title: Evening Standard British Film Awards 2008
text: # Evening Standard British Film Awards 2008
  
  The 2008 Evening Standard British Film Awards, held on 4 February 2008 honoured the best British and Irish films of 2007.
  
  ## Best Film
  
  Control
  
     * Atonement (Joe Wright)
     * Blue Blood (Stevan Riley)
     * Hallam Foe (David Mackenzie)
     * It’s a Free World... (Ken Loach)
  
  ## Best Actor
  
  Daniel Day-Lewis - There Will Be Blood
  
     * Jamie Bell (Hallam Foe)
     * Jim Broadbent (And When did You Last See Your Father?)
     * Gabriel Byrne (Jindabyne)
     * James McAvoy (Atonement / Becoming Jane)
     * Sam Riley (Control)
  
  ## Best Actress
  
  Helena Bonham Carter - Sweeney Todd / Conversations with Other Women
  
     * 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 - writer/director of 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
  
  Atonement (cinematographer Seamus McGarvey, production designer Sarah Greenwood, costume designer Jacqueline Durran)
  
  * 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)
  * Alwin H. Kuchler cinematographer (Sunshine)
  * Giles Nuttgens cinematographer (Hallam Foe)
  
  ## Alexander Walker Award
  
  Julie Christie
  
  