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