British Independent Film Award for Best Debut Screenwriter

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British Independent Film Award for Best Debut Screenwriter
Awarded forBest Debut Screenwriter
Country United Kingdom
Presented by BIFA
First awarded2016
Currently held byGeorgia Oakley for Blue Jean (2022)
Website www.bifa.org.uk

The British Independent Film Award for Best Debut Screenwriter is an annual award given by the British Independent Film Awards (BIFA) to recognize the best British debut screenwriter. The award was first presented in the 2016 ceremony.

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According to BIFA, the award is for a "British screenwriter for their debut fiction feature film". The award usually goes to one screenwriter with co-writers being eligible when there is no lead screenwriter credited for the film. [1]

Winners and nominees

2010s

YearRecipient(s)Film
2016
(19th)
[2] [3]
Rachel Tunnard Adult Life Skills
Hope Dickson Leach The Levelling
Julian Barratt, Simon Farnaby Mindhorn
Ed Talfan The Passing (Yr Ymadawiad)
John Cairns, Michael McCartney A Patch of Fog
2017
(20th)
[4] [5]
Francis Lee God's Own Country
Rungano Nyoni I Am Not a Witch
Johnny Harris Jawbone
Alice Birch Lady Macbeth
Gaby Chiappe Their Finest
2018
(21st)
[6] [7]
Bart Layton American Animals
Daniel Kokotajlo Apostasy
Michael Pearce Beast
Matt Palmer Calibre
Karen Gillan The Party's Just Beginning
2019
(22nd)
[8] [9]
Emma Jane Unsworth Animals
Kieran Hurley Beats
Lisa Owens Days of the Bagnold Summer
Harry Wootliff Only You
Nicole Taylor Wild Rose

2020s

YearRecipient(s)Film
2020
(23rd)
[10] [11]
Riz Ahmed Mogul Mowgli
Joe MurtaghCalm with Horses
Remi Weekes, Bassam Tariq His House
Theresa Ikoko, Claire Wilson Rocks
Rose Glass Saint Maud
2021
(24th)
[12]
Cathy Brady Wildfire
Prano Bailey-Bond Censor
Reggie YatesPirates
Aleem Khan After Love
Marley MorrisonSweetheart
2022
(25th)
[13]
Georgia Oakley Blue Jean
Shane Crowley God's Creatures
Davi Earl, Chris Hayward Brian and Charles
Ruth GreenbergThe Origin
Charlotte Wells Aftersun
2023
(25th)
[14]
Nathan Bryon and Tom Melia Rye Lane
Sam H. Freeman and Ng Choon Ping Femme
Nida Manzoor Polite Society
Charlotte Regan Scrapper
Molly Manning Walker How to Have Sex

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