title: Evening Standard British Film Awards 2009
text: # 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 (tie)
  
  Michael Sheen – Frost/Nixon and 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 (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
  
  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
  
  