Evening Standard British Film Awards Explained

Evening Standard British Film Awards
Awarded For:	British and Irish film
Year:	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

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

1981–1990 Winners

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
Special Award: George Harrison and Dennis O'Brien

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

1991–2000 Winners

1991 Winners

Best Actor : Alan Rickman – , 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

2001–2010 Winners

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 – , 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 –
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, 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

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 –
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^[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

2011 Winners

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

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

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 :
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

2018 Winners

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

Notes and References

Web site: Culture & Entertainment News – The Irish Times. The Irish Times.
Web site: SLUMDOG VS UNDERDOGS AT STANDARD AWARDS. 18 August 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20120126223113/http://movies.sky.com/slumdog-vs-underdogs-at-standard-awards. 26 January 2012.
News: A Day in the Life: Four Portraits of Post-War Britain – review . Peter . Bradshaw . Peter Bradshaw . 2010-11-11 . . 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).
Web site: A Day in the Life: Four Portraits of Post-War Britain . 2011-06-27 . digital:works . 2023-02-22 . winner of the Evening Standard film awards 2010 for best documentary.