Nominee Tickets 2023

For the ceremony, complimentary tickets are allocated as follows:

• Joint Lead Performance, Lead Performance, Supporting Performance, Breakthrough Performance: two tickets per nominee ¹
• Ensemble Performance: maximum three tickets
• Best British Independent Film, International Independent Film, British Short, Maverick Award, Feature Documentary: maximum of three tickets
• Director, Screenplay, Debut Director – Feature Documentary, Debut Director, Debut Screenwriter, Breakthrough Producer: one ticket per individual nominee
• Craft categories (Casting, Cinematography, Costume Design, Editing, Effects, Make Up & Hair Design, Music Supervision, Original Music, Production Design, Sound): winners are announced two weeks before the ceremony and winners are invited to the Awards (one ticket per individual winner) ²

Note that where an individual receives more than two nominations (e.g. for Best British Independent Film and Best Screenplay), they still only receive one ticket: tickets are for nominees, not nominations. If a nominee cannot attend, their ticket cannot be transferred to anybody else.

¹ On-screen performers receive a guest ticket as they are asked to complete a full press line up on the red carpet and backstage, should they win. We try to attract as much press coverage as possible for the Awards and the films nominated, aiming to make the most of this opportunity to bring these exceptional films to a wider audience. This additional ticket is to allow performers’ representatives to join them at the awards, given these significance additional press requests.

² We introduced the craft categories in 2017 to try to properly recognise the incredible talent working in British film (previously there was a single category for ‘outstanding achievement in craft’, for all disciplines). We announce the winners in these craft categories ahead of the ceremony to ensure dedicated press coverage of these outstanding craftspeople. We would love to be able to invite all craft nominees to the ceremony, however as the income from the awards needs to cover the costs of the awards event, surrounding nominee and long list activity, in addition to the costs to run the organisation year-round, we’re unable to do this. As a Community Interest Company, any additional surplus raised from the ceremony goes back into funding our year-round programmes of support for emerging filmmakers, our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion programme and helping to build audiences across the UK for the exceptional films and talent we champion at the awards. So the decision we had to make was either to introduce the categories, announce the winners before the ceremony and invite the winners to the Awards or not to introduce the categories at all. The Nomination Committee at the time (which included representatives of craft disciplines) was adamant that the recognition of a BIFA nomination and win was the most important thing and, though this was an imperfect solution, it would be welcomed by HoDs in British film since it represented a significant improvement on the single category. Thanks to generous individual category partners, we are able to invite some of the craft nominees each year. This year, thanks to Kodak & Harbor, Casting Society & Spotlight, The Wall Group and Broadsword & ATC, we are able to invite craft nominees in the following categories to the ceremony as their guests, seated on the partners’ tables: Cinematography, Casting, Make Up & Hair Design and Production Design. In all other Craft categories, the winners will be invited to the ceremony. Winners of the craft categories are announced on Monday 20 November. If you’re interested in supporting a craft category to allow us to extend this to the other nominees, please get in touch.

For any questions about awards tickets, please contact deena@bifa.film

[correct at 30 October 2023]