Bond girl Eva Green to present top Evening Standard movie award
06-Feb-2010 • Actor News
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French actress Eva Green, who won international fame when she appeared in Casino Royale with Daniel Craig in his first outing as 007, is to present the best film award at Monday night's ceremony.
The award is being contested by Bright Star, Jane Campion's biopic of the Romantic poet Keats and his love Fanny Brawne, Fish Tank, Andrea Arnold's gritty story of a teenage girl, and Helen, an art-house mystery thriller by Joe Lawlor and Christine Molloy.
Green will be joined on the presenters' podium by home-grown talent including Sally Hawkins, who won a Golden Globe and last year's Evening Standard comedy award for Mike Leigh's Happy-Go-Lucky, and Jaime Winstone, the daughter of actor Ray and a rising star in British movies.
Celebrities including Sacha Baron Cohen, Ricky Gervais, Peter Capaldi, Oscar nominee Carey Mulligan, Anne-Marie Duff and Kelly Macdonald are in the running for honours, with many expected to attend.
The best actor category sees three stars up for playing real people â Tom Hardy as jailbird Charles Bronson, Christian McKay as Orson Welles and Andy Serkis as Ian Dury â along with a fourth contender, Alex Macqueen in a low-budget first feature, The Hide.
Other guests include previous winners and other stalwarts of the British film industry such as Guy Ritchie, Terry Gilliam and Stephen Daldry.
The London Evening Standard British Film Awards take place on Monday in association with the London Film Museum which is hosting the event. There will be full coverage in Tuesday's edition.
THE NOMINEES
Best Film
Bright Star Jane Campion
Fish Tank Andrea Arnold
Helen Joe Lawlor/Christine Molloy
Best Actor
Tom Hardy Bronson
Christian McKay
Me And Orson Welles
Alex MacQueen The Hide
Andy Serkis
Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll
Best Actress
Anne-Marie Duff
Nowhere Boy
Kelly Macdonald
The Merry Gentleman
Carey Mulligan
An Education
The Peter Sellers Award for Comedy
Peter Capaldi In The Loop
Sacha Baron Cohen Bruno
Ricky Gervais
The Invention Of Lying
Best Screenplay
Jesse Armstrong/Simon Blackwell/Armando Iannucci/Tony Roche
In The Loop
Nick Hornby An Education
Paul Laverty
Looking for Eric
London Film Museum Award for Technical Achievement
Barry Ackroyd Cinematographer,
The Hurt Locker
James Herbert Film editor, Sherlock Holmes
Tony Noble Production designer, Moon
Most Promising Newcomer
Katie Jarvis for her performance in Fish Tank
Duncan Jones for his direction of Moon
Peter Strickland for his direction and screenplay of Katalin Varga
Best Documentary
Afghan Star Havana Marking
Anvil! The Story Of Anvil Sacha Gervasi
Sleep Furiously Gideon Koppel
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