Evening Standard British Film Awards 2008

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The 2008 Evening Standard British Film Awards , held on 4 February 2008 honoured the best British and Irish films of 2007. [1]

Contents

Best Film

Control

Best Actor

Daniel Day-Lewis - There Will Be Blood

Best Actress

Helena Bonham Carter - Sweeney Todd / Conversations with Other Women

Best Film Score

Jonny Greenwood - There Will Be Blood

Most Promising Newcomer

John Carney - writer/director of Once

Best Screenplay

Matt Greenhalgh - Control

Technical Achievement

Atonement (cinematographer Seamus McGarvey, production designer Sarah Greenwood, costume designer Jacqueline Durran)

Alexander Walker Award

Julie Christie

Notes

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