British Independent Film Awards

The British Independent Film Awards — the U.K.’s answer to the Film Independent Spirit Awards — lived up to their outsider roots with this morning’s nominations announcement, as offbeat festival sensations, edgy genre film and a hit documentary trumped Oscar-tipped prestige dramas.

Leading the rebel charge is Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos’ darkly comic romantic fantasy “The Lobster,” which topped the list with seven nominations including Best Film, Best Director and performance mentions for Colin Farrell, Olivia Colman and Ben Whishaw.

Just behind with six nominations each were “45 Years,” Andrew Haigh’s critically adored study of a marriage unraveling in its autumn stages, and “Macbeth,” Australian helmer Justin Kurzel’s brutal, highly stylized interpretation of the Shakespeare standard. Both earned nods in the two top races, as well as for their male and female leads: respectively, Tom Courtenay and Charlotte Rampling, and Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard.