Frears Tops BIFA Shortlist

The nominations for the British Independent Film Awards were announced this morning and Stephen Frear's gritty thriller Dirty Pretty Things leads the board with no less than six nominations for everything from Best British Independent Film to Best Director. Following hard on Frear's heels comes Buffalo Soldiers which garned a fabulous five nominations, while Young Adam, Stephen Fry's Bright Young Things, Wilbur Wants To Kill Himself and In This World all bring up the third place with four nominations apiece. It's something of a coup for British film company Revolution Pictures which had a hand in both Bright Young Things and In This World - making a grand total of eight nominations (yes, we keep a calculator on hand for just such occasions!). There'll presumably be some diappointment over at Figment Films that Danny Boyle's 28 Days Later only scraped a miserly two nominations