British Independent Film Award for Best Costume Design

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

British Independent Film Award for Best Costume Design
Awarded for	Best Costume Design
Country	United Kingdom
Presented by	BIFA
First award	2017
Currently held by	Buji Ebiesuwa for Femme (2023)
Website	www.bifa.org.uk

Prior to 2017, costume design 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

2000s

Best Technical Achievement

Year	Film	Recipient(s)	Area
2001 (4th) [1]	The Warrior	Roman Osin	Cinematography
	Alone	Jonathan Rudd	Editing
	Enigma	John Beard	Production Design
	High Heels and Low Lifes	Jany Temime	Costume Design
2002 (5th) [2][3]	Morvern Callar	Alwin H. Küchler	Cinematography
	24 Hour Party People	Mark Tildesley	Production Design
	Lawless Heart	Scott Thomas	Editing
	Bloody Sunday	Ivan Strasburg	Cinematography
2003 (6th) [4][5]	In This World	Peter Christelis	Editing
	16 Years of Alcohol	John Rhodes	Cinematography
	Bright Young Things	Michael Howells	Production Design
	Buffalo Soldiers	David Holmes	Music
	In This World	Tim Alban, Joakim Sundström, Stuart Wilson	Sound
2004 (7th) [6]	Touching the Void	Mike Eley	Cinematography
	Bride and Prejudice	Eduardo Castro, Ralph Wheeler-Holes	Costume Design
	Code 46	Mark Tildesley	Production Design
	Dead Man's Shoes	Lucas Roche, Chris Wyatt	Editing
	Enduring Love	Haris Zambarloukos	Cinematography
2005 (8th) [7]	The Descent	Jon Harris	Editing
	The Constant Gardener	César Charlone	Cinematography
	The Libertine	Ben Van Os	Production Design
	A Cock and Bull Story	Peter Christelis	Editing
	Mrs Henderson Presents	Sandy Powell	Costume Design
2006 (9th) [8][9]	The Last King of Scotland	Anthony Dod Mantle	Cinematography
	The Queen	Alan MacDonald	Production Design
		Daniel Phillips	Makeup
	This Is England	Ludovico Einaudi	Music
	The Wind That Shakes the Barley	Barry Ackroyd	Cinematography
2007 (10th) [10][11]	Sunshine	Mark Tildesley	Production Design
	28 Weeks Later	Enrique Chediak	Cinematography
	Control	Martin Ruhe
	And When Did You Last See Your Father?	Trevor Waite	Editing
	Hallam Foe	Colin Monie, David Mackenzie	Music
2008 (11th) [12][13]	Hunger	Sean Bobbitt	Cinematography
	The Duchess	Michael O'Connor	Costume Design
	Slumdog Millionaire	Anthony Dod Mantle	Cinematography
	In Bruges	Jon Gregory	Editing
	Shifty	Harry Escott, Molly Nyman	Music
2009 (12th) [14][15]	Bright Star	Greig Fraser	Cinematography
	Moon	Clint Mansell	Music
		Tony Noble	Production Design
	Bunny and the Bull	Gary Williamson
	Fish Tank	Robbie Ryan	Cinematography

2010s

Best Technical Achievement

Year	Film	Recipient(s)	Area
2010 (13th) [16][17]	Monsters	Gareth Edwards	Visual Effects
	The Arbor	Tim Barker	Sound
	The King's Speech	Eve Stewart	Production Design
	Brighton Rock	John Mathieson	Cinematography
	The Illusionist	Sylvain Chomet	Animation
2011 (14th) [18][19]	Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy	Maria Djurkovic	Production Design
	We Need to Talk about Kevin	Seamus McGarvey	Cinematography
	Shame	Sean Bobbitt
		Joe Walker	Editing
	Senna	Chris King, Gregers Sall
2012 (15th) [20][21]	Berberian Sound Studio	Joakim Sundström	Sound Design
	Berberian Sound Studio	Nic Knowland	Cinematography
	Ginger and Rosa	Robbie Ryan
	Broken	Electric Wave Bureau	Music
	The Imposter	Andrew Hulme	Editing
2013 (16th) [22][23]	The Selfish Giant	Amy Hubbard	Casting
	Locke	Justine Wright	Editing
	Starred Up	Shaheen Baig	Casting
	Under the Skin	Johnnie Burn	Sound Design
		Mica Levi	Music
2014 (17th) [24][25]	Frank	Stephen Rennicks	Music
	'71	Chris Wyatt	Editing
		Tat Radcliffe	Cinematography
	Catch Me Daddy	Robbie Ryan
	Mr. Turner	Dick Pope
2015 (18th) [26][27]	Ex Machina	Andrew Whitehurst	Visual Effects
	Amy	Chris King	Editing
	Brooklyn	Fiona Weir	Casting
	Ex Machina	Mark Digby	Production Design
	Macbeth	Adam Arkapaw	Cinematography
2016 (19th) [28][29]	American Honey	Robbie Ryan	Cinematography
	Free Fire	Shaheen Baig	Casting
	The Girl with All the Gifts	Seb Barker	Visual Effects
	Notes on Blindness	Joakim Sundström	Sound Design
	Oasis: Supersonic	Paul Monaghan, Mat Whitecross	Editing

Best Costume Design

Year	Film	Recipient(s)
2017 (20th) [30][31]	Lady Macbeth	Holly Waddington
	The Death of Stalin	Suzie Harman
	How to Talk to Girls at Parties	Sandy Powell
	I Am Not a Witch	Holly Rebecca
	My Cousin Rachel	Dinah Collin
2018 (21st) [32][33]	The Favourite	Sandy Powell
	An Evening with Beverly Luff Linn	Alyssa Tull
	Colette	Andrea Flesch
	Peterloo	Jacqueline Durran
	Stan & Ollie	Guy Sperenza
2019 (22nd) [34][35]	The Personal History of David Copperfield	Suzie Harman, Robert Worley
	In Fabric	Jo Thompson
	Judy	Jany Temime
	The Souvenir	Grace Snell
	Wild Rose	Anna Mary, Scott Robbins

2020s

Year	Film	Recipient(s)
2020 (23rd) [36][37]	Misbehaviour	Charlotte Walter
	Ammonite	Michael O'Connor
	Rocks	Ruka Johnson
	Saint Maud	Tina Kalivas
	The Secret Garden	Michele Clapton
2021 (24th) [38]	The Souvenir Part II	Grace Snell
	The Electrical Life of Louis Wain	Michael O'Connor
	Everybody's Talking About Jamie	Guy Speranza
	Benediction	Annie Symons
	Belfast	Charlotte Walter
2022 (25th) [39][40]	Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris	Jenny Beavan
	Flux Gourmet	Saffron Cullane
	The Wonder	Odile Dicks-Mireaux
	Aftersun	Frank Gallacher
	Living	Sandy Powell
2023 (25th) [41][42]	Femme	Buki Ebiesuwa
	The End We Start From	PC Williams
	How to Have Sex	George Buxton
	Rye Lane	Cynthia Lawrence-John
	Scrapper	Oliver Cronk
2024 (27th) [43]	Kneecap	Zjena Glamocanin
	Civil War	Meghan Kasperlik
	Love Lies Bleeding	Olga Mill
	Unicorns	Nirage Mirage
	Firebrand	Michael O'Connor