Ken Loach’s “I, Daniel Blake” topped the list of nominations for the British Independent Film Awards announced Tuesday. The film features in seven categories, including film, director and screenplay. Its stars, Hayley Squires and Dave Johns, are both nominated twice, for the acting prizes (actress and actor, respectively) and for most promising newcomer.

“American Honey,” “Adult Life Skills,” “Notes on Blindness” and “Under the Shadow” have six nominations each, while “The Girl With All the Gifts” has four. The nominees for best film are “American Honey,” “Couple in a Hole,” “I, Daniel Blake,” “Notes on Blindness” and “Under the Shadow.”

It’s a particularly strong year for new talent in the performance categories, with most promising newcomer candidates Johns, Squires, and “My Feral Heart’s” Steve Brandon all nominated for lead acting prizes. In the best actress category, Jodie Whitaker (“Adult Life Skills”) and Kate Dickie (“Couple in a Hole”) receive their second BIFA nominations, while the other nominees, Squires, Narges Rashidi (“Under the Shadow”) and Sasha Lane (“American Honey”), are all nominated for the first time.

For best actor, Johns, Max Records (“I Am Not a Serial Killer”), Shia LaBeouf (“American Honey”) and Brandon are all first-time nominees. Michael Fassbender (“Trespass Against Us”) rounds off the category with his third consecutive nomination and his sixth nomination overall, having previously won twice, for “Hunger” (2008) and “Shame” (2011).

All those in the supporting actress and supporting actor categories are first-time nominees with the exception of Sean Harris (“Trespass Against Us”), who is nominated in this category for the third consecutive year.

In the director category, “American Honey’s” Andrea Arnold receives her fourth BIFA nomination having won in the same category for “Fish Tank” in 2009. Loach is nominated for “I, Daniel Blake,” his fifth BIFA nomination. Loach won for “My Name Is Joe” in 1998, when he was also awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award. Loach was also recognized with a Special Jury Prize in 2006 when “The Wind That Shakes the Barley” was nominated for four awards, and shared in the Special Jury Prize for Sixteen Films/Team Loach in 2013.

Ben Wheatley is nominated for “Free Fire,” his fifth BIFA nomination; Wheatley won the Raindance Award for his feature film debut, “Down Terrace,” in 2009. Babak Anvari is a first-time nominee for “Under the Shadow,” for which he is also nominated for The Douglas Hickox Award for best debut director. Directing partners Peter Middleton and James Spinney also receive their first BIFA nominations for both director and the Douglas Hickox Award for their debut, “Notes on Blindness.”

More than 130 films were submitted for consideration, and 32 different feature films have been nominated across the awards.

Winners will be announced at the Dec. 4 awards ceremony at Old Billingsgate, London.

The Richard Harris Award is to be announced later in November. The award, introduced in 2002 in honor of Richard Harris, recognizes outstanding contribution to British film by an actor. As previously announced, Naomie Harris will receive The Variety Award, which recognizes a director, actor, writer or producer who has made a global impact and helped to focus the international spotlight on the U.K.

A complete list of 2016 British Independent Film Awards nominees follows:

BRITISH INDEPENDENT FILM

AMERICAN HONEY Andrea Arnold, Lars Knudsen, Jay Van Hoy, Pouya Shahbazian, Alice Weinberg, Thomas Benski, Lucas Ochoa

COUPLE IN A HOLE Tom Geens, Zorana Piggott

I, DANIEL BLAKE Ken Loach, Paul Laverty, Rebecca O’Brien

NOTES ON BLINDNESS Peter Middleton, James Spinney, Mike Brett, Jo-Jo Ellison, Steve Jamison, Alex Usborne

UNDER THE SHADOW Babak Anvari, Emily Leo, Oliver Roskill, Lucan Toh

INTERNATIONAL INDEPENDENT FILM

HUNT FOR THE WILDERPEOPLE Taika Waititi, Carthew Neal, Matt Noonan, Leanne Saunders

MANCHESTER BY THE SEA Kenneth Lonergan, Kimberly Steward, Matt Damon, Chris Moore, Lauren Beck, Kevin J. Walsh

MOONLIGHT Barry Jenkins, Adele Romanski, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner

MUSTANG Deniz Gamze Ergüven, Alice Winocour, Charles Gillibert

TONI ERDMANN Maren Ade, Janine Jackowski, Jonas Dornbach, Michel Merkt

DIRECTOR

ANDREA ARNOLD American Honey

BABAK ANVARI Under the Shadow

BEN WHEATLEY Free Fire

KEN LOACH I, Daniel Blake

PETER MIDDLETON, JAMES SPINNEY, Notes on Blindness

SCREENPLAY

ANDREA ARNOLD American Honey

BABAK ANVARI Under the Shadow

BILLY O’BRIEN, CHRISTOPHER HYDE I Am Not a Serial Killer

PAUL LAVERTY I, Daniel Blake

RACHEL TUNNARD Adult Life Skills

ACTRESS

HAYLEY SQUIRES I, Daniel Blake

JODIE WHITTAKER Adult Life Skills

KATE DICKIE Couple in a Hole

NARGES RASHIDI Under the Shadow

SASHA LANE American Honey

ACTOR

DAVE JOHNS I, Daniel Blake

MAX RECORDS I Am Not a Serial Killer

MICHAEL FASSBENDER Trespass Against Us

SHIA LABEOUF American Honey

STEVE BRANDON My Feral Heart

SUPPORTING ACTRESS

AVIN MANSHADI Under the Shadow

GEMMA ARTERTON The Girl With All the Gifts

NAOMIE HARRIS Our Kind of Traitor

SHANA SWASH My Feral Heart

TERRY PHETO A United Kingdom

SUPPORTING ACTOR

ARINZÉ KENE The Pass

BRETT GOLDSTEIN Adult Life Skills

CHRISTOPHER LLOYD I Am Not a Serial Killer

JAMIE DORNAN Anthropoid

SEAN HARRIS Trespass Against Us

DOCUMENTARY

THE CONFESSION: LIVING THE WAR ON TERROR Ashish Ghadiali, James Rogan

DANCER Steven Cantor, Gabrielle Tana

THE HARD STOP George Amponsah, Dionne Walker

NOTES ON BLINDNESS Peter Middleton, James Spinney, Mike Brett, Jo-Jo Ellison, Steve Jamison, Alex Usborne

VERSUS: THE LIFE AND FILMS OF KEN LOACH Louise Osmond, Rebecca O’Brien

OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN CRAFT

JOAKIM SUNDSTRÖM Sound – Notes on Blindness

PAUL MONAGHAN, MAT WHITECROSS Editing – Supersonic

ROBBIE RYAN Cinematography – American Honey

SEB BARKER Visual Effects – The Girl With All the Gifts

SHAHEEN BAIG Casting – Free Fire

THE DOUGLAS HICKOX AWARD (DEBUT DIRECTOR)

ADAM SMITH Trespass Against Us

ALICE LOWE Prevenge

BABAK ANVARI Under the Shadow

PETER MIDDLETON, JAMES SPINNEY Notes on Blindness

RACHEL TUNNARD Adult Life Skills

DEBUT SCREENWRITER

ED TALFAN The Passing (Yr Ymadawiad)

HOPE DICKSON LEACH The Levelling

JOHN CAIRNS, MICHAEL McCARTNEY A Patch of Fog

RACHEL TUNNARD Adult Life Skills

SIMON FARNABY, JULIAN BARRATT Mindhorn

BREAKTHROUGH PRODUCER

CAMILLE GATIN The Girl With All the Gifts

DIONNE WALKER The Hard Stop

MICHAEL BERLINER Adult Life Skills

MIKE BRETT, JO-JO ELLISON, STEVE JAMISON Notes on Blindness

PAUL FEGAN Where You’re Meant to Be

MOST PROMISING NEWCOMER

DAVE JOHNS I, Daniel Blake

HAYLEY SQUIRES I, Daniel Blake

LETITIA WRIGHT Urban Hymn

SENNIA NANUA The Girl With All the Gifts

STEVE BRANDON My Feral Heart

THE DISCOVERY AWARD

BLACK MOUNTAIN POETS Jamie Adams, Jon Rennie

THE DARKEST UNIVERSE Tom Kingsley, Will Sharpe, Tiani Ghosh, Jo-Jo Ellison

THE GHOUL Gareth Tunley, Jack Healy Guttmann, Tom Meeten

GOZO Miranda Bowen, Leo Scott

THE GREASY STRANGLER Jim Hosking, Toby Harvard, Daniel Noah, Andrew Starke, Ant Timpson, Josh C Waller, Elijah Wood

BRITISH SHORT

JACKED Rene Pannevis, Ashish Ghadiali, Jennifer Eriksson

MOTHER Leo Leigh, Scott O’Donnell

OVER Jörn Threlfall, Jeremy Bannister

RATE ME Fyzal Boulifa, Taina Galis

THE WRONG END OF THE STICK Terri Matthews, Chris Cornwell, Sam Bank