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

• 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

References

External links

• Hunger named best picture at Evening Standard British Film awards