BAFTA Award for Best Short Film

BAFTA Award for Best British Short Film
Awarded for	Best British Short Film
Location	United Kingdom
Presented by	British Academy of Film and Television Arts
First award	1959
Currently held by	Rock, Paper, Scissors (2024)
Website	http://www.bafta.org/

The BAFTA Award for Best British Short Film is a film award presented by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) at the annual British Academy Film Awards. BAFTA is a British organisation that hosts annual awards shows for film, television, and video games (and formerly also for children's film and television). Since 1960, selected films have been awarded with the BAFTA award for Best Short Film at an annual ceremony.

In the following lists, the titles and names in bold with a gold background are the winners and recipients respectively; those not in bold are the nominees. The years given are those in which the films under consideration were released, not the year of the ceremony, which always takes place the following year.

Winners and nominees

  indicates the winner

1950s

Year	Film	Recipient(s)
Best Short Film
1959 (13th)	Seven Cities of Antarctica	Winston Hibler
	Rodin

1960s

Year	Film	Recipient(s)
1960 (14th)	High Journey	Peter Baylis
	Return to Life	John Krish
	Seawards the Great Ships	Hilary Harris
1961 (15th)	Terminus	John Schlesinger
	Eyes of a Child
	Let My People Go
1962 (16th)	Incident at Owl Creek (La Rivière du Hibou)	Robert Enrico
	Lonely Boy	Wolf Koenig, Roman Kroitor
	Pan
	Zoo
1963 (17th)	Happy Anniversary
	Sailing
	Snow
	The War Game
1964 (18th)	Eskimo Artist: Kenojuak	John Feeney
	Mekong
	Muloorina
	23 Skidoo	Julian Biggs
1965 (19th)	Rig Move	Don Higgins
	One of Them is Brett	Roger Graef
	60 Cycles	Jean-Claude Labrecque
1966 (20th)	The War Game	Peter Watkins
	A River Must Live	Alan Pendry
	Sudden Summer	Richard Taylor
	The Tortoise and the Hare	Hugh Hudson
1967 (21st)	Indus Waters	Derek Williams
	Mafia No!	John Irvin
	Opus	Don Levy
	Rail	Geoffrey Jones
1968 (22nd)	Not awarded
1969 (23rd)	Picture to Post	Sarah Erulkar
	Barbican	Robin Cantelon
	Birthday	Franc Roddam
	A Test of Violence	Stuart Cooper

1970s

Year	Film	Recipient(s)
1970 (24th)	The Shadow of Progress	Derek Williams
	Blake	Bill Mason
	The Gallery	Philip Mark Law
	The Winds of Fogo	Colin Low
1971 (25th)	Alaska: The Great Land	Derek Williams
	Big Horn	Bill Schmalz
	The Long Memory	John Phillips
John Grierson Award (Short Film)
1972 (26th)	Memorial
	History of the Motor Car
	The Tide of Traffic
1973 (27th)	Caring for History
	Artistry in Tureens
	The Scene from Melbury House
	Without Due Care
1974 (28th)	Location North Sea	John Armstrong
	Acting in Turn
	Facets of Glass
	The Quiet Land
1975 (29th)	Sea Area Forties	John Armstrong
	Leaving Lily	Graham Baker
	The Living Woodland	Ronald Eastman
	Waiting On Weather	Ron Granville
Best Short Factual Film
1976 (30th)	The End of the Road	John Amstrong
	Energy in Perspective	Peter De Normanville
	The Speed Sailors	John Spencer
1977 (31st)	Best Short Factual Film
	Not awarded
	Best Short Fictional Film
	Bead Game	Ishu Patel
	The Chinese Word for House	Kate Canning
	The Sand Castle	Co Hoedeman
1978 (32nd)	Best Short Factual Film
	Hokusai: An Animated Sketchbook	Tony White
	I'll Find a Way	Beverly Shaffer
	Planet Water	Derek Williams
	Sunday Muddy Sunday	Lindsay Dale
	Best Short Fictional Film
	Not awarded
Best Short Film
1979 (33rd)	Butch Minds the Baby	Peter Webb
	Dilemma	Clive Mitchell
	Dream Doll	Bob Godfrey
	Mr. Pascal	Alison De Vere

1980s

Year	Film	Recipient(s)
1980 (34th)	Sredni Vashtar	Andrew Birkin
	Box On	Lindsey Clennell
	The Dollar Bottom	Roger Christian
	Possessions	Andrew Bogle
1981 (35th)	Recluse	Bob Bentley
	Couples and Robbers	Clare Peploe
	Towers of Babel	Jonathan Lewis
1982 (36th)	The Privilege	Ian Knox
	Rating Notman	Carlo Gébler
	The Rocking Horse Winner	Robert Bierman
	A Shocking Accident	James Scott
1983 (37th)	Goodie Two Shoes	Ian Emes
	The Crimson Permanent Assurance	Terry Gilliam
	John Love	John Davis
	Keep Off the Grass	Paul Weiland
1984 (38th)	The Dress	Eva Sereny
	Killing Time	Chris O'Reilly
	Samson and Delilah	Mark Peploe
1985 (39th)	Careless Talk	Noella Smith
	One for My Baby	Chris Fallon
	The Woman who Married Clark Gable	Thaddeus O'Sullivan
1986 (40th)	La Boule	Simon Shore
	King's Christmas	Graham Dixon
	Mohammed's Daughter	Suri Krishnamma
	Night Movie	Gur Heller
1987 (41st)	Artisten	Jonas Grimås
	D'Apres Maria	Jean-Claude Robert
	Short and Curlies	Mike Leigh
	Treacle	Peter Chelsom
1988 (42nd)	Defence Counsel Sedov (Zashchitnik Sedov)	Evgeny Tsymbal
	Cane Toads: An Unnatural History	Mark Lewis
	The Unkindest Cut	Jim Shields
	Water's Edge	Suri Krishnamma
1989 (43rd)	The Candy Show	Damian Jones, Peter Hewitt, David Freeman
	Carmelo Campo	Ariel Piluso, Carlos Toscano, Gabriel Enis
	Tight Trousers	Metin Hüseyin, Elaine Donnelly
	Uhloz	Guy Jacques, Isabelle Groulleart

1990s

Year	Film	Recipient(s)
1990 (44th)	Say Good-bye	Michele Carmada, John Roberts
	An der Grenze	Max Linder, Michael Drexler
	Chicken	Jo Shoop, Julian Nott
	Dear Rosie	Peter Cattaneo, Barnaby Thompson
1991 (45th)	The Harmfulness of Tobacco	Nick Hamm, Bary Palin
	Breath of Life	Navin Thapar
	Man Descending	Neil Grieve, Ray Lorenz
	Trauma	Gerhard Johannes Rekel
1992 (46th)	Omnibus	Anne Bennett, Sam Karmann
	Two Chimney Sweeps In A Singer's House (Deux Ramoneurs Chez Une Cantatrice)	Michel Cauléa
	Heartsongs	Caroline Hewitt, Sue Clayton
	Sense of History	Mike Leigh, Simon Channing Williams
1993 (47th)	Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life	Ruth Kenley-Letts, Peter Capaldi
	A Small Deposit	Eleanor Yule, Paul Holmes, Barry Ackroyd
	One Night Stand	Bill Britten, Georgia Masters
	Syrup	Paul Unwin, Anita Overland
1994 (48th)	Zinky Boys Go Underground	Paul Tickell, Tatianna Kennedy
	Lost Mojave	Jonathan Cordish, Vladimir Perlovich
	Marooned	Jonas Grimås, Andrea Calderwood
	That Sunday	Damiano Vukotic, Dan Zeff
1995 (49th)	It's Not Unusual	Asmaa Pirzada, Kfir Yefet
	Cabbage	Noelle Pickford, David Stewart
	Hello, Hello, Hello	David Thewlis, Helen Booth, James Roberts
	The Last Post	Ed Blum, Neris Thomas
1996 (50th)	Majorettes In Space (Des Majorettes Dans L'Espace)	Carole Scotta, David Fourier
	Butterfly Man	Robin Macpherson, Barry Ackroyd
	Dual Balls	Laurence Bowen, Dan Zeff
	Machinations	Alice Beckmann, Ralph Seiler
	Everything Must Go (Tout Doit Disparaître)	François Barat, Jean-Marc Moutout
1997 (51st)	The Deadness of Dad	Philippa Cousins, Mandy Sprague, Stephen Volk
	Crocodile Snap	Joe Wright, James Greville
	Gas Man	Lynne Ramsay, Gavin Emerson
	Little Sisters	Andy Goddard, Nic Muirson
1998 (52nd)	Home	Morag McKinnon, Hannah Lewis, Colin McLaren
	Anthrakitis	Sara Sugarman, Natasha Dack
	Eight	Stephen Daldry, Jon Finn, Tim Clague
	In Memory of Dorothy Bennett	Catherine McArthur, Martin Radich
1999 (53rd) [1]	Who's My Favourite Girl	Joern Utkilen, Kara Johnston, Adrian McDowall
	Bait	Tom Shankland, Soledad Gatti-Pascual, Jane Harris
	Perdie	Faye Gilbert, Rachel Shadick
	The Tale Of The Rat That Wrote	Billy O'Brien, Ruth Kenley-Letts, Lisa-Marie Russo, Murilo Pasta

2000s

Year	Film	Recipient(s)
2000 (54th) [2] [3]	Shadowscan	Gary Holding, Justine Leahy, Tinge Krishnan
	Je t'aime John Wayne	Luke Morris, Toby MacDonald, Luke Ponte
	Going Down	Tom Shankland, Soledad Gatti-Pascual, Jane Harris
	The Last Post	Dominic Santana, Lee Santana
	Sweet	James Pilkington, Rob Mercer
2001 (55th) [4]	About a Girl	Brian Percival, Janey de Nordwall, Julie Rutterford
	Inferno	Paul Kousoulides, Teun Hilte, Sharat Sardana
	The Red Peppers	Dominic Santana, Lee Santana
	Skin Deep	Yousaf Ali Khan, Andy Porter
	Tattoo	Jules Williamson, Arabella Page Croft, Sara Putt, Jemma Field
2002 (56th) [5]	My Wrongs #8245–8249 & 117	Chris Morris, Mark Herbert
	Bouncer	Michael Baig Clifford, Natasha Carlish, Sophie Morgan, Geoff Thompson
	Rank	Andrew O'Connell, David Yates, Robbie McCallum
	Candy Bar Kid	Shah Khan, Benjamin Johns
	Good Night	Sun-Young Chun, Yoav Factor
	The Most Beautiful Man in the World	Alicia Duffy, Hugh Welchman
2003 (57th) [6]	Brown Paper Bag	Natasha Carlish, Mark Leveson, Michael Baig Clifford, Geoff Thompson
	Bye Child	Andrew Bonner, Bernard MacLaverty
	Nits	George Isaac, Harry Wootliff
	Sea Monsters	Matt Delargy, Mark Walker, Raphael Smith
	Talking with Angels	Yousaf Ali Khan, Michael Knowles, Janey de Nordwall
2004 (58th) [7]	The Banker	Hattie Dalton, Kelly Broad
	Can't Stop Breathing	Amy Neil, Ravinder Basra
	Elephant Boy	Rene Mohandas, Durdana Shaikh
	Knitting a Love Song	Debbie Ballin, Annie Watson
	Six Shooter	Martin McDonagh, Mia Bays, Kenton Allen
2005 (59th) [8]	Antonio's Breakfast	Daniel Mulloy, Amber Templemore-Finlayson, Daniel Mulloy
	Call Register	Ed Roe, Kit Hawkins, Adam Tudhope
	Heavy Metal Drummer	Toby MacDonald, Luke Morris, Amanda Boyle
	Heydar, An Afghan in Tehran	Babak Jalali, Homayoun Assadian
	Lucky	Avie Luthra, Bex Hopkins
2006 (60th) [9]	Do Not Erase	Asitha Ameresekere
	Care	Corinna Faith, Rachel Bailey, Tracy Bass, Corinna Faith
	Cubs	Tom Harper, Lisa Williams
	Hikikomori	Paul Wright, Karley Duffy
	Kissing, Tickling and Being Bored	Jim McRoberts, David Smith
2007 (61st) [10]	Dog Altogether	Paddy Considine, Diarmid Scrimshaw
	Hesitation	Julien Berlan, Michelle Eastwood, Virginia Gilbert
	The One and Only Herb McGwyer Plays Wallis Island	James Griffith, Charlie Henderson, Tim Key, Tom Basden
	Soft	Simon Ellis, Jane Hooks
	The Stronger	Lia Williams, Dan McCulloch, Frank McGuinness
2008 (62nd) [11]	September	Esther May Campbell, Stewart Le Marechal
	Kingsland #1: The Dreamer	Tony Grisoni, Kate Ogborn
	Love You More	Sam Taylor-Wood, Adrian Sturges, Patrick Marber
	Ralph	Alex Winckler, Olivier Kaempfer
	Voyage d'Affaires (The Business Trip)	Sean Ellis, Celine Quideau
2009 (63rd) [12]	I Do Air	James Bolton, Martina Amati
	Jade	Daniel Elliott, Samm Haillay, Duane Hopkins
	Mixtape	Luke Snellin, Luti Fagbenle
	Off Season	Jacob Jaffke, Shrihari Sathe, Jonathan van Tulleken
	14	Asitha Ameresekere

2010s

Year	Film	Recipient(s)
2010 (64th) [13]	Until the River Runs Red	Poss Kondeatis, Paul Wright
	Lin	Piers Thompson, Simon Hessel, Mila Kirova
	Connect	Beau Gordon, Samuel Abrahams
	Rite	Michael Pearce, Ross McKenzie, Paul Welsh
	Turning	Kat Armour-Brown, Alison Sterling, Karni Arieli, Saul Freed
2011 (65th) [14]	Pitch Black Heist	John Maclean, Gerardine O'Flynn
	Chalk	Martina Amati, Gavin Emerson, Ilaria Bernardini
	Mwansa The Great	Rungano Nyoni, Gabriel Gauchet
	Only Sound Remains	Arash Ashtiani
	Two & Two	Babak Anvari, Kit Fraser, Gavin Cullen
2012 (66th) [15]	Swimmer	Lynne Ramsay, Peter Carlton, Diarmid Scrimshaw
	The Curse	Fyzal Boulifa
	Good Night	Muriel d'Ansembourg, Eva Sigurdardottir
	Tumult	Rhianna Andrews, Johnny Barrington
	The Voorman Problem	Lee Thomas, David Mitchell, Baldwin Li, Mark Gill
Best British Short Film
2013 (67th) [16]	Room 8	James W. Griffiths, Sophie Venner
	Island Queen	Ben Mallaby, Emma Hughes, Nat Luurtsema
	Keeping Up with the Joneses	Michael Pearce, Megan Rubens, Selina Lim
	Orbit Ever After	Jamie Magnus Stone, Chee-Lan Chan, Len Rowles
	Sea View	Anna Duffield, Jane Linfoot
2014 (68th) [17]	Boogaloo and Graham	Michael Lennox, Brian J. Falconer, Richard Irwin, Ronan Blaney
	Emotional Fusebox	Rachel Tunnard, Paul Ashton, Michael Berliner
	The Kármán Line	Oscar Sharp, Campbell Beaton, Dawn King, Tiernan Hanby
	Slap	Michelangelo Fano, Islay Bell-Webb, Nick Rowland
	Three Brothers	Matthieu de Braconier, Stephanie Paeplow, Aleem Khan
2015 (69th) [18]	Operator	Rebecca Morgan, Caroline Bartleet
	Elephant	Nick Helm, Esther Smith
	Mining Poems or Odes	Jack Cocker, Callum Rice, Robert Fullerton
	Over	Jörn Threlfall, Jeremy Bannister
	Samuel-613	Cheyenne Conway, Billy Lumby
2016 (70th) [19]	Home	Daniel Mulloy, Shpat Deda, Afolabi Kuti, Scott O'Donnell
	Consumed	Richard John Seymour
	Mouth of Hell	Bart Gavigan, Samir Mehanović, Allie Smith, Michael Wilson
	The Party	Farah Abushwesha, Emmet Fleming, Andrea Harkin, Conor MacNeill
	Standby	Charlotte Regan, Jack Hannon
2017 (71st) [20]	Cowboy Dave	Colin O'Toole, Mathias Gilay, Jonas Mortensen
	Amir	Vika Evdokimenko, Emma Stone, Oliver Shuster
	A Drowning Man	Mahdi Fleifel, Signe Byrge Sørensen, Patrick Campbell
	Work	Aneil Karia, Scott O'Donnell
	Wren Boys	Harry Lighton, Sorcha Bacon, John Fitzpatrick
2018 (72nd) [21]	73 Cows	Alex Lockwood
	Bachelor, 38	Angela Clarke
	The Blue Door	Paul Taylor, Ben Clark, Megan Pugh
	The Field	Sandhya Suri, Thomas Bidegain, Balthazar de Ganay
	Wale	Barnaby Blackburn, Sophie Alexander, Catherine Slater, Edward Speleers
2019 (73rd) [22]	Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (If You're a Girl)	Carol Dysinger, Elena Andreicheva
	Azaar	Myriam Raja, Nathanael Baring
	Goldfish	Hector Dockrill, Harri Kamalanathan, Benedict Turnbull, Laura Dockrill
	Kamali	Sasha Rainbow, Rosalind Croad
	The Trap	Lena Headey, Anthony Fitzgerald

2020s

Year	Film	Recipient(s)
2020 (74th) [23]	The Present	Farah Nabulsi
	Eyelash	Jesse Lewis Reece, Ike Newman
	Lizard	Akinola Davies, Rachel Dargavel, Wale Davies
	Lucky Break	John Addis, Rami Sarras Pantoja
	Miss Curvy	Ghada Eldemellawy
2021 (75th) [24]	The Black Cop	Cherish Oleka
	Femme	Sam H. Freeman, Ng Choon Ping, Sam Ritzenberg, Hayley Williams
	The Palace	Jo Prichard
	Stuffed	Joss Holden-Rea, Theo Rhys
	Three Meetings of the Extraordinary Committee	Max Barron, Daniel Wheldon, Michael Woodward
2022 (76th) [25]	An Irish Goodbye	Tom Berkeley, Ross White
	The Ballad of Olive Morris	Alex Kayode-kay
	Bazigaga	Jo Ingabire Moys, Stephanie Charmail
	Bus Girl	Jessica Henwick, Louise Palmkvist Hansen
	A Drifting Up	Jacob Lee
2023 (77th) [26]	Jellyfish and Lobster	Yasmin Afifi, Elizabeth Rufai
	Festival of Slaps	Abdou Cissé, Cheri Darbon, George Telfer
	Gorka	Joe Weiland, Alex Jefferson
	Such a Lovely Day	Simon Woods, Polly Stokes, Emma Norton, Kate Phibbs
	Yellow	Elham Ehsas, Dina Mousawi, Azeem Bhati, Yiannis Manolopoulos
2024 (78th) [27]	Rock, Paper, Scissors	Franz Böhm, Ivan, and Hayder Rothschild Hoozeer
	The Flowers Stand Silently, Witnessing	Theo Panagopoulos and Marissa Keating
	Marion	Joe Weiland, Finn Constantine, and Marija Djikic
	Milk	Miranda Stern and Ashionye Ogene
	Stomach Bug	Matty Crawford and Karima Sammout-Kanellopoulou

See also

• Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film
• Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film

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