The 2009 Evening Standard British Film Awards, held on 1 February 2009, honoured the best British and Irish films of 2008.LONDON EVENING STANDARD Awards 2009
Best film Hunger Frost/Nixon Unrelated
Best Director Stephen Daldry – The Reader Danny Boyle – Slumdog Millionaire Lenny Abrahamson – Garage
Best Actor Michael Sheen – Frost/Nixon / Pat Shortt – Garage (TIE) 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, 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
References
External links Hunger named best picture at Evening Standard British Film awards