Irish titles - ‘Garage’, ‘Hunger’, ‘In Bruges’ and ‘The Escapist’ have all been shortlisted for the Evening Standard Awards to take place in London on February 1st .
Both Martin McDonagh (In Bruges) and Mark O'Halloran (Garage) have been nominated in the Best Screenplay Category while Pat Shortt (Garage) and Michael Fassbender in (Hunger) both will battle it out for the Best Actor.
Lenny Abrahamson is nominated for the IFTA winning ‘Garage’ in the Best Director field alongside Danny Boyle for ‘Slumdog Millonaire’ and Stephen Daldry for ‘The Reader’.
In the Best Newcomer Award Rupert Wyatt, the writer and director of Parallel Film’s ‘The Escapist’, is short listed with actor Dev Patel (Slumdog Millionaire) and director Joanna Hogg for ‘Unrelated’. Joe Walker has also been nominated in the Best Technical Achievement Category for his work as editor on both ‘Hunger’ and ‘The Escapist’
The Awards have been organised by the London newspaper since 1973, and are focused on British talent in films as well as being judged by a panel of film critics. The winner’s dinner will be hosted by Evening Standard editor Veronica Wadley on February 1st with the winners announced the following day.
Nominees for the Evening Standard British Film Awards are as follows:
FILM
Frost/Nixon
Hunger
Unrelated
DIRECTOR
Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire)
Stephen Daldry (The Reader)
Lenny Abrahamson (Garage)
ACTOR
Michael Fassbender (Hunger)
Michael Sheen (Frost/Nixon)
Pat Shortt (Garage)
ACTRESS
Samantha Morton (Mister Lonely)
Tilda Swinton (Julia)
Kate Winslet (The Reader, Revolutionary Road)
TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT
Roger Deakins (cinematographer of No Country for Old Men, In the Valley of Elah, The Reader with Chris Menges)
Mark Digby (production designer of Slumdog Millionaire)
Joe Walker (editor of Hunger and The Escapist)
SCREENPLAY
Martin McDonagh (In Bruges)
Mark O'Halloran (Garage)
Peter Morgan (Frost/Nixon)
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 for her performance in Happy-Go-Lucky
Eddie Marsan for his performance in Happy-Go-Lucky
Chris Waitt for his documentary, A Complete History of My Sexual Failures
