Armando Iannucci’s political satire The Death of Stalin has taken an early lead at The British Independent Film Awards – picking up three awards as part of the event’s newly introduced craft section.

The Death of Stalin, which stars Andrea Riseborough, Rupert Friend, Paddy Considine, Steve Buscemi and Jeffrey Tambor and centers on the last days of the Soviet dictator, won Best Casting for Sarah Crowe, Best Production Design for Cristina Casali and Best Make Up & Hair Design for Nicole Stafford.

Elsewhere, William Oldroyd’s feature directorial debut Lady Macbeth, adapted by Alice Birch from the 19th century novel Lady Macbeth Of The Mtsensk, picked up two awards. The film, which stars Florence Pugh as a young bride sold into marriage and whose innocence is slowly corrupted by her circumstance and yearning to rebel, won Best Costume Design for Holly Waddington and Best Cinematography for Ari Wegner.

Jon Gregory won the Best Editing award for Martin McDonagh’s Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. He was previously nominated for editing McDonagh’s previous film In Bruges. The film’s composer Carter Burwell won Best Music.

God’s Own Country’s Anna Bertmark won the Best Sound category and hiking horror The Ritual took the Best Effects award for its special and visual effects by Nick Allder and Ben White.

The BIFAs, which have increasingly focused on showcasing new talent under the stewardship of co-directors Deena Wallace and Amy Gustin, who took over in 2015.

Vanessa Redgrave will receive this year’s Richard Harris Award for Outstanding Contribution by an Actor to British Film and Gary Oldman will be presented with the Variety Award.

Winners in the remaining categories will be unveiled at the ceremony on Sunday 10 December at Old Billingsgate, hosted by Mark Gatiss, which will mark the 20th anniversary of the Awards.

“Many congratulations to the inaugural winners of these new categories. BIFA voters had an extremely tough job narrowing down a spectacular lineup of nominees and we very much look forward to celebrating the winners at the Awards on 10 December,” organisers noted.

Full List of Winners (winners in bold)

Best Casting

SARAH CROWE The Death of Stalin

SHAHEEN BAIG Lady Macbeth

SHAHEEN BAIG & LAYLA MERRICK-WOLF God’s Own Country

SARAH HALLEY FINN Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

DEBBIE McWILLIAMS Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool

Best Cinematography (sponsored by Blackmagic Design)

ARI WEGNER Lady Macbeth

BEN DAVIS Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

DAVID GALLEGO I Am Not a Witch

TAT RADCLIFFE Jawbone

THOMAS RIEDELSHEIMER Leaning Into the Wind

Best Costume Design

HOLLY WADDINGTON Lady Macbeth

DINAH COLLIN My Cousin Rachel

SUZIE HARMAN The Death of Stalin

SANDY POWELL How to Talk to Girls at Parties

HOLLY REBECCA I Am Not a Witch

Best Editing

JON GREGORY Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

JOHNNY BURKE Williams

DAVID CHARAP Jawbone

PETER LAMBERT The Death of Stalin

JOE MARTIN Us and Them

Best Effects

NICK ALLDER & BEN WHITE The Ritual

LUKE DODD Journeyman

RONALD GRAUER & BERNARD NEWTON The Death of Stalin

DAN MARTIN Double Date

CHRIS REYNOLDS Their Finest

Best Make Up & Hair Design

NICOLE STAFFORD The Death of Stalin

JULENE PATON I Am Not a Witch

JAN SEWELL & MARK COULIER Breathe

NADIA STACEY Journeyman

SIAN WILSON Lady Macbeth

Best Music (sponsored by Universal Music Publishing Group)

CARTER BURWELL Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

FRED FRITH Leaning into the Wind

MATT KELLY I Am Not a Witch

PAUL WELLER Jawbone

CHRISTOPHER WILLIS The Death of Stalin

Best Production Design

CRISTINA CASALI The Death of Stalin

JACQUELINE ABRAHAMS Lady Macbeth

JAMES MERIFIELD Final Portrait

NATHAN PARKER I Am Not a Witch

EVE STEWART Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool

Best Sound

ANNA BERTMARK God’s Own Country

MAIKEN HANSEN I Am Not a Witch

ANDY SHELLEY & STEVE GRIFFITHS Jawbone

JOAKIM SUNDSTRÖM Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

IAN WILSON, BECKI PONTING Breathe