2016 British Independent Film Awards – Best Director Winner and Nominees

American Honey

Andrea Arnold

A teenage girl with nothing to lose joins a traveling magazine sales crew, and gets caught up in a whirlwind of hard partying, law bending and young love as she criss-crosses the Midwest with a band of misfits.

Free Fire

Ben Wheatley

I, Daniel Blake

Ken Loach

Notes on Blindness

James Spinney

Under the Shadow

Babak Anvari