The filmmaking talents of Paddy Considine have been confirmed thrice over, as Tyrannosaur beats some stiff competition at the British Independent Film Awards 2011.

Tyrannosaur won best British independent film, best debut director for Paddy Considine, and best actress for Olivia Colman. Some staggering results for a first-time helmsman sailing the capricious tides of the British film industry.

The annual awards celebrate a kind of independent spirit which is wholly outside of the mainstream film studio sausage factory machine, and was held at Old Billingsgate, London.

The film production stars Peter Mullan as a violent man living on a Leeds housing estate, tormented by a violent rage that is driving him to self-destruction.

A chance of redemption appears in the form of Hannah (Colman), a Christian charity shop worker, who is hiding a dark secret within her own marriage to James (Eddie Marsan).

Colman said: "I've had a lucky time doing wonderful comedies, and I've loved it, but when a script like that comes through the post, you're not going to say no to it."

Considine said: "It's been an overwhelming night - to get the best film was the real shocker for me."

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