Kneecap Wins 4 at 2024 BIFA Awards Craft Categories

The British Independent Film Awards (BIFA) today announced the winners of its ten film craft categories. It’s no surprise Irish comedy  Kneecap came out on top winning 4 of the 10 awards earlier today.

Rich Peppiatt’s comedy following the west Belfast hip-hop trio and their mission to save their mother tongue, which leads this year’s BIFA nominations with 14, wins four craft awards: Best Casting and Spotlight for Carla Stronge, Best Editing for Julian Ulrichs and Chris Gill, Best Original Music for Michael ‘Mikey J’ Asante and Best Music Supervision for Chris Welch and Jeanette Rehnstrom.

Alex Garland’s explosive imagining of a dystopian near-future America, Civil War, wins Best Effects for David Simpson – his second BIFA win after 2022’s Men. The film also scooped Best Sound for Glenn Freemantle, Mary H Ellis and Howard Bargroff.

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With 12 BIFA nominations, Rose Glass’s blistering noir Love Lies Bleeding wins Best Cinematography   for Ben Fordesman. This is Ben’s second BIFA; he won this award in 2020 for his work on Rose Glass’s debut feature Saint Maud.

Despite the mediocre box office Best Costume Design gwent to Michael O’Connor for Firebrand, the tense drama of Henry VIII’s 6th wife Katherine Parr’s fight for survival in blood soaked Tudor England. Michael O’Connor has previously been BIFA-nominated for his work on The Duchess, Ammonite and The Electrical Life of Louis Wain.

Battling forbidden love and prejudice, the power of being true to yourself shines in Unicorns, which takes the Best Make-Up & Hair Design BIFA for Lisa Mustafa.

Jan Houllevigue wins Best Production Design for The Assessment, a future-set tale of a couple’s spiral into psychological nightmare as they fight for the right to have a child.

The winners in all remaining categories will be announced at the 27th BIFA Awards main ceremony on Sunday 8th December. When we get the details we’ll share with you and will there be more awards for the Irish film?