It was a star-studded affair on the British Unbiased Movie Awards on Sunday evening.
A bunch of the most well liked expertise within the U.Ok. and past took to the Roundhouse in Camden for indie cinema’s largest evening of the yr. Among the many high winners had been Pillion director Harry Lighton, I Swear frontman Robert Aramayo and breakout star of Steve, Jay Lycurgo. Joachim Trier’s Sentimental Worth nabbed finest worldwide characteristic movie whereas Akinola Davies Jr. received the very best director prize.
There have been much more huge names on the carpet as Harris Dickinson, Alexander Skarsgard, Ruth Wilson, Carey Mulligan, Harry Melling, Frank Dillane, Tom Blyth, David Jonsson, and others confirmed up both as nominees or to fly the flag for the British movie trade.
The forged of Alex Garland’s A24 hit Warfare, together with Joseph Quinn, Will Poulter, Equipment Connor and Charles Melton, had been additionally in attendance to select up their finest ensemble efficiency award. The film rivalled Pillion in awards tallies with 4 wins in whole.
The night took an emotional flip when Paul Mescal made a shock look to current his Hamnet co-star Emily Watson with the Richard Harris Award, given out to actors in celebration of their contribution to British movie.
Mescal, who took house the supporting efficiency BIFA in 2023 for All of Us Strangers, caught up with The Hollywood Reporter on the carpet forward of the ceremony, the place he revealed his favorite cinematic expertise of 2025.
“One Battle After One other,” he mentioned. “[A] nice cinema-going expertise. Paul Thomas Anderson is a genius. The appearing in it’s phenomenal. It’s my favourite Leo [DiCaprio] efficiency, I feel.” When requested if he’d reply an incoming name from PTA, the Gladiator 2 and Aftersun star replied, laughing: “Is the sky blue? After all, yeah. I might like to [work with him]… I’m like, ‘Name me, please!’”
Watson was tearful as she accepted the Richard Harris Award from her two-time co-star, who lauded her expertise and generosity.
The Oscar-nominated actress advised her fellow creatives: “What you need to do is you need to attain out to these coming behind you, and you need to construct relationships with youthful colleagues, much less sure of their path than you might be. And that’s truly essentially the most rewarding a part of the job, and it’ll be certain that we might help preserve holding the algorithm to the fireplace.”
Check out the roundup of winners on the British Unbiased Movie Awards 2025 right here.