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

Michael Sheen – Frost/Nixon / 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 – Slumdog Millionaire

Roger Deakins – No Country for Old Men, In the Valley of Elah, The Reader
Joe Walker – Hunger, ''The Escapist''

Most Promising Newcomer

Joanna Hogg – Unrelated

Dev Patel – Slumdog Millionaire
Rupert Wyatt – ''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'''