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.

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