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'We Have to Discuss Kevin''Senna''Shame''Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy'There's a familiar feel for this year's British Independent Film Honours, using the nominations centered by past those who win by companies for example Warp, Working Title, See-Saw and Studiocanal which have a powerful history in the ceremony.All five candidates for the best film -- "We have to Discuss Kevin," "Senna," "Shame," "Mess Tailor Soldier Spy" and "Tyrannosaur" -- are directed by individuals who curently have a BIFA on the mantelpiece.Lynne Ramsay, Asif Kapadia and Steve McQueen won BIFAs for debut director, while Tomas Alfredson required the foreign film prize and Paddy Considine won for brief.Ben Wheatley, who replaces Kapadia alongside another four within this year's director list for his sophomore pic "Kill List," is another previous champion of BIFA's Raindance Award for his rookie effort "Lower Terrace."The nominees for debut director aren't exactly fresh-faced unknowns. Considine, Rob Fiennes for "Coriolanus," Richard Ayoade for "Submarine," Joe Cornish for "Attack the Block" and John Michael McDonagh for "The Guard" are established talents, either as entertainers, authors or both, who moved in to the feature director's chair the very first time this season.But lest the BIFAs be charged with losing their edge and just rounding up a cosy cabal of usual suspects, several eminent past those who win happen to be overlooked within the cold, without any room for Andrea Arnold's "Wuthering Levels," Terence Davies' "The Dark Blue Ocean," Ken Loach's "Route Irish" or Michael Winterbottom's "Trishna."Actually, it may be contended the familiarity of the year's nominees isn't a manifestation of conservatism, but simply that British indie filmmaking is ageing, using the best talent getting a greater consistency of support to construct their careers as well as their audience. Possibly the BIFAs have simply developed using the industry.There is an abundance of boldness and originality of these nominees -- yet their risktaking has additionally been compensated by having an encouraging and surprising amount of commercial success."Mess," "Senna," "Kevin" and "Guard" are some of the year's most critical breakthrough hits in the U.K. box office. "Shame" has not yet been launched, but responses in the London Film Festival claim that it's set for the same result."Attack the Block" fell lacking its high anticipation, while "Kill List" and "Tyrannosaur" both unsuccessful to locate a significant cinema audiences, but one of the other nominees, "Jane Eyre," "Submarine" and doc "TT3D: Nearer to the advantageInch all published healthy box office returns.However, there is no room in the BIFAs for that year's most amazing indie success story, "The Inbetweeners Movie," which made $74 million within the U.K. and met with critical acclaim. This is a striking omission, considering that it had been produced beginning with-time feature authors along with a debut director, precisely the type of talent the BIFAs were produced 14 years back to advertise. Possibly the committee -- composed of 70 industry pros -- felt that the TV spinoff didn't merit recognition like a work of cinema.That's only some of the curious decision among the 2010 nominations. There's questioning from the reasoning behind the omission of Kapadia in the director list, for instance, or even the "Mess Tailor" authors in the script nods. Such anomalies are compelling some BIFA associates to request if the buying process needs looking at, to make sure that it remains rigorous enough to aid the growing status from the honours.TOP IN NOMS "Shame"Seven noms: film, director (Steve McQueen), script (Abi Morgan, McQueen), actor (Michael Fassbender), supporting actress (Carey Mulligan), technical achievement (editor Joe Master, d.p. Sean Bobbitt).Logline: A watch-wateringly graphic tour-p-pressure by McQueen in regards to a Gotham sex addict."Mess Tailor Soldier Spy"Seven noms: film, director (Tomas Alfredson), actor (Gary Oldman), supporting actress (Kathy Burke), supporting actor (Tom Sturdy, Benedict Cumberbatch), technical achievement (production designer Maria Djurkovic).Logline: LeCarre redux, with Alfredson getting a Swedish eye for this classic Brit spy story."Tyrannosaur"Seven noms: film, director (Paddy Considine), debut director, actress (Olivia Colman), actor (Peter Mullan), supporting actor (Eddie Marsan), achievement in production.Logline: Considine finds humanity inside a guy who kicks his dog to dying."Kill List"Six noms: director (Ben Wheatley), script (Wheatley and Amy Jump), actress (MyAnna Buring), actor (Neil Maskell), supporting actor (Michael Smiley), achievement in production.Logline: Wheatley superbly blends social realism with horror within this hitman thriller. "We Have To Discuss Kevin"Six noms: film, director (Lynne Ramsay), script (Ramsay and Rory Kinnear), actress (Tilda Swinton), supporting actor (Ezra Burns), technical achievement (d.p. Seamus McGarvey).Logline: Ramsay presents an unwavering parental nightmare."Submarine""Submarine"Five noms: debut director (Richard Ayoade), script (Ayoade), supporting actress (Sally Hawkins), newcomer (Craig Roberts, Yasmin Paige)Logline: Ayoade's cool coming-of-ager about boy attempting to repair his parents' marriage."Senna"Two noms: film, technical achievement (editors Chris King, Gregers Sall).Logline: Asif Kapadia works miracles with archive footage of Formula A person's ultimate tragic hero.British Independent Film Honours 2011Hey, haven't we met?The Range Award: Kenneth BranaghTitan of stage, screen, tube A trio with Brio Interested in Kenneth Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com