The 2025 British Independent Film Awards (BIFA) today announced the first of this year’s award winners for its ten film craft categories. Alex Garland and Ray Mendoza’s Warfare took home three wins for Best Editing, Best Effects, and Best Sound, while Die My Love scored two wins for Best Cinematography and Best Music Supervision.
The remainder of the winners will be announced on November 30. Winners in bold below.
Best Casting
Shaheen Baig – Brides
Shaheen Baig – Urchin
Kharmel Cochrane – Warfare
Lauren Evans – I Swear
Robert Sterne – Steve
Best Cinematography
Charlotte Bruus Christensen – H Is For Hawk
Jermaine Edwards – My Father’s Shadow
Cecile Embleton – Mother Vera
Seamus McGarvey – Die My Love
Piotr Niemyjski – A Pale View Of Hills
Best Costume Design
Susie Coulthard – 100 Nights Of Hero
Kirsty Halliday – Tornado
Grace Snell – Pillion
Sayaka Takahashi, Matthew Price – A Pale View Of Hills
PC Williams – My Father’s Shadow
Best Editing
Ronan Corrigan, Aleksandr Kletsov – LifeHack
Omar Guzman Castro – My Father’s Shadow
Fin Oates – Warfare
Sam Rice-Edwards – One To One: John & Yoko
Gareth C. Scales – Pillion
Best Effects
Simon Stanley-Clamp, Ryan Conder – Warfare
Victor Tomi – Die My Love
Hayley Williams, Conor O’Sullivan, Martin Malmqvist – The Thing With Feathers
Best Music Supervision
Phil Canning – Wasteman
Ian Neil, Raife Burchell – Die My Love
Bridget Samuels – Urchin
Best Make-Up & Hair Design
Kehinde Are, Feyzo Oyebisi – My Father’s Shadow
Diandra Ferreira – Pillion
Paul Gooch, Tristan Versluis – Warfare
Colleen Labaff, Miho Suzuki – Die My Love
Natasha Lawes – 100 Nights Of Hero
Best Original Music
Tom Basden, Adem Ilhan – The Ballad Of Wallis Island
Bobby Krlic – Anemone
Jed Kurzel – Tornado
CJ Mirra – My Father’s Shadow
Steven Price – Ocean With David Attenborough
Best Production Design
Jennifer Anti, Pablo Anti – My Father’s Shadow
Mark Digby – Warfare
Tim Grimes – Die My Love
Nathan Parker – Harvest
Sofia Sacomani – 100 Nights Of Hero
Best Sound
Steve Fanagan, Stevie Haywood – Anemone
Tim Burns, Paul Davies, Linda Forsen, Andrew Stirk, Ron Osiowy – Die My Love
Nina Hartstone, Jake Whitelee, Jens Petersen, Mike Tehrani, Rob Davidson – Ish
Cj Mirra, James Ridgway, Joe Jackson, Adele Fletcher, Pius Fatoke – My Father’s Shadow
Sound Team – Warfare
