz

DIEGO MARADONA – Asif Kapadia, James Gay-Rees, Paul Martin

FOR SAMA – Waad al-Kateab, Edward Watts

SEAHORSE – Jeanie Finlay, Andrea Cornwell

TELL ME WHO I AM – Ed Perkins, Simon Chinn

Best British Short Film supported by BFI NETWORK

ANNA – Dekel Berenson, Merlin Merton, Olga Beskhmelnitsyna

BOILING POINT – Philip Barantini, Bart Ruspoli, James Cummings, Gabriella Callea, Grace Nelder

THE DEVIL’S HARMONY – Dylan Holmes Williams, Jess O’Kane, Nathan Craig

GOLDFISH – Hector Dockrill, Laura Dockrill, Benedict Turnbull, Harri Kamalanathan

SERIOUS TINGZ – Abdou Cissé, Kieran Kenlock, Matt Ellingham

For the full list of nominations, head over to the BIFA Awards website

Winners will be announced at the British Independent Film Award Ceremony on Sunday 1 December at Old Billingsgate. The ceremony will be hosted by award-winning stand-up, writer and actress Aisling Bea.