Evening Standard British Film Awards

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Awarded for British and Irish film First awarded 1973		Country United Kingdom
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The Evening Standard British Film Awards were established in 1973 by the British London area evening newspaper Evening Standard. The Standard Awards is the only ceremony "dedicated to British and Irish talent," judged by a panel of "top UK critics." Each ceremony honours films from the previous year.

1973 Winners

Best Actor : Keith Michell - Henry VIII and His Six Wives

Best Actress : Glenda Jackson - Mary, Queen of Scots

Best Comedy : The National Health - Jack Gold

Best Film : Ryan's Daughter - David Lean

Best Newcomer - Actor : Simon Ward

Best Newcomer - Actress : Lynne Frederick

1974 Winners

Best Actor : Michael Caine - Sleuth

Best Actress : Glenda Jackson - A Touch of Class

Best Comedy : The Three Musketeers - Richard Lester

Best Film : Live and Let Die - Guy Hamilton

Best Newcomer - Actor : Edward Fox

Best Newcomer - Actress : Heather Wright

1975 Winners

Best Actor : Albert Finney - Murder on the Orient Express

Best Actress : Wendy Hiller - Murder on the Orient Express

Best Comedy : The Four Musketeers - Richard Lester

Best Film : Murder on the Orient Express - Sidney Lumet

Best Newcomer - Actor : Robin Askwith

Best Newcomer - Actress : Jill Townsend

1976 Winners

Best Actor : Peter Sellers - The Return of the Pink Panther

Best Actress : Annette Crosbie - The Slipper and the Rose

Best Comedy : The Return of the Pink Panther - Blake Edwards

Best Film : Aces High - Jack Gold

Best Newcomer - Actor : Peter Firth

Best Newcomer - Actress : Gemma Craven

1977 Winners

Best Actor : John Thaw - Sweeney!

Best Actress : Billie Whitelaw - The Omen

Best Comedy : The Pink Panther Strikes Again - Blake Edwards

Best Film : A Bridge Too Far - Richard Attenborough

Best Newcomer - Actor : Dennis Waterman

Best Newcomer - Actress : Lesley-Anne Down

1978 Winners

Best Actor : Alec Guinness - Star Wars

Best Actress : Nanette Newman - International Velvet

Best Comedy : Revenge of the Pink Panther - Blake Edwards

Best Film : Star Wars - George Lucas

Best Newcomer - Actor : Michael J. Jackson

Best Newcomer - Actress : Lea Brodie

1979 Winners

Best Actor : Peter Ustinov - Death on the Nile

Best Actress : Maggie Smith - California Suite

Best Comedy : Porridge - Dick Clement

Best Film : Death on the Nile - John Guillermin

Best Newcomer - Actor : Simon MacCorkindale

Best Newcomer - Actress : Karen Dotrice

1980 Winners

Best Actor : Denholm Elliott - Bad Timing, Rising Damp, Zulu Dawn

Best Actress : Frances de la Tour - Rising Damp

Best Comedy : Rising Damp - Joseph McGrath

Best Film : Yanks - John Schlesinger

Best Newcomer - Actor : Jonathan Pryce

Best Newcomer - Actress : Wendy Morgan

Peter Sellers Award for Comedy : Leonard Rossiter

1981 Winners

Best Actor : Bob Hoskins - The Long Good Friday

Best Actress : Maggie Smith - Quartet

Best Film : The French Lieutenant's Woman - Karel Reisz

Best Screenplay : Colin Welland - Chariots of Fire

Most Promising Filmmaker : Franco Rosso

Peter Sellers Award for Comedy : Bill Forsyth

1982 Winners

Best Actor : Trevor Howard - Light Years Away

Best Actress : Jennifer Kendal - 36 Chowringhee Lane

Best Film : Moonlighting - Jerzy Skolimowski

Best Screenplay : John Krish - Friend or Foe

Most Promising Newcomer : Cassie McFarlane

Peter Sellers Award for Comedy : Michael Blakemore

1983 Winners

Best Actor : Ben Kingsley - Gandhi, Betrayal

Best Actress : Phyllis Logan - Another Time, Another Place

Best Film : The Ploughman's Lunch - Richard Eyre

Best Screenplay : Ian McEwan - The Ploughman's Lunch

Best Technical or Artistic Achievement : Chris Menges

Most Promising Newcomer : Neil Jordan

Peter Sellers Award for Comedy : Bill Forsyth

Special Award : Richard Attenborough

1984 Winners

Best Actor : John Hurt - 1984, Champions, The Hit

Best Actress : Helen Mirren - Cal

Best Film : 1984 - Michael Radford

Best Screenplay : Bernard MacLaverty - Cal

Best Technical or Artistic Achievement : John Alcott

Most Promising Newcomer : Tim Roth

Peter Sellers Award for Comedy : Denholm Elliott

1985 Winners

Best Actor : Victor Banerjee - A Passage to India

Best Actress : Miranda Richardson - Dance with a Stranger

Best Film : My Beautiful Laundrette - Stephen Frears

Best Screenplay : Malcolm Mowbray, Alan Bennett - A Private Function

Best Technical or Artistic Achievement : Norman Garwood

Most Promising Newcomer : Margi Clarke, Alexandra Pigg

Peter Sellers Award for Comedy : Michael Palin

Special Award : George Harrison, Denis O'Brien

1986 Winners

Best Actor : Ray McAnally - The Mission, No Surrender

Best Actress : Coral Browne - Dreamchild

Best Film : A Room with a View

Best Screenplay : Robert Bolt - The Mission

Best Technical or Artistic Achievement : Tony Pierce-Roberts - A Room with a View

Most Promising Newcomer : Gary Oldman - Sid and Nancy

Peter Sellers Award for Comedy : Clockwise - John Cleese

Special Award : Jake Eberts

1987 Winners

Best Actor : Derek Jacobi - Little Dorrit

Best Actress : Emily Lloyd - Wish You Were Here

Best Film : Hope and Glory - John Boorman

Best Screenplay : Alan Bennett - Prick Up Your Ears

Best Technical or Artistic Achievement : Anthony Pratt - Hope and Glory

Most Promising Newcomer : Harry Hook - The Kitchen Toto

Peter Sellers Award for Comedy : Personal Services, Wish You Were Here - David Leland

1988 Winners

Best Actor : Bob Hoskins - Who Framed Roger Rabbit, The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne

Best Actress : Billie Whitelaw - The Dressmaker, Maggie Smith - The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne

Best Film : A Fish Called Wanda - Charles Crichton

Best Screenplay : Bruce Robinson - Withnail and I

Best Technical or Artistic Achievement : William Diver, Patrick Duval - Distant Voices, Still Lives

Most Promising Newcomer : Kristin Scott Thomas - A Handful of Dust, Jodhi May - A World Apart

Peter Sellers Award for Comedy : A Fish Called Wanda - Charles Crichton

Special Award : Richard Williams

1989 Winners

Best Actor : Daniel Day-Lewis - My Left Foot

Best Actress : Pauline Collins - Shirley Valentine

Best Film : Henry V - Kenneth Branagh

Best Screenplay : Willy Russell - Shirley Valentine

Best Technical or Artistic Achievement : Anton Furst - Batman

Most Promising Newcomer : Andi Engel - Melancholia

Peter Sellers Award for Comedy : High Hopes - Mike Leigh

Special Award : Peter Greenaway

1990 Winners

Best Actor : Iain Glen - Mountains of the Moon, Fools of Fortune, Silent Scream

Best Actress : Natasha Richardson - The Comfort of Strangers, The Handmaid's Tale

Best Film : The Krays - Peter Medak

Best Screenplay : Michael Eaton - Fellow Traveller

Best Technical or Artistic Achievement : David Watkin - Memphis Belle

Most Promising Newcomer : Philip Ridley - The Krays

Peter Sellers Award for Comedy : Robbie Coltrane

1991 Winners

Best Actor : Alan Rickman - Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Close My Eyes, Truly Madly Deeply

Best Actress : Juliet Stevenson - Truly, Madly, Deeply

Best Film : Close My Eyes - Stephen Poliakoff

Best Screenplay : Neil Jordan - The Miracle

Best Technical or Artistic Achievement : Sandy Powell - Edward II, The Miracle, The Pope Must Die

Most Promising Newcomer : Anthony Minghella - Truly, Madly, Deeply

Peter Sellers Award for Comedy : The Commitments - Dick Clement, Roddy Doyle, Ian La Frenais

1992 Winners

Best Actor : Daniel Day-Lewis - The Last of the Mohicans

Best Actress : Emma Thompson - Howards End, Peter's Friends

Best Film : Howards End - James Ivory

Best Screenplay : Terence Davies - The Long Day Closes

Best Technical or Artistic Achievement : Sue Gibson - Hear My Song, Secret Friends

Most Promising Newcomer : Peter Chelsom - Hear My Song

Peter Sellers Award for Comedy : Peter's Friends

1993 Winners

Best Actor : David Thewlis - Naked

Best Actress : Emma Thompson - The Remains of the Day, Much Ado About Nothing

Best Film : Raining Stones - Ken Loach

Best Screenplay : Jim Allen - Raining Stones

Best Technical or Artistic Achievement : Sandy Powell - Orlando, Stuart Craig - The Secret Garden

Most Promising Newcomer : Vadim Jean, Gary Sinyor - Leon the Pig Farmer

Peter Sellers Award for Comedy : Les Blair - Bad Behaviour

Special Award : Anthony Hopkins

1994 Winners

Best Actor : Ben Kingsley - Schindler's List

Best Actress : Kristin Scott Thomas - Four Weddings and a Funeral

Best Film : In the Name of the Father - Jim Sheridan

Best Screenplay : Richard Curtis - Four Weddings and a Funeral

Best Technical or Artistic Achievement : Dave Borthwick, Richard 'Hutch' Hutchinson - The Secret Adventures of Tom Thumb

Most Promising Newcomer : Ian Hart - Backbeat, Gurinder Chadha - Bhaji on the Beach

Peter Sellers Award for Comedy : Hugh Grant - Four Weddings and a Funeral

Special Award : Alec Guinness

1995 Winners

Best Actor : Jonathan Pryce - Carrington

Best Actress : Kristin Scott Thomas - Angels & Insects

Best Film : The Madness of King George - Nicholas Hytner

Best Screenplay : Alan Bennett - The Madness of King George

Best Technical and Artistic Achievement : Andrew Dunn - The Madness of King George

Most Promising Newcomer : Danny Boyle - Shallow Grave

Peter Sellers Award for Comedy : Peter Chelsom - Funny Bones

Special Award : Lewis Gilbert

1996 Winners

Best Actor : Liam Neeson - Michael Collins

Best Actress : Kate Winslet - Sense and Sensibility, Jude

Best Film : Richard III - Ian McKellen

Best Screenplay : Emma Thompson - Sense and Sensibility, John Hodge - Trainspotting

Best Technical or Artistic Achievement : Tony Burrough - Richard III

Most Promising Newcomer : Emily Watson - Breaking the Waves

Peter Sellers Award for Comedy : Mark Herman - Brassed Off

Special Award : Leslie Phillips

1997 Winners

Best Actor : Robert Carlyle - The Full Monty, Carla's Song, Face

Best Actress : Katrin Cartlidge - Career Girls

Best Film : The Full Monty - Peter Cattaneo

Best Screenplay : Jeremy Brock - Mrs. Brown

Best Technical or Artistic Achievement : Maria Djurkovic - Wilde

Most Promising Newcomer : Jude Law - Wilde

Peter Sellers Award for Comedy : Antony Sher - Mrs. Brown

Special Award : Ray Boulting, Kenneth Branagh - Hamlet

1998 Winners

Best Actor : Derek Jacobi - Love Is the Devil

Best Actress : Julie Christie - Afterglow

Best Film : The General - John Boorman

Best Screenplay : Eileen Atkins - Mrs Dalloway

Best Technical or Artistic Achievement : Ashley Rowe - The Woodlanders, The Governess, Still Crazy, Twenty Four Seven

Most Promising Newcomer : Guy Ritchie - Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels

Peter Sellers Award for Comedy : Bill Nighy - Still Crazy

Special Award : Ken Loach, Michael Caine

1999 Winners

Best Actor : Jeremy Northam - An Ideal Husband, The Winslow Boy

Best Actress : Samantha Morton - Dreaming of Joseph Lees

Best Film : East Is East - Damien O'Donnell

Best Screenplay : Tom Stoppard - Shakespeare in Love

Best Technical or Artistic Achievement : John de Borman - Hideous Kinky

Most Promising Newcomer : Peter Mullan - Orphans

Peter Sellers Award for Comedy : Hugh Grant - Notting Hill

Special Award : Freddie Francis

2000 Winners

Best Actor : Jim Broadbent - Topsy-Turvy

Best Actress : Julie Walters - Billy Elliot

Best Film : Topsy-Turvy - Mike Leigh

Best Screenplay : Neil Jordan - The End of the Affair

Best Technical or Artistic Achievement : Andrew Sanders - The Golden Bowl

Most Promising Newcomer : Jamie Bell - Billy Elliot

Peter Sellers Award for Comedy : Peter Lord, Nick Park - Chicken Run

Special Award : Peter Yates

2001 Winners

Best Film : Gosford Park

Best Actor : Linus Roache - Pandaemonium

Best Actress : Kate Winslet - Quills, Enigma, Iris

Best Screenplay : Richard Curtis, Andrew Davies, Helen Fielding - Bridget Jones's Diary

Most Promising Newcomer : Ben Hopkins - The Nine Lives of Tomas Katz

Peter Sellers Award for Comedy : Hugh Grant - Bridget Jones's Diary

Technical Achievement Award : Stuart Craig - Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

Special Award : Christopher Lee

2002 Winners

Best Film : Dirty Pretty Things

Best Actor : Chiwetel Ejiofor - Dirty Pretty Things'

Best Actress : Catherine Zeta-Jones - Chicago

Best Screenplay : Lawless Heart - Neil Hunter, Tom Hunsinger

Most Promising Newcomer : Asif Kapadia - The Warrior

Peter Sellers Award for Comedy : Keith Fulton, Louis Pepe, Lucy Darwin - Lost in La Mancha

Technical Achievement Award : Eve Stewart - production designer, All or Nothing

Special Award : Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli - 40 years of James Bond

2003 Winners

Best Film : Touching the Void

Best Actor : Paul Bettany - Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, The Heart of Me

Best Actress : Emma Thompson - Love Actually

Best Screenplay : Buffalo Soldiers - Gregor Jordan, Nora Maccoby, Eric Weiss

Most Promising Newcomer : Max Pirkis - Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

Peter Sellers Award for Comedy : Bill Nighy - Love Actually

Technical Achievement Award : The Hours - Seamus McGarvey

Alexander Walker Special Award : Michael Winterbottom

2004 Winners

Best Film : Vera Drake

Best Actor : Paddy Considine - Dead Man's Shoes

Best Actress : Imelda Staunton - Vera Drake

Best Screenplay : My Summer of Love - Paweł Pawlikowski

Most Promising Newcomer : Emily Blunt, Nathalie Press - My Summer of Love

Peter Sellers Award for Comedy : Simon Pegg - Shaun of the Dead

Technical Achievement Award : Roger Deakins - The Village, The Ladykillers

Alexander Walker Special Award : Working Title Films

2005 Winners

Best Film : The Constant Gardener

Best Actor : Ralph Fiennes - The Constant Gardener

Best Actress : Natasha Richardson - Asylum

Best Screenplay : Mark O'Halloran - Adam & Paul

Most Promising Newcomer : Saul Dibb - Bullet Boy

Technical Achievement Award : Neil Marshall - The Descent

Peter Sellers Award for Comedy : Tom Hollander - Pride & Prejudice

Alexander Walker Special Award : Nick Park

2006 Winners

Best Film : United 93

Best Actor : Daniel Craig - Casino Royale

Best Actress : Judi Dench - Notes on a Scandal

Best Screenplay : Peter Morgan - The Queen, The Last King of Scotland

Most Promising Newcomer : Paul Andrew Williams - London to Brighton

Technical Achievement Award : Anthony Dod Mantle - Brothers of the Head, The Last King of Scotland

Peter Sellers Award for Comedy : Sacha Baron Cohen - Borat

Alexander Walker Special Award : Stephen Frears

2007 Winners

Best Film : Control

Best Film Score : There Will Be Blood - Jonny Greenwood

Best Actor : Daniel Day-Lewis - There Will Be Blood

Best Actress : Helena Bonham Carter - Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Best Screenplay : Matt Greenhalgh - Control

Most Promising Newcomer : John Carney - Once

Technical Achievement Award : Seamus McGarvey (cinematographer), Sarah Greenwood (production designer), Jacqueline Durran (costume designer) - Atonement

Alexander Walker Special Award : Julie Christie

2008 Winners

Best Film : Hunger

Best Director : Stephen Daldry - The Reader

Best Actor : Michael Sheen - Frost/Nixon, Pat Shortt - Garage

Best Actress : Tilda Swinton - Julia

Best Screenplay : Martin McDonagh - In Bruges

Most Promising Newcomer : Joanna Hogg - Unrelated

Technical Achievement Award : Mark Digby - Slumdog Millionaire

Peter Sellers Award for Comedy : Sally Hawkins - Happy-Go-Lucky

Alexander Walker Special Award : Mike Leigh

2009 Winners

Best Film : Fish Tank

Best Actor : Andy Serkis - Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll

Best Actress : Anne-Marie Duff - Nowhere Boy

Best Screenplay : Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci and Tony Roche - In The Loop

Most Promising Newcomer : Peter Strickland - Katalin Varga

Best Documentary : Anvil! The Story of Anvil

Technical Achievement Award : Barry Ackroyd (cinematographer) - The Hurt Locker

Peter Sellers Award for Comedy : Sacha Baron Cohen - Brüno

Alexander Walker Special Award : Nicolas Roeg

2010 Winners

Best Film : Neds

Best Actor : Andrew Garfield - The Social Network & Never Let Me Go

Best Actress : Kristin Scott Thomas - Leaving

Best Screenplay : Clio Barnard - The Arbor

Most Promising Newcomer : Ben Wheatley - Director/Co-Producer of Down Terrace

Best Documentary : John Krish - A Day in the Life: Four Portraits of Post-War Britain

Technical Achievement Award : Gareth Edwards, for his Cinematography, Production Design and Visual Effects of Monsters

Peter Sellers Award for Comedy : Roger Allam - Tamara Drewe

Alexander Walker Special Award : Christopher Nolan for his contribution to film

2011 Winners

Best Film : We Need to Talk About Kevin

Best Actor : Michael Fassbender - Shame & Jane Eyre

Best Actress : Olivia Coleman - Tyrannosaur

Best Screenplay : Andrew Haigh - Weekend

Most Promising Newcomer : Tom Kingsley & Will Sharpe - Co-writers/Directors of Black Pond

Best Documentary : Senna

Technical Achievement Award : Robbie Ryan, for his Cinematography on Wuthering Heights

Peter Sellers Award for Comedy : The Guard

Alexander Walker Special Award : John Hurt for his contribution to cinema

2016 Winners

Best Film : Brooklyn

Best Actor : Idris Elba - Beasts of No Nation

Best Actress : Maggie Smith - The Lady in the Van

Best Documentary : Amy

Blockbuster of the Year : Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Editor's Award : 45 Years

Best Screenplay : Emma Donoghue - Room

Rising Star : Maisie Williams - The Falling

Comedy Award : Emma Thompson - The Legend of Barney Thomson

Technical Achievement : Mark Digby - production designer on Ex Machina

Outstanding Contribution : Alan Bennett

2017 Winners

Best Film : I, Daniel Blake

Best Actor : Hugh Grant - Florence Foster Jenkins

Best Actress : Kate Beckinsale - Love & Friendship

Best Supporting Actor : Arinze Kene - The Pass

Best Supporting Actress : Hayley Squires - I, Daniel Blake

Best Documentary : Before the Flood

Best Screenplay : Guy Hibbert - Eye in the Sky

Comedy Award : Bridget Jones's Baby

Breakthrough of the Year : Florence Pugh - Lady Macbeth

Technical Achievement : Max Richter - contribution of his music on Arrival

Most Powerful Scene : I, Daniel Blake

International Film of the Year : Lion

Editor's Award : Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

References

Evening Standard British Film Awards Wikipedia

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