Evening Standard British Film Awards 2008
# 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

