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British Independent Film Awards Shifts To Gender-Neutral Acting Categories; Adds Prizes

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The British Independent Film Awards is making some changes for its 25th anniversary, going gender-neutral with its acting categories as it also adds new performance awards, a new debut director category for feature documentaries, and two new music prizes.

In doing away with “actress” and “actor” honors, BIFA joins other orgs that have recently made the change including the Berlin Film Festival, the MTV Movie Awards and the BRITs.BIFA says it will now present five acting awards: Best Lead Performance, Best Supporting Performance, Best Joint Lead Performance — for two (or exceptionally three) performances that are the joint focus of a film — and Best Ensemble.

BIFA’s established Breakthrough Performance award (which was already non-gender specific) remains unchanged. The Lead and Supporting Performance categories will have up to 10 nominees each while the Joint Lead Performance and Ensemble races will include up to five.In addition, BIFA is adding a Best Debut Director – Feature Documentary category, to sit alongside the Douglas Hickox Award for Best Debut Director.

The latter will now be for fiction features only. The prize for Best Music, which previously recognized both original composition and music supervision, will be separated into Best Original Music and Best Music Supervision.

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