The 2009 Evening Standard British Film Awards, held on 1 February 2009, honoured the best British and Irish films of 2008.^[1]

Best film

Hunger

• Frost/Nixon
• Unrelated

Best Director

Stephen Daldry – The Reader

• Danny Boyle – Slumdog Millionaire
• Lenny Abrahamson – Garage

Best Actor (tie)

Michael Sheen – Frost/Nixon and Pat Shortt – Garage

• Michael Fassbender – Hunger

Best Actress

Tilda Swinton – Julia

• Samantha Morton – Mister Lonely
• Kate Winslet – The Reader, Revolutionary Road

Best Screenplay

Martin McDonagh – In Bruges

• Mark O’Halloran – Garage
• Peter Morgan – Frost/Nixon

Technical achievement

Mark Digby (production designer) – Slumdog Millionaire

• Roger Deakins (cinematographer) – No Country for Old Men, In the Valley of Elah, The Reader with Chris Menges
• Joe Walker (editor) – Hunger and The Escapist

Most Promising Newcomer

Joanna Hogg (director) – Unrelated

• Dev Patel (actor) – Slumdog Millionaire
• Rupert Wyatt (writer-director) – The Escapist

Peter Sellers Award for Comedy

Sally Hawkins – Happy-Go-Lucky

• Eddie Marsan – Happy-Go-Lucky
• Chris Waitt – A Complete History of My Sexual Failures

Alexander Walker Special Award

Mike Leigh