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