2008 EVENING STANDARD Awards
2008 Evening Standard award winners: February 4, 2008
Note: The Best Comedy category was replaced this year by Best Score, as the jury found that British film music fared better than British film humor in 2007.
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
Atonement led the Evening Standard Awards field with 7 nominations. The romantic melodrama starring Keira Knightley and James McAvoy is also up for a 7 Academy Awards, and it was voted best dramatic film of the year by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. However…
…Director Anton Corbijn and screenwriter Matt Greenhalgh's film version of Deborah Curtis' autobiography Touching from a Distance — the film focuses on her late husband, Joy Division's singer Ian Curtis (played by Sam Riley, above) — ended up as the best picture and best screenplay winner. Strangely, Control fared poorly among American award-giving groups.
BEST FILM
Atonement (Joe Wright)
Blue Blood (Stevan Riley)
* Control (Anton Corbijn)
Hallam Foe(David Mackenzie)
It's a Free World… (Ken Loach)
BEST ACTOR
Jamie Bell (Hallam Foe)
Jim Broadbent (And When did You Last See Your Father?)
* Daniel Day-Lewis (There Will Be Blood)
Gabriel Byrne (Jindabyne)
James McAvoy (Atonement / Becoming Jane)
Sam Riley (Control)
BEST ACTRESS
* Helena Bonham Carter (Conversations With Other Women / Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street)
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 (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
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)
* Seamus McGarvey cinematographer, Sarah Greenwood production designer, and Jacqueline Durran costume designer (Atonement)
Alwin Kuchler cinematographer (Sunshine)
Giles Nuttgens cinematographer (Hallam Foe)
Alexander Walker Award: Julie Christie
Jury: Derek Malcolm and Charlotte O'Sullivan of the Evening Standard, James Christopher of The Times, Tim Robey of the Telegraph and Catherine Shoard of the Sunday Telegraph
Source (nominations list): Louise Jury at This Is London