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.

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
 * Dev Patel (actor) – Slumdog Millionaire
 * Rupert Wyatt (writer-director) – The Escapist

Peter Sellers Award for Comedy
Sally Hawkins – Happy-Go-Lucky
 * Eddie Marsan – Happy-Go-Lucky
 * Chris Waitt – A Complete History of My Sexual Failures

Alexander Walker Special Award
Mike Leigh