British Independent Film Award for Best Casting

The British Independent Film Award for Best Casting is an annual award given by the British Independent Film Awards (BIFA) to recognize the best casting in a British independent film. The award was first presented in the 2017 ceremony.

British Independent Film Award for Best Casting
Awarded for	Best Casting
Country	United Kingdom
Presented by	BIFA
First award	2017
Currently held by	Kneecap – Carla Stronge (2024)
Website	www.bifa.org.uk

Prior to 2017, casting was included in the category Best Technical Achievement alongside different areas of crafts in film, this category was presented from 2001 to 2016.

Winners and nominees

2010s

Year	Film	Recipient(s)
2017 (20th) [1][2]	The Death of Stalin	Sarah Crowe
	Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool	Debbie McWilliams
	God's Own Country	Shaheen Baig and Layla Merrick-Wolf
	Lady Macbeth	Shaheen Baig
	Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri	Sarah Halley Finn
2018 (21st) [3][4]	The Favourite	Dixie Chassay
	American Animals	Avy Kaufman
	Apostasy	Michelle Smith
	Beast	Julie Harkin
	Stan & Ollie	Andy Pryor
2019 (22nd) [5][6]	The Personal History of David Copperfield	Sarah Crowe
	In Fabric	Shaheen Baig
	The Last Tree	Shaheen Baig and Aisha Bywaters
	Only You	Kahleen Crawford and Caroline Stewart
	Wild Rose	Kahleen Crawford

2020s

Year	Film	Recipient(s)
2020 (23rd) [7][8]	Rocks	Lucy Pardee
	Calm with Horses	Shaheen Baig
	His House	Carmen Cuba
	Limbo	Dan Jackson
	Saint Maud	Kharmel Cochrane
2021 (24th) [9]	Boiling Point	Carolyn McLeod
	After Love	Shaheen Baig
	Ali & Ava
	Belfast	Lucy Bevan and Emily Brockmann
	Pirates	Shaheen Baig
2022 (25th) [10][11]	Blue Jean	Shaheen Baig
	Aftersun	Lucy Pardee
	Living	Kahleen Crawford
	Our River... Our Sky	Leila Bertrand
	The Silent Twins	Kharmel Cochrane
2023 (26th) [12][13]	How to Have Sex	Isabella Odoffin
	All of Us Strangers	Kahleen Crawford
	Earth Mama	Salome Oggenfuss, Geraldine Barón and Abby Harri
	Rye Lane	Kharmel Cochrane
	Scrapper	Shaheen Baig
2024 (27th) [14]	Kneecap	Carla Stronge
	Bird	Lucy Pardee
	Hoard	Heather Basten
	Love Lies Bleeding	Mary Vernieu and Lindsay Graham Ahanonu
	On Becoming a Guinea Fowl	Isabella Odoffin