British Independent Film Awards

Nominees for the 12th Annual British Independent Film Awards are:

BEST PICTURE
An Education Fish Tank In the Loop Moon Nowhere Boy

BEST DIRECTOR
Lone Scherfig, An Education
Jane Campion, Bright Star
Andrea Arnold, Fish Tank
Armando Iannucci, In the Loop
Duncan Jones, Moon

BEST ACTOR
Peter Capaldi, In the Loop
Tom Hardy, Bronson
Aaron Johnson, Nowhere Boy
Sam Rockwell, Moon
Andy Serkis, Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll

BEST ACTRESS
Emily Blunt, The Young Victoria
Abbie Cornish, Bright Star
Kate Jarvis, Fish Tank
Carey Mulligan, An Education
Sophie Okonendo, Skin

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Jim Broadbent, The Damned United
Michael Fassbender, Fish Tank
John Henshaw, Looking for Eric
Tom Hollander, In the Loop
Alfred Molina, An Education

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Anne-Marie Duff, Nowhere Boy
Kerry Fox, Bright Star
Rosamund Pike, An Education
Kristen Scott Thomas, Nowhere Boy
Kierston Wareing, Fish Tank

BEST SCREENPLAY
An Education- Nick Hornby
Fish Tank- Andrea Arnold
In the Loop- Armando Iannucci, Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell & Tony Roche
Moon- Nathan Parker
Nowhere Boy- Matt Greenhalgh

MOST PROMISING NEWCOMER
Edward Hogg, White Lightin'
Kate Jarvis, Fish Tank
Christian McKay, Me & Orson Welles
George McKay, The Boys Are Back
Hilda Peter, Katalin Varga

BEST FOREIGN FILM
Il Divo The Hurt Locker Let the Right One In Sin Nombre The Wrestler

RICHARD HARRIS AWARD
Daniel Day-Lewis

Can't judge too hastily, as the only major nominee I've viewed was An Education (more on that later on), but is it just me or did the BIFA committee only view about 4 films last year.

Gotham Award Nominations

The Gotham Independent Awards nominees

BEST FEATURE
Amreeka
Big Fan
The Hurt Locker
The Maid
A Serious Man

BEST DOCUEMNTARY
Food, Inc.
Good Hair
My Neighbor, My Killer
Paradise
Tyson

BREAKTHROUGH DIRECTOR
Cruz Angeles, Don't Let Me Down
Frazer Bradshaw, Everything Strange & New
Noah Buschel, The Missing Person
Derek Martini, Lymelife
Robert Siegel, Big Fan

BREAKTHROUGH ACTOR
Ben Foster, The Messenger
Patton Oswalt, Big Fan
Jeremy Renner, The Hurt Locker
Catalina Saavedra, The Maid
Souleymane Sy Savane, Goodbye, Solo

BEST ENSEMBLE CAST
Adventureland
Cold Souls
The Hurt Locker
A Serious Man
Sugar

BEST FILM NOT PLAYING AT A THEATER NEAR YOU
Everything Strange and New
Guy & Madeline on a Park Bench
October Country
You Won't Miss Me
Zero Bridge

Haven't heard of lot of these? Well me either, and that's the point for the delightfully idiosyncratic tastes of the Gotham Independent committee, and alas it's also one of the very few awards bodies that has little intention or ambition in predicting the Academy Awards, although a few of these might be legitimate contenders (The Hurt Locker, A Serious Man, and even The Messenger potentially.)