Evening Standard British Film Award / Best Film
Evening Standard British Film Award : Best Film
Winner of the Evening Standard British Film Awards in the category Best Film ( Best Film ). The British Film Prize selects the best national film productions (including co-productions) and filmmakers from the previous calendar year and is usually awarded at the beginning of February.
In the mid-1970s, British cinema was in crisis and it was difficult to find suitable winners for the jury. At the award ceremony in 1979, George Lucas ' American science fiction film Star Wars , which was almost entirely made with an English film crew in London film studios, won through . In the same year, Inspector Clouseau - The crazy Flic with the hot look of the American Blake Edwards , in which the British Peter Sellers held the title role , was awarded separately as the best film comedy of the year . The British film industry only recovered with the release of Hugh Hudson's later Oscar-winning athletic drama The Victoria's Hour .
The most successful in this category were feature film productions by John Boorman , Stephen Frears , James Ivory and Mike Leigh , who have each won the award twice. The laureate agreed with the eventual BAFTA winner seven times .
* = Film productions, later the BAFTA Award as Best Film of the Year won
** = film productions which later BAFTA Award for British Best Film of the Year won
Individual evidence
- ↑ cf. Evening Standard British Film Awards . In: Hammer, Tad B .: International film prizes: an encyclopedia . Chicago [u. a.]: St. James Press, 1991