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.[1]

## Best Film

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Control

*     * Atonement (Joe Wright)
* Blue Blood (Stevan Riley)
* Hallam Foe (David Mackenzie)
* It’s a Free World... (Ken Loach)

## Best Actor

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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

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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

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Jonny Greenwood \- There Will Be Blood

*     * Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova (Once)
* Jocelyn Pook (Brick Lane)
* John Murphy and Underworld (Sunshine)

## Most Promising Newcomer

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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

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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

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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

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Julie Christie

## Notes

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1. ^ LONDON EVENING STANDARD Awards 2008