Evening Standard British Film Awards
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| Evening Standard British Film Awards | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | British and Irish film |
| Country |  United Kingdom |
| First awarded | 1973 |
| Website | London Evening Standard British Film Awards |
The Evening Standard British Film Awards were established in 1973 by London's Evening Standard newspaper. The Standard Awards is the only ceremony "dedicated to British and Irish talent,"[1] judged by a panel of "top UK critics."[2] Each ceremony honours films from the previous year.
1973–1980 Winners
[edit]1973 Winners
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
1981–1990 Winners
[edit]1981 Winners
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
- Special Award: George Harrison and Dennis O'Brien
1987 Winners
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
1991–2000 Winners
[edit]1991 Winners
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
2001–2010 Winners
[edit]2001 Winners
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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, Natalie 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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[3][4]
- 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
2011–2020 Winners
[edit]2011 Winners
[edit]- Best Film : We Need to Talk About Kevin
- Best Actor : Michael Fassbender – Shame & Jane Eyre
- Best Actress : Olivia Colman – 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
2012 Winners
[edit]- Best Film : Skyfall
- Best Actor : Toby Jones – Berberian Sound Studio
- Best Actress : Andrea Riseborough – Shadow Dancer
- Best Screenplay : Malcolm Campbell – What Richard Did
- Most Promising Newcomer : Sally El Hosaini – Writer/Director of My Brother the Devil
- Best Documentary : The Imposter
- Technical Achievement Award : Sarah Greenwood, Jacqueline Durran, and Seamus McGarvey, for their Production Design, Costume Design, and Cinematography on Anna Karenina
- Peter Sellers Award for Comedy : Sightseers
2016 Winners
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
2018 Winners
[edit]- Best Film : God's Own Country
- Best Actor : Daniel Kaluuya – Get Out
- Best Actress : Kristin Scott Thomas – The Party
- Best Supporting Actor : Simon Russell Beale – The Death of Stalin
- Best Supporting Actress : Gemma Jones – God's Own Country
- Best Screenplay : Sally Potter – The Party
- Comedy Award : Paddington 2
- Breakthrough of the Year : Rungano Nyoni – I Am Not a Witch
- Technical Achievement : Gary Williamson – contribution of his production design on Paddington 2
References
[edit]- ^ "Culture & Entertainment News – The Irish Times". The Irish Times.
- ^ "SLUMDOG VS UNDERDOGS AT STANDARD AWARDS". Archived from the original on 26 January 2012. Retrieved 18 August 2016.
- ^ Bradshaw, Peter (2010-11-11). "A Day in the Life: Four Portraits of Post-War Britain – review". The Guardian. Retrieved 2023-02-22.
[compilation of his short films] The Elephant Will Never Forget (1953)... They Took Us to the Sea (1961)... Our School (1962)... I Think They Call Him John (1964)
- ^ "A Day in the Life: Four Portraits of Post-War Britain". digital:works. 2011-06-27. Retrieved 2023-02-22.
winner of the Evening Standard film awards 2010 for best documentary