The British SHort Film Awards 2021 - Finalists

Principal Categories

  • BEST SHORT FILM

    120 Secondi Di Mendel

    A Swedish Defence

    Back in Five

    Blue Moon

    Camille’s Game

    Ditectrice

    Divination Dave

    Enjoy

    Love is just a Death Away

    Marie - Luise

    Mudlarks

    Pale Saint

    Roy

    Sucking Wind

    Starboy

    The Stranger

    We All Just Want to be Mad

  • Best British Short Film

    Cognition

    Do No Harm

    Don vs Lightning

    Enjoy

    Eyelash

    Father of the Bride

    First One Away

    Iniquity

    Jack Rabbit

    June

    Kill me in your room

    Monster

    Mr Theatre Comes Home Different

    Mudlarks

    Please Care

    Pub Kid

    Roy

    Shear

    The King of The Forest

    Turbine

    We All Just Want to be Mad

  • Best animated short film

    All Too Beautiful

    Collector

    Divination Dave

    Griffgons: In The Bakehouse

    Fantasy of Companionship between Human and Inanimate

    Heads up

    Leaf Boat (Cwch Deilen)

    Love is just a Death Away

    Mis-Remember

    New signs for Animation

    Page’s Edge

    Soft Rain

    The Mirror

    The Owl and the Pussycat

    Treasure

    Wastopia

    @scroll_alice

  • Best Foreign Language short film

    120 Seconds di Mendel

    A Swedish Defence

    Landing Point

    Marie - Luise

    Missing Piece

    Regresso

    Stain

    The Two Brothers and Santa Claus

    Troubadours Celestes

    Viskar I Vinden

  • Best Documentary Short Film

    Behind the Battle

    Deaf Reach: Hope for Pakistan

    First Week Out

    I Thank My Mother For My Hair

    Like Father Like Son

    Looking Back with Pride

    Memories of Mortlake

    My Hundreds of Brothers and Sisters

    No Admission

    Precious Bundle

    Queer Rural Connections

    Regresso

    Tiago

    Time and Tide (UK)

    Two Deaf Travellers

    Urbano

    Youth of Rural North

  • Best Director

    Christian Holm-Glad (Entangled Animals)

    Edoardo Cantiello (Kill me in your room)

    Emily Ruhl (Blue Moon)

    Flora Tennant (We All Just Want to be Mad)

    Guille Santos & Sadaf H Nava (Ditectrice)

    John DeVries (The Stranger)

    Big Red Button (Don vs. Lightning)

    Leonard Grobien (Shut Up)

    Lingge Dong (Incense and Cigarettes)

    Nadim - El Khoury (Missing Piece)

    Nico Vecchione, Paolo Vecchione (120 Seconds di Mendel)

    Peter Lavery (Tequila Dream)

    Remi Itani (5 Stars)

    Sei-Hong Cheng (Landing Point)

    Steve Beta (BOTS)

    Tom Berkley & Ross White (Roy)

  • Best British Director

    Bertie Gilbert (Please Care)

    Chris Carr (The Dry Cleaner)

    Douglas King (Do No Harm)

    Dubheasa Lanipekun (Blue Corridor 15)

    Guy Soulsby (A Sickness)

    Hannah Daniel & Georgia Lee (Burial)

    James Newman (Viskar I Vinden)

    Jesse Lewis-Reece (Eyelash)

    Joel Claudio (It’s Our Movement)

    Joëlle Bentolila (Starboy)

    Joshua Thornton-Allan (June)

    Kevin J Mc Corry (Ninety Seconds)

    Magnus Lyche (The Morning After)

    Matt Smith (BUGBEAR)

    Michael John Heatley (Macho Digital)

    Ndrika Anyika (Home)

    Oliver Goodrum (Iniquity)

    Ravi Ajit Chopra (Cognition)

    Rhys Marc Jones (Pale Saint)

    Riyadh Haque (Shear)

    Saul Abraham (Enjoy)

    Sean Mullan (Can’t Cry)

    Sion Thomas (Dirt Ash Meat)

    Steven Pierce (Back in Five)

    Tom Tennant (Control)

    Zak Harney (First One Away)

  • Best Screenplay

    A Gentle Push

    A Glass House

    A Package of Dreams

    Another Day

    Badger and the Blitz

    Bucket List

    Cheap T-Shirts

    Come The Evening

    Flutterby

    Hello I must Be Going

    Life in Carboard Boxes

    My Week With Maisy

    Reg

    Shakespeare’s Roadshow

    Suicide Sal

    Super Zeroes

    The Blood Machine

    The Colour of the Sun

    Unmanned

  • Best Actor

    Alan Hall (Another Day)

    Andrew Scott (Cognition)

    Andy Doherty (Can’t Cry)

    Barney Harris (STARBOY)

    David Bradley (Roy)

    Elijah W Harris (Eyelash)

    Euan Mitchell (Monster)

    Gavi Singh Chera (Temple)

    Gerry Grimes (Ninety Seconds)

    Himesh Patel (Enjoy)

    Hugh Skinner (Please Care)

    Jay Lycurgo (Father of the Bride)

    Jean Desiro (Made With Love)

    Nicholas Marrast-Lewis (KIll me in your room)

    Peter Mullan (Don vs. Lightning)

    Rhys Rusbatch (Dirt Ash Meat)

    Richard Crehan (Iniquity)

    Richard Rowden (The Show)

    Robert Vernon (Jack Rabbit)

    Shadi-Rabahi (Missing Piece)

    Shane Mcnaughton (The Painted Lady)

    Stephen Mullan (Back in Five)

    Torkel Petersson (A Swedish Defence)

  • Best Actress

    Ade Ajibade (Home)

    Bernadette-Houdeib (Missing Piece)

    Brydie Service (Tequila Dream)

    Celine Beran (Shear)

    Claudie Blakley (Do No Harm)

    Emerson Thomas-Gregory (Sucking Wind)

    Fanta Barrie (The Darkest Blue)

    Grainne Good (Another Day)

    Hannah Daniel (Burial)

    Hervine De Boodt (Maire - Luise)

    Isabelle Connolly (Pale Saint)

    Ishtar Currie-Wilson (Eyelash)

    Isobel Laidler (We All Just Want to be Mad)

    Jingyu Wang (Incense and Cigarettes)

    Lisa Allen (Coal in their Veins)

    Lucy Heath (Better)

    Mirren Mack (Mudlarks)

    Natasha Patel (5 Stars)

    Ranya Lee (Landing Point)

    Sharon Young (Control)

    Sofia Engstrand (Viskar I Vinden)

    Stephanie Siadatan (Beyond Belief)

    Tallulah Haddon (STARBOY)

  • Best Editing

    Another Day

    BUGBEAR

    Burial

    Cognition

    Control

    Don vs. Lightning

    Eyelash

    First One Away

    I Thank My Mother For My Hair

    Iniquity

    It’s Our Movement

    Mudlarks

    Please Care

    Pale Saint

    Pub Kid

    Roy

    Shear

    Starboy

    The King of the Forest

    We All Just Want to be Mad

  • Best Score

    Another Day (Michael Smith)

    Aubade (Jessica Ellis)

    Brazen Souls (Mike Flood)

    Cognition (Samuel Karl Bohn)

    Do No Harm (Alexandra Hamilton-Ayres)

    Fantasy of Companionship between Human and Inanimate (Manu Martin, Ron J Danziger, Joi Barua)

    Iniquity (Alexandra Hamilton-Ayres)

    ISOSTASY (Tic Ashfield)

    Monster (Crystal Serghio)

    Mudlarks (Lindsay Wright)

    Resonance (Rebecca Doherty)

    Retrieval (Mukund Mehta)

    Reverence (Ryan Whyman)

    Starboy (Michael Blainey)

    Temperament (Hanlin Yee)

    The Darkest Blue (Benjamin Squires)

    The Painted Lady (James Everett)

    White Witch (Adam Todd)

    Yours Sincerely (Gus Collins, House of Noise)

  • Best Cinematography

    A Sickness (Michael Paleodimos)

    A Swedish Defence (Filip Stanković)

    Blue Moon (Matthew Tompkins)

    Ditectrice (Rodrigo Inada)

    Enjoy (Tasha Back)

    Eyelash (Evangelos Polychronopoulos)

    I Thank My Mother For My Hair (Anna Dobos)

    Iniquity (James Blann)

    Kill me in your room (George Robinson-Hill)

    Landing Point (Szeto Yat-lui)

    Macho Digital (Jonathan Ackley)

    Missing Piece (Tony Keyrouz)

    Monster (Anssi Tiusanen)

    Mudlarks (Paul Mackay)

    Pale Saint (Lasse Ulvedal Tolboll)

    Ring of Beasts (Rick Joaquim)

    Shear (Matt Gillan)

    Starboy (Andrew Alderslade)

    The King of The Forest (Leroy Da Silva, Quyen Nguyen, Ashleigh Archer)

    The Stranger (Rick Joaquim)

    Time and Tide (UK), (Caleb Yule)

    Turbine (Joshua Montague)

    We All Just Want to be Mad (Xenia Patricia)

The British Short Film Awards 2021 - Finalists

Additional categories

  • Best English Short Film

    Another Day

    F*ck the Honeymoon

    Fairground

    Feast

    Floppy Toast with Drippy Butter

    Home

    Karma

    Leonardo

    Mr Alan on Saturday

    No Way Back

    The Dead of Summer

    The Dry Cleaner

    The Other Half

    The Show

  • Best Northern Irish Short Film

    Back in Five

    Can’t Cry

    Heaven Come In

    It Runs Deep

    Margaret Gallagher is Real

    Ninety Seconds

    Resonance

    The Lost Pig

    The Painted Lady

    Upside

  • Best Scottish Short Film

    Buff

    Do No Harm

    Don vs. Lightning

    Goodbye Joicey

    Hallowed Be Thy Name

    Ice Melts

    Monster

    New Signs for Animation

    Out of Town

    Straw in the Wind

    Talk

    Worlds Apart

    Wrecked

  • Best Welsh Short Film

    Burial

    Dirt Ash Meat

    Father of the Bride

    ISOSTASY

    Leaf Boat (Cwch Deilen)

    Louder is not always clearer

    My Town

    Pale Saint

    Road Rage!

    The Foul

    The Griffgons: In the Bakehouse

  • Best Long Short Film

    Build a Problem

    Macho Digital

    Old Friends and Other Days

    Ring of Beasts

    Tequila Dream

    Trust: Part 2

  • Best Super Short Film

    All Too Beautiful

    Be My Eyes

    Bottlejob

    Deliverance (Mute Series)

    Don’t mess with Vivian

    Egg

    Entangled Animals

    Lemonade Stand

    Neuramask

    Page Turner

    Pub Kid

    Reverence

    The Pleasure of Your Company

    You Used to be Fun

    Yours Sincerely

  • Best Supporting Actor

    Angus Imrie (First One Away)

    Bhasker Patel (Shear)

    Bobby Gordon (Trust)

    Craig Gazey (Jack Rabbit)

    Dan Wrigley (Grace)

    David Boreanaz (Dolphin Boy)

    Dominic Mafham (Father of the Bride)

    Garmon Rhys (Pale Saint)

    James Anderson (Control)

    Jeremy Irvine (Cognition)

    Neil D’Souza (5 Stars)

    Nicholas Rowe (Baile)

    Quentin Cleaz Savoyen (Kill me in your room)

    Tedroy Newell (The Morning After)

    Timothy Fergusson (Ninety Seconds)

    Tom Loane (Can’t Cry)

    Tom Sweet (Enjoy)

  • Best Supporting Actress

    Bella May (Please Care)

    Bronagh Taggart (Back in Five)

    Carinne Julien (Street Corner Sorceress)

    Ella Augustin (Please Care)

    Eva Morkeset (Viskar I Vinden)

    Flora Squires (BUGBEAR)

    Joanna Scanlan (Don vs. Lightning)

    Lucia Keskin (Boss Babes)

    Maddie Hill (Enjoy)

    Maria Crittel (Fairground)

    Maria Magdefrau (Marie - Luise)

    Naomi Preston-Low (Mudlarks)

    Pía Laborde Noguez (Control)

    Roli Okorodudu (F*ck the Honeymoon)

    Scarlett Rayner (The Morning After)

    Sharon Rooney (Do No Harm)

    Shunhua Xing (Incense and Cigarettes)

    Valeria Cavalli (Troubadours Célestes)

  • Best Acting Ensemble

    Another Day

    Blue Corridor 15

    Cognition

    Creature

    Enjoy

    First One Away

    Iniquity

    Monster

    Mr Alan on Saturday

    Mr Theatre Comes Home Different

    Mudlarks

    Pale Saint

    Please Care

    Shear

    The Collective

    The Stranger

    Viskar I Vinden

  • Best Drama Short Film

    Another Day

    Beautiful Violence

    Better

    Blue Corridor 15

    Control

    Dirt Ash Meat

    Ditectrice

    Flutterby

    Glass Door

    Kill me in your room

    Letters

    Missing Piece

    Shut Up

    The Morning After

    Time and Tide (Aus)

    Trick Shot

    Trust

  • Best Comedy Short Film

    A Tale of Redemption and Regret with Sunny the Heat

    Back in Five

    Boss Babes

    Bottlejob

    Burial

    Divination Dave

    Dolphin Boy

    Don vs. Lightning

    F*ck the Honeymoon

    Laws of the Can

    Road Rage!

    The Bench

    The Foul

    The Home Team

    Total Eclipse of the Heart

    Where the Marigolds Lie

    Viskar I Vinden

  • Best Horror Short Film

    A Sickness

    Awake in the Dream

    Be My Eyes

    Beyond the Reaches of Light

    BUGBEAR

    Creature

    Don’t Look Back

    Eostre

    Vox Furem

  • Best Sci Fi Short Film

    Cognition

    Fantasy of Companionship between Human and Inanimate

    Mars Zone

    Pop Down

    Road Rage

    Scavenger

    The Home Team

  • Best Student Short Film

    A Swedish Defence

    Another Day

    Aubade

    Baile

    It’s Our Movement

    Love is Just a Death Away

    Missing Piece

    Monster

    Street Corner Sorceress

    Translation

    Uncivil

    Until the Sun Comes Up

    White Witch

    @scroll_alice

  • Best Hair and Make Up

    A Sickness

    Baile

    Blue Moon

    Burial

    Creature

    Ditectrice

    Don vs. Lightning

    Iniquity

    Pale Saint

    Ring of Beasts

    “Sleepaway” by The Wildhearts

    Starboy

    The Stranger

    Total Eclipse of the Heart

  • Best Costume Design

    A Sickness

    Baile

    Blue Moon

    Cognition

    Mr Alan on Saturday

    Mudlarks

    Ring of Beasts

    Sequah by Billy Roche

    Starboy

    The Foul

    The Home Team

    The Pleasure of your Company

    The Stranger

    We All Just Want to be Mad

  • Best Production Design

    Back in Five

    Baile

    Cognition

    Father of the Bride

    Friends Online

    Mr Alan on Saturday

    Mudlarks

    Pale Saint

    Please Care

    Retrieval

    Ring of Beasts

    Starboy

    The Home Team

    The Stranger

    Total Eclipse of the Heart

    We All Just Want to be Mad

  • Best Music Video

    Binaural Glass (Shelley Hopkins)

    Broken Soldier - Ferocious Dog (Justin Griffiths)

    Calva Louise - Tiranito (Jack Howard)

    Dodie - Sorry (Jack Howard)

    Jessica Gould - O Sweet Woods (Jessica Gould)

    Jorja Smith - Home (Rob Akin)

    Love is Meant for You - Piera Van de Wiel (Molly E Smith)

    Mercury Machine - Fictional Mind (Joshua Wright)

    New World Order (Susan Lim, Christina Teenz Tan, Samudra Kajal Saikia)

    Sinner - Leadley (Jack Howard)

    Sleepaway - The Wildhearts (Justin Griffiths)

    Take the Pain Away - Used Twins (Veronika Bolotina, Greta Griniute)

    The Observer (Michael John Suttill)

  • Best Sound Design

    Another Day

    There’s Someone Here

    BUGBEAR

    Creature

    Eyelash

    I Thank My Mother For My Hair

    I Want To Be Bored

    Iniquity

    Louder is not always Clearer

    Retrieval

    Turbine

  • Best Visual Effects

    BOTS

    Cognition

    Creature

    Divination Dave

    Don vs. Lightning

    Group Think (Brain Bug)

    Iniquity

    Mars Zone

    Road Rage

    The Home Team

    The Painted Lady

  • Best Commercial Short Film

    Fit for Future

    Morning Routine, Vogue Paris

    Topjaw - 48hrs in London

  • Best Short Film from the Archives

    Beyond the Clouds

    Bite

    Control

    Darklight

    Flying Visit

    Letters

    Pop Down

    Quest for Fire

    Sticky

    Strings

    The Goat

    The Journey of Alfred Small

    The Silent Child

    Upstate Purgatory