Scots remain split down the middle on independence and only a "fool" could know the outcome of a referendum, the country's top pollster has said.
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Scottish filmmaker Charlotte Wells’s debut feature Aftersun leads the nominations for this year’s British Independent Film Awards with a sweeping 16 nods, including Best Director and Best film.
The film’s impressive nominations haul includes Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Debut Director (the Douglas Hickox Award) and Best Debut Screenwriter nods for Wells and a Best Joint Lead Performance nomination for stars Paul Mescal and newcomer Frankie Corio, who received a Breakthrough Performance nomination. The A24 pic is also up for Best British Independent Film and racked up a further nine craft nominations, including Best Casting and Cinematography.
Inspired by, but not based on, Wells’s experiences as the child of young parents, the poignant ’90s-set film explores a father and daughter’s complex relationship against the backdrop of a simmering holiday the pair have taken to a resort in Turkey.
Georgia Oakley’s debut film Blue Jean trails behind with 13 nominations. The soulful social drama about homophobia in Thatcherite Britain picked up Best British Independent Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay, and Best Debut Director nods alongside a Best Ensemble Performance nomination for the film.
Sebastián Lelio latest pic, The Wonder, racked up 12 noms, including Best Lead Performance for Florence Pugh. Other dominant titles include the Kazuo Ishiguro-penned drama Living, with nine nominations. Peter Strickland’s Flux Gourmet with seven and Men by Alex Garland, The Origin by Andrew Cumming, and God’s Creatures by Saela Davis and Anna Rose Holmer with five each.
A total of 36 British feature films picked up nominations this year. The Winners will be announced at the BIFA ceremony on Dec 4.
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Scots remain split down the middle on independence and only a "fool" could know the outcome of a referendum, the country's top pollster has said.
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Scottish filmmaker Charlotte Wells’s debut feature Aftersun has bagged three awards in the British Independent Film Awards (BIFA) craft categories, the year’s most wins.
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