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Evening Standard British Film Awards 2008

Evening Standard British Film Awards 2008

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The 2008 Evening Standard British Film Awards, held on 4 February 2008 honoured the best British and Irish films of 2007.[1]

Best Film

Control

    • Atonement (Joe Wright)
    • Blue Blood (Stevan Riley)
    • Hallam Foe (David Mackenzie)
    • It’s a Free World... (Ken Loach)

Best Actor

Daniel Day-Lewis - There Will Be Blood

    • Jamie Bell (Hallam Foe)
    • Jim Broadbent (And When did You Last See Your Father?)
    • Gabriel Byrne (Jindabyne)
    • James McAvoy (Atonement / Becoming Jane)
    • Sam Riley (Control)

Best Actress

Helena Bonham Carter - Sweeney Todd / Conversations with Other Women

    • Julie Christie (Away from Her)
    • Romola Garai (Atonement)
    • Keira Knightley (Atonement)
    • Samantha Morton (Control)
    • Tilda Swinton (Michael Clayton)

Best Film Score

Jonny Greenwood - There Will Be Blood

    • Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova (Once)
    • Jocelyn Pook (Brick Lane)
    • John Murphy and Underworld (Sunshine)

Most Promising Newcomer

John Carney - writer/director of Once

    • Amy Carson (The Magic Flute)
    • Matthew Beard (And When did You Last See Your Father?)
    • Saoirse Ronan (Atonement)
    • Kierston Wareing (It’s a Free World...)

Best Screenplay

Matt Greenhalgh - Control

    • Christopher Hampton (Atonement)
    • Ronald Harwood (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly)
    • Neil Hunter & Tom Hunsinger (Sparkle)
    • Steven Knight (Amazing Grace / Eastern Promises)
    • Paul Laverty (It’s a Free World...)
    • Harold Pinter (Sleuth)

Technical Achievement

Atonement (cinematographer Seamus McGarvey, production designer Sarah Greenwood, costume designer Jacqueline Durran)

  • Roger Deakins cinematographer (The Assassination **of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford / No Country for Old Men)
  • Chris Gill editor (Sunshine / 28 Weeks Later)
  • Alwin H. Kuchler cinematographer (Sunshine)
  • Giles Nuttgens cinematographer (Hallam Foe)

Alexander Walker Award

Julie Christie

Notes

  1. [1]
    LONDON EVENING STANDARD Awards 2008
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