Evening Standard British Film Awards 2009
# 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

