NOMINEES 2024
Below are the nominees for The British Short Film Awards 2024.
The winners will be selected from these lists and announced at our awards ceremony. More information on this will be sent out in due course.
Congratulations to all those selected so far!
PRINCIPLE CATEGORIES
Best British short film
George
Ryan Can’t Read
Sister Wives
The Pearl Comb
Twain
What We Wished We Could Be
best short film
Bal Maiden
Delivery
Good Boy
Photograph 1
The Golden Boy
Us & In Between
best DOCUMENTARY SHORT FILM
Home and Away
My Two Lives, Creative Response to the Holocaust
The Hold
The Last Skiers
BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM
A Bear Named Wojtek
A Time Before
Colourful White
Root Note
BEST FOreign LANGUAGE SHORT FILM
A Good Day Will Come
I'm not a robot
Our Males and Females
Rock Paper Scissors
BEST SCREENPLAY
Baba
Beached
Faithful
Greenteeth
BEST British DIRECTOR
Ali Cook - The Pearl Comb
Elizabeth Peace - The Golden Boy
Gregg Chilingirian - George
Louisa Connolly-Burnham - Sister Wives
Ruby Phelan - The Woman in the Wardrobe
BEST DIRECTOR
Ahmad Alyaseer - Our Males and Females
Dipo Ola - A Long Way From Cairo
Katia Shannon - Us & In Between
Max Olson - Nico
Pip - Twain
BEST actress
Abigail Lawrie - Bal Maiden
Afsaneh Dehrouyeh - The Woman in the Wardrobe
Isabella Nefar - Dream Car Wash
Joanna Lumley - My Week with Maisy
Mandeep Dhillon - Soulmate
Rosie Chappel - Delivery
BEST ACTOR
Ben Whishaw - Good Boy
Darren Kent - Alleviate
Dave Johns - Making Up
Éanna Hardwicke - Twain
Elliot Warren - Hard Times
Gabriel Adewusi - Room Taken
BEST SUPPORTING Actress
Brid Brennan - Room Taken
Clara Paget - The Pearl Comb
Patricia Allison - Recursive Dreams
Rakhee Thakrar - Mouse!
Sarah Alexander - The Silent Canary
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Demmy Ladipo - The Nobody
Ed White - Under the Blue
Francis Magee - The Licensed Fool
Liam Francis Collins - Boys Like You
Richard Harrington - Achievement
BEST score
Jina Hyojin An - The Paradise Road
Anna Phoebe and Aisling Brouwer - The Silent Canary
Ros Gilman - The Wedding Veil of the Proud Princess
BEST Cinematography
Carmen Pellon Brussosa - Take Care
Dave Miller - The Pearl Comb
Joshua Carrington Birch - The Time Machine
Rachel Clark - Delivery
Rick Joaquim - Stay Calm
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
Anna Papa - My Week with Maisy
Olavo Abrantes - Recursive Dreams
Melina Mei Veropoulou - The Licensed fool
The Soldier on Smithdown Road
Rana Fadavi - Victory To The Mimers
BEST HAIR AND MAKEUP
Bal Maiden
Sulieman Tadros, Laura Madar - Our Males and Females
Zara Tames - Photograph 1
Dasha Taivas - The Licensed Fool
BEST SOUND DESIGN
Dominic Roocroft - Hungry Like The Wolf
Patrick Fripp - The Woman in the Wardrobe
Joe Beal - Under the Blue
BEST EDITING
Freddie Leyden - Farmers!?
Olly Stothert - Going
Nathan Baker - The Morning After
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Kayla Craig - Leica
Constance Woods - Sister Wives
Constance Woods - The Pearl Comb
Regional CATEGORIES
BEST English short film
Cry Like a Guy
Tanner's Field
The Nun Slayer
BEST Northern Irish short film
Malcolm
Pub House
Travel Socks
BEST Scottish short film
Crowd
TFH!
This Werewolf Complex
BEST Welsh short film
Achievement
Collection Only
Mother's Day
Student CATEGORy
BEST STUDENT FILM
Bal Maiden
Chef At The White House
Colourful White