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 Notes 2007 film awards Independent Film Awards Evening Standard Awards