Evening Standard British Film Awards 2009

The 2009 Evening Standard British Film Awards, held on 1 February 2009, honoured the best British and Irish films of 2008.[1]

Best film

Hunger

  • Frost/Nixon
  • Unrelated

Best Director

Stephen Daldry – The Reader

  • Danny Boyle – Slumdog Millionaire
  • Lenny Abrahamson – Garage

Best Actor (tie)

Michael Sheen – Frost/Nixon and Pat Shortt – Garage

  • Michael Fassbender – Hunger

Best Actress

Tilda Swinton – Julia

  • Samantha Morton – Mister Lonely
  • Kate Winslet – The Reader, Revolutionary Road

Best Screenplay

Martin McDonagh – In Bruges

  • Mark O’Halloran – Garage
  • Peter Morgan – Frost/Nixon

Technical achievement

Mark Digby (production designer) – Slumdog Millionaire

  • Roger Deakins (cinematographer) – No Country for Old Men, In the Valley of Elah, The Reader with Chris Menges
  • Joe Walker (editor) – Hunger and The Escapist

Most Promising Newcomer

Joanna Hogg (director) – Unrelated

Peter Sellers Award for Comedy

Sally Hawkins – Happy-Go-Lucky

Alexander Walker Special Award

Mike Leigh

References

  1. ^ LONDON EVENING STANDARD Awards 2009

External links

  • Hunger named best picture at Evening Standard British Film awards