Longlist 2024
Below are the longlists for The British Short Film Awards 2024.
The nominees will be selected from these longlists in the coming weeks.
Congratulations to all those selected so far!
PRINCIPLE CATEGORIES
Best British short film
Block
GEORGE
Good Boy
Legacy
Making Up
Recursive Dreams
Ryan Can't Read
Sister Wives
The Cost of Hugging
THE PEARL COMB
The Real Thing
The Soldier on Smithdown Road
The Golden Boy
Twain
Under the Blue
Victory To The Mimers
What We Wished We Could Be
best short film
Bal Maiden
Bloodsport
Delivery
Hard Times
Hungry Like The Wolf
Leica
My Week with Maisy
Photograph 1
Rock Paper Scissors
Room Taken
Soulmate
Stay Calm
Take Care
THE LICENSED FOOL
Us & In Between
Virtue
best DOCUMENTARY SHORT FILM
Against the Herd
Beyond These Walls
Blanks & Tabs: A story of Love, Puzzles and finding an Antidote for the Hard Times
Family
Home and Away
In The Line Of Fire
Lifeline
milk
My Two Lives, Creative Response to the Holocaust
Nuraga Bhumi
Sketching in the Trenches: War Artists of the First World War
The 90 Year Old Cyclist
The Hold
The Last Skiers
BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM
A Bear Named Wojtek
A Time Before
Colourful White
Hot Mess
Monsoon Blue
Root Note
Skogg and the Fireflies
The Deep
The Wedding Veil of the Proud Princess
THREE WINGS
BEST FOreign LANGUAGE SHORT FILM
A Good Day Will Come
Black Sheep
CLOUDS
DROPS OF LIFE
I'm not a robot
In The Line Of Fire
L'Hypermnésique
Marion
Our Males and Females
Rock Paper Scissors
The 90 Year Old Cyclist
BEST SCREENPLAY
Baba
Beached
Faithful
Greenteeth
Henry
My Dad's No Superhero
Reboot
Stand Firm
Sunny Side Up
THE LICENSED FOOL
Threads
BEST British DIRECTOR
Ali Cook - THE PEARL COMB
Benjamin Kuffuor - Claudia
Charles Strider - A Glass House
Cherno Jagne - The Backway
Dipo Ola - A Long Way from Cairo
Elizabeth Peace - The Golden Boy
Elliot Warren & Elliott Gonzo - Hard Times
Gregg Chilingirian - GEORGE
Harry Richards - Contact Hours
James Hood - Caretaker
Jemma Field - Tanner's Field
Louisa Connolly-Burnham - Sister Wives
Luke Shelley - What We Wished We Could Be
Max Fisher - Mouse!
Mika Simmons - My Week with Maisy
Miranda Nolan - Perfect
Miranda Stern - milk
Ruby Phelan - The Woman in the Wardrobe
Tom Stuart - Good Boy
BEST DIRECTOR
Ahmad Alyaseer - Our Males and Females
Arnav Shah - Chef At The White House
Caroline Hajny - Diary of a Ghost
Christine Seow - Beyond These Walls
Dipo Ola - A Long Way From Cairo
Emily Burnett - Mother's Day
Katharine Stocker - Take Care
Katia Shannon - Us & In Between
Kieran Dee - Hungry Like The Wolf
Maeve Murphy - St Pancras Sunrise
Max Olson - Nico
Michelle Maria Gilson - Preggo
Owain Hopkins - Achievement
Oz Arshad - Opening Up
Pip - Twain
Richard Fenwick - Soulmate
Vera Graziadei - The Silent Canary
Victoria Bata - Best Dressed
Victoria Warmerdam - I'm not a robot
BEST ACTOR
Alan Hall - Hungry Like The Wolf
Alex Ajuwon - The Idle Man
Ben Whishaw - Good Boy
Darren Kent - Alleviate
Dave Johns - Making Up
Éanna Hardwicke - TWAIN
Elliot Warren - Hard Times
Gabriel Adewusi - Room Taken
Gary Beadle - A Glass House
Gary Beadle - Opening Up
Jerome Wright - What Men Do For Love
Jordan Peters - SPIRIT OF PLACE
Oleksandr Rudynskyi - Rock Paper Scissors
Pit Bukowski - THE LICENSED FOOL
Prasanna Puwanarajah - Malcolm
Raphael von Blumenthal - An Invitation
Shaq B. Grant - Recursive Dreams
Shaun Dooley - Stay Calm
Simon Armstrong - THE PEARL COMB
Steve Furst - Victory To The Mimers
Tim Plester - Virtue
VIkash Bhai - Mouse!
BEST actress
Abigail Lawrie - Bal Maiden
Afsaneh Dehrouyeh - The Woman in the Wardrobe
Amelia Gething - Legacy
Aminita Francis - It's Really You
Beatie Edney - THE PEARL COMB
Bethan Waller - Caretaker
Chloe Dong - The Silent Canary
Elisha Robin - Seven Sisters
Isabella Nefar - Dream Car Wash
Joanna Lumley - My Week with Maisy
Josie Walker - The Cost of Hugging
Lucy Eaton - Stay Calm
Lucy Wells - A Glass House
Maddie Rice - How to Break Up
Mandeep Dhillon - Soulmate
Phoebe Campbell - Bloodsport
Precious Mustapha - A Long Way from Cairo
Rosie Chappel - Delivery
Saffron Davies - Stay Calm
Sarah Hadland - The Nobody
Tamzin Outhwaite - Opening Up
Tara Leonard - Burning
BEST SUPPORTING Actress
Boo Miller - The Morning After
Brid Brennan - Room Taken
Chloe Okora - The Golden Boy
Clara Paget - THE PEARL COMB
Jessica Ellerby - Making Up
Liv Hill - Bal Maiden
Lorinne Vozoff - Nico
Marion Bailey - Good Boy
Mei Henri - Fortune Favours the Fantabulous
Mia McKenna-Bruce - Sister Wives
Patricia Allison - Recursive Dreams
Rakhee Thakrar - Mouse!
Ruchika Jain - Burning
Sarah Alexander - The Silent Canary
Sharon Rose - The Colour of My Room
Susan Wokoma - The Real Thing
BEST score
A Good Day Will Come
Against the Herd
Cry Like a Guy
Farmers!?
Going
milk
Opening Up
Recomposing Earth
Skogg and the Fireflies
Take Care
The Paradise Road
THE PEARL COMB
The Silent Canary
The Wedding Veil of the Proud Princess
Walking Fernando
Winter Song
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Demmy Ladipo - The Nobody
Dipo Ola - A Long Way From Cairo
Ed White - Under the Blue
Francis Magee - THE LICENSED FOOL
Henry van Loon - I'm not a robot
Jonathan Aris - The Cost of Hugging
Lee Ingleby - Victory To The Mimers
Liam Francis Collins - Boys Like You
Mark Rylance - SPIRIT OF PLACE
Richard Cant - Take Care
Richard Harrington - Achievement
Robert Bathurst - Bloodsport
Rylee Neilly-Large - Pub House
BEST Cinematography
Adam Barnett - The Colour of My Room
Adam Singodia - Good Boy
Carmen Pellon Brussosa - Take Care
Carrie Morgan Glassman - The Paradise Road
Dave Miller - THE PEARL COMB
David Bird - Farmers!?
David Wright - Soulmate
Edmund Curtis - Making Up
Fabian Wagner - Winter Song
Hannah Platzer - Nico
James Oldham - Boys Like You
Johann Perry - Bloodsport
Joshua Carrington Birch - The Time Machine
Pip White - SPIRIT OF PLACE
Rachel Clark - Delivery
Rick Joaquim - Stay Calm
Rishab Chandra - Chef At The White House
Ryan Eddleston - Mother's Day
Sam Finney - Caretaker
Toby Lloyd - Claudia
Yannick Hausler - What We Wished We Could Be
BEST HAIR AND MAKEUP
Ariane's Baby
Bal Maiden
Block
Chef At The White House
I AM ALIVE
Our Males and Females
Perfect
Photograph 1
Recursive Dreams
The Last Day
THE LICENSED FOOL
THE PEARL COMB
Tomorrow
Two Places at Once
Under the Blue
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
Bal Maiden
Good Boy
Hungry Like The Wolf
Leica
Making Up
My Week with Maisy
Recursive Dreams
Rock Paper Scissors
Sister Wives
Soulmate
Stay Calm
Such A Lovely Day
The Backway
The First Time I Never Met You
THE LICENSED FOOL
THE PEARL COMB
The Real Thing
The Soldier on Smithdown Road
Victory To The Mimers
BEST SOUND DESIGN
A Good Day Will Come
Against the Herd
Bal Maiden
Delivery
GEORGE
Hungry Like The Wolf
MIDDLE NAME BLANK
Monsoon Blue
Perfect
Rock Paper Scissors
Sherbet
Take Care
The Cost of Hugging
THE PEARL COMB
The Woman in the Wardrobe
Under the Blue
Virtue
BEST EDITING
Achievement
Bal Maiden
Cry Like a Guy
Experience
Farmers!?
Fortune Favours the Fantabulous
Going
Good Boy
Leica
MIDDLE NAME BLANK
milk
Photograph 1
Recursive Dreams
The 90 Year Old Cyclist
The Cost of Hugging
The Morning After
THE PEARL COMB
Virtue
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Bal Maiden
Chef At The White House
Fortune Favours the Fantabulous
I'm not a robot
Leica
My Week with Maisy
Photograph 1
Recursive Dreams
Rhiannon
Sister Wives
Take Care
THE LICENSED FOOL
THE OXYGEN GARDEN
THE PEARL COMB
The Soldier on Smithdown Road
Us & In Between
Regional CATEGORIES
BEST English short film
Bal Maiden
Burning
Cry Like a Guy
Diary of a Ghost
How to Break Up
Just Kids
Tanner's Field
The Nun Slayer
BEST Northern Irish short film
Beautiful And Loud And Clear
Christmas 1944
Idle Hands
In Wake of John Doyle
Malcolm
Operation Pablo
Pub House
Travel Socks
BEST Scottish short film
A Different Path
Crowd
Raindog
TFH!
This Werewolf Complex
BEST Welsh short film
Achievement
Annalium 8 (Sssss)
Collection Only
Mother's Day
Rhiannon
Studs
Student CATEGORy
BEST STUDENT FILM
Against the Herd
Bal Maiden
Beyond These Walls
Chai- Coffi
Chef At The White House
Chivalry
Colourful White
Hot Mess
I AM ALIVE
In The Line Of Fire
milk
Nico
Pomegranate
The Last Skiers