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[edit]
Best Director[edit]
Best Actor (tie)[edit]
Michael Sheen – Frost/Nixon and Pat Shortt – Garage
- Michael Fassbender – Hunger
Best Actress[edit]
Best Screenplay[edit]
- Mark O’Halloran – Garage
- Peter Morgan – Frost/Nixon
Technical achievement[edit]
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[edit]
Joanna Hogg (director) – Unrelated
- Dev Patel (actor) – Slumdog Millionaire
- Rupert Wyatt (writer-director) – The Escapist
Peter Sellers Award for Comedy[edit]
Sally Hawkins – Happy-Go-Lucky
- Eddie Marsan – Happy-Go-Lucky
- Chris Waitt – A Complete History of My Sexual Failures