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Armando Iannucci's The Personal History Of David Copperfield and Tom Harper's Wild Rose lead the nominees pool for the 2019 British Independent Film Awards (BIFAs), which were unveiled in London this morning. Scroll down for the full list. Copperfield has 11 nods including best film and director as well as actor for…

British pay-TV giant Sky has dated the second season of Tim Roth-fronted drama Tin Star. Sky Atlantic will launch the forthcoming run of the Kudos-produced series on January 24, 2019. The second season of the show, which also aired on Amazon in the U.S., comes after Roth's Police Chief Jim Worth and his family were…

The British Independent Film Awards has set a handful of early winners with Yorgos Lanthimos' The Favourite scoring five prizes. Lynne Ramsay's You Were Never Really Here picked up two, while Bart Layton's American Animals and Nick Park's animated Early Man took one each. Save Early Man, each of the winning movies is…

Yorgos Lanthimos’ Venice Special Grand Jury Prize winner The Favourite leads nominations for this year’s British Independent Film Awards with 13 in its court. The twisted take on the British monarchy and period cinema, which Fox Searchlight releases November 23 in North America, has nods for Venice Best Actress…

UPDATE, WRITETHRU: The British Independent Film Awards were handed out tonight in London with Francis Lee's feature debut and festival breakout, God's Own Country, scooping the Best British Independent Film and three other prizes. A Sundance world premiere and laureate, it stars Josh O'Connor and Alec Secareanu in a…

William Oldroyd’s feature directorial debut Lady Macbeth has scored a leading 15 nominations for this year’s British Independent Film Awards. The drama adapted by Alice Birch from the 19th century novel Lady Macbeth Of The Mtsensk, stars Florence Pugh as a young bride sold into marriage and whose innocence is slowly…

UPDATE: Andrea Arnold's American Honey scooped four prizes at the British Independent Film Awards tonight in London. Those include the top nod for Best British Independent Film as well as Best Director for Arnold, Best Actress for breakout Sasha Lane and the Outstanding Craft prize for Robbie Ryan's cinematography. A…

Ken Loach's I, Daniel Blake topped the list of nominations for the 2016 British Independent Film Awards with seven nods including Best British Independent Film, Best Director and Best Screenplay. Its stars Hayley Squires and Dave Johns are each nominated twice for Best Actress and Best Actor and competing against each…

Euro 2016 soccer play continued on Sunday with broadcasters in the major markets enjoying solid ratings. Last night, 2014 World Cup champs Germany bested Ukraine 2-0, including a last-minute winner from veteran Bastian Schweinsteiger who entered the match as a late substitute. At home, the match drew 26.6M viewers for…

UPDATE: A strong year for indie British cinema was celebrated tonight at London’s Old Billingstate where actor/writer/director Richard Ayoade hosted the Moët British Independent Film Awards. Going in, Yorgos Lanthimos' Cannes pic The Lobster led the nominations with seven, but took only one, for Olivia Colman in…

Yorgos Lanthimos’ Cannes pic The Lobster clawed its way to the top of the nominations for this year’s Moët British Independent Film Awards. The drama picked up seven nods including for Best British Independent Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay and Producer of the Year. Colin Farrell is nominated as Best Actor and…

Endemol Shine International, the newly combined distribution entity of global TV giant Endemol Shine Group, has appointed Simon Cox as Head of Acquisitions. Cox most recently was Investment Manager at Ingenious Media, where he was responsible for deals on such scripted productions as ITV's The Frankenstein Chronicles…