British Independent Film Award for Best Documentary
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The British Independent Film Award for Best Documentary is an annual award given by the British Independent Film Awards (BIFA) to recognize the best documentary.
| British Independent Film Award for Best Documentary | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | Best Documentary |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Presented by | BIFA |
| First award | 2003 |
| Currently held by | Witches (2024) |
| Website | www |
The award was first presented in the 2003 ceremony, with the film Bodysong, directed by Simon Pummell and Janine Marmot, being the first recipient of the award.
Senna and For Sama have won both this award and the BAFTA Award for Best Documentary, while The Imposter, Marley, 20,000 Days on Earth, Virunga, Amy, Notes on Blindness, Diego Maradona, Cow, and Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story, all have been nominated for both awards.
Winners and nominees
2000s
2010s
2020s
| Year | Film | Recipient(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 (23rd) [33][34] | The Reason I Jump | Jerry Rothwell, Jeremy Dear, Stevie Lee and Al Morrow |
| The Australian Dream | Daniel Gordon, Stan Grant and Sarah Thomson | |
| Being a Human Person | Fred Scott, Mike Brett, Seve Jamisonand and Jo Jo Ellison | |
| Rising Phoenix | Ian Bonhôte, Peter Ettedgui, John Battsek, Greg Nugent and Tatyana McFadden | |
| White Riot | Rubika Shah and Ed Gibbs | |
| 2021 (24th) [35] | Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché | Paul Sng, Celeste Bell, Zoë Howe, Rebecca Mark-Lawson, Matthew Silverman and Daria Mitsche |
| Cow | Andrea Arnold and Kat Mansoor | |
| Dying to Divorce | Chloe Fairweather and Sinead Kirwan | |
| I Am Belmaya | Sue Carpenter and Christopher Hird | |
| Keyboard Fantasies | Posy Dixon and Liv Proctor | |
| 2022 (25th) [36] | Nothing Compares | Kathryn Ferguson, Eleanor Emptage and Michael Mallie |
| My Childhood, My Country – 20 Years in Afghanistan | Phil Grabsky, Shoaib Sharifi and Amanda Wilkie | |
| My Old School | Jono McLeod, John Archer and Olivia Lichtenstein | |
| Nascondino | Victoria Fiore, Jennifer Corcoran and Aleksandra Bilić | |
| Young Plato | Neasa Ní Chianáin, Declan McGrath and David Rane | |
| 2023 (26th) [37] | If the Streets Were on Fire | Alice Russell and Gannesh Rajah |
| Bobi Wine: The People's President | Christopher Sharp, Moses Bwayo and John Battsek | |
| Another Body | Sophie Compton, Reubyn Hamlyn, Isabel Freeman and Elizabeth Woodward | |
| Lyra | Alison Millar and Jackie Doyle | |
| Occupied City | Steve McQueen, Bianca Stigter, Anna Smith-Tenser and Floor Onrust | |
| 2024 (27th) [38] | Witches | Elizabeth Sankey, Jeremy Warmsley, Chiara Ventura and Manon Ardisson |
| Grand Theft Hamlet | Pinny Grylls, Sam Crane, Julia Ton and Rebecca Wolff | |
| Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story | Ian Bonhôte, Peter Ettedgui, Lizzie Gillett and Robert Ford | |
| Two Strangers Trying Not to Kill Each Other | Jacob Perlmutter, Manon Ouimet and Signe Byrge Sørensen | |
| The Contestant | Clair Titley, Megumi Inman, Andee Ryder, Amit Dey and Ian Bonhôte | |
| 2025 | Antidote | James Jones and David Moulton |
| Mother Vera | Cecile Embleton, Alys Tomlinson, and Laura Shacham | |
| Motherboard | Victoria Mapplebeck | |
| The Shepherd and the Bear | Max Keegan, Elizabeth Woodward, Amanda McBaine, and Jesse Moss | |
| A Want in Her | Myrid Carten, Tadhg O’Sullivan, Roisin Geraghty, and Kat Mansoor |