BIFA Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a British Independent Film
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The British Independent Film Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a British Independent Film is an annual award given to the Best Actor who starred in a British independent film. The award was introduced in 1998.
1990s
- 1998 – Ray Winstone as Raymond in Nil by Mouth
- John Hurt as Giles De'Ath in Love and Death on Long Island
- Peter Mullan as Joe Kavanagh in My Name Is Joe
- Jonathan Pryce as William Rivers in Regeneration
- David Thewlis as Dan Starkey in Divorcing Jack
- 1999 – Ian McKellen as James Whale in Gods and Monsters
- Daniel Auteuil as Xavier Lombard in The Lost Son
- Michael Caine as Ray Say in Little Voice
- Daniel Craig as Sgt. Telford Winter in The Trench
- Ray Winstone as Dad in The War Zone
2000s
- 2000 – Daniel Craig as Ray in Some Voices
- Paul Bettany as Young Gangster in Gangster No. 1
- Jim Broadbent as W. S. Gilbert in Topsy-Turvy
- Adrian Lester as Dumaine in Love's Labour's Lost
- Peter Mullan as Jean in Miss Julie
- 2001 – Ben Kingsley as Don Logan in Sexy Beast
- Ian Hart as Dad in Liam
- Timothy Spall as Cliff Gumbell in Lucky Break
- Ray Winstone as Gary "Gal" Dove in Sexy Beast
- 2002 – James Nesbitt as Ivan Cooper in Bloody Sunday
- Timothy Spall as Phil in All or Nothing
- Richard Harris as Sandeman in My Kingdom
- Bill Nighy as Dan in Lawless Heart
- 2003 – Chiwetel Ejiofor as Okwe in Dirty Pretty Things
- Paddy Considine as Johnny Sullivan in In America
- Ewan McGregor as Joe Taylor in Young Adam
- Kevin McKidd as Frankie in 16 Years of Alcohol
- Joaquin Phoenix as Spc. Ray Elwood in Buffalo Soldiers
- 2004 – Phil Davis as Stanley Drake in Vera Drake
- Paddy Considine as Richard in Dead Man's Shoes
- Daniel Craig as Joe Rose in Enduring Love
- Ian Hart as Brian Keenan in Blind Flight
- Geoffrey Rush as Peter Sellers in The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
- 2005 – Ralph Fiennes as Justin Quayle in The Constant Gardener
- Johnny Depp as John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester in The Libertine
- Chiwetel Ejiofor as Lola in Kinky Boots
- Bob Hoskins as Vivian Van Damm in Mrs Henderson Presents
- Matthew Macfadyen as Paul Prior in In My Father's Den
- 2006 – Tony Curran as Clyde Henderson in Red Road
- James McAvoy as Nicholas Garrigan in The Last King of Scotland
- Cillian Murphy as Damien O'Donovan in The Wind That Shakes the Barley
- Peter O'Toole as Maurice Russell in Venus
- Forest Whitaker as Idi Amin in The Last King of Scotland
- 2007 – Viggo Mortensen as Nikolai Luzhin in Eastern Promises
- Jamie Bell as Hallam Foe in Hallam Foe
- Jim Broadbent as Arthur Morrison in And When Did You Last See Your Father?
- Cillian Murphy as Robert Capa in Sunshine
- Sam Riley as Ian Curtis in Control
- 2008 – Michael Fassbender as Bobby Sands in Hunger
- Riz Ahmed as Shifty in Shifty
- Colin Farrell as Ray in In Bruges
- Brendan Gleeson as Ken in In Bruges
- Thomas Turgoose as Tomo in Somers Town
- 2009 – Tom Hardy as Charles Bronson in Bronson
- Peter Capaldi as Malcolm Tucker in In the Loop
- Aaron Taylor-Johnson as John Lennon in Nowhere Boy
- Sam Rockwell as Sam Bell in Moon
- Andy Serkis as Ian Dury in Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll
2010s
- 2010 – Colin Firth as King George VI in The King's Speech
- Riz Ahmed as Omar in Four Lions
- Jim Broadbent as Tom Hepple in Another Year
- Aidan Gillen as Aidan in Treacle Jr.
- Scoot McNairy as Andrew Kaulder in Monsters
- 2011 – Michael Fassbender as Brandon Sullivan in Shame
- Brendan Gleeson as Sergeant Gerry Boyle in The Guard
- Neil Maskell as Jay in Kill List
- Gary Oldman as George Smiley in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
- Peter Mullan as Joseph in Tyrannosaur
- 2012 – Toby Jones as Gilderoy in Berberian Sound Studio
- Tim Roth as Archie Cunningham in Broken
- Terence Stamp as Arthur in Song for Marion
- Steve Oram as Chris in Sightseers
- Riz Ahmed as Aaron in Ill Manors
- 2013 – James McAvoy as Bruce Robertson in Filth
- Tom Hardy as Ivan Locke in Locke
- Steve Coogan as Martin Sixsmith in Philomena
- Jim Broadbent as Nick Burrows in Le Week-End
- Jack O'Connell as Eric Love in Starred Up
- 2014 – Brendan Gleeson as Father James Lavelle in Calvary
- Asa Butterfield as Nathan Ellis in X+Y
- Benedict Cumberbatch as Alan Turing in The Imitation Game
- Jack O'Connell as Gary Hook in '71
- Timothy Spall as J. M. W. Turner in Mr. Turner
- 2015 - Tom Hardy as Ronnie Kray and Reggie Kray in Legend
- Tom Courtenay as Geoff Mercer in 45 Years
- Colin Farrell as David in The Lobster
- Michael Fassbender as Macbeth in Macbeth
- Tom Hiddleston as Dr. Robert Laing in High-Rise
- 2016
- Steve Brandon as Luke in My Feral Heart
- Michael Fassbender as Chad Cutler in Trespass Against Us
- Dave Johns as Daniel Blake in I, Daniel Blake
- Shia LaBeouf as Jake in American Honey
- Max Records as John Wayne Cleaver in I Am Not a Serial Killer