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05
February 2006
Daniel
Craig Wins Acting Prize
For Bond
Daniel
Craig
has been named best
actor by the London
Evening Standard for his
role as James Bond in
Casino
Royale.
It
is the first prize the
38-year-old star, who
was nominated for a
Bafta last month, has
won for his 007
role.
United
93 was named best film,
while Borat creator
Sacha Baron Cohen won
the Peter Sellers award
for best
comedy.
But
Oscar favourite Dame
Helen Mirren missed out
on another best actress
prize for The Queen, the
judging panel opting for
Dame Judi Dench
instead.
The
Evening Standard British
Film Awards were
announced on Sunday at a
celebratory dinner held
at The Ivy restaurant in
central
London.
Dame
Judy was honoured for
her role as a vindictive
schoolteacher in Notes
on a Scandal, which has
just been released in
British
cinemas.
But
royal drama The Queen
did not go away
empty-handed, winning
prizes for its director
Stephen Frears and
screenwriter Peter
Morgan.
Frears
was given the Alexander
Walker Special Award -
named after the
outspoken Evening
Standard critic who died
in 2003 - for "making
British film reverberate
around the
world".
Morgan
was also honoured for
his work on The Last
King of Scotland, for
which actor Forest
Whitaker has been
Oscar-nominated.
Paul
Andrew Williams was
named most promising
newcomer for his
direction of low-budget
thriller London to
Brighton.
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