British Independent Film Award – The Douglas Hickox Award

British Independent Film Award – The Douglas Hickox Award
British Independent Film Award – The Douglas Hickox Award
Awarded for	Best Debut Director
Country	United Kingdom
Presented by	BIFA
First awarded	1998
Currently held by	Charlotte Wells for Aftersun (2022)
Website	www.bifa.org.uk

The Douglas Hickox Award, also named The Douglas Hickox Award (Best Debut Director) is an annual award given by the British Independent Film Awards (BIFA) to recognize the best British debut director. The name of the awards is in honour of British film and television director Douglas Hickox for his commitment and support for new talent. The award was first presented in the 1998 ceremony.

In regards to the category, BIFA states that is "for a British director for their debut fiction feature film. Previous television or documentary credits do not disqualify an individual from consideration. Documentaries are ineligible in this category unless an exception is granted by BIFA’s Nomination Committee".^[1]

Winners and nominees

1990s

Year	Recipient(s)	Film
1998 (1st) ^[2]	Shane Meadows	Twenty Four Seven
	Andrew Piddington	The Fall
	Guy Ritchie	Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
	Peter Mullan	Orphans
	Geneviève Jolliffe	Urban Ghost Story
1999 (2nd) ^[3]	Lynne Ramsay	Ratcatcher
	Jasmin Dizdar	Beautiful People
	Damien O'Donnell	East Is East
	Justin Kerrigan	Human Traffic
	Clare Kilner	Janice Beard 45WPM

2000s

Year	Recipient(s)	Film
2000 (3rd) ^[4]	Kevin Macdonald	One Day in September
	Jim Doyle	Going Off Big Time
	Jamie Thraves	The Low Down
	Ben Hopkins	Simon Magus
	Julian Nott	Weak at Denise
2001 (4th) ^[5]	Asif Kapadia	The Warrior
	Joel Hopkins	Jump Tomorrow
	Saul Metzstein	Late Night Shopping
	Richard Parry	South West 9
2002 (5th) ^[6]^[7]	Christian Taylor, Lindy Heymann	Showboy
	Duncan Roy	AKA
	Kirsten Sheridan	Disco Pigs
	Paul Sarossy	Mr In-Between
2003 (6th) ^[8]^[9]	Richard Jobson	16 Years of Alcohol
	Jeremy Wooding	Bollywood Queen
	Stephen Fry	Bright Young Things
	Penny Woolcock	The Principles of Lust
	Sarah Gavron	This Little Life
2004 (7th) ^[10]	John Crowley	Intermission
	Saul Dibb	Bullet Boy
	Peter Webber	Girl with a Pearl Earring
	Emily Young	Kiss of Life
	Matthew Vaughn	Layer Cake
2005 (8th) ^[11]	Annie Griffin	Festival
	Julian Jarrold	Kinky Boots
	Laurence Dunmore	The Libertine
	Gaby Dellal	On a Clear Day
	Richard E. Grant	Wah-Wah
2006 (9th) ^[12]^[13]	Menhaj Huda	Kidulthood
	Caradog W. James	Little White Lies
	Paul Andrew Williams	London to Brighton
	Andrea Arnold	Red Road
	Tom Vaughan	Starter for 10
2007 (10th) ^[14]^[15]	Anton Corbijn	Control
	Marc Francis, Nick Francis	Black Gold
	Oliver Hodge	Garbage Warrior
	David Schwimmer	Run Fatboy Run
	Steve Hudson	True North
2008 (11th) ^[16]^[17]	Steve McQueen	Hunger
	James Watkins	Eden Lake
	Rupert Wyatt	The Escapist
	Martin McDonagh	In Bruges
	Eran Creevy	Shifty
2009 (12th) ^[18]^[19]	Duncan Jones	Moon
	Armando Iannucci	In the Loop
	Sam Taylor-Wood	Nowhere Boy
	Samantha Morton	The Unloved
	Peter Strickland	Katalin Varga

2010s

Year	Recipient(s)	Film
2010 (13th) ^[20]^[21]	Clio Barnard	The Arbor
	Debs Paterson	Africa United
	Rowan Joffé	Brighton Rock
	Chris Morris	Four Lions
	Gareth Edwards	Monsters
2011 (14th) ^[22]^[23]	Paddy Considine	Tyrannosaur
	Joe Cornish	Attack the Block
	Ralph Fiennes	Coriolanus
	John Michael McDonagh	The Guard
	Richard Ayoade	Submarine
2012 (15th) ^[24]^[25]	Bart Layton	The Imposter
	Rufus Norris	Broken
	Ben Drew	Ill Manors
	Sally El Hosaini	My Brother the Devil
	Rowan Athale	Wasteland
2013 (16th) ^[26]^[27]	Paul Wright	For Those in Peril
	Tina Gharavi	I Am Nasrine
	Jeremy Lovering	In Fear
	Omid Nooshin	Last Passenger
	Charlie Cattrall	Titus
2014 (17th) ^[28]^[29]	Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard	20,000 Days on Earth
	Yann Demange	'71
	Daniel Wolfe, Matthew Wolfe	Catch Me Daddy
	Hong Khaou	Lilting
	Morgan Matthews	X+Y
2015 (18th) ^[30]^[31]	Stephen Fingleton	The Survivalist
	Corin Hardy	The Hallow
	Paul Katis	Kajaki: The True Story
	Ben Blaine, Chris Blanie	Nina Forever
	John Maclean	Slow West
2016 (19th) ^[32]^[33]	Babak Anvari	Under the Shadow
	Rachel Tunnard	Adult Life Skills
	Pete Middleton, James Spinney	Notes on Blindness
	Alice Lowe	Prevenge
	Adam Smith	Trespass Against Us
2017 (20th) ^[34]^[35]	Rungano Nyoni	I Am Not a Witch
	Francis Lee	God's Own Country
	Thomas Napper	Jawbone
	William Oldroyd	Lady Macbeth
	Deborah Haywood	Pin Cushion
2018 (21st) ^[36]^[37]	Richard Billingham	Ray & Liz
	Leanne Welham	Pili
	Michael Pearce	Beast
	Daniel Kokotajlo	Apostasy
	Matt Palmer	Calibre
2019 (22nd) ^[38]^[39]	Harry Wootliff	Only You
	Chiwetel Ejiofor	The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
	Ninian Doff	Boyz in the Wood
	Fyzal Boulifa	Lynn + Lucy
	Richard Phelan, Will Becher	A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon

2020s

Year	Recipient(s)	Film
2020 (23rd) ^[40]^[41]	Rose Glass	Saint Maud
	Nick Rowland	Calm with Horses
	Henry Blake	County Lines
	Remi Weekes	His House
	Eva Riley	Perfect 10
2021 (24th) ^[42]	Aleem Khan	After Love
	Prano Bailey-Bond	Censor
	Celeste Bell	Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché
	Cathy Brady	Wildfire
	Marley Morrison	Sweetheart
2022 (25th) ^[43]	Charlotte Wells	Aftersun
	Andrew Cumming	The Origin
	Thomas Hardiman	Medusa Deluxe
	Frances O'Connor	Emily
	Georgia Oakley	Blue Jean
2023 (25th) ^[44]	Raine Allen-Miller	Rye Lane
	Sam H. Freeman and Ng Choon Ping	Femme
	Savanah Leaf	Earth Mama
	Charlotte Regan	Scrapper
	Molly Manning Walker	How to Have Sex

References

External links

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